Latest network applications news.
RIM readies software client for non-BlackBerry devices, 04/23/07
New software from Research in Motion will enable all BlackBerry wireless applications to run on smart phones from rival handset makers.
15 bleeding-edge network research projects you should know about, 04/24/07
What are university and independent labs doing with the millions of dollars in funding they receive each year from government and other sources? Lots of them are working to solve current network problems and envision networks of the future. Here’s a look at 15 of the most interesting projects we’ve come across.
Tellme expands voice search for mobile devices, 04/17/07
Tellme Networks Tuesday announced expanded services that will enable use of voice or text from a mobile phone to find specific businesses or business categories, such as flower shops, in a specific town.
NetForensics tackles Web data, log management, 04/23/07
Security information management vendor netForensics will make available two stand-alone products designed to help network managers monitor Web and database applications and more efficiently collect log data for compliance and auditing purposes.
NetPro updates tool to backup, restore Active Directory data, 04/23/07
Las Vegas – NetPro Monday released RestoreADmin 3.0, which adds new backup and restore capabilities to its data restoration tool for managing Microsoft’s Active Directory.
Google looking to expand geo-tagged information, 04/23/07
Google is looking to increase the range and variety of information with a geographical element that it offers, and hopes its users will play a big part in the expansion.
CA integrates software for service quality, 04/23/07
CA Monday announced at its user conference that it had developed code that would enable four existing CA Unicenter and Wily management software applications to better work together toward automating service-level management across distributed networks.
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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