Monthly Archives: October 2004
Storage Trio Exploit Virtualization
As storage systems, servers and enterprise applications become more tightly interconnected, storage virtualization technology efforts are under way to improve application monitoring and ease...
Device Lets POS Units Handle Wireless Transactions
With wireless uncertainty as its staunch ally, Vivotech on Monday will introduce a system to help retailers quickly convert existing POS units to accept...
Broadcom Reveals VOIP over Wi-Fi Chipset
Broadcom Corp. last week announced its first two-chip VOIP chipset. The BCM1160 VOIP chip connects to WLANs via the companys existing BCM4318 AirForce One...
SBC to Offer Cingular-Wi-Fi Roaming to Businesses
SBC Communications Inc.—which is a partner with fellow RBOC (regional Bell operating company) BellSouth Corp. in owning U.S. cellular carrier Cingular Wireless—is planning a...
Adding Voice Service on Top of a WLAN
Mixing WLANs with VOIP can be a problem, according to attendees of the recent Internet Telephony Conference & Expo."If you think that Wi-Fi is...
Suspicious Battle Dept.
The Blu-ray disc standard continues to battle with the HD-DVD standards in the back alleys of Asia. The final spec for HD-DVD should appear...
Choosing a Home Notebook
If your digital home is more of a digital apartment, you might be looking for a heavy-duty (and heavy) notebook that crams in as...
Choosing a Home Desktop
A typical days work for a digital home PC includes simultaneous downloading, video transcoding, and file streaming. This can bring a typical PC to...
IBM Preps High-End Power5 Servers
IBM next month will begin shipping high-end servers in their pSeries and iSeries lines running on its Power5 processor.
The Armonk, N.Y., company will launch...
Social Networking Keeps Buzzing
While the hype around social networking technology may be dying down, the number of companies entering the space and expanding their services is only...