2009 started with a bang and ended with a bash for Cisco. The company entered the data center blade server market in the beginning of the year and ended it with two acquisitions worth a combined $6.3 billion.
The U.S. Census Bureau took a significant step toward its eventual goal of a true "paperless census" with the successful completion of a national address verification project that relied on the use of 151,000 handheld computers, an official said.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (VS08) Service Pack 1 (SP1) took eight months to arrive. Considering the capabilities that have been added, eight months might not seem so long. In some ways, SP1 feels like the completion of what Visual Studio 2008 was supposed to be. It's certainly not just the collection of bug fixes that you'd expect from the term "service pack."
As we contemplate ever-faster LANs, reaching up to 10 Gigabit Ethernet with the recent completion of the standard for 10 Gigabit over copper, let us not forget that very low-bandwidth Ethernet still has its place. In fact, in some segments, it's a growth area.
A World Bank-assisted project to automate the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) is nearing completion, with the electronic depository functions becoming operational as the exchange excels amid a crippling global financial market.
Mitel Networks and Inter-Tel last week announced the completion of their merger, making Inter-Tel a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitel. Mitel paid an estimated $723 million for the voice-data convergence equipment maker, as disclosed when the deal was announced in April 2007. Annual 2006 sales for Mitel totaled $387 million while Inter-Tel’s sales came in at about $458 million for the same period. Both companies supply IP telephony systems, they are especially strong in the small and midsize business marke
Bill Gates showed he means to keep up with Microsoft's research efforts despite retiring from his day-to-day role earlier this summer by attending a ceremony in Hong Kong Tuesday night to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Microsoft Research Asia.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But, as United Parcel Service can attest, the back-end logistics can keep them from ever getting started.
Blue Coat Systems Monday announced the completion of its acquisition of Packeteer. The deal came together quickly: Blue Coat announced its intent to acquire Packeteer on April 21, and commenced its tender offer for the acquisition on April 30. Less than six weeks later, the deal is done.
Blue Coat Systems Monday announced the completion of its acquisition of Packeteer. The deal came together quickly: Blue Coat announced its intent to acquire Packeteer on April 21, and commenced its tender offer for the acquisition on April 30. Less than six weeks later, the deal is done.
This year saw the completion of the city of Munich's switch to Linux, a move that began about ten years ago. "One of the biggest lessons learned was that you can't do such a project without continued political backing," said Peter Hofmann, the leader of the LiMux project, summing up the experience.
This year saw the completion of the city of Munich's switch to Linux, a move that began about ten years ago. "One of the biggest lessons learned was that you can't do such a project without continued political backing," said Peter Hofmann, the leader of the LiMux project, summing up the experience.
Last week I wrote about someone who seems to be paid to bash Google whether the facts support the bash or not. This week the topic is a different type of misdirected bashing -- and The Wall Street Journal should know better.
The last newsletter cited in error some milestones for completion of Internet Engineering Task Force NAC standards as if they were the actual timetable.
Microsoft Tuesday took two steps towards completing the foundation for its future patch management tools, which will range from free software to full-blown licensed management platforms.
A purchase of popular Taiwanese blog site Wretch.cc by Yahoo Taiwan will not adversely affect competition in the local Internet market, Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission ruled Thursday, paving the way for the completion of the deal.
The seven-years-in-coming 802.11n standard is reportedly headed toward ratification in mid-September. 802.11n's specification suite is up to Draft 11, and will probably leave off there. Today's products are compliant with Draft 2.0 specs, though industry suppliers have long insisted that their 2.0-based 802.11n products, many shipping since 2007, will be interoperable with the final standard.
Everyone is on the bandwagon for virtualization, even Microsoft. Well, it’s, um, virtually there - the company just put out the first release candidate of Virtual Server 2005, which is a hop, skip and jump away from an actual product. Virtual Server is designed to allow multiple operating systems to run on a single server, as long as one of them is Windows Server 2003.
Microsoft nears completion of Virtual Server 2005
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Samsung Electronics and several other vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters show this week are demonstrating a pending mobile TV broadcasting standard that had been forecast for completion last year.
Online course participants are more likely to browse lesson material than stick around to earn a completion certificate, according to a report examining enrollment and usage data from edX, an online learning platform jointly launched by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the fall of 2012.
Setting a pace that the IETF and other slow-moving standards bodies could envy, the Liberty Alliance announced last week the completion of market requirements document (MRD) for the Identity Governance Framework (IGF). It also announced that development of technical specifications to meet use case requirements is now occurring both within Liberty's Technology Expert Group (TEG) and at openLiberty.org (home of open source tools to further the use of Liberty protocols).