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Research in Motion was a little-known manufacturer of high-end paging devices—a David to Motorolas Goliath—when it began an odyssey into corporate messaging that started with the RIM 950. This device, with its boxy design, streamlined UI and trailblazing thumbboard, was the basic hardware on which RIM would build its famous BlackBerry service. For those who […]

RIMs Blackberry Gets a Grip on Color Research In Motion will release a BlackBerry handheld with a color screen this summer, according to RIM Chairman Jim Balsillie. “We didnt want to do (a BlackBerry with a color screen) until the battery system was there” to handle the display, Balsillie said. He did not reveal the […]

Enterprise Storage Storage Needs Outstripping Moores Law? Storage requirements are fast outstripping even Moores Law, according to research recently released by the European arm of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Approximately 30 percent of the respondents to the SNIA-E Storage Audit 2002 survey said that their storage requirements ballooned by 100 percent or more […]

EMC Corp. on Wednesday upgraded its data movement software to be more granular and minimize downtime. Officials also announced a road map for the software, PowerPath 4.0, including the movement of server software into network switches, and storage management using the Common Information Model. “EMCs really expanding what we believe the definition of path management […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The devil, it is said, is in the details. For a technology product, they can mean the difference between brilliance and mediocrity—or acceptance and outrage. Apple Computer once again proved its mastery of minutiae at Mondays introduction of an online music service and a refreshed line of iPod music players. On paper (and in […]

At Network+Interop and in the weeks leading up to it, a bevy of manufacturers have introduced software or hardware/software combinations focusing on wireless LANs. Their mission is to provide relief to IT managers besieged by requests for wireless networks or befuddled by how to manage their rapidly improving yet still spotty security. Much has been […]

Biometrics AuthenTec, a maker of fingerprint-recognition sensors, announced on Monday that it signed a deal with Microsoft to integrate software support for biometrics into the Windows operating system. AuthenTec will create a reference driver that will be the example for other biometric hardware makers to follow in designing their own driver software. In addition, a […]

EMC Corp. will ship storage area networking switches from Cisco Systems Inc. by the end of this quarter, officials said Tuesday. Cisco announced its entry into the market last summer, with the intention to compete against incumbent players Brocade Communications Systems Inc. and McData Corp. by giving customers a single supplier for data and storage […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today that the first round of products has successfully completed Wi-Fi Protected Access interoperability testing, a new security standard replacing WEP. WiFi Protected Access is designed as an interim step to 802.11i, the next-generation security standard currently in the development phase. The 802.11i standard is expected be designed around the Advanced […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced today that the first round of products has successfully completed Wi-Fi Protected Access interoperability testing, a new security standard replacing WEP. WiFi Protected Access is designed as an interim step to 802.11i, the next-generation security standard currently in the development phase. The 802.11i standard is expected be designed around the Advanced […]

Relational Database Pioneer Codd Dies Edgar Codd, an IBM mathematician who created the relational database model, died last week at age 79. Codd literally rewrote database management theory when he published his relational model in 1970 while working for IBM. It formed the basis for the first commercial RDBMS product, built by Larry Ellison of […]

Why is it that when Microsoft says something, no one quite believes it? Even before the company took the wraps off its CRM offering at the start of this year, Microsoft adamantly maintained that it was aiming the product at small and midsize businesses and not at corporate enterprises. The more Microsoft watchers asserted that […]