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Podcast: Will mobile Web apps help or hurt the enterprise?, 04/11/07
Applications built for mobile users, both in the consumer and enterprise space, are growing by leaps and bounds. Keith Shaw discusses mobile Web trends with Louis Gump, vice president of mobile at The Weather Channel Interactive. Find out the future of mobile apps, including how the weather in your users’ location will affect whether they get an offer for suntan lotion or an umbrella. (15:27)
CSIRO speeds wireless chip to 80Gbps, 04/13/07
The CSIRO is laying claim to developing the world’s best breed of 200GHz millimeter-wave (mm-wave) chips that double wireless data transfer rates, while being more cost and power efficient than current wireless chips.
Podcast: April already cruel for Microsoft, 04/13/07.
Jason and Keith discuss the deluge of Microsoft security issues, more bad news for Vonage as the CEO quiets, whether companies should look at e-mail alternatives because of the spam flood, and how today’s teenagers can have $500 to spend on an Apple iPhone. Click here to listen on your
Nokia insists that Qualcomm is using its patents, 04/13/07
The patent license fight between Qualcomm and Nokia has gone into another round.
Broadcom sues Qualcomm over standards, 04/13/07
Broadcom sued Qualcomm Thursday, claiming the company abused at least three standards bodies in a bid to get its patented technology into industry specifications and license it unfairly.
WLAN vendor Colubris’ new CEO takes 5 questions, 04/13/07
WLAN vendor Colubris earlier this month named Robb Scott its new president and CEO, at about the same time that Aruba Networks became the first of the remaining independent WLAN switch vendors to go public.
From Cisco Subnet: Cisco to invest in wireless audio speaker company
Smarthouse Magazine is reporting that Cisco is this week poised to announce an investment in Australia wireless audio provider Avega Systems.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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