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Far EasTone may promote WiMax handsets, but not Skype Far EasTone Telecommunications doesn't plan to shy away from WiMax handsets once its high-speed wireless network is up and running in southern Taiwan, but the company certainly won't welcome Skype's popular Internet telephony software. Committee tackles NYC's digital divide Providing affordable or free broadband access to a city of more than 8 million is a daunting task. But a movement spearheaded by New York Councilwoman Gail Brewer aims to do just that, and taking a different tack from other U.S. cities trying to build metropolitan Wi-Fi networks. May 9, 9:46 a.m. PDT HP, Cisco team up on enterprise wireless LANs Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard see the wireless LAN as something that can help the whole enterprise, not just departments. August 30, 4:16 a.m. PDT Gates on the fence, Nokia makes scents An earthquake shook Redmond last week, Bill Gates announced plans to scale back his day-to-day duties at Microsoft starting in July 2008. Gates said he was leaving so he could spend more time with his money -- I mean, his charitable foundation. However, the company has so far refused to establish a timetable for Ballmer’s withdrawal, saying that such a move would merely encourage open source terrorists. I must admit I’ll miss having Sir Bill to kick around.  June 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT FIFA network tackles tough challenge The World Cup soccer tournament taking place in Germany is not only the planet's largest sporting event; during the four weeks of play through July 9, it's also home to what many experts say is the world's biggest communications network built for a single event. June 19, 4:35 a.m. PDT Slow progress for 802.11n standards The IEEE 802.11n standard has been three years in the making, and from the looks of it, it has at least another year to go. That’s a shame because it offers a lot of benefits, including higher throughput than the current Wi-Fi standard -- about 120Mbps in the real world -- and 50 percent longer range. Plus, because it uses multiple antennas that can stitch together a fractured signal, it eliminates a lot of spots where there might be drop-offs indoors. June 6, 3:00 a.m. PDT InfoWorld CTO 25: Keith McGarr Reed Elsevier -- with businesses including Harcourt and LexisNexis -- publishes more than 15,000 journals, books, and reference works, and boasts more than 500 online properties. As Global CTO, Keith McGarr focuses on the development of technology to manage and deliver superior online content and services. Last year, online revenue accounted for $3.3 billion of the company’s bottom line, up from $400 million when McGarr took over in 2000. June 5, 3:00 a.m. PDT Product previews Sun Solaris 10 to integrate ZFS and PostgreSQL Sun announced a June release of the solaris 10 operating system that will incorporate ZFS 1.0, Sun’s new 128-bit file system, and the open source PostgreSQL database. ZFS automatically detects and corrects data corruption and eliminates the need for a volume manager. PostgreSQL will help leverage Solaris’ predictive self-healing, OS containers, and DTrace (dynamic tracing) technologies. Solaris 10, Sun Microsystems May 15, 3:00 a.m. PDT Peer-to-peer device networking takes shape The concept of SEDs (service-enabled devices) started way back in the ‘80s with something called tuple spaces, and later took shape as Jini nder the guidance of Sun Microsystems. Jini came about when Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist, imagined a peer-to-peer world where every device could talk to every other device: “Hello, I’m a color printer. This is my feature set and here are my printer drivers. Would you like to access me?” May 2, 3:00 a.m. PDT Nokia expands its China R&D center Nokia is expanding a research and development (R&D) center in Sichuan, China, to develop a wider range of products, including WAP network components, the company announced Tuesday. April 18, 4:27 a.m. PDT The long road to RFID interoperability Software isn’t the only factor driving wider adoption of RFID. Perhaps the largest single enabler has been the emergence of Gen2 -- officially known as the EPCglobal Class-1 Generation-2 UHF RFID Protocol for Communications -- which is the standard protocol for EPC (Electronic Product Code) tag transmissions. April 13, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Networking |
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