Stories about: Axon

You'd have thought that, by now, we would have settled the WLAN architecture wars. You'd think one architecture or another would have been declared the winner and that we'd all be buying basically the same product from a small number of vendors -- just as is the case with Ethernet switches.

Nanotechnology will replace magnetic disk drives in iPods, laptops and servers within five to 10 years, making them more durable, lighter and faster.

Despite building a working IP telephony system based on the open source Asterisk PABX, a Sydney marketing company recommends staying clear of the 'immature' technology for at least another year.

Unisys Australia has bucked a current trend by outsourcing its procurement service to New Zealand integrator, Axon.

A pack of startups in the US is racing to create a new generation of wireless LANs based on wiring-closet devices that connect to wired backbones and control up to hundreds of access points and thousands of end users.

Although no tumbleweeds were spotted blowing across the exhibit floor, this year's semi-annual Networld+Interop conference looked like a ghost town. With more than twice as few exhibitors and attendees present, the once gigantic conference that ended today was quiet in all regards.

Symbol Technologies Inc. unveiled this week an intelligent wireless LAN switch that may herald a change in how IEEE 802.11x networks are configured and managed.

Cisco Systems Inc. and Symbol Technologies Inc., two of the leading makers of wireless LAN products, separately will roll out equipment this week that takes the technology to a new level.

Service is king in New Zealand. That's the verdict after single-seller vendor websites here have so far failed to fire despite all the major IT vendors in the US and Australia launching into direct web sales to end users with gusto.

There was a flurry of acquisition activity in the Danish IT market today. French e-business consultancy Valtech SA today announced plans to acquire Danish firm Ahead A/S in a deal worth 140 million euros (US$126 million). This is Valtech's fifth acquisition in the past 12 months.

IBM appears to have done it. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq are desperately trying to get in the game. And Japanese vendors have obviously gone crazy over it. Revolution might be too strong a word but there is definitely a sea change happening in the hardware industry as traditional vendors come to the realisation that the Internet is the way of the future. Lacklustre performances of previously lucrative markets such as semiconductors, the ever reducing margins on bread-and-butter items such as the PC, and the enviable growth rate and capitalisation of dot-com companies has pushed the hardware vendor into the Internet and service space.