Bryan Betts

IXI Mobile has added push-email and diary synch to its Ogo mobile messaging device, pitching the tiny clamshell as a far cheaper alternative to BlackBerry.

One in five Brits claim not to be able to survive without digital technology, according to a new survey by Intel. Perhaps the chip giant has spent too long hanging around hospital intensive care units.

Wireless Ethernet could become a standard feature of smart phones in the next two years if Bluetooth specialist CSR PLC gets its way.

In a project that could enable bigger SANs and computing grids, nuclear physicists have built a native 10 Gigabit Ethernet network linking Switzerland and Japan. The 18,500 kilometre LAN crosses 17 time zones, as it follows fibres through Amsterdam, Chicago and Seattle.

Whatever size and type of network you run, a traffic analyzer for it was released this week.

NetScout Systems Inc. has bundled its nGenius network performance management software with Red Hat Inc.'s Enterprise Linux server to simplify the job of getting it up and running.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is porting OpenView Operations (OVO) to Linux, and renewing OpenView for Unix in the process. Due next year, the first Linux-based OpenView modules will target applications where Linux is most popular, such as security management and the finance industry.