Monday, July 18, 2011

Getting a grip on Wi-Fi performance

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Getting a grip on Wi-Fi performance
The Wi-Fi client environment is growing chock-full of devices of varying output levels and receive sensitivities. The consensus seems to be that it's up to the enterprise-class Wi-Fi infrastructure vendors to tame the airwaves, while consumer client device makers focus on the slick and the cool. Read More


WEBCAST: Riverbed

What Your Network Isn't Telling You
Watch as Yoav Eilat, Director of Product Marketing for Cascade, shows you how Cascade can help you truly deliver IT performance for your network. Learn more!

WHITE PAPER: Dell

Mobility KnowledgeVault
The resources in this Mobility KnowledgeVault provide expert guidance, peer advice, survey results and best practices to help you protect your mobile infrastructure. From determining a policy for employee-owned devices and data encryption to supporting the six major mobile operating systems, securing mobile devices and data is a top priority. View now

Inside Apple iOS 5
A whirlwind tour of Apple's newest mobile software for the iPhone, iPad and touch Read More

iPhone 5 rumor roll-up for the week ending July 15
July is half over and still no sign of The Next iPhone. Read More

The Next Wi-Fi: Is Your 802.11n Installation Already Obsolete?
The recent announcement from the Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) Alliance that their 1.1 spec is done and that (by implication) production can't be far off came as little surprise to industry observers (well, OK, to me, anyway). WiGig is positioning 60 GHz. Read More


WEBCAST: CA Technologies

Managing Service Quality Across the Infrastructure
With zero tolerance for latency of web applications and a near total dependence on technology in the workplace as the norm, an unpredictable and unreliable infrastructure is too big a risk for today's speed of business. View Now

"Depraved" Wi-Fi hacker gets 18 years in prison
A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he hacked a neighbor's Wi-Fi router and then launched a vengeful two-year campaign to frame them with child pornography and threats to government officials, including Vice President Joe Biden. Read More

10 technologies that will change the world in the next 10 years
3D printers, sensor networks, virtual humans and other technologies under development now will drastically change our world in the decade to come, according to Cisco chief futurist Dave Evans. Read More

Is your company ready for legal holds and compliance with mobility and the cloud?
It has not been too long since Google lost millions of e-mails and struggled to get most (!) of them back for customers. Amazon recently had cloud issues where they were not able to restore all the data their cloud customers had placed on their servers. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power

Data Center Infrastructure Design and Management
Does efficiency have to come at the expense of availability? Not according to this paper, which outlines the four data center infrastructure trends that are reducing design, operating and management costs while improving data center performance. Those trends are Infrastructure Management, Eco Availability, Flex Capacity and High Density. Learn more

Can RIM turn things around with 7 new BlackBerry smartphones?
RIM has plans to release a flock of new BlackBerry smartphones in the coming months, with more powerful chips, better displays, and its latest firmware. Can they turn around the company's fortunes? Read More

Amazon finds Kindle 3G sugar daddy in AT&T
Amazon has announced that AT&T is sponsoring a version of its Kindle 3G under an agreement that will enable customers to buy the e-reader for $139 if they're willing to put up with the carrier's ads on the home screen and screen saver. Read More

Verizon's LTE Innovation Center: It's like a 4G Tomorrowland
Have you ever gone to Tomorrowland, the Disney theme park that dazzles you with tantalizing glimpses of what future technology will bring? Well, that's sort of what Verizon was shooting for at its LTE Innovation Center debut exhibition this week. Read More

PayPal gets into NFC mobile payment game
You didn't think PayPal was going to let Google Wallet have the NFC mobile payment market all to itself, did you? Read More

Raw video: Ballmer on competition, Apple and Windows Phone
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reviews the last 12 months for Microsoft and where is stands competitively. He includes a cheeky jab at Apple, and admits Windows Phone hasn't managed to increase Microsoft's market share. Read More



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SLIDESHOWS

10 HP TouchPad apps for newbies
HP took the wraps off its shiny new webOS-based tablet - the TouchPad - on July 1. And like the Apple iPad, the Motorola Xoom and the BlackBerry PlayBook, this tablet debuts with a pack of applications customized for the tablet form factor.

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