Stories about: Immersion

Technologically, Beijing is a city at a crossroads. It is the capital of the world's largest mobile phone and Internet user markets, and its universities, especially Tsinghua University, produce some of the world's top technology minds. At the same time, Beijing cannot compare to its Asian neighbors, namely Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong for Internet and telecom services, such as 3G (third-generation telephony).

Wendell Odom, Cisco press author, instructor and blogger was recently a repeat guest for Network World chat. Attendees asked him the best ways to build a home lab, which certifications still have power in the market, and strategies for most easily passing the hardest exams.

How you manage the inevitable letdown after an intense, creative project determines whether you'll keep or lose your best people.

Cisco's approach to unified communications is a network-based, hardware-intensive implementation designed to provide support for more environments - like point-of-sale systems, non-PC workgroups and mobile device platforms - than desktop- or server-based strategies.

All communities develop rituals over time. One of the enduring linux-kernel rituals is the regular heated discussion on development processes and kernel quality. To an outside observer, these events can give the impression that the whole enterprise is about to come crashing down. But the reality is a lot like the New Year celebrations the author was privileged enough to see in Beijing: vast amounts of smoke and noise, but everybody gets back to work as usual the next day.

As mobile devices evolve and grow more sophisticated, so too do the ways that we interact with them.

Advanced Micro Devices revealed the first two processors to come out of its new 45 nanometer manufacturing process at the CeBIT conference in Germany.

In late 2002, a huge controversy broke out over a highly speculative theory from two mathematical physicists (who happened to be twins) about what may have preceded the Big Bang.

The ANZ Bank has become the first local financial institution to buy into Cisco's new telepresence solution with two units to be installed in its Melbourne and Bangalore, India offices at a cost of around $600,000.

Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has declared more publicity would be generated for open source software if the three large desktop projects of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org agreed on a common and regular release cycle.

Not content with commodity PC videoconference technology, Cisco has developed a telepresence system to offer real-time collaborative meetings within geographically distributed workplaces.