Cisco almost didn't make the cut. NightHawk Radiology Services was ready to hand its data center consolidation project to another vendor until a facility leasing issue delayed its decision.
Gigabyte Technology on Thursday released a series of high-speed motherboards designed to let more applications run at once, without losing speed, and to convert video 10 times faster than normal.
Oracle's recent launch of a campaign to convert users of CentOS -- a free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that uses community support, rather than an paid option -- is being met with skepticism by some members of the business Linux community.
Asustek Computer on Tuesday unveiled its latest Eee PC netbook, with an 8.9-inch touchscreen that swivels and can even fold down to convert the device into a tablet PC.
When Toshiba announced its new XDE DVD player promising it could convert the picture quality of standard DVDs up to the high definition, industry watchers took note.
Some weeks ago the Gearhead Underground Bunker started to fill up with some really cool VoIP stuff, including 3CX's free software-only VoIP PBX and a couple of D-Link VoIP DVG-2001S Terminal Adapters that convert regular telephones into Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) phones. This has resulted in more than a few hours of play, er, testing and analysis over the last few days.
It was recently reported in the popular press that in some cases, service providers are removing copper wiring capabilities when homes convert to fiber optic services. In this particular case, the situation involved a person ordering Verizon’s FiOS fiber optic service. In this residential setting, the copper is being retired, and, according to an Associated Press article, future residents of the home may not have the option of going back to copper wiring.
When Homeland Housewares wants to sell lots of Magic Bullet blenders, it most often calls on call-center service provider LiveOps, which uses call agents who work from home in combination with sophisticated back-end software to boost the percentage of calls the agents convert into sales.
Japan's largest mobile carrier, NTT DoCoMo is to offer new iPhone models announced by Apple on Tuesday, after resisting offering Apple's smartphones for many years.
In watching the Olympics this week I’ve seen an AT&T commercial that mentions voice over IP - which is pretty remarkable. Of course, the ad makes it sound like the carrier invented VoIP, but seeing those letters in a commercial is certainly proof that VoIP is officially mainstream. Not to be outdone, MCI says it is converting its international voice trunks to use IP, and all sorts of services will follow.
MCI to convert international voice trunking
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0818mcieric.html?net
Those of you who have been reading this newsletter over the years may remember that I was an early convert to the concept of Information Lifecycle Management. ILM's promise after all has always been to make IT more cost efficient, and who among us is going to argue with something like that?
Allow me to introduce the Baen Cube, which while merely a Kickstarter gleam at the moment, promises to ultimately “enhance your driving experience, letting you play games with your car.” That's with not in.
Oracle will allow customers to convert money they're now spending on annual support for on-premises into software subscriptions for its SaaS (software as a service) applications, in a bid to block defections to competitors such as Workday and Salesforce.com.
Following up on the recent Gearhead column on Virtual CD, reader Dale Wisler wrote that he needed the software “only occasionally to convert some copyright-protected Windows Media files to MP3. [Windows Media Player] allows me to burn to CD or to MP3, but it thinks my Sony MP3 player is an external storage drive (I have to use Sony’s software to copy songs).”
On the one hand, Microsoft had another good quarter. On the other, the company saw a drop in unearned revenue - which could be a sign of things to come. That’s because in the coming months many Microsoft customers’ Upgrade Advantage accounts will expire. Upgrade Advantage was the program Microsoft put in place two years ago to give large companies a chance to postpone making the leap to the controversial Licensing 6.0. Now Microsoft has to convert those customers.
Microsoft posts Q1 gains, but cracks a
Never mind all the anti-hype surrounding wireless LAN hot spots lately. SBC is taking the technology seriously - so seriously that it plans to have 20,000 hot spots in place around the country in three years. Not only is SBC a believer, but it is also trying to convert other businesses, giving them the tools to become hot spots themselves.
SBC to turn up hot spots
http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/0806hotspot.html?net
BellSouth last week became the latest local exchange carrier to drop its DSL service rates in an effort to convert more dial-up and cable modem Internet access users.
Sprint recently installed packet-voice equipment in a local switching office, the start of a highly touted long-term plan to convert its entire network from circuit switching to packet switching.
The sonification of big data will help people better understand and analyze big data, as well as detect anomalies in the data, say researchers at Virginia Tech.
I am studying for my CCNA and am questioning how important being able to convert from binary to decimal, etc is. The network I deal with on a daily basis is using the 10.0 internal IP address and I dont see that changing. It seems like there is a lot of emphasis on doing the different types of math much more than I would expect. Is it really that important?
Microsoft's free Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC) tool is now available for download. The tool is used to convert virtual machines that today run on VMware products into a format compatible with Microsoft's own virtualization environment, Hyper-V, the company said in a blog post on Thursday.
I recently needed to convert decimal numbers into base 36 in an Excel for Mac 2011 spreadsheet. Now Windows Excel has the Radix function, which converts base 10 numbers into any base between 2 and 36 inclusive, there’s no such beast in Excel for Mac. I started to develop a formula but in a head-slapping moment of realization started searching the Web and I finally found an answer ... then I came up with a better one.