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Cisco Acquires Wireless Specialist Starent

Cisco is buying wireless infrastructure company Starent for $2.9 billion, the latest significant acquisition this year, following such purchases as…

15 years ago

Dell Says Efficiency Drive Will Shrink IT Industry By £125Bn

Michael Dell aims to cut spending on IT by end user companies by pursuing the concept of the efficient enterprise

15 years ago

Meru Launches Wireless Service Assurance

Network access points can pretend to be laptops, to gather performance data and determine whether faults are in the network…

15 years ago

1E Launches Energy-Saving Server Software

PC energy saving company branches out into servers and makes non-productive ones drowsy

15 years ago

Avaya Unveils Virtualised Unified Communication Offering

Avaya has launched its virtualised unified communications solution Aura, and is touting a 75 percent reduction in hardware, power and…

15 years ago

Mandelson Promises £80 Million – For Innovation, Not Cappucino

Business secretary Mandelson disses cappucino-drinking creatives, but is criticised for not pushing fibre harder at London conference

15 years ago

Oracle Discusses Importance Of Integration

At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, Oracle co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Cratz focused on highlighting Oracle's strategy of delivering a integrated…

15 years ago

HP Enters The BladeSystem Matrix

HP is extending its support for Oracle applications with a series of new provisioning templates for BladeSystem Matrix users

15 years ago

If Microsoft Screwed Up Sidekick, What Hope for Office 2010?

A Microsoft subsidiary apparently lost Sidekick users' cloud data. That's not good when the next versions of Office and Windows…

15 years ago

Facebook And Twitter Uptake Continues To Soar

Usage of websites such as Facebook and Twitter is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate, not just amongst the…

15 years ago

Rentokil Becomes Google’s Biggest Cloud Customer

Rentokil to put 35,000 users on Google Apps cloud email in offices and washrooms, by the end of 2010

15 years ago

Cisco Unified Computing System Review

For IT managers who must pay attention to both virtual and physical resources, the Cisco UCS system is well worth…

15 years ago

Sun Team Take Stage At Oracle Conference

The two companies kicked off their first joint Oracle OpenWorld conference by announcing an intriguing new flash-based storage system and…

15 years ago

Windows 7 Direct Access Review – VPN for the 21st Century?

It's billed as a seamless connection to the corporate network from anywhere - but those not running Windows 7 Enterprise…

15 years ago

Cisco Readies Rack-mounted Servers For UCS

Cisco's entry to the blade server market back in March raised a few eyebrows from traditional server providers, but the…

15 years ago

The Roots Of IBM’s New Legal Mainframe Troubles

IBM has kept hold the mainframe market illegally, say critics, tying hardware and software, and witholding licences. The issue is…

15 years ago

Government Denies Price Hikes Will Negate Smart Grid Savings

Despite estimates that energy prices could increase by as much as 60 percent, the government has said smart metering could…

15 years ago

Adobe looks to the Cloud with ColdFusion 9

Adobe Systems has unveiled a slew of product announcements around its ColdFusion development environment

15 years ago

Feds Investigate IBM Mainframe Business

IBM's big iron business is reportedly facing a probe from federal investigators, over possible antitrust violations.

15 years ago

Lord Carter: 2Mbps Broadband Is Like The Minimum Wage

The government's universal broadband provision may be slower than we'd like, but it's an essential part of social inclusion, said…

15 years ago

Parallels Launches Bare Metal Hypervisor

Parallels has launched a bare metal hypervisor, aimed at application service providers.

15 years ago

Panda Managed Office Protection Review

Panda MOP reduces end point security costs, protecting servers and workstations from malware, and is truly cloud-based, allowing all systems…

15 years ago

What if Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation Is On The Level?

After a bruising summer of fighting between Microsoft and open source activists, not many people took Microsoft's open source body…

15 years ago

UN Backs Broadband Schools To Bridge Digital Divide

Connecting individual homes is too costly for some developing countries but schools can act as a broadband hub for an…

15 years ago

Ballmer: Windows 7 Will Save £100 A Year

The cloud is here - within limits - said CEO Steve Ballmer, in a London visit to promote Windows 7…

15 years ago

Ballmer Admits Windows Licensing “Gotchas”

Some of the Windows licence fine print includes deliberate "gotchas", Microsoft CEO Ballmer admitted - and he has no plans…

15 years ago

Compliance May Hinder Cloud Early Adopters, Warns Provider

Users may have to choose which apps to put in the cloud, and some should wait till their industry accepts…

15 years ago

Savvis Says Spirit Will Convince Cloud Skeptics

With the Spirit  cloud infrastructure project on the launchpad,  Savvis' CTO Bryan Doerr has plenty to say when we ask…

15 years ago

EC Wants e-Commerce To Flow Like “Oil In Broadband Pipelines”

Digital services must be Europe-wide says commissioner Vivian Reding

15 years ago

MEP Continues To Support Intel Amid EC Anti-Trust Case

European legal committee member Brian Crowley has publicly supported an Irish investment by Intel - which was recently fined €1…

15 years ago