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Fri, August 25, 2006 - Telstra has launched a US$38 million laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, to test its new IP network, which is slated to deliver data and voice services to some 5.3 million customers in five years.The Telstra Integration Laboratory was officially opened by chief operations officer Greg Winn, who said it is a key part of the company’s partnership with global suppliers to ...

Wed, August 23, 2006 - Sun Microsystems has rebounded in the server market, according to new numbers for the second quarter of this year released today.Sun grew server revenue by 15.5 percent to US$1.6 billion in the second quarter, from $1.4 billion in the second quarter of 2005, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker. Its market share grew to 12.9 percent from 11.2 percent ...

Mon, August 21, 2006 - What you need to consider when deciding whether to develop mobile systems yourself or purchase solutions from a provider.

Tue, August 15, 2006 - Monitoring virtual machines is a growing chore for system administrators, claimed Veeam Software as it announced Veeam Monitor, an equivalent of the Windows task manager for virtual machines running under EMC’s VMware."Veeam Monitor provides a bird’s-eye view on virtual infrastructure, as well as an easy way to drill down and view general resource usage per machine, all from a single ...

Tue, August 15, 2006 - Cleveland missed out on the economic boom of the 1990s, which was largely driven by knowledge work. Only about 20 percent of the area’s residents have college degrees, and the local economy is still dominated by manufacturing. During the past decade, employment and wage growth in Northeast Ohio were about half the national average, and between 2000 and 2002, taxable ...

Thu, August 10, 2006 - Intensifying competition and pressure to lower prices have forced Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s largest provider of telecommunication services, to reduce its sales and earnings forecast for this year and next.The German network operator has slashed its profit forecast for this year by 1 billion euros (US$1.3 billion), admitting that it is reaching the limits of growth in its home market. The group’s ...

Wed, August 02, 2006 - A Seattle-based security researcher has devised a way to test for net neutrality.Dan Kaminsky will share details of this technique, which will eventually be rolled into a free software tool, on Wednesday at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas. The software can tell if computers are treating some types of TCP/IP traffic better than others—dropping data that ...

Tue, August 01, 2006 - Style and price are the two biggest reasons why consumers choose a particular mobile phone, according to a survey by J.D. Power and Associates.Thirty-nine percent of the 18,740 users surveyed mentioned design as a buying factor, making it the single most popular answer, according to Kirk Parsons, an analyst with J.D. Power. Getting something for nothing was the most-cited cost ...

Tue, August 01, 2006 - The key issue is structural, not political.

Wed, July 19, 2006 - Network access control in appliances and client-side applications will become the industry norm within two years, but a lack of open standards in network protocols may hinder the quick adopters.Almost every organization will go down the network access control (NAC) road for security, access control and network bandwidth management. Cisco and Microsoft, with the release of Vista and Longhorn, will ...