Stories about: CHA

By now, you've read all about the wildly hyped MacBook Air, the slenderized version of Apple's MacBook line that looks like it's been run over by a steamroller.

Only a few weeks after the high-profile launch of Telstra's NextG mobile broadband network, Vodafone has fired up its own High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network in Sydney and Melbourne.

One night in 2000, 500 of my Internet industry colleagues and I crammed into a meeting room in Hong Kong's Furama Hotel, which no longer exists, for a meeting of I and I Asia, then the must-attend function of the Internet age. Most of the others assembled that night are probably no longer in the industry. But the speaker had just closed a US$20 million round of venture capital financing, and in 2000, that made everyone in the room all ears. He was here to stay.

Although having an open source strategy is becoming common in many enterprises, users and analysts say 2006 is the year the penguin flippers will hit the water in terms of Linux's evolution into an enterprise-application server platform. Linux usage started with lower-level admins, deployed on individual desktops or small boxes. Then it moved into e-mail, file-and-print and serving Web pages. Now those who use Linux say the time is right for the operating system to be running key corporate-software packages, including large databases, financials, sales, medical records and a host of other business-critical systems.

In an effort to bolster its offerings for the corporate market, Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that it added a strategy services department to its Yahoo Enterprise Solutions division, offering companies guidance on how to reach customers through Web-based services.

Xircom ships wireless card, 3Com gets Secure help, Cabletron calling traffic, Motorola previews carrier access gear

CHA's tale of woe in attempts to sell up continued this morning with the announcement that its proposed acquisition by telco hardware distributor Quadtel was not proceeding.

CHA's tale of woe in attempts to sell up continued this week with the announcement that its proposed acquisition by telco hardware distributor Quadtel was not proceeding.

Quadtel CEO David Ramsay has confirmed the ASX-listed broadband products and solutions distribution company is on the verge of completing the acquisition of a national IT distributor.

Distributors who refuse to reinvent themselves as VARs are walking the plank, as yet more vendors show a willingness to bypass medium-sized wholesalers to get to the customers.

First CHA, then Netgear and now Victoria Police? James Robbins, Netgear's southern regional manager and former CHA marketing manager is set to leave to join the ranks of Victoria's "Force"