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- Interop '07: Application accelerator market heats up
- While at Interop '07 in Las Vegas, I noticed that several vendors were talking about their application acceleration technologies. These are technologies that speed up the end-users experience when it comes to working with networked applications.One thing I learned is that not all acceleration technologies are created equal. For...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Interop 2007, Software Infrastructure, Video, Web technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Dead Finger Tech: Gordon won't let me have his HTC 8525 Windows Mobile smartphone
- If you've seen any of my other Dead Finger Technology interviews, then you know how this works. We find some unsuspecting person who looks like s/he is really into their technology. Then, we turn on the lights and cameras, and then we ask them whether the technology is their Dead...
- Tags: Dead Finger Tech, General, Hardware Infrastructure, Interop 2007, Mobile, Personal Technology, Telephony, Wired &, Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Polycom @ Interop: Cisco may have PTT over VoIP, but we did it first and we're better
- We may be generating a bunch of video from Interop. But we weren't so busy with the video production that we've been avoiding e-mail. This morning, I awoke to a inbox with "response" to our coverage of Cisco's push-to-talk over VoIP capability. It came from Polycom and here's what...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Interop 2007, IT Management, Mobile, Telephony, Video, Wired &, Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Interop '07: Cisco layers push-to-talk on top of VoIP
- While a bunch of the solutions I've spotted on the Interop show floor so far have come from small innovative companies, Cisco is here demonstrating that even the big-boys can come up with a cool idea or two. Earlier today, Cisco CEO John Chambers took the stage for the...
- Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Interop 2007, IT Management, Mobile, Telephony, Wired &, Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- For feds seeking needles, Endace turns telco data into real-time haystacks
- Endace calls it's platform the Ninja Pro. However, here at Interop 2007, I suggested to the company that they call it "Haystack" (or "Haystack Pro" instead). When you hear about the CALEA Act (that's the one that enables feds to collect lawfully intercepted data from the telcos for analysis),...
- Tags: General, Government, Hardware Infrastructure, Interop 2007, Legal, Security, Video, Wired &, Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- MGE Office Protection: Get yer' 5 kVA UPSes a la carte, or as a 20 kVA entrée
- As I continued my hunt for new and interesting technologies on the Interop 2007 show floor here in Las Vegas, I encountered MGE Office Protection Systems. The company claims to have a new uninterruptible power supply solution that offers a degree of investment protection given the way it's low-of-the-hi-end 5...
- Tags: Hardware Infrastructure, Interop 2007, IT Management, Video
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Interop '07: Woven Systems claims first 10Gbit switch-cum-Ethernet fabric
- True to form for an edition of Interop, the show floor here at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas is chock full of rack-mounted network connectivity gear. Whereas hubs and routers were the stars of years gone by, today's floor is dominated by Ethernet switches of all types...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Interop 2007, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Interop '07: NetGear shows 3 terabyte hardware RAID-based NAS (it's a Web server too)
- Here in Las Vegas at Interop 2007 while roaming the show floor prior to the start of the event, I bumped into the folks at the NetGear booth who were preparing to announce several products at the show. But the one the grabbed my attention was the latest ReadyNAS...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Interop 2007, Hardware Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Interop GM Lenny Heymann: Green is in, Red (Novell) is back, Web 2.0 is hot
- It's the day before Interop here in Las Vegas. What will be a polished show floor tomorrow is covered in crates, plastic, and speeding forklifts today. Even so, I took to the show floor in search of disruptive solutions and interesting people. You've already seen Thureon's Armarac in my...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Video, Software Infrastructure, Interop 2007, Hardware Infrastructure, Events
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- Interop '07: First, Sun's datacenter in a trailer. Now? Armarac's wall-mounted datacenter
- Datacenters are showing up in the strangest places. Two weeks ago, while in San Francisco, I took you for a video walkthrough of Sun's Project Blackbox. Project Blackbox is basically a shell of datacenter in a shipping container the kind hauled around by tractor trailers. It's got everything that's needed...
- Tags: Video, IT Management, Interop 2007, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Events
- Blog posts 2007-05-21
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- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...
- Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUs
- Users gravitating to lower-priced Office SKUsIt's not surprising.The increased cost of the premium Office doesn't provide much that corporations need. Also, as linked, Vista Home Basic is not viable either, so they must, if they go Vista, get the premium product.I do think a clarification is needed. [B]He...
- Tags: Elop, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 323 mln broadband users in 2007, 499 mln by 2012
- Worldwide consumer broadband connections will grow from 323 mln connections in 2007 to 499 mln in 2012, according to Gartner. Worldwide consumer broadband connections penetrated 18% of households in 2007, and by 2012, households with a broadband connection will reach 25%. Five countries exceeded 60% broadband penetration into the home...
- Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, AM
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- How SlideRocket plans to make money
- How SlideRocket plans to make moneyWhy?After reading about the product I'm left with a "so what" and "why" would I want it feeling. I can see some niches where it might fit, but with the exception of those niches, why would you want to be on a monthly subscription...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, nich, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone space
- Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC, phone spaceMicrosoft Store in the works...My rep told me Microsoft is looking into significant retail space in higher end upscale shopping malls. In the mock-up of the store, boxes of Vista and Office 2007 were kept under lock and key. Customers will be...
- Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., PC phone, PC, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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