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Simpler IT, Better IT
At the risk of coining a slogan as meaningful as "The year of the LAN" of days gone by, Im going to name 2005...
T-Mobile Offers Triband Phone
T-Mobile USA is shipping Samsung Electronics p735 multimedia phone. The triband, GSM/GPRS device has a built-in 1-megapixel camera, a video recorder and an MP3...
Aruba Gives Wireless LAN Switches More Options
Consolidation in the WLAN switching arena may mean fewer vendors to choose from, but more ways for users to secure, configure and manage their...
802.11i Strengthens Wi-Fi Security
With the recent ratification of 802.11i, and the certification and availability of products enabled for the wireless security specification, the time seems right for...
Migration to 802.11i Will Be a Bumpy Ride
The work involved in updating wireless access points and clients for 802.11i compliance—not to mention verifying that they are compliant in the first place—is...
New Spec Could Put RFID Into Action
EPCglobal Inc. hopes to finally propel radio-frequency identification from pilot status to wide-scale deployment with a new interoperability specification.
The UHF Generation 2 protocol, released...
HP Headphones Tune in Bluetooth
Bluetooth, the short-range wireless connectivity technology thats supposed to banish some cables from our personal spaces, is much less a part of my daily...
Microsoft Exec: Windows, Linux Squeeze Unix
Linux distributions continue to amass on the border of Windows Servers enterprise territory, but top executives at Microsoft Corp. are not blinking. Thats because...
Dell Bolsters High-End Blade System
Dell Inc.s latest PowerEdge 1855 server blade platform packs a solid design, a good management package and competitive pricing, making it a worthy competitor...
Unix Vendors Trade Barbs
Large Unix vendors are spending as much time disparaging one another as they are dealing with the threat to their businesses from Windows and...