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EMC Corp. and IBM have rolled out networking bundles and speed upgrades, acknowledging that installation hassles and performance issues are still among storage administrators top concerns. EMCs bundles apply to its midrange Clariion family, with most features available now, said company officials, in Hopkinton, Mass. IBMs are for its high-end Enterprise Storage System 800 series, […]

The Wi-Fi world has always had the interference bogeyman lurking in the shadows, threatening to tie hot spot users in knots. In a report entitled “The Urban Wi-Fi Crash of 2004,” Peter Kastner of market research firm Aberdeen Group says interference in urban Wi-Fi nets is close at hand. Kastner, who is senior analyst at […]

The U.S. Department of Defense will give radio frequency identification technology a massive boost with a new policy requiring its suppliers to use RFID chips. The Defense Departments policy requires that by January 2005 all suppliers embed passive RFID chips in each individual product if possible, or otherwise at the level of cases or pallets. […]

Cell-phone carrier T-Mobile International said Thursday that it has completed agreements that will allow customers to keep their phone numbers when switching service to or from the five other major wireless carriers. /zimages/3/28571.gifFor an in-depth look at portability for Cingular Wireless, check out an exclusive Baseline Case Study. T-Mobile is the first of the major […]

Its not only around the final delivery date for Longhorn where Microsoft is doing some fancy dancing. The Professional Developer Conference (PDC) presenters in Los Angeles are avoiding studiously pinning final delivery dates on the Yukon version of SQL Server and the Whidbey release of Visual Studio. Until recently, Microsoft was maintaining that both of […]

LOS ANGELES—Microsoft Corp. Group Vice President Jim Allchin whipped through a lot of slides and information during his nearly two-hour keynote here at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference on Monday. But by the end of his talk, we didnt learn much more than we already knew about the ETA for Longhorn, which is currently expected […]

Veritas Software Corp. today announced it is porting core storage management applications to SuSE Linux AGs operating system. The deal applies to Veritas File System, Volume Manager and Cluster Server applications, and will include joint marketing, development, sales and support, officials in Mountain View, Calif., said. Nuremberg, Germanys SuSE has beta customers for the software […]

Eric Rudder, senior vice president of servers and tools at Microsoft Corp., is responsible for Microsofts strategies on both fronts, including the Redmond, Wash., companys outreach to its developer community. Rudders influence will be apparent at this weeks Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles; hes responsible for applying the companys tools strategy to many […]

The folks over at WinBeta.org have posted a notice to Yukon SQL Server testers, re: the PDC build of its next-gen database that Microsoft is planning to distribute in Los Angeles next week at its Professional Developers Conference. “This build is slightly different than the version you have today, having only a few fixes intended […]

When Microsoft slips the covers off Longhorn this week at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, dont expect to see a polished desktop client ready to deliver intuitive, simplified computing to the masses. After all, Microsoft still has three more years to hone the final fit and finish for its next-generation Windows release. […]

TTPCom shows off new chip architecture combining GSM cellular and Wi-Fi. The companys GSM-11 silicon will enable phones that roam from GSM cellular networks to LAN-based 802.11 networks — switching automatically from cellular to VOIP. The company expects products built around the new chips to be available in 2005. Read more about GSM-11 at TTPComs […]

San Diego-based PulseLINK Inc. has shown off a prototype of Ultrawideband that transmits up to 125 megabits of data over 60 feet. The company expects to release a wireless LAN chipset in 2004 to support Ultrawideband in LAN applications Read the full story on CommsDesign.