Stories by Stephen Lawson

Cisco gears up for expected flood of mobile data

Cisco Systems will make a three-pronged attack at Mobile World Congress this week on what it sees as an impending flood of mobile data, especially video, by extending its current product lines with tools for better content delivery.

Written by Stephen Lawson14 Feb. 11 11:11

Clearwire's logo wins a round against Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has suffered a setback in its lawsuit against Clearwire for alleged trademark infringement concerning the companies' logos, as the judge in the case denied its request for a preliminary injunction.

Written by Stephen Lawson12 Feb. 11 08:37

Cisco's consumer business chief resigns

The head of Cisco Systems' consumer products business is leaving the company less than two years after he arrived with the acquisition of Flip camcorder maker Pure Digital Technologies.

Written by Stephen Lawson11 Feb. 11 12:58

Atheros, Marvell to push fast 11n into phones

The fast, high-capacity Wi-Fi that users have been enjoying for a few years in laptops is now due to hit smartphones and tablets in a big way, with two major Wi-Fi chip makers announcing products that use IEEE 802.11n with multiple antennas.

Written by Stephen Lawson11 Feb. 11 10:24

Qualcomm aims at peer-to-peer with FlashLinq

Qualcomm plans to demonstrate a peer-to-peer wireless technology that will let devices form "neighborhood-area networks" at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.

Written by Stephen Lawson09 Feb. 11 07:16

Gluster pushes storage software to VMware, Amazon

The Gluster open-source file system is following the well-worn path into virtualization and cloud computing with the introduction on Tuesday of Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances for VMware and for the Amazon Web Services platform.

Written by Stephen Lawson08 Feb. 11 16:01

RIM pushing WebWorks for phone, PlayBook development

Research In Motion's BlackBerry WebWorks Application Platform lets developers use standard Web tools to create applications that work like native programs on RIM's smartphones and PlayBook tablets, company officials said Thursday.

Written by Stephen Lawson05 Feb. 11 12:36

ICANN assigns its last IPv4 addresses

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has handed out its last IPv4 addresses, leaving the remaining blocks to regional registries that in some cases may exhaust them within a few months.

Written by Stephen Lawson04 Feb. 11 02:46

IPv4's funeral expected to come Thursday

A press conference taking place on Thursday in Miami is expected to mark the last allocation of internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses by the central authority that assigns them.

Written by Stephen Lawson02 Feb. 11 07:01

Address allocation kicks off IPv4 endgame

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority has assigned two large blocks of IPv4 addresses to the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre, activating a rule under which the agency will give out the last of its IPv4 addresses.

Written by Stephen Lawson01 Feb. 11 11:04

Oracle boosts speed, capacity of tape drives

Oracle is taking aim at the fast-growing storage demands of large enterprises with the latest version of its high-end tape drive, which will be able to pack 5TB of uncompressed data onto a tape cartridge.

Written by Stephen Lawson01 Feb. 11 07:08

As IPv4 disappears, transition poses hazards

With the last IPv4 addresses about to be allocated, the good news is that IT managers -- at least in the U.S. and Europe -- don't suddenly have to get the next Internet Protocol working.

Written by Stephen Lawson01 Feb. 11 04:26

Verizon to bid for cloud provider Terremark

Verizon Communications plans to buy cloud service provider Terremark Worldwide for about US$1.4 billion in a deal that could significantly expand its cloud offerings for enterprises.

Written by Stephen Lawson28 Jan. 11 11:52

Intel gives away FCOE to simplify data centers

Intel has eased the migration to a single network infrastructure throughout data centers by introducing Open FCOE, a free software stack for Fibre Channel Over Ethernet.

Written by Stephen Lawson28 Jan. 11 08:56

LightSquared wins FCC OK for LTE-satellite network

LightSquared said Wednesday it has received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to build its planned satellite-LTE network for nationwide mobile service.

Written by Stephen Lawson27 Jan. 11 12:50
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