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The latest enterprise networking news, analysis, blogs and product reviews covering networking topics such as routers, switches, wireless networking, wireless Access Points (APs), servers and managing deployed systems. Includes disaster recovery and network management software as well as all the information you need to design, deploy, monitor, manage, secure and support your Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), and Wi-Fi systems.
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WLAN vendor Aruba agrees to a one-time payment of $19.8 million to Motorola and its subsidiaries, Symbol Technologies and Wireless Valley Communications. The out-of-court settlement also calls for a cross-licensing agreement between Aruba and Motorola for WLAN communication technologies.
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The first week of November has been busy for phone manufacturers and carriers as they gear up for Nov. 27, the official first day of the holiday shopping season. The Android-based Motorola Cliq arrived on the T-Mobile network this week, while the Samsung Moment, also with Android, arrived in Sprint Nextel stores. The Chocolate Touch, the first of the Chocolate line with a touch screen, is now available from Verizon Wireless. Rounding out the week, Verizon debuted the Motorola Droid and the HTC Droid Eris. We've compiled a look at many of these models and their features to help you kick-start your comparison shopping.
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With the Adamo XPS, Dell says it is reinforcing its commitment to craftsmanship and design. It's 0.4 inch thin, features an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, unfolds itself and looks like nothing else on the market.
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Two European financial firms argue that Cisco's $3 billion bid for video conferencing rival Tandberg is too low considering its performance and stock price. The opposition from Panta Capital and Scott & Associates comes three days before Cisco's Nov. 9 deadline on the deal, and joins stockholders with about 30 percent of Tandberg shares in saying the bid is too low. Cisco officials have called the offer fair.
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Toyota, Alcatel-Lucent and other companies banded together to create the LTE Connected Car, a concept vehicle that went on display in New York on Nov. 3. The vehicle combines a Long Term Evolution (LTE) broadband radio link with in-car Wi-Fi to bring the power of cloud computing to driver and passengers, giving them access to online content such as music, YouTube and games through four individual touch screens.
It's not all about multimedia, however. The concept car also supplies the driver with real-time GPS updates and information on nearby points of interest. The vehicle also offers continuous status updates about the car, using sensors to feed data to the driver about tire pressure and other maintenance issues. Although the concept car's creators were reluctant to name specific automotive companies, apparently they are in talks to extend some of the technology seen here to real-life vehicles at some point in the future.
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As Verizon Wireless launches the Motorola Droid smartphone Nov. 6 for $199 with a two-year contract after a $100 rebate, it does so as the most heavily hyped smartphone since the gadget it will chase, the iPhone 3GS. Reviews have been streaming steadily into the blogosphere as intrepid gadget hawks from Boy Genius Report, Engadget and Gizmodo have covered every nuance of the gadget. But there haven't been too many sanctioned reviews until Nov. 5, when gadget gurus Walt Mossberg (paywall) of the Wall Street Journal and David Pogue of The New York Times put their first impressions of the Droid online. eWEEK takes the pros and cons of the Droid from Mossberg and Pogue point by point.
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News Analysis: Apple, Google, RIM and the other major vendors might be enjoying the fruits of the touch-screen business, but there are some aspects of those products that they don't like to talk about. Here are 10 reasons why there is still plenty of room for improvement in mobile phone design, service and performance.
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The Nokia 3711 is a new budget-friendly option for the holiday season. It arrived Nov. 5 on the T-Mobile network for $69.99 and supports Web browsing, e-mail, IM and SMS and includes GPS, Bluetooth, a media player and a camera.
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Clearwire Communications continues it aggressive national WiMax rollout with a Philadelphia debut. The rollout is part of Clearwire's plan to bring wireless 4G service to 80 markets covering up to 120 million people by the end of 2010.
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A consortium of companies including Alcatel-Lucent and Toyota present the cloud-enabled LTE Connected Car, a concept vehicle. Equipped with four touch screens, the car lets users access not only navigation and car status applications, but also online music, video and social networking. Companies ranging from Ford to Microsoft have been working on ways to add more IT functionality to vehicles.
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ANALYSIS: BlackBerry's new Bold 9700 smartphone is a sleeker, smaller version of the Bold 9000. While Research In Motion has tweaked the device’s software through the new BlackBerry OS 5.0 and improved some of its hardware, the Bold 9700 offers largely the same BlackBerry experience as previous devices, which could be sufficient for many enterprise users but carries the risk that RIM could be outpaced by competitors such as Google and Apple.
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The Motorola Droid is more of a “killer phone” than an iPhone killer, according to The New York Times’ David Pogue and the Wall Street Journal’s Walter S. Mossberg. The Android-running phone will arrive on the Verizon Wireless network Nov. 6.
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Today's data center managers have many techniques to reduce their data center's energy consumption, but a mixture of techniques is often required to achieve energy saving targets. The key to judging success of any energy reduction strategy is the ability to accurately measure results along each step of the way. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Joe Polastre illustrates how power management technology can be used to achieve up to 40 percent energy savings in your data center.
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In announcing Cisco Systems' solid quarterly earnings, Cisco CEO John Chambers says the economic recovery in the IT industry is picking up momentum. However, Chambers warns that it could be a slow recovery hindered by setbacks. Cisco generated $9 billion in revenue in the quarter, a 13 percent decline over 2008 but a better showing than analysts had expected.
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News Analysis: AT&T and Verizon Wireless might be battling out over their real coverage right now, but when it comes time to evaluate these companies and other wireless carriers, disappointment usually follows. Compared with wireless services overseas, the U.S. looks like a third-world country in terms of wireless coverage, 3G access, Internet connectivity and phone quality.
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