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  • Profiting on Wi-Fi’s Future Today

    I was expecting the jump to IEEE standard-based 100-Mbps Wi-Fi, 802.11n, to take years. I was wrong. Now, it appears that on Thursday, the TGn Sync crew of Atheros, Intel, Sony, Matsushita, Toshiba, et. al. has won out over the WWiSE gang of Airgo Networks, Broadcom, Conexant, Motorola, Nokia and Texas Instruments. The 802.11n committee…

  • Linspire Releases Latest Desktop Linux OS

    Linspire Inc. announced Wednesday that it has released the latest version of its desktop Linux operating system, Linspire “Five-0.” The San Diego-based company, which was known as Lindows until reaching a settlement last year with Microsoft Corp. over trademark issues, has incorporated nearly 1,200 improvements and enhancements into the new version. Included with the new…

  • Dell Shuts Down White-Box Channel Effort

    Dell has pulled the plug on a program to sell unbranded desktop PCs through channel partners. The company said customers prefer to buy the Dell brand. But channel sources interviewed by The Channel Insider said Dell Inc. had trouble signing up VARs for the program, which kicked off in August 2002, because they don’t trust…

  • Akamai to Buy Speedera in Stock Deal

    Akamai Technologies Inc. Wednesday announced plans to acquire distributed content delivery service provider Speedera Networks Inc. in a stock-for-stock merger transaction. Under the terms of the deal, valued at $130 million, Akamai will acquire all of the outstanding common stock, preferred stock, and vested and unvested stock options of Speedera and its India-based, wholly-owned subsidiary,…

  • Wi-Fi, VOIP, Mobility in the Air at CeBIT

    Voice over IP, 802.11 Wi-Fi, mobile phones and devices, and combinations of the three have had a strong presence at the CeBIT show currently happening in Hannover, Germany—not to mention a scattering of WiMax (802.16 wide-area broadband). For mobile Palm users looking to get more connected, Enfora is showing its new Wi-Fi Sled for the…

  • Solution Designed to Ease Compliance in SMB

    Regulatory compliance worries aren’t solely the burden of larger enterprises. SMBs (small and midsize businesses) face compliance headaches as well. Maze Information Solutions Inc., a reseller in Orlando, Fla., has cultivated a niche installing compliance solutions for small stock and insurance brokerages. Specifically, Maze implements Intradyn Inc.’s ComplianceVault E-mail Archiving and Retrieval Appliance, which employs…

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