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Article | 22/09/2010 Cisco updates small-business switches, phones, cameras

Cisco Systems is updating parts of its product line for small businesses, a world where IT needs have grown up over the past few years.

Article | 24/09/2010 Dell names former Cisco exec to lead networking

Dell has hired Cisco Systems veteran Dario Zamarian to lead its networking business, naming him as its first vice president dedicated to that division...

Article | 23/09/2010 Polycom's CTO says openness is key

Joseph Burton, Polycom's new chief strategy and technology officer, comes to the company from one of the key jobs in the enterprise voice and video bu...

Article | 22/09/2010 AT&T's Genus satellite phone goes on sale

AT&T is finally selling its satellite-3G smartphone, the TerreStar Genus, which can be switched from AT&T's network to a satellite for coverag...

Article | 21/09/2010 Oracle ties Sun ZFS storage into Oracle software

Oracle has integrated its software into the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance line for a new generation of the systems that also doubles storage capacity and ...

Article | 11/09/2010 Hiring Microsoft's Elop won't erase Nokia's U.S. woes

Hiring an American CEO isn't all Nokia has to do if it wants to succeed in the U.S., mobile industry analysts said on Friday.

Article | 10/09/2010 EBay claims win in 2008 Craigslist suit

A Delaware court has ruled in favor of eBay in its 2008 lawsuit against Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark, majority shareholders of Craigslist, eBay sa...

Article | 10/09/2010 Rosy WiMax forecast gives way to LTE

The worldwide market for mobile WiMax services in 2015 will be five times its current size, according to ABI Research -- but smaller than the company'...

Article | 9/09/2010 HP targets small business with phones, Wi-Fi

HP expanded its IP phone and wireless LAN offerings for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) on Wednesday as part of a broad set of product introdu...

Article | 8/09/2010 Android vs. iPhone is no easy call

Google's Android mobile operating system proved a formidable rival to the wildly popular iPhone in a recent real-world test.

Article | 3/09/2010 Disk storage still bouncing back, IDC says

The market for enterprise disk storage systems grew strongly in the second quarter, continuing to recover from a slump brought on by the economic slow...

Article | 3/09/2010 Verizon joins the prepaid mobile data party

Verizon Wireless joined a growing trend on Thursday by announcing prepaid data plans for most of the smartphones and feature phones it sells.

Article | 1/09/2010 NetApp, Syncsort team up on data protection

NetApp and Syncsort are bringing storage and data protection together in a single product, NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup, to offer quick backup an...

Article | 1/09/2010 Xsigo gives Ethernet a path into converged I/O

I/O virtualization vendor Xsigo Systems is tapping into the most ubiquitous network connections around, offering an appliance that lets enterprises ca...

Article | 1/09/2010 Verizon uses VMware for enterprise cloud service

Verizon Business is tapping into the popularity of VMware technology with a cloud computing service designed to let customers easily move workloads be...