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EMC updates storage management software
Nov. 18, 2008
In a bid to make backup and recovery easier for IT administrators to handle, EMC is updating several pieces of its storage management software portfolio.

Hosted Exchange, SharePoint now widely on sale
Nov. 17, 2008
In five years, Microsoft expects half of all enterprise employees with e-mail to use a combined online and premises-based system like the company's Exchange Online, an executive said Monday at a launch event for that ...

Efficiency key to Avaya's success, Giancarlo says
Nov. 15, 2008
Charles Giancarlo spent more than a decade at Cisco Systems and was widely considered a likely heir to Chairman and CEO John Chambers before he left last year for investment company Silver Lake Partners. Then Silver ...

Recording raises issues for telepresence
Nov. 13, 2008
Telepresence, the high-end form of videoconferencing now coming from several vendors, is the first technology that might let enterprises easily record high-quality versions of all their meetings, essentially with the ...

Cisco plans networked screens at Yankee Stadium
Nov. 12, 2008
The new Yankee Stadium in New York will have networked high-definition screens from Cisco that can show live game play and later switch to giving exit directions and traffic information.

Avaya puts voicemail into written words
Nov. 11, 2008
Avaya will let enterprise workers leave voicemail messages and combine them with e-mail, giving both callers and recipients new options for retrieving and saving their communications.

Avaya chief eyes opportunity in downturn
Nov. 11, 2008
Not all communications vendors will survive the current economic downturn, but it's not the worst the business has seen this decade, Avaya President and CEO Charles Giancarlo said Tuesday.

Sun rolls out its own storage appliances
Nov. 10, 2008
What Sun Microsystems lacks in size as a storage vendor it is trying to make up for with innovation, as it rolls out a series of appliances that include advanced management software and SSDs (solid-state drives).

Martin and Page together again for the first time
Nov. 07, 2008
Silicon Valley is home to a lot of strange bedfellows, whether hard-nosed venture capitalists and Web 2.0 dreamers or bottom-line hardware tycoons and arty device designers. The odd couple on stage Thursday at the ...

Martin, Page push white spaces
Nov. 06, 2008
Google cofounder and President of Products Larry Page and U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin acted as a tag team promoting unlicensed "white spaces" networks on Thursday, appearing together at ...

Android apps market is a hit, Google says
Nov. 05, 2008
The average user of the Android-based G1 phone has downloaded 14 applications, out of 200 now available on the Android Marketplace, a Google executive said Wednesday.

Clearwire still sees challenges after FCC OK
Nov. 05, 2008
The head of WiMax operator Clearwire said its work is just beginning after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission's approval Tuesday of the company's joint venture with Sprint Nextel.

WSJ: Yahoo, Google revise plan
Nov. 04, 2008
Yahoo and Google have revised the terms of their search advertising deal to ease concerns that have stalled its approval by the U.S. Department of Justice, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal's Web site on ...

AT&T trialing DSL bandwidth caps
Nov. 04, 2008
AT&T is capping the monthly bandwidth use of new DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) users in Reno, Nevada, to try out a system for easing the impact of heavy network users.

Dell, Quantum, EMC line up on de-duplication
Nov. 03, 2008
Dell will enter the data de-duplication business next year with products that are based on Quantum's software and compatible with EMC's gear.

Sprint renews commitment to Nextel network
Oct. 31, 2008
Sprint Nextel has recommitted itself to its Nextel business, which the struggling third-place U.S. mobile operator reportedly had considered selling off.

Low-income users latch on to iPhone
Oct. 30, 2008
Lower-income U.S. consumers are flocking to Apple's iPhone, sending an early signal that smartphones are changing from a luxury to a necessity, according to research company ComScore Mobile.

Efficiency drive moves to networks
Oct. 29, 2008
Networks will be the next frontier in energy efficiency if a program kicked off by router maker Juniper Networks and test-equipment vendor Ixia gains a wider following.

Cox to build its own cellular network
Oct. 27, 2008
Cox Communications is building its own cellular network to eventually offer mobile voice, data and entertainment in all markets it serves across the U.S., the cable operator said Monday.

Android users favoring apps over games
Oct. 25, 2008
Owners of the Android-powered G1 handset seem more anxious to get things done with it than to play games, according to download statistics from the long-awaited phone's first few days on sale.

Researchers find problems with RFID passport cards
Oct. 24, 2008
RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the U.S. are vulnerable to snooping and copying, a researcher said on Thursday.

EMC posts broad Q3 revenue gain
Oct. 22, 2008
EMC reported double-digit revenue growth for the third quarter on Wednesday and forecast another revenue gain in the fourth quarter despite global economic woes.

Optical encryption called capable of 100G bps
Oct. 21, 2008
Researchers have created an optical network component that they say can encrypt data traveling at 100G bps (bits per second), far outpacing current electronic encryption technologies.

RIM to give developers Web, push tools
Oct. 21, 2008
Research In Motion will give developers tools to build Web applications that work offline, expanding beyond the Java platform that has been at the core of BlackBerry applications until now, the company said Tuesday.

Sun warns of revenue drop, big loss
Oct. 20, 2008
Sun Microsystems on Monday warned of a big loss for the first quarter of its 2009 fiscal year, issuing preliminary results that also showed revenue falling.