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Virgin Media touts 200Mbit/s broadband

Dave Bailey — 2008-08-08T12:43:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Friday 8 August 2008 at 12:43:00

Cable provider says it could deliver 200Mbit/s services within four years.

Virgin Media is touting the possibility of providing customers with broadband speeds of up to 200Mbits/s within the next four years....

First look: BlackBerry Bold - iPhone killer?

Phil Muncaster — 2008-08-08T11:35:00.000Z

Phil Muncaster, IT Week, Friday 8 August 2008 at 11:35:00

"Aspirational" device will suit those impressed by the iPhone's look but wanting core business features

Research in Motion (RIM) came into the VNUnet.com offices today to show off its latest model, the BlackBerry Bold. It's being marketed as an "aspirational" device, so this is definitely...

Orange launches mobile management tools

Dave Bailey — 2008-08-06T14:41:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 6 August 2008 at 14:41:00

New service to help IT manage mobile devices

Mobile operator Orange has launched its hosted Device Management service which allows IT teams to manage and support devices mobile remotely....

Vyatta ships open source routing appliance

Dave Bailey — 2008-08-05T14:20:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Tuesday 5 August 2008 at 14:20:00

Open source networking takes a step forward with enterprise-class appliance

Open source vendor Vyatta has begun shipping a mid-range firewall and routing appliance, the Vyatta 2501, which it claims offers unparalleled price-performance....

Orange offers to boost application performance

Dave Bailey — 2008-08-05T13:58:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Tuesday 5 August 2008 at 13:58:00

Orange's Network Boost guarantees application performance across the globe

Mobile operator Orange has launched Network Boost which promises to make it easier for customers to manage enterprise applications running over its wired network....

Juniper upgrades network access protection

Dave Bailey — 2008-08-04T17:52:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Monday 4 August 2008 at 17:52:00

Juniper updates its line of unified access control tools

Juniper Networks has refreshed its line up of its unified access control (UAC) tools, adding new server hardware and firmware upgrades....

Review: HP moves to rival BlackBerry

Daniel Robinson — 2008-08-01T12:52:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Friday 1 August 2008 at 12:52:00

The iPaq 914c is a mobile messaging device designed to work with the latest communciation and management tools

HP's iPaq 914c Business Messenger is a Windows Mobile handset designed primarily for email and messaging, and is thus a potential rival for RIM's BlackBerry models....

Ethernet marches on

IT Week staff — 2008-07-30T16:31:00.000Z

IT Week staff, IT Week, Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 16:31:00

The Foundry Networks/Brocade merger throws doubt over fibre channel future

The £1.5bn acquisition of Ethernet switching vendor Foundry Networks by Fibre Channel (FC) specialist Brocade may have IT managers who have deployed FC storage area network (SAN) infrastructure wondering about...

Review: iPhone 3G boosts web experience

Daniel Robinson — 2008-07-30T12:30:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 12:30:00

Apple's 3G iPhone has faster web access, but lags behind other mobiles in corporate features

The iPhone 3G is an updated version of Apple's touch-screen smartphone, adding support for faster 3G network connections and also GPS capability for location-based services such as navigation....

Siemens offloads corporate comms unit

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-30T11:55:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 30 July 2008 at 11:55:00

Siemens Enterprise Communications to merge with private-equity owned Enterasys

German engineering giant Siemens has sold off part of its telecoms business, Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEC), to private equity company, The Gores Group....

Motorola to acquire AirDefense

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-29T15:50:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Tuesday 29 July 2008 at 15:50:00

Motorola looks to extend wireless security offerings with acquisition

Communications provider Motorola is to acquire pioneer wireless security vendor AirDefense, one of the last remaining independent providers of enterprise wireless intrusion prevention (WIPS) systems....

BT leaps in to Voice 2.0

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-29T14:25:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Tuesday 29 July 2008 at 14:25:00

Telco giant to acquire telephony tools maker Ribbit

BT is to acquire Silicon Valley-based voice application vendor, the Ribbit Corporation, for £53 million, in an effort to fast-track its development of new telephony applications and services....

Alcatel-Lucent leaders to leave

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-29T11:43:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Tuesday 29 July 2008 at 11:43:00

Chief exec and chairman to leave embattled telecoms giant

Telecoms equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent has confirmed the departure of both its chief executive and chairman in the wake of continued losses at the embattled firm....

Meru locks out car park hackers

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-28T12:43:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Monday 28 July 2008 at 12:43:00

New system aims to stop wireless data seeping out of the office

Wireless vendor Meru Networks has unveiled a new system to protect business users from eavesdroppers hoping to hack in to their wireless networks....

The future of enterprise storage

Daniel Robinson — 2008-07-25T09:57:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Friday 25 July 2008 at 09:57:00

Virtual storage connected by iSCSI offers datacentre managers the most cost-effective way of coping with ballooning enterprise storage requirements, according to Dell

Enterprises are facing an ever increasing requirement for storage because of data retention policies and growing use of digital media files, according to computer giant Dell....