Saturday | 5 July, 2008
Stories by: Peter Judge
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IPhone 2.0 gets open source email 17/06/2008 07:33:48
Funambol has delivered an open source email client for the new iPhone, and has won new funding for its bid to offer a free alternative to the Blackberry. - +
How important is the 3GPP femto standard? 11/06/2008 11:54:47
Last week's announcement of a standard for femto cells took a lot of people by surprise. How did it happen so fast, and how important will it be? And are there other issues that might cause problems in future? - +
Femto cells get a surprise standard 06/06/2008 08:40:45
Operators and vendors have agreed a standard which could speed up the arrival of femtocells -- the indoor base stations which are designed to improve coverage of 3G networks indoors by piggy-backing on home and office broadband. - +
Barts Hospital adopts co-operative Wi-Fi 19/05/2008 10:39:27
Hospitals have been one of the main users of Wi-Fi networks, so far. Driven by a mobile workforce and an environment where cellular devices are usually forbidden, they have accepted centralised Wi-Fi switches before many other markets. Now a London hospital has installed a wireless network which claims to do away with the need for those centralised switches. - +
Low energy Bluetooth breaks cover 28/04/2008 11:44:15
Bluetooth's low-power variant could be everywhere starting next year, and other low-power networking options had better watch out, say the new standard's backers. - +
WLAN overcomes despair in the T5 departure lounge 23/04/2008 12:30:14
London's Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 is in many ways a controversial building. However, there's no denying the grandiose scale of the £4.3 billion project. Britain's largest free-standing building, it contains a mega-shopping complex, an advanced baggage handling system... and a nifty wireless LAN. - +
Ruckus launches enterprise 802.11n mesh 23/04/2008 09:42:32
Ruckus Wireless has added an enterprise-scale controller to its 802.11n wireless LAN and delivered mesh - which it claims can outperform other vendors' equipment, while only using the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi spectrum. - +
Ruckus does 2.4GHz-only business 802.11n 10/03/2008 08:43:12
Ruckus Wireless has launched enterprise wireless LAN equipment that complies with the emerging 802.11n standard - but is reserving its dual-band equipment for service providers for now. - +
NEC announces femtocells and proposes a standard 07/02/2008 07:55:46
NEC has thrown its hat into the femtocell ring, with an indoor base station, and has proposed a femto technology standard to the Femto Forum. - +
Siemens claims 802.11n power problem cracked 24/01/2008 12:10:05
Siemens is launching a wireless LAN system that it claims can run full 802.11n on normal power over Ethernet, but refuses to divulge how it has managed a trick that is beyond other players including Cisco. - +
WiMax plans 3G-killer option 18/01/2008 08:48:17
Equipment vendors are quietly working on a WiMax technology that could challenge options for cellular telecoms networks, by allowing the technology out of its small spectrum "ghetto," into the main 3G band due to be allocated this year.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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