Technology News
Technology Infrascructure | Frontline Wireless Bites the Dust Unable to raise funding to bid in FCC wireless spectrum auction, wireless company calls it quits. |
| Microsoft Response Point Answers the Call Review: Microsoft's VOIP system for SMBs boasts a few glitzy next-generation features that make the system incredibly easy to use, and comes in an appliance form factor that makes the system a snap to deploy. |
| Is Network Solutions Snatching Domain Names? Numerous individuals have discovered that when they search for a domain name at Network Solutions, the domain register is automatically registering the name for Network Solutions. |
| FCC to Investigate Comcast Blocking Complaint The probe will be the first major test of the agency's network neutrality principles. |
| Aten Puts Data Center Power in the Closet Aten's new IP KVM switch aims to let smaller businesses run scattered closets of servers like a single data center. |
| Internet Polling Fails in N.H. Obama had the online buzz going into the primary, but it was Clinton who won the votes. |
| Dell, EMC Unveil Own Versions of Same Entry-Level Array EMC builds the systems, Dell rebrands and markets them; the two are battling it out in the SMB marketplace. |
| How to Check the Health of a Unix/Linux Server Everybody knows that regular automobile maintenance improves a car's reliability, improves mileage and extends the life of the vehicle. Neal Nelson, president of Neal Nelson & Associates explains that the same is true of computer systems. |
| Fast Opens New Front in Microsoft's War With Google Microsoft is mounting a new challenge to Google, IBM and other competitors with its acqusition of Fast Search. |
| SMBs Plan to Up Tech Spending in '08 Uncertain economy be damned—most SMBs are looking forward to implementing an array of technology in the coming year. |
Communication Technology | Frontline Wireless Bites the Dust Unable to raise funding to bid in FCC wireless spectrum auction, wireless company calls it quits. |
| Microsoft Response Point Answers the Call Review: Microsoft's VOIP system for SMBs boasts a few glitzy next-generation features that make the system incredibly easy to use, and comes in an appliance form factor that makes the system a snap to deploy. |
| White House Faces More Questions About Missing E-Mails The court orders the Bush administration to answer questions about millions of e-mails allegedly on backup tapes. |
| Fast Opens New Front in Microsoft's War With Google Microsoft is mounting a new challenge to Google, IBM and other competitors with its acqusition of Fast Search. |
| Mozilla Taps New CEO The company looks to John Lilly to grow its business while ex-CEO Mitchell Baker focuses on Mozilla's vision. |
| Yahoo Mail Comes Out of Its Social Shell CEO Jerry Yang aims to make a more social Yahoo Mail, the starting point for everything users want to find online. |
| Microsoft Gets Up to Speed on Enterprise Search The software giant buys Norway's Fast to better compete with Google and IBM. |
| Chat Logs Could Merge Channels A mattress retailer is implementing a system that could be a step towards merged channel. |
| Will Moto's New Z10 Reverse Slumping Sales? Motorola's mobile film studio has breakout potential, an analyst says. |
| Obama's Interactive Surge Faces New Hampshire Challenge Will his social network-centric campaign pull off another upset? |
Database Technology | LongJump Leaps into On-Demand Database Market Customers of LongJump's on-demand database and storage offering are promised security and availability. |
| Spatial Data to Help Car Radios Track the Big Game SpatialPoint's database technology will help motorists keep their radios locked on the big game. |
| Embedded Database Vendors Face Challenges The market for the technology is expected to grow, but vendors must overcome hurdles to quicken the pace. |
| Enterprise Monitor Eases Management of MySQL Installations With the latest release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor, database administrators get advanced replication and database monitoring, as well as easier installation, to help manage both commercial and no-cost MySQL open-source database installations. |
| On-Demand Trend Touching the Database With its SimpleDB beta, Amazon.com joins a number of other vendors interested in providing Web-based databases. |
| MySQL Releases Database Connector Beta A beta version of MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1 is available, with Unicode support. |
| Database Archiving Market Evolves with Exploding Data Needs Analysts say the small database archiving market will see changes as the demands of information-as-a-service vendors and the explosion of corporate data come to a head. |
| Database Vendor Adds Support for HP-UX EnterpriseDB puts the support for the Unix operating system into a new version of its Advanced Server product. |
| FileMaker 9 Bulks Up without Adding Complexity Version 9 of FileMaker Professional builds upon the back-end connectivity strengths of previous versions with a new capacity for forging connections between FileMaker databases and SQL data sources without requiring users to craft a single SQL command. |
| Keeping an Eye on Database Performance Database-Brothers offers a new tool for IT to identify the source of performance problems and ways to resolve them. |