Stephen Lawson

Articles by Stephen Lawson

Cisco cuts costs of Umi home videoconferencing

Cisco said it integrated Umi with TelePresence primarily for business-to-consumer use, but analysts believe a lot of enterprises will be interested in setting up home workers with low-cost teleconferencing

Gartner: Server sales kept bouncing back in Q4

Pent-up demand pushed up sales throughout 2010, but gains may slow this year, the research firm says. IBM led the industry in revenue for the quarter, with US$5.2 billion in sales, or 35.5 per cent of the market

The push is on to cut 100G Ethernet’s price

With the price of a port well over $100,000, an IEEE group wants to make it easier to build modules with more 100 GE ports on a card

RIM pushes WebWorks for phone, PlayBook development

The platform, a rebranded version of the BlackBerry Widgets development platform that now uses the WebKit Web rendering engine, lets developers use familiar Web tools to write apps that look native on BlackBerry devices

Speed, handoffs to boost Wi-Fi’s mobile role

At this week's Mobile World Congress, new carrier Wi-Fi technologies are hitting the market just as mobile operators start to upgrade their cellular networks to a new generation of equipment

Intel gives away FCOE to simplify data centres

The chip maker's Fibre Channel Over Ethernet stack now works with Windows, Linux, and some network and storage gear

Verizon to bid for cloud computing provider Terremark

The U.S. carrier expects to launch a tender offer worth US$1.4 billion that would bolster its cloud services to large businessesrn

Microsoft fights Apple trademark on ‘App Store’

Microsoft is asking the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to deny Apple a trademark on the name "App Store," saying the term is generic and competitors should be able to use it

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