Infrastructure

Losing a laptop or handheld wireless device packed with sensitive corporate data is typically a serious breach of privacy. An employee at Toronto-based Hummingbird Ltd., for example, recently lost

Regulations and customer understanding are the two biggest barriers to the success of IPTV (Internet Protocol television), say operators, content providers and vendors that participated in a survey done by the Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd. and Accenture Ltd.

As companies become increasingly dependent upon electronic transactions as a primary means of customer interaction, many have found that it

Reducing complexity Juniper Networks has announced new Ethernet Services products the company claims will reduce the cost and complexity for service providers deploying and...

Yahoo Inc. is opening up its IM (instant messaging) network so that external developers can extend its functionality with new applications. Yahoo last month released a new beta version of Yahoo Messenger with Voice, along with software development tools for creating plugins for it. The IM beta version will have some plugins already installed by default, and allow users to choose others.

For the IT staff at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., the focus for the last couple of years has been on consolidation. The first goal was to centralize servers that had been scattered across the campus into two physical locations, and the next step was to use virtualization technologies to consolidate things even more.

IBM is due to officially unveil its DB2 9 database, previously codenamed

Internet service provider (ISP) Vonage Inc. is offering a mashup of a USB memory stick and a pre-loaded softphone as yet another way of enticing mobile users to sign up for the company's Web-based long distance calling service.