IDG News Service
Lawson is a reporter for the IDG News Service.
Cisco to expand mobile collaboration features
Jul. 02, 2009
Cisco will tackle the mobile world over the next year with a series of new features to bring smartphones into business communications, the head of the company's software group said at the Cisco Live conference on ...
Cisco has to earn market leadership, CTO says
Jul. 01, 2009
Cisco Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior struck a humble note in a keynote address at the Cisco Live user conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, saying Cisco needs a broad architecture and services to become ...
Chambers unfazed at disrupted speech
Jun. 30, 2009
Cisco Systems believes networking among doctors as well as among sensors in the field can help prevent pandemics, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said in a keynote address at the company's annual Cisco Live customer ...
Cisco won't take on Amazon in cloud
Jun. 30, 2009
Cisco Systems won't try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computing providers such as Amazon, and instead will sell its infrastructure to those companies and provide its own software as a service.
Broadband stimulus exempted from 'buy American'
Jun. 29, 2009
The U.S. government has exempted broadband builders who want federal grants from a "buy American" provision of the US$787 billion stimulus package passed in February.
Senate confirms Genachowski as FCC chairman
Jun. 26, 2009
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Julius Genachowski, a former technology adviser to President Barack Obama's campaign and transition team, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
New chips don't deliver, Facebook says
Jun. 25, 2009
The latest generations of server processors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices don't deliver the promised gains in performance, according to the head of technical operations at Facebook, a massive consumer of servers ...
Cloud is Internet's next generation, HP executive says
Jun. 25, 2009
"Cloud" has proliferated as the term for Internet-based computing resources because "everyone can draw one," according to Russ Daniels, the cloud services CTO at Hewlett-Packard, who just added CTO responsibilities at ...
Comcast, Time Warner push for more online video
Jun. 24, 2009
Comcast and Time Warner are teaming up on an initiative to make more video programming available online, free of charge, for subscribers to pay TV services.
Satellite launch will lead to wider AT&T coverage
Jun. 23, 2009
AT&T Mobility should achieve true nationwide coverage by the end of this year after it introduces a planned service that utilizes both satellite and cellular service.
Spammer Ralsky pleads guilty to stock fraud
Jun. 23, 2009
Alan Ralsky, a spam kingpin who was convicted of felony bank fraud in 1995, could face more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty in a stock fraud case involving spam messages that pumped up Chinese "penny" ...
Trans-Atlantic Internet cables may be filled by 2014
Jun. 22, 2009
Voracious Web surfers, e-mailers and downloaders will use up the trans-Atlantic cables that were overbuilt early in this decade within the next five years, forcing carriers to invest in new ones in a market that's ...
Yahoo adds tools to bolster search results
Jun. 18, 2009
Yahoo is adding two features to its SearchMonkey development platform to help site owners enrich the results that their pages generate on Yahoo Search.
WLAN market slammed, but 802.11n gains
Jun. 17, 2009
The first quarter of this year may have been the gloomiest ever for the wireless LAN market, with overall revenue falling about 11 percent from a year earlier, the first year-over-year drop recorded by industry analyst ...
Hitachi helps storage shops reclaim capacity
Jun. 17, 2009
In the ongoing quest to make more efficient use of storage capacity, Hitachi Data Systems is adding software to its enterprise storage arrays that can find unused space on storage devices from multiple vendors and ...
HD video hits desktops with hardware, software
Jun. 16, 2009
LifeSize Communications and Radvision are taking two different routes toward high-definition desktop videoconferencing, both aiming to bring more participants into the virtual room.
Data Domain tells shareholders to reject EMC
Jun. 15, 2009
Data Domain shareholders should reject EMC's unsolicited takeover bid or risk being left without a suitor, Data Domain's board of directors said Monday.
Palm Pre launch is high-stakes gamble
Jun. 05, 2009
Saturday, the launch day for the Palm Pre smartphone, will be a big day all around for Palm, struggling carrier Sprint Nextel and anyone looking for another slick alternative to the Apple iPhone. But next Friday may ...
IDC: Recession driving down storage spending
Jun. 05, 2009
Hard times are driving large enterprises to patch holes in their storage architectures with systems designed for small and medium-sized businesses, one reason enterprise disk storage revenue fell 18.2 percent in the ...
Boxee for Windows alpha coming June 23
Jun. 04, 2009
The alpha test version of Boxee's online multimedia software for Windows PCs will be released to the public on June 23, Boxee founder Avner Ronen said Thursday.
AT&T wants Kindle rival, new data plans
Jun. 03, 2009
AT&T is aggressively pursuing wireless connectivity for devices such as e-readers but needs to develop new pricing plans for them, the head of the carrier's new-devices business said Tuesday.
Targeted ads, more choices in FiOS TV's future
Jun. 03, 2009
Verizon Communications wants to give customers of its FiOS TV service a choice of how to buy and view video, while the carrier focuses on how to keep that customer watching the screen and using information about them to ...
EMC bids $1.8 billion for Data Domain
Jun. 01, 2009
EMC on Monday moved to head off NetApp's proposed acquisition of data de-duplication vendor Data Domain, offering about US$1.8 billion compared with NetApp's May 20 bid of $1.5 billion.
Pakistan war strains telecom aid group
May. 28, 2009
When the international aid group Telecoms sans Fròntiers arrived in war-torn northwest Pakistan earlier this month, it found something that isn't usually in the distressed areas where TSF typically works: Five mobile ...
Samsung recalls 160,000 Jitterbug phones
May. 27, 2009
Thousands of phones sold by Jitterbug, a mobile operator that specializes in simple handsets for limited uses such as emergency calls, are being recalled because they can't be used to call 911 in some rare cases.
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