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WebEx Hosts More Advanced Capabilities
WebEx Communications Inc.s latest update to its Meeting Center hosted Web conferencing service makes a number of user-focused improvements that ultimately improve the usability...
Needs of Tech Consumers, Enterprises Converge
As the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas rang in the new year last week, I found myself thinking that forces over the past...
Berners-Lee Is Knighted
The Queen of England this month named Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire,...
Innocent Web Sites Shut Down
The Web site for the Sheshequin-Ulster Community Center in Pennsylvania contains skating party news, calls for volunteers and minutes of board meetings—but no pornography....
Developers Take on Win 9x
The end of useful life for Microsoft Corp.s DOS-based versions of Windows is dictated by factors visible and invisible to users—but, in both cases,...
Big Enterprises Tap SOHO Devices
There are products designed for big enterprises and products designed for small offices, and never the two shall meet, right? Well, not so fast....
Speeding Up Wireless
Whats good for the consumer can also be good for the enterprise, say carriers.To that end, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Wireless Services Inc. are...
RIM BlackBerry Comes With Speakerphone
Nextel Communications and Research In Motion last week introduced the first BlackBerry device to be equipped with a speakerphone.The BlackBerry 7510 includes Nextels push-to-talk...
Ex-Microsoft Executive Joins Macromedia
Macromedia last week announced it has hired a former Microsoft executive to run its mobile and devices business unit.The company appointed Juha Christensen, who,...
Video Streaming Solutions Go Wireless
WLAN technology is making its way into multimedia presentations now that networks are fast enough to handle them.At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las...