Monthly Archives: May 2010
Broadsmart Joins New Edge Networks’ Business Applications Ecosystem
New Edge Networks, the managed services business communications unit of EarthLink, announced that Broadsmart, an integrated communications provider, has established a direct connection to...
Chip Sales Soared to $23B in March, SIA Says
Consumer demand for PCs and cell phones, along with business purchases of computing and communications equipment, helped push chip sales to $23.1 billion in...
8 Database Consolidation Strategy Tips for DBAs
8 Database Consolidation Strategy Tips for DBAs
by Brian Prince
Failing to Plan Is Planning to Fail
Forrester reported that about 30 percent of database consolidation projects...
Google Buys BumpTop, Perhaps for Android Tablets
Google has purchased BumpTop, which enables 3D multitouch desktop on Windows and Mac computers.BumpTop uses "pile creation techniques" to shuffle and stack documents as...
Nvidia Exec: Moore’s Law in Danger of Dying Out
For more than four decades, Moore's Law has held true, thanks in large part to Intel first continuing to crank up the speed of...
10 Products Microsoft Should Fear
10 Products Microsoft Should Fear
by Don Reisinger
Apple iPhone
Apple's iPhone is undoubtedly one of the scariest products Microsoft will face over the coming years. Apple's...
Intel Labs Finds a Way to Create Routers Using Clustered Servers
Intel Labs said May 3 that it has come up with a way to reuse and/or reconfigure commodity-type servers and cluster them in such...
How to Use Unified Communications to Achieve Large-Scale Capabilities – 1
While many small and midsize businesses say they need a unified communications (UC) solution to help their business achieve maximum potential and better compete...
HDD Makers Will Deliver Unprecedented Capacity in Next Five Years, IDC Reports
A prominent IT researcher forecast May 3 that the hard-disk storage industry will be building and selling products at an unprecedented pace during the...
Microsoft’s Kin Phones on Presale May 6, Say Rumors
Microsoft's upcoming Kin One and Kin Two phones will be made available for presale May 6, with "launches to all channels on May 13,"...