Recent Articles
-
SanDisk Combines Flash, Wi-Fi
SanDisk Corp. said it would begin shipping a Secure Digital card combining flash memory and Wi-Fi connectivity beginning next month. The SanDisk Combination SD Card requires a Secure Digital I/O slot as well as either the Windows Pocket PC 2002, 2003, or Windows Mobile 2003 operating system, meaning that the technology will almost exclusively be…
-
Microsoft’s ‘PassPort’ Out, Federation Services In
SAN DIEGO—It’s been two years since Microsoft issued any official pronouncements on “TrustBridge,” its collection of federated identity-management technologies slated to go head-to-head with competing technologies backed by the Liberty Alliance. When Microsoft went public with its TrustBridge plans in June 2002, Redmond officials said to expect the first TrustBridge deliverables to hit in 2003…
-
Want Wi-Fi with That?
Before Wayport had much time to glory in its April win of a bid to unwire McDonald’s restaurants, one of its key competitors went belly-up. Immediately, it seemed, pundits and analysts everywhere were asking whether the retail model for Wi-Fi hot spots—the one that suggests wireless connectivity will attract new customers to a venue—had any…
-
Dell, EMC Target SMBs with Low-Cost SAN Device
EMC Corp. and Dell Inc. joined forces during a Webcast in London on Wednesday to introduce the AX100, an entry-level SAN (storage area network) device targeting small and midsize businesses and remote office customers at a cost of less than $10,000. Slightly bigger than a traditional VCR, the 2U AX100 array starts at $4,995 for…
-
Desktop PCs that Mean (Small) Business
Small-business owners are the unsung heroes of the PC industry. While the big corporate accounts can mean large individual orders, it’s the mom-and-pop shops that make up the bulk of the PC market. So we challenged the leading business PC makers—Dell, Gateway, HP, and IBM—to send us their best small-office/home-office desktops, with an eye toward…
-
SPF Group, Microsoft Work to Converge Anti-Spam Efforts
The author of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) specification has announced a proposal to converge the specification with aspects of Microsoft Corp.’s Caller-ID spec. Microsoft is expected to follow up with its own announcement soon. SPF and Caller-ID are two of the more prominent efforts to introduce authentication to the SMTP protocol, filling in holes…
