Monthly Archives: June 2004
Wireless VOIP Not Ready for Prime Time
LONDON—Enterprise might already be using voice over wireless LAN, but the technology is still far from perfect, admitted networking and telecom executives at this...
AT&T Announces Global VOIP Trials
AT&T will soon begin trials of a global voice-over-IP service aimed at multinational corporations that want to configure worldwide, single-PBX-like dialing.
The service, with an...
HP Preps Itanium-Powered Blades
Hewlett-Packard Co. is developing blade servers that will be powered by Intel Corp.s Itanium chip, another push by the company to bring 64-bit capability...
Brocade Outlines Market Plans
Brocade Communications Systems Inc. outlined its market plans and stuck to its financial guidance in a presentation to industry analysts this week. The company...
Veritas Believes in Itanium
Veritas Software Corp. this week extended its support for the Intel Itanium 2 platform on Red Hat Linux 3.0, with the introduction of VERITAS...
Taiwans Top Two Optical Disc Makers See Margins Decline
Decreasing OEM prices have dampened CMC Magnetics Corp. and Ritek Corp. gross margins in the second quarter. CMC went from 36 percent in the...
GlassHouse Expands to UK
Storage consultant GlassHouse Technologies Inc. this week announced the acquisition two U.K.-based storage solution providers. GlassHouse will pay an undisclosed sum in a stock...
IBM Unveils Phone Book-Size PC
IBM on Wednesday unveiled the S50 small-form-factor PC, which the company claims will be the smallest in its product line by a significant margin.The...
Monti: EU More United than United States on Microsoft
LONDON—European Competition Commissioner Mario Monti has hit back at criticism of the European Commissions ruling in its antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., describing its...
Vendors Unveil WLAN Security Products
Highwall Technologies this week unveiled a system to detect and locate rogue wireless devices. The Rogue Detection System 2.0 is comprised of a management...