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Top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 2007-10-11 09:03:00 Which technologies
must any good IT executive examine in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualization, mashups and social software. Gartner has identified the “Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008,” and is urging IT executives to think about the risk of not implementing each one. If your competitor masters one of these technologies and you don’t, will you be at a strategic disadvantage? Gartner analysts David Cearley and Carl Claunch reviewed the list Tuesday at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla. Here’s a summary: 1. Green IT This one is taking on a bigger role for many reasons, including an increased awareness of environmental danger; concern about power bills; regulatory requirements; government procurement rules; and a sense that corporation
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Introducing the Xternal Portable Office or XPO 2007-10-09 09:10:00 Coming Soon!Featured BenefitsThe GoldX XPO is the most convenient, data storage & transfer device ever to hit the market! The GoldX XPO eliminates the need for a computer host, by allowing you to store, save & transfer your music, pictures, documents & videos with one great device. By utilizing an internal host chip, quickly store up to 8 GB of information at one time by directly plugging your GoldX XPO into a digital camera, PDA, MP3 player, digital video camera, or even another computer or storage device. The backing up & transfering of files has never been simpler than now. The GoldX XPO truly is the perfect “on-the-go” device for traveling & office use!• Patented• Mobile• Durable• Compact• Powerful• Necessary• USB 2.0 Tested Read more:Introducing
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Get your LCD monitors/TV's soon as prices are on the rise. 2007-10-08 15:32:00 The price of LCD panels for notebooks and desktop monitors has been on the rise since April, though the increase has not yet been passed on to consumers. But that could change very soon, according to a new report from iSuppli. Though LCD television prices have stabilized, monitor prices are far more volatile right now. As an example, the average price for a 15-inch notebook display has inched up from $90 to $108 between April and September, according to iSuppli. But during that time, monitor prices did not go up even as panels did, severely eating into the margins of monitor manufacturers. "We're now reaching a point where profit margin for the monitor supply is really being impacted," said Sweta Dash, director of LCD and projection research at iSuppli. "So already some monitor suppliers are starting to increase their prices $10 to $20." Considering the already tight supply (from a backlog of product in the spring), prices have almost nowhere to go but up. "Considering all these fac
Why Net Neutrality a Must for Working Americans 2007-10-08 09:53:00 Some of the most powerful voices in labor are throwing their full support behind Net Neutrality
– calling it crucial to the success and vitality of our democracy. In a blog post at SavetheInternet.com, Jim Hoffa, the general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, called on Congress to pass legislation that would “ensure that discrimination and economic injustice does not return in a 21st Century form.” The Teamsters’ Jim Hoffa When corporations control communications, workers lose Hoffa referred specifically to recent instances where massive Internet providers had used their gatekeeping authority to stifle free speech over cell phones and the Internet. “What would happen if … workers decided to fight for better working conditions?” he asks. “Would they be able to list their grievances on a Web site? Just this week, AT&T updated its terms for Internet service. The company will now suspend or cancel Internet service to anyone who speaks out again Read more:Americans
10 tips to empower users without endangering IT 2007-10-05 09:59:00 In modern business circles, it's all too easy to develop an "us vs. them" mindset, with the network security professionals on one side and the regular users
on the other. This is particularly true when it comes to establishing and enforcing network security guidelines, doubly so where remote access or telecommuting is involved. Everybody really is in the security game together, though, and IT can help do its part by explaining clearly what's off-limits and unacceptable for employees to do at work, and by enabling users to do everything else with minimum muss and fuss. Hence, our top-ten list of things IT can do to help users without compromising its own mission statement: 1. Publish a clear, readable acceptable-use policy (AUP) and let users know what, when and whether it's OK for them to use company computers for personal activities. Anything strictly forbidden should be stated as such. 2. Establish clear, readable guidelines for what employees must do to keep their notebooks a
Wireless carrier association warns against buying into WiMAX hype 2007-10-04 10:33:00 The GSM Association says that businesses and investors who found themselves dazzled by the recent WiMAX
World convention shouldn’t buy into the hype just yet. The reason, it says, is because WiMAX is still in its developmental stages, while High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) is delivering high-speed mobile broadband right now. “I think HSPA is one of the few recent technologies to not be overhyped,” says David Pringle, the spokesman for the GSMA, a trade association
that represents over 700 GSM mobile phone operators. “It’s a technology that came out of left field, but its effect on performance has been dramatic. It’s offering wireless broadband experience, and it’s here today.” HSPA is a comprised of two wireless broadband protocols, known as High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HPUS Read more:Wireless
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13 free tools to ease IT management 2007-10-02 15:19:00 Finding the perfect tool to relieve a pain point or fill a gap can be invaluable to network managers. When the tool is free? Even better. Freeware applications can be a simple utility such as Ping or a more complex set of tools that address many facets of IT management, such as the open source network management software Nagios. In both cases, the tools are free and the benefits are plenty. Tristan Rhodes, network engineer at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, authors a blog on the topic of open source software and supports such free tools for both philosophical and practical reasons. "I am an advocate for open source software, and I am a network engineer who needs tools," he says. "We use a large number of open source network management an
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Comcast Suspected of Limiting BitTorrent Use 2007-10-24 09:42:00 After months of allegations that Comcast
has been throttling BitTorrent uploads, a report from the Associated Press on Friday appears to verify the claim. Accusations have been floating around the Internet for some time that Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV operator and the second-largest Internet service provider, engages in throttling peer-to-peer activity. On Friday, however, the Associated Press said it had confirmed "through nationwide tests" that Comcast blocks some BitTorrent activity. Comcast representatives avoided responding to the claim directly. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Friday, Comcast Interactive Media President Amy Banse responded to questions about P2P throttling by pointing to the company's need to "manage" heavy Internet use. "99.9 percent of our customers happily say they use e-mail and are uploading and downloading video and photos every day at speeds they enjoy," she said. "There are .01 percent that are engaging in what we call 'excessive Read more:Limiting
Storm worm pulls Halloween Trick, which is no treat. 2007-11-01 08:06:00 It wouldn’t be Halloween
without the zombie-creating Storm
malware up to some mischief. The latest Storm-backed spam campaign invites e-mail recipients to visit a Halloween-themed Web site where they can download a dancing skeleton. What gets downloaded instead is a version of the Storm malware that turns unsuspecting users’ PCs into members of the world’s largest botnet. Members of these botnets are also known as zombies. Read the latest WhitePaper - State of Internet Security Report on Protecting Enterprise Systems According to security vendor Marshal, the e-mail’s embedded link is not to a URL but to an IP address. Users who click on t Read more:Trick
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Microsoft exec claims 'We're building bridges with Dynamic IT' 2007-11-06 11:37:00 Steve Guggenheimer, general manager of Microsoft
's Application Platform and Development marketing division, talked about a range of technologies under construction at the company during a keynote address on Monday, including Microsoft's Dynamic
IT initiative and virtualization. "We're trying to work on those bridges that cut across all of our different roles," Guggenheimer said at Microsoft's DevConnections conference in Las Vegas, in a keynote address titled "Dynamic IT and the 2008 Launch Wave." The company has been touting the Dynamic IT initiative, which encompasses everything from applications to infrastructure, since its Tech Ed conference earlier this year. The company only recently began getting specific about how it intends to execute its plans. Perhaps playing to skeptics, at one point during the keynote the audience saw an offbeat promotional video for Visual Studio 2008, which is set for release this month. The video carried Read more:claims
Microsoft exec claims 'We're building bridges with Dynamic IT' 2007-11-06 11:37:00 Steve Guggenheimer, general manager of Microsoft
's Application Platform and Development marketing division, talked about a range of technologies under construction at the company during a keynote address on Monday, including Microsoft's Dynamic
IT initiative and virtualization. "We're trying to work on those bridges that cut across all of our different roles," Guggenheimer said at Microsoft's DevConnections conference in Las Vegas, in a keynote address titled "Dynamic IT and the 2008 Launch Wave." The company has been touting the Dynamic IT initiative, which encompasses everything from applications to infrastructure, since its Tech Ed conference earlier this year. The company only recently began getting specific about how it intends to execute its plans. Perhaps playing to skeptics, at one point during the keynote the audience saw an offbeat promotional video for Visual Studio 2008, which is set for release this month. The video carried Read more:claims
What's up with Category 7 ehternet cable? 2008-06-18 08:36:00 Category 7 cable (CAT7), (ISO/IEC 11801:2002 category 7/class F), is a cable standard for Ethernet and other interconnect technologies that can be made to be backwards compatible with traditional CAT5 and CAT6 Ethernet cable. CAT7 features even more strict specifications for crosstalk and system noise than CAT6. To achieve this, shielding has been added for individual wire pairs and the cable as a Read more:Category
Intel steps up and speaks about USB 3.0 2008-06-18 08:32:00 Intel
issued a statement about USB 3.0, a subject threatening to cause a full-blown controversy among several chipmakers. The company also said it would present a paper on its upcoming "Larrabee" graphics technology in August. The Intel statement on USB 3.0 is meant to clarify the difference between the basic USB specification and the "host controller specification"--the latter a poin Read more:steps
Alcatel-Lucent; Juniper, Tellabs unveil products, enhancements at NXTcomm 2008-06-17 15:20:00 Carrier Ethernet is a hot topic at this week's NXTcomm conference in Las Vegas, with three major vendors offering enhancements to their product families. Alcatel
-Lucent
unveiled integration of IEEE 802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB) and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) technologies to increase the scale and reach of carrier metro Ethernet VPN services. These capabilities are offered on
Has Microsoft Seen the Open Source Light?' 2008-06-17 13:53:00 As we reported on Sunday, Microsoft
is becoming a co-sponsor of the Open Source
Census (OSC), a further commitment to the company's interoperability principles launched earlier this year. The OSC is trying to figure out how widespread the use of Open Source Software is within companies and to generally promote its use. But having Microsoft sign on has some peop
$499 ethernet cable from Denon 2008-06-20 09:15:00 So Denon has come out with a "new" Ethernet cable. Read their description of the cable below."Denon's 1.5 meter (59 in.) ultra premium Denon Link cable was designed for the audio enthusiast. Made from high purity copper wire and high performance connection parts, the AK-DL1 will bring out all the nuances in digital audio reproduction from any of our Denon DVD players with the Denon Link feature. Read more:ethernet
Audiophile Deathmatch: Monster Cables vs. a Coat Hanger 2008-06-18 13:58:00 Whether or not Monster
Cables are worth it is a war that has raged since home theatre immemorial. A poster at Audioholics was put in a room with five fellow audiophiles, and a Martin Logan SL-3 speaker set at 75Db at 1000KHz playing a mix of "smooth, trio, easy listening jazz" that no one had heard before. In one corner, Monster 1000 speaker cables. In the other, four coat hangers twisted and so Read more:Hanger
How to make an ethernet cable 2008-06-18 13:47:00 The steps below are general Ethernet Category 5 (commonly known as Cat 5) cable construction guidelines. For our example, we will be making a Category 5e patch cable, but the same general method will work for making any category of network cables. Steps Unroll the required length of network cable and add a little extra, just in case. If a boot is to be fitted, do so before stripping away the Read more:ethernet
Ethernet powers a 32.8 Teraflop cluster 2008-07-02 16:16:00 Gigabit Ethernet as a means to connect devices in data centers and storage facilities has earned another proof point -- a computing cluster
in Germany that is linked by Gigabit Ethernet and that has ranked number 58 overall for performance among the top 500 supercomputing sites in the world.The cluster at Max Planck Institute in Hanover, Germany, supports a 32.8 Teraflop cluster, which is a far cr
Belden announces it's 'Brilliance Plenum Mini Digital Coax Cable' 2008-07-02 11:52:00 Belden (www.belden.com) has announced the availability of its Brilliance Plenum Mini Digital
Coax cable (Part # 1855P), a plenum version of the company's 1855A non-plenum, sub-miniature 59/U digital coax cable. Billed as the first plenum mini digital coax in the industry, Belden says the 1855P cable is designed and engineered to deliver the same outstanding digital Read more:Cable
Happy 35th Birthday Ethernet! 2008-07-01 13:54:00 Ethernet turned 35 last month. The official birth date of Ethernet is generally regarded as May 22, 1973, the date of a memo penned by Bob Metcalfe that laid out the basic concepts of Ethernet. To mark the occasion, I thought it might be fun to look back at another anniversary milestone. Ten years ago, Network World celebrated the 25th birthday of Ethernet by talking to several big names in Read more:Happy
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3Com unveils business-class 802.11n wireless products 2008-06-30 14:37:00 3Com (www.3com.com) has enhanced its secure mobility platform for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and enterprises with a portfolio of business-class
802.11n wireless networking products. The products, designed to deliver increased speed, range and capacity along with advanced security, ease-of-use and flexible deployment capability, range from Power over Ethernet (PoE) access points to ro
What is USB 3.0? 2008-06-30 09:12:00 USB 3.0 is in the works of replacing USB cables. With the addition of a fiber optic link that works with traditional copper connectors, USB 3.0 will be able to have speeds 10x faster than the current USB 2.0. Traditional USB 2.0 now transfers data at 60MB/s, whereas USB 3.0 will transfer data at speeds of 600MB/s.USB 3.0 will be fully backwards compatible with all USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 products.Look
IEEE ComSoc unveils wireless certification program Web site 2008-06-27 15:23:00 The IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) has launched a new Web site at www.ieee-wcet.org to provide detailed information, ongoing updates and free online resources highlighting the newly-introduced Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (IEEE WCET) certification program. Unveiled earlier this year, the IEEE WCET program was designed by IEEE ComSoc to
A look into the future of data center power 2008-06-27 13:30:00 The "No Power Struggles Project" sounds like some utopian political system where different factions work for the common good. In fact, it's the name an HP researcher gives to his dream of a harmonious data center. Researcher Parthasarathy Ranganathan foretells a future in which power
management features will be built into the processor, memory, server, software and cooling systems. Coordinat
Four tips for building better wireless networks 2008-06-27 13:20:00 How much performance capability do companies expect when they deploy a wireless network? Chances are, not enough -- especially as wireless becomes a mainstream part of the New Data Center infrastructure."It's a misconception -- a very common one -- that wireless LAN performance is always poor," says David Newman, a Network World Test Alliance partner and president of Network Test. "People sa Read more:better
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