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Report: Nokia Siemens bids for much of Nortel

uphan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:31:34 +0000

Nokia Siemens Networks, Avaya, and Siemens Enterprise Communications are moving in to buy parts of troubled Nortel Networks, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.

Clearwire plans Silicon Valley 'sandbox' WiMax network

admin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:05:42 +0000

Clearwire is teaming up with Google, Cisco Systems and Intel to build a WiMax network in Silicon Valley for software developers to try out new applications on the fourth-generation mobile broadband technology.

The network will cover the three companies' campuses and the region in between them and will span roughly 20 square miles (52 square kilometers), Clearwire cofounder and Co-Chairman Ben Wolff said in a keynote address at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas.

Patent infringement lawsuit may affect iPhone

admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:24:54 +0000

Accolade Systems sued Micron Technology and its subsidiary Aptina Imaging for infringing on one of its patents, according to documents filed with the courts on Tuesday. While Apple isn't named in the suit, components in the iPhone are part of the lawsuit.

Sprint to deploy WiMax in 10 U.S. cities in 2009

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:02:19 +0000

Sprint plans to deploy its WiMax services to 10 major U.S. cities in 2009, with at least five additional major markets due to get services in 2010.

Why WiMax should be on the CIO's radar

admin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:00:00 +0000

Despite the billions of dollars required to roll out a brand-new wireless network, the slowdown in the economy, and the reduced share price, the president of Clearwire, Barry West, is optimistic about the future role of WiMax in business. And he says tech managers should put WiMax planning on their agendas now.

Michael Dell hints at smartphones, mobile Internet devices

admin — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:08:35 +0000

Michael Dell gave the strongest hint to date that his company is developing a mobile Internet device or smartphone at a speech in Tokyo on Tuesday.

"It is true that we are exploring smaller screen devices," he said. "We don't have any announcements to share today, but stay tuned as when we have new news we will share that with you."

VMware to manage virtual machines from mobile phones

admin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:34:54 +0000

VMware is set to release in the beginning of April a technology preview of a new feature that will let vCenter Mobile Access VMware users manage their infrastructure from mobile phones, it said on a company blog on Friday.

Apple unveils the iPhone 3.0 OS

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:58:56 +0000

iPhone tethering could prove a boon to IT managers
iPhone 3.0's tethering capability could replace the need to issue mobile broadband cards to phone users; AT&T declined to discuss its plans for the tethering feature

10 IT agenda items for the first U.S. CIO

admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:00:00 +0000

Last week, President Barack Obama made good on his promise to appoint a national tech leader for the United States. As the country's first-ever CIO, Vivek Kundra faces significant challenges modernizing the nation's IT infrastructure and will be charged to do so at a time when self-interests and a lack of industry oversight threaten not only our freedoms and privacy but also the long-term innovation potential of IT.

Mobile browsers bring new enterprise security headaches

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:48:39 +0000

The new generation of mobile Web browsers is going to introduce for enterprise IT departments a rash of security challenges. The good news is that many of those challenges are familiar ones, from desktop browsers.

Ballmer promises faster Windows Mobile development

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:58:46 +0000

Under pressure from popular phones from Apple and Research in Motion, Microsoft hopes it has put in place changes that will help it meet that mobile competition faster, said CEO Steve Ballmer on Wednesday.

"There are opportunities for us to accelerate our execution in this area," he said. "We've done a lot of work to make sure we have a team that will be able to accelerate it."

SAP, IBM to showcase tech for cloud mobility

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:04:48 +0000

IBM and SAP will showcase technology that automatically balances the workload from an SAP application across multiple remote servers, during a demonstration Tuesday at Cebit in Hanover, Germany.

Obama proposes spectrum license fee

admin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:26:30 +0000

Buried in U.S. President Barack Obama's budget blueprint for 2009 is a new-but-undefined spectrum license user fee that would increase from $50 million in 2009 to $550 million four years later.

The budget blueprint, released Thursday, provides no more details about the fee. Despite some speculation to the contrary, it may not, however, be a fee on wireless voice and data spectrum, but on spectrum used by U.S. radio and television stations.

Lawmaker questions gov't money for broadband rollout

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:15:26 +0000

Even though she has constituents in her congressional district who want broadband but can't get it, Representative Marsha Blackburn suggested Thursday that government should have little to no role in stimulating broadband deployment.

Nokia considers developing its own laptop

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:26:42 +0000

Will the laptop and smartphone converge in the future? Nokia is lending more credence to that idea, with the company's comments yesterday that it may develop its own laptop. In an interview with Finnish broadcaster YLE, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said his company was "looking very actively" at the laptop market.

Software appliances big opportunity for Linux, Novell says

admin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:05:05 +0000

The modularity and licensing of Linux makes it well suited as the platform of choice for the burgeoning software appliance market, a Novell executive said at the VMworld conference in Cannes.

Software appliances are applications that come prepackaged with an operating system on, for example, a virtual machine or a USB stick.

Google blocks paid apps for unlocked G1 users

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:17:04 +0000

People who bought an unlocked version of the Android G1 phone are no longer allowed to download new paid applications from the Market, after a change Google made late last week.

Google is prohibiting users of the unlocked phones from viewing copy-protected applications, including those that cost to download.

Lumension Mobile fights malware on the smartphone

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:04:49 +0000

As more and more people bring personal technology into the workplace -- most often smartphones -- malicious code writers are beginning to take notice and target these weak points of entry. In its 2009 Cyber Threat Report, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center cited the possibility of botnets moving from the desktop to the smartphone within the year. A few enterprise security vendors are not waiting.

VMware shows virtualization on the mobile phone

admin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:12:10 +0000

We've had virtual storage, virtual machines, and virtual datacenters. Now VMware is looking to the next frontier: the virtual mobile phone.

The company has announced the mobile virtualization platform (MVP) aimed at handset vendors to enable mobile users to choose between two different platforms or phone numbers on a single handset.

Update: Skype's immunity to phone tapping threatened

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:14:17 +0000

Suspicious phone conversations on Skype could be targeted for tapping as part of a pan-European crackdown on what law authorities believe is a massive technical loophole in current wiretapping laws, allowing criminals to communicate without fear of being overheard by the police.