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Rivals Agree on 802.11s Wireless Mesh Proposal

Following a quiet agreement on a joint IEEE mesh networking standard in March, companies like Motorola are announcing plans to move the technology into...

Symantec Stuck with $1 Billion Tax Bill

Security software maker Symantec said it has been asked to pay $1 billion in additional taxes to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, largely related...

IBM Posts Solid First Quarter

Despite continued doldrums in its key services business, IBM posted a solid first quarter, thanks mainly to steady performance in software and hardware. The worlds...

Analysts Speak Out on the Wireless Security Hype

Security software vendor Kaspersky Labs joined the ranks of anti-malware specialists introducing applications designed for use on mobile devices with the launch of its...

Oracle Comes Calling in the Telecom Space

Oracle came to talk telecom, and aside from a few throwaway comments about open source, execs did just that, outlining the companys first foray...

The Uncertainty of Outsourcing

It came practically as an aside in the course of an hours presentation by one of the most quoted business school professors in the...

Virtualization Vertigo: Options Abound

Virtualization isnt just VMware anymore. Until recently, virtualization was seen as what VMware does: Use whats called a software hypervisor layer to slice a...

Packeteer, Cisco Pick Up Speed on WAN

Packeteer and Cisco Systems—a pair of old-guard vendors in the traffic management space—are waking up to new opportunities around application acceleration and WAN optimization. A...

Developers Dont Have Time

Dual-core processors are proliferating through PC product lines, including newly Windows-capable Macintosh systems. April has also seen the open-source release of Sun Microsystems SPARC...

Net Neutrality for All

Imagine you are driving your familys Toyota Camry down an interstate highway, heading to grandmas house for Thanksgiving. You approach a tollbooth, roll down...