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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 54g part. The BCM1160, based on an ARM9 core, includes an analog voice codec. The BCM1160 can also connect to Broadcoms Bluetooth chip. Read the full story at The Register

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 like a LAN and voice is just another application, you will fail,” said Tony Rybczynski, director of strategic enterprise technology at Nortel Networks Ltd. Rybczynski said 802.11a may be a […]

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 much available desktop tech as possible. Otherwise, think of a notebook as a complement to your desktop, and take into account these considerations. Again, go for the fastest processor you can […]

A typical days work for a digital home PC includes simultaneous downloading, video transcoding, and file streaming. This can bring a typical PC to its virtual knees. You need to buy with performance in mind. It all begins with getting the most up-to-date processor and chipset you can afford. Everything from transcoding to playing back […]

QLogics low-end switches will get a boost from being resold with Apples Xserve RAID—or so the rumor goes. QLogics nudging into the SMB market with recent and upcoming OEM deals. Read the rest of this article at Byte and Switch.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced a windfall of cash in grants and contracts to promote the use of health IT to reduce medical errors; increase sharing of information between providers, laboratories, pharmacies, and patients; decrease unnecessary testing, and ease patient transition between health care facilities like hospitals and nursing homes. The funds […]

Every recent technology breeds its share of health scares and mobile phones are no exception. A report released this week by Swedens Karolinska Institute, up there in Ericsson and Nokia territory, concludes that persons who use mobile phones for more than 10 years are at greater risk of developing aural tumors. Researchers say there was […]

Microsoft has been holding its Office 12 cards close to the vest. But its becoming increasingly apparent that there will be some new Office Server products in the companys next-generation Office suite lineup. Sources close to Microsoft say the company is well on its way to developing a server version of its desktop Excel spreadsheet […]

One of the major obstacles to the widespread adoption of utility computing is the difficulty in managing multivendor solutions. While many excellent management tools are available, they all tend to require explicit support for devices. That is, there is no coherent standard by which any device, regardless of vendor, can guarantee management compatibility across the […]

Arguing that the current RFID retail approach is a haven for shoplifters and forces retailers to work with overly-expensive and fragile components, a retired Boeing engineer has come up with a way to leverage Wi-Fi technology and video cameras to make item-level tagging more practical and nearterm. “RFID EPC tags will be laughed at by […]

With all of the worries about privacy, security and integration costs and methodology, one critical issue is getting little attention: Data quality. And a Deloitte executive warns that this could derail otherwise well-thought-out RFID efforts. With the new and unknown qualities of RFID, accuracy of data may be less of a concern than data consistency. […]

Fact or myth: Outsourcing CRM will save your firm money. Many who are in the trenches say its clearly a myth. Hidden costs abroad plus political uncertainties at home mean that outsourcing CRM isnt an automatic addition to the bottom line. Managing contact centers over great geographical distances is a major obstacle. The need to […]