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Wed, November 15, 2006 - As the demand for real-time data increases, as more and more information flows into the enterprise, the challenge of understanding and managing it grows proportionately. And sometimes, more is just too much.

Wed, November 15, 2006 - Voice-Over-IP projects often stall during or after pilot testing. Here’s hands-on advice from CIOs who kept their projects running.

Wed, November 15, 2006 - Replacing the telephone company with VoIP comes with one major potential problem for companies: The Internet is simply not as reliable as landline telephones. "There are going to be problems, and times when things go down," says Will Stofega, an analyst at IDC (a sister company to CIO’s publisher). "How you react to it is critical."Especially if you are a ...

Wed, November 15, 2006 - What’s most likely to
slow down your VoIP
project, or even leave it in
pilot testing never-never land? Forrester Research’s
Lisa Pierce cites three big culprits:

Wed, November 15, 2006 - IT professionals and Gartner analysts are looking beyond networks to the whole enterprise this week at the research company’s Enterprise Networking Summit in Las Vegas. Everything system and application administrators want to do affects networks, especially now that voice and other forms of communication are moving on to IP data networks, participants said Tuesday. That trend toward unified communications, along ...

Tue, November 07, 2006 - Europeans avoid cell use when traveling.

Tue, November 07, 2006 - Zoom Technologies has launched its iHiFi Wireless Personal Audio Link for iPods and other music players.The iHiFi range of wireless products lets iPods play music through a stereo or powered speakers. The solution includes a Bluetooth receiver that attaches to a stereo or powered speakers and Bluetooth transmitters for iPods and other audio devices.The system works at ranges of 70 ...

Wed, November 01, 2006 - The process of integrating Africa’s telecommunications by connecting networks across the continent is going through another rough patch, as ministers from several countries take time to study a protocol that provides a framework agreement for several projects.Telecommunications ministers from Zambia, Mozambique, Sudan and Kenya have declined to endorse the protocol, which among other things has provisions for building the East ...

Fri, October 13, 2006 - NTT DoCoMo has attracted more than 860,000 people to its DCMX service that allows a cell phone to be used to make credit purchases in stores, it said Thursday.The service was launched in late April, and the number of subscribers topped 860,000 as of this week, the company said. DCMX provides 10,000 yen (US$83.80) of instant credit to users ...

Tue, October 10, 2006 - The integration of broadband gateways into home networking is jumping forward with an acquisition set to be announced by Cisco Systems’ Linksys division on Tuesday.Linksys is to acquire the intellectual property and selected assets of Ashley Laurent, a provider of software primarily for DSL gateway devices. The eight employees of the Austin, Texas, company will join the Home Networking Business ...