Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access …
WLAN market slammed, but 802.11n gains
The first quarter of this year may have been the gloomiest ever for the wireless LAN market, with overall revenue …
Why Dell should buy Palm
Palm needs money to survive. Dell needs a handset business to compete. I think Dell should acquire Palm immediately. The …
In search of specialist VARs
Motorola as a company has considerable consumer recall as a mobile phone manufacturer. But the same may not hold true …
WiMAX Forum looks to femtocells to improve coverage
Looking to improve indoor coverage for WiMAX devices, the WiMAX Forum is partnering with the Femto Forum to create a …
Priority for security
Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) is the first and biggest Islamic Bank in Qatar. The bank’s data center is a state-of-the-art …
Aruba unveils low-priced WLAN gear
Aruba Networks showed off a new family of low-priced wireless LAN access points and controllers designed for fast setup and …
Android someday will outdistance the iPhone
The number of mobile phones using the Android operating system will eventually be huge, even if the number of Android …
Mobile-phone vendors focus on software as sales drop
Mobile-phone sales continue to be hurt by the faltering economy, so vendors are increasingly looking to software and services to …
Oracle-Sun deal renews calls for OpenOffice.org’s independence
Oracle Corp.'s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. last week is reviving calls for Sun's open-source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun …
Mobile devices ship ahead of expectations, but still down 11%
Mobile device shipments globally reached 258 million handsets for the first quarter — well above forecast amounts but still an …
The Android 1.5 challenge: Beat iPhone 3.0 and Palm Pre
Version 1.5 of the Android platform will have new features sought by users and developers since the mobile operating system's …
Google preps next version of Android
Developers will be able to take a look at the SDK (software development kit) for the next version of the …
Cisco ‘could’ announce 10% layoffs, analyst predicts
Forecasting a significant drop in revenue for the fourth quarter, a J.P. Morgan analyst today reported that Cisco Systems Inc. …
Cisco helps avoid security scrimping in cash-tight times
Many Wi-Fi vendors have integrated dedicated wireless intrusion prevention systems (WIPS) directly into their 802.11n systems. Cisco, for example, recently …
China becoming the world’s malware factory
With China's economy cooling down, some of the country's IT professionals are turning to cybercrime, according to a Beijing-based security …
What it will take for mobile VoIP to get enterprise-ready
By all rights, mobile VoIP sounds like an enticing proposition for a lot of companies. After all, what enterprise wouldn't …
WLAN market shriveled globally in Q4 2008
The wireless LAN market shriveled at the end of 2008, according to new, if sketchy, data released by Infonetics. The …
Vendors face off in 11n ‘challenge’
When the wireless LAN controller architecture came into its own about half a decade ago, an exhausting, cutthroat features war …
WLAN product blitz shows 802.11n getting more affordable
A slew of new WLAN hardware and software suggests that 802.11n high-throughput WLANs are fast becoming more affordable and manageable …