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Apple has unveiled its iPad and it appears likely that it will be a winner with consumers since it offers a lot of the same functionality as the popular iPod Touch, though with a much larger displa... More >
Will the iPad become yet another burden on AT&T's already tarnished network image ? That's the question Erika Morphy raised in a TechNewsWorld post. AT&T's John Stankey addressed the iss... More >
Comcast, which exhibited its commitment to IPv6 last summer, is now asking for volunteers to participate in its upcoming IPv6 trials , Ars Technica reports. The Internet is running out of IPv4 ... More >
On Monday, the meter starts running for Microsoft's Windows Azure . Users will have the option to select a pay-as-you-go consumption model or a commitment option that provides discounts with a six-m... More >
ScriptLogic has released Perspective, a full-featured end-to-end network management and application monitoring solution. It's available immediately with a free 21-day evaluation period. Features incl... More >
Intel has released a 10 GBase-t network adapter for servers with two 10GB Ethernet ports. Intel's X52-T2 adapater is the first to have two ports on a single adapter, according to Fudzilla . The PC... More >
Aircell, which recently landed $176 million in funding , announced the installation of its new ATG 5000 High Speed Internet unit aboard a Gulfstream G200 operated by FlightWorks. SlashGear repor... More >
Cisco Systems announced the release of a protocol designed to improve interoperability between telepresence platforms. Cisco will release the Telepresence Interoperability Protocol into the public ... More >
Cloudkick , a San Francisco-based startup, has released full-service cloud monitoring and management services. Cloudkick enables its users to deploy, manage and monitor their virtual infrastructures ... More >
The demand for higher performing Ethernet switches has grown with the explosion of network resource and bandwidth requirements from virtualization and cloud networking. Extreme Networks has responded... More >
Google has released a stable version of its Chrome 4.0 Web browser, Ars Technica reports. The new version is only available for Windows machines. Chrome 4.0 patches 13 security vulnerabilities ... More >
Juniper and Polycom announced a telepresence and video conferencing partnership this week. The alliance integrates the companies' network resource control and video call -control platforms that wil... More >
Netezza launched the follow-up to its TwinFin data warehousing appliance with the introduction of the Skimmer , which is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses and departments of larger enterp... More >
AMD added new Athalon II and Phenom II chips to its stable of desktop processors. The three new Athalon II and three new Phenom II chips are geared for consumers whose PC primarily will be used for... More >
NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer made history this morning, when he became the first person to post directly to Twitter from space , reports Computerworld . Astronauts have previously made updates to th... More >
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6 , the latest version of its Web browser. While not as big an update as Firefox 3.5, it does include some under-the-hood improvements, such as improved performance fo... More >
Facebook announced that it will build its first custom data center in Pineville, Ore. The company has been leasing data center space in Virginia and California. According to Computerworld , a key re... More >
Research firm In-Stat predicts there will be 1 billion global broadband subscribers by 2013. Worldwide broadband subscriptions increased by 99 million from December 2008 to December 2009 to reach 5... More >
Siemens Enterprise Communications has announced a strategic alliance and global resale agreement with Polycom. The partnership will pair Siemen's OpenScape UC platform with Polycom's telepresence an... More >
YouTube, which has already gone high-def , has now added HTML 5 Video to its TestTube , the part of its site dedicated to engineers and developers of YouTube. The advantage of providing HTML 5 s... More >
According to TownHall Investment Research, a financial research firm, AT&T would need to spend $5 billion on its wireless network to catch up with the service offered by Verizon , reports PCWor... More >
A Redshift Research survey of 1,200 people from small and medium-size businesses in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the UK found that amid current global economic conditions... More >
Yuuguu has launched Yuuguu Corporate, a Web conferencing service geared for collaboration and sales. The online collaboration tool combines Web conferencing, business-class instant messaging and pres... More >
Waltham, Mass., chip designer Tego Inc. has landed a seven-year contract with Airbus to provide RFID chips that the airplane maker will use on parts for its A350 jet, due to enter service next year... More >
Research from global advisory and consulting firm Ovum indicates that despite budgetary constraints spawned by global economic conditions, multinational corporations continue to implement unified co... More >
This week the Number Resource Organization said that less than 10 percent of available IPv4 addresses remain unallocated . Axel Pawlik, NRO chairman, says it is vital for governments and the Intern... More >
Consultancy firm Deloitte forecasts that 10 percent of organizations will move to a thin client model within the next five years . This growth will largely be driven by organizations' desire to s... More >
How much ink does that printer cartridge contain and how much does that ink cost? Those among the hardest questions to get answered. But the National Conference on Weights and Measures, a grou... More >
According to a survey commissioned by Centrix Software , more than a third of respondents are considering deploying desktop virtualization. The survey of 200 IT decision-makers identified reducing c... More >
Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu are rolling out an enhanced entry-level M3000 server that can be used to save money and space by consolidating multiple low-end systems. The SPARC Enterprise M3000 is p... More >
Users of Google Docs can now use the Web application to upload and store and share any type of file, up to 250 MB in size. All users will get 1GB of storage free. Consumers and enterprises will be ab... More >
Elastra , a startup company that provides application infrastructure automation software, announced a new initiative that it says will aid enterprises in creating and maintaining energy-efficient dat... More >
Increasing energy-efficiency in data centers is an ongoing issue for companies worldwide. For the better part of the last decade, companies have begun moving data centers from large cities to areas w... More >
i365, a unit of Seagate, has announced the launch of its EVault Cloud-Connected Services Platform . According to Mike Vizard over at our CTO Edge site, the platform enables the simplification of ... More >
Firefox lovers and users won't have to wait much longer for the next version of the Web browser. Mozilla rolled out a Release Candidate for Firefox 3.6 over the weekend. Seventy-five percent of Fir... More >
Clearwire is expanding its WiMax service to Spain. The mobile 4G service, called Instanet , will cover the entire metropolitan area of Malaga, Spain. The next-generation service, Clearwire's first i... More >
Following a limited recall last October , Acer is now recalling 22,000 13-inch notebooks sold in the U.S. The recall is due to the risk of overheating and burns , übergizmo reports. The recall af... More >
Amid the stock-boosting buzz of the Apple Tablet and the Steve Ballmer-led preview of the Microsoft/HP Slate PC , Dell unveiled its own concept tablet at CES in Las Vegas. The company showed off a... More >
Intel officially unveiled its next-generation chips, which will work alongside the company's recently announced Pine Trail Atom chips . The rollout includes four Core i3 chips, eight Core i5 and fi... More >
Aside from throwing its hat into the smartphone ring , Lenovo also unveiled a multitouch hybrid notebook at CES. The IdeaPad U1 features a two-in-one design that enables the device to operate as a... More >
Steve Ballmer introduced an HP-manufactured tablet PC at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. The "slate," which is due sometime later this year, supports multi-touch and runs on Windows 7. Int... More >
Sprint's new Overdrive wireless WiMax router will allow customers in 27 markets to simultaneously link up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices to their 4G cell phone network. The 3G/4G mobile hotspot will... More >
Cisco announced plans to test home videoconferencing in the United States this spring. The company has a long history of providing confrencing services to businesses and is now looking to extend its ... More >
Yesterday Microsoft announced the prices for Office 2010 , which is due to be released later this year. In addition to the four paid-for versions of the productivity software, Microsoft will offer a... More >
Earlier this week, Skype announced support for high-definition calls . Yesterday, the company revealed that its VoIP software will be embedded into Internet-enabled HDTVs from manufacturers LG and... More >
HP refreshed its line of Mini notebooks today, adding its first model that embraces touchscreen and multitouch functionality. The new Mini 5102 runs on Windows 7 and features a 10.1-inch display, u... More >
Despite the popularity of its Firefox browser, Mozilla is still chasing Google and Microsoft when it comes to its browser supporting multiple processors. Mozilla's Firefox 3.7 should get the comp... More >
According to a survey conducted by UK ISP Easynet Connect, 2010 is poised to be the year of cloud computing for Britain's SMBs . Easynet Connect found that the number of small businesses using or pl... More >
Fans of MySQL from around the globe have rallied in an attempt to prevent the open source database from landing in the hands of Oracle, which is buying out Sun Microsystems , the current owner of M... More >
While tablets are expected to make headlines at the Consumer Electronics Show, which starts this Thursday in Las Vegas, the tablet that folks are clamoring about is the long-rumored device from Apple... More >
Skype users with an HD webcam, sufficient bandwidth and processing power can now make high-definition video calls , according to the VoIP provider. The HD support comes in the beta version of Skype ... More >
Intel has unveiled its new series of Westmere processors , The Inquirer reports. The Westmere series of CPUs will be broken into two categories: a mobile part code-named Arrandale and desktop seri... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that chicken wire can act as a Faraday cage and block wireless signals from entering a room. Many homes built prior to 1950 in the Silicon Valley area were built... More >
According to data collected in December 2009 by analytics firm Net Applications, Chrome , Google's Internet browser, is now more popular that Apple's Safari. Chrome's 4.63 percent share of the marke... More >
Just three days prior to the Consumer Electronics Show, Lenovo has unveiled a refresh of its business computers. The lineup includes the new ThinkPad X100e ultraportable and new ThinkPad Edge laptops... More >
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