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BT Conferencing announced it is now offering interoperability between the videoconferencing systems of the top three manufacturers of videoconferencing equipment -- Cisco, Polycom and Tandberg -- as ... More >
ParaScale CEO, Sajai Krishnan says "one of the driving trends behind cloud storage 2.0 is the desire to bring the processing to the data with specialized application services to ease processing and c... More >
Bloom Energy officially unveiled its innovative fuel cell technology yesterday with the launch of its Bloom Energy Server at eBay's headquarters yesterday. Each Bloom Energy Server , designed to b... More >
Some of the early praise for Buzz included Gmail integration, Buzz Map and finding people to follow. Ironically, finding people to follow is included on a slideshow at The Huffington Post highlight... More >
Polycom announced Polycom Touch Control today. The telespresence, video and voice communications provider plans to release the accessory in the fourth quarter of 2010. Polycom Touch Control,... More >
Yesterday we reported that Twitter users are posting 50 million tweets a day . Today, those tweets will be integrated into Yahoo's search results , thanks to a freshly inked deal between the two co... More >
Ingres announced that its Ingres Database will play a key role in innovative cloud solutions provided by AcuStaf Software and Exadel. Both companies bring the Ingres Database into the cloud by making... More >
Bloom Energy will officially launch its Bloom Box fuel cell technology Wednesday, but a sneak preview of the energy solution provided by "60 Minutes" reporter Leslie Stahl has generated both hype a... More >
SanDisk and Seagate have unveiled their highest-capacity storage SD cards and SATA drives respectively. Seagate is shipping a 3.5-inch Constellation ES drive which is the first to include 6GB SAS, ... More >
Facebook, which formed a strategic relationship with PayPal last week, has replaced Yahoo as the second most popular Web site in the United States. Yahoo had 132 million unique visitors in January ... More >
Google has officially announced that it has ended its active development of Google Gears and is shifting its efforts toward bringing Gears capabilities into Web standards like HTML5. The move comes... More >
Facebook has teamed up with PayPal to offer users of the social-networking site a way to pay for ads and virtual goods. Working with PayPal should benefit smaller international companies looking to a... More >
Whether they like it or not, AT&T is the poster child for network performance problems. However, the wireless carrier is not alone in facing bandwidth issues. New smartphones, mobile applications... More >
Microsoft will integrate its upcoming Outlook 2010 with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter via its Outlook Social Connector , which is now available in beta, TG Daily reports. Microsoft spokesperson D... More >
Salesforce.com has released a beta version of its Chatter application, which is designed to integrate enterprise collaboration with cloud computing and social networking, to 100 companies to test o... More >
A government survey conducted by the Census Bureau and sponsored by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration found that 40 percent of U.S. households have no broadband or high-... More >
Google added Buzz to its Gmail service last week and the new social media tools have been making news ever since. A good portion of the news has not been positive. Its addition to Gmail immediately... More >
Toshiba claims the industry's highest capacity 2.5-inch SAS 2.0 HDD. Its MBF2600RC offers up to 600GB of capacity and operates at more than 10,000 rpm, V3.co.uk reports. The device uses th... More >
HP announced a new service centered on cloud design yesterday. The HP Cloud Design Service uses a best practices approach to build and deploy cloud infrastructures and is part of HP's strategy to b... More >
Polycom announced support for H.264 , a breakthrough, standards-based video compression technology that will reduce bandwidth requirements for HD telepresence and standard definition videoconferenci... More >
HP has added two new storage arrays to its lineup of storage offerings. The HP StorageWorks P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array ($9,950) and StorageWorks P4000 G2 SAN ($30,000) are aimed at small to midsi... More >
It remains to be seen whether Apple's iPad will have a place in the enterprise . IT Business Edge bloggers Ann All and Rob Enderle and Wayne Rash at CTO Edge have all weighed in. In the me... More >
Galen Gruman at PCWorld.com wrote an informative post this week on why Apple doesn't do better in the enterprise . Despite the massive increase in interest in Apple products, Mac and iPhone adopti... More >
An improved housing market and aggressively priced bundled service are expected to accelerate VoIP traffic and subscriber levels in 2010, according to a report by Dell'Oro Group. Network modernizati... More >
Shortly after Google Buzz made its debut, concerns about privacy surfaced. Apparently Google was listening. The company has responded to user feedback by slightly changing the setup process to make... More >
IBM introduced an enterprise-class network-attached storage (NAS) array yesterday called SONAS (Scale Out Network Attached Storage) which can scale to 14 petabytes, V3.co.uk reports. Doug Balog, ... More >
Google has released an updated beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac OS X. The new version adds support for more than 2,000 extensions and bookmark sync capabilities. The addition of extensions ... More >
Google Buzz has created a fair amount of rancor in the short time since it was announced earlier this week. While iPhone users can already get buzzing with the new social networking features added t... More >
According to a virtual teardown analysis by research firm iSuppli, the cost of building the iPad , depending on features and capacity, ranges from $219.35 for the 16GB model without 3G to $346.15 fo... More >
Google announced on its Official Google Blog that it is developing experimental fiber networks that will "deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access t... More >
HP has opened its most-efficient data center to date. The company's Wynyard, England-based facility is also the world's first entirely wind-cooled data center . The 360,000 square-foot facility is c... More >
AT&T named Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson AB as its suppliers of its Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network. The companies will provide LTE equipment and services to design, deploy and optimize... More >
IBM introduced improved Cognos business tools designed to support faster, more flexible financial analysis. The new features included in IBM Cognos TM1 and IBM Cognos 8 Controller will cut planning... More >
Internet company AOL has teamed with Facebook so that users of its AIM instant-messaging service can chat with their friends and colleagues on Facebook. A new version of AIM includes a Facebook Conne... More >
Google is getting more social with Buzz, which incorporates social media tools like photo and video sharing and status updates in Gmail. Google Buzz launches today and is also accessible on mobile ... More >
Cisco and Tandberg provided a number of details about the integrated product portfolio that will be on offer after Cisco closes its deal to purchase Tandberg. The companies are anticipating the final... More >
Google is reportedly planning to introduce new social networking features to Gmail this week to allow it to further compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter, according to The Register . Shou... More >
Cloud Net has launched its Cloud Net Connect Hosted VoIP service for small businesses, startups and at-home workers in the UK. The company boasts that its offering is the first of its kind to offer... More >
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is nearing the end of its work to create an Energy Star rating for data centers , Environmental Leader reports. The agency plans to launch the rating syste... More >
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the Electronic Frontier Foundation's request that it review a controversial patent that is claimed to cover much of the technology underlying VoIP . ... More >
Google's YouTube video-sharing service is now offering support for IPv6 . A surge in user demand influenced the move, says V3.co.uk . Network Engineer Lorenzo Colitti and Software Engineer Steiner ... More >
IBM launched its much its long-anticipated Power7 processor and systems based on the chip. The processor integrates eight processing cores in one chip package, with each core capable of executing fou... More >
The obvious benefit of going green is cutting costs. While going paperless may give trees cause to hug your company, it's also a very lofty goal. A stop on the road toward going paperless could be Sa... More >
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is concerned that the Apple iPad could potentially break the Internet by swamping its infrastructure. Writing on the behalf of the agency, Phil Bellaria, ... More >
If Steve Jobs is going to take on the netbook category with his iPad , he just may have his work cut out for him. According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, netbook vendors sh... More >
IBM has opened a 60,000-square-foot data center in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park. Part of a $362 million investment, the data center ultimately will total 100,000 square feet, says ITPro... More >
John Herrman at Gizmodo , in a very long post, takes on Steve Jobs' jabs at Flash , when he said HTML5 will be the future of the Internet. Since last summer, when I interviewed Google's Ian... More >
Intel previewed its upcoming "Gulftown" Westmere six-core processor along with other products during a press conference yesterday. The chips, which are being prepared for both high-end desktops and... More >
Tandberg has expanded its fleet of telepresence engines with the addition of the new Codec C40 to its C Series codec platform. Designed for small conference rooms, Tandberg's C40 offers up to 108... More >
Microsoft has released a Release Candidate version of Microsoft Office 2010 to members in the Technology Adoption Program, reports Daily Tech . A beta version of the productivity suite was release... More >
According to analyst firm In-Stat, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) penetration will swell to 79 percent by 2013, compared with 42 percent in 2009, CIOL reports. David Lemelin, analyst, In-Sta... More >
Microsoft's Windows Azure became generally available in 21 countries yesterday, reports SFGate . The company's cloud platform had previously been available in a Community Technology Preview. Custo... More >
Google plans to open an app store selling business software , reports Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal , citing stories in The Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Both news outlets quot... More >
According to NPD market research, Windows 7 did little to slow the growth of Mac sales. Apple doubled its U.S. share of the $500 to $1,000 computer market year-over-year from 5 percent to 10 percen... More >
Samsung announced it has developed the world's first 30 nanometer dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip . Choo Soo-in, president of the memory division at Samsung Electronics, said in a statement... More >
BT Conferencing has introduced pricing plans for its video bridging services to help its customers manage their videoconferencing budgets more efficiently, says V3.co.uk . Customers can choose f... More >
Google's Chrome browser has snared additional share of users away from Internet Explorer and Firefox, according to Computerworld . Chrome ended January with a share of 5.2 percent, up 0.6 percent ... More >
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