Network World Middle East back issues from June 2009:
FBI e-mail clobbered after virus.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) The FBI confirmed that it had been forced to shut down its Internet-facing unclassified network, but disputed a report that the incident had left the agency unable to e-mail counterparts in other intelligence and law enforcement ...
A GM bankruptcy could leave IT vendors with unpaid bills.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) There are two story lines revolving around the expected bankruptcy of General Motors Corp., and the first one is ugly. Bankruptcy is a nasty business and IT vendors may be left with unpaid bills, smaller contracts and uncertainty about the ...
Movies coming soon on mobile phones.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Offering movies is the latest thing some vendors are trying to lure users as the battle for mobile phone buyers becomes more challenging. On Thursday, struggling mobile phone manufacturer Sony Ericsson said it will offer free movies as a ...
Microsoft relaunching search service as Bing.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) At the All Things D conference, Microsoft unveiled the latest re-branding of its search engine. Forget Live Search--that's so three months ago. Now Bing is in! Launching in a couple of weeks, Bing hopes to make searching a little more useful ....
IDC: Apac BI market hits US$445 million.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) The BI tools market in Asia Pacific grew 7.7 percent and was estimated to be worth US$445.30 million in 2008 despite the global economic crisis, said IDC. However, this still represents a significant fall from previous years' double-digit ...
Yahoo sets date for shutting down 360 social network.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Yahoo will close its Yahoo 360 social-networking site in July, something it originally planned to do in early 2008 and later delayed to last year's second half. Yahoo 360, once the company's best bet to compete in the social-networking ...
Group creates iPhone security benchmark.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) The Center for Internet Security last week released a security benchmark for Apple Inc.'s iPhone that it said could help IT managers better protect data stored on the device. The benchmark, dubbed CIS Security Configuration Benchmark for ...
Intel delays Itanium server chip again.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Intel Corp. has once again delayed the release of its next-generation Itanium server processor to develop undisclosed "application scalability" enhancements. The schedule set May 21 calls for the server chip, code-named Tukwila, to ship in ...
Adobe aligns software branding to shine light on Flash.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Adobe is aligning its Web design and developer tools, including a new one available for testing Monday, under its Flash brand to emphasize the heart of its strategy to give developers everything they need to build RIAs. Adobe FlexBuilder is ...
Microsoft loves, hates netbooks, says analyst.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Microsoft loves netbooks, the ultra-small, ultra-cheap laptops that accounted for about one in every 10 notebooks sold in the last eight months, but only up to a point, a retail analyst said. "They love [a] netbook, as long as it's a ...
Quantum releases remote site backup, deduplication appliance.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Quantum Corp. announced a new backup appliance for remote offices that combines data deduplication, replication and system-wide monitoring software for centralizing backup control. Quantum's Quantum DXi2500-D is an extension to the ...
Spammers find new ways to flood corporate networks.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Unsolicited e-mail accounted for 90.4% of all messages received on corporate networks during April, an increase of 5.1% from a month earlier, according to a report released May 26 by Symantec Corp.'s MessageLabs Intelligence unit. The ...
How to stay up in a down economy.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) It doesn't take a $250 visit to a psychotherapist to confirm what you feel in your gut each morning when you wake up -- it's depressing out there. With market volatility, economic instability, pink slips and the ongoing threat of yet another ...
Windows 7 users panic when Microsoft gives wrong auto-reboot date.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) A mistake by Microsoft sent some users into a panic when they received an e-mail that told them their copies of Windows 7 beta would automatically begin rebooting every two hours starting June 1. Windows 7 beta, which was released to the ...
Microsoft kills Windows 7 Starter's 3-app limit.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Microsoft dropped a limitation from Windows 7 Starter, the edition expected to ship on most netbooks, that would have blocked users from running more than three applications at the same time. "It's been rumored all week," said Michael ...
IP calling.
Jun 01, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Arabian Cement Co "ACC" is a Spanish - Egyptian Joint venture between Cementos La Union (CLU), a leading and independent Spanish cement grinding company located in Valencia, and Egyptian shareholders set up in Egypt to build and operate a 4.2 ...
Quantum releases remote site backup, deduplication appliance.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Quantum Corp. announced a new backup appliance for remote offices that combines data deduplication, replication and system-wide monitoring software for centralizing backup control. Quantum's Quantum DXi2500-D is an extension to the ...
Spammers find new ways to flood corporate networks.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Unsolicited e-mail accounted for 90.4% of all messages received on corporate networks during April, an increase of 5.1% from a month earlier, according to a report released May 26 by Symantec Corp.'s MessageLabs Intelligence unit. The ...
How to stay up in a down economy.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) It doesn't take a $250 visit to a psychotherapist to confirm what you feel in your gut each morning when you wake up -- it's depressing out there. With market volatility, economic instability, pink slips and the ongoing threat of yet another ...
Microsoft kills Windows 7 Starter's 3-app limit.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Microsoft dropped a limitation from Windows 7 Starter, the edition expected to ship on most netbooks, that would have blocked users from running more than three applications at the same time. "It's been rumored all week," said Michael ...
IP calling.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Arabian Cement Co "ACC" is a Spanish - Egyptian Joint venture between Cementos La Union (CLU), a leading and independent Spanish cement grinding company located in Valencia, and Egyptian shareholders set up in Egypt to build and operate a 4.2 ...
Qualcomm shows Eee PC running Android OS.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Qualcomm showed off a previously unannounced version of Asustek Computer's Eee PC based on its Snapdragon processor at the Computex exhibition on Monday, including one running Google's Android operating system. The new laptop -- which ...
AMD pushes six-core chips for servers.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Advanced Micro Devices announced six-core Opteron chips, which make them the fastest server chips the company has released to date. Until now, AMD offered only quad-core server processors, with the fastest being Opteron chips code-named ...
EMC to fight NetApp for Data Domain.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Less than two weeks after NetApp Inc. laid down $1.5 billion to buy leading data deduplication vendor Data Domain Inc., EMC has come out and offered to pay $1.8 billion for the company. During a conference call late Monday afternoon, EMC ...
Is the cloud reliable enough for your business?
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) In April of last year, Satoshi Nakajima, founder of Washington-based Big Canvas Inc., was eagerly inviting new customers to subscribe to his company's flagship product, PhotoShare, which lets users swap Apple iPhone photos for free. Three ...
HP ProCurve converges wireless and wired network access.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) HP ProCurve has introduced a combination wired and wireless client access device for the network edge, along with two new wireless LAN controllers. The wired-wireless access device is designed to support the growing panoply of IP-based ...
SanDisk releases faster netbook solid state disk drives.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) SanDisk Corp. announced the general availability of two new solid state disk (SSD) drives for netbooks that it said increase random read/write rates by as much as nine times over its first generation netbook SSDs. SanDisk's unveiled the new ...
Never mind the netbook, here comes the smartbook.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) If you still blanche at the term "netbook" for being an ungainly piece of vendor-speak, then prepare to be nauseated later this year as "smartbook" supporters start to bang that marketing drum. What exactly is a smartbook, aside from a term ...
Intel pushes low-power chips for sleeker laptops.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Intel is introducing a new low-power processor for what it hopes will be a new class of thin and light laptops that bridge the gap between netbooks and mainstream laptops. At the Computex trade show in Taipei, Intel will introduce an ...
Windows 7 public previews slow Vista's growth.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Windows Vista's market share growth has slowed since Microsoft released public versions of Vista's successor, Windows 7, according to data published today by Web metrics company Net Applications. For the fourth month in a row, Vista's gains ...
Clearwire WiMax users will get remote setup.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Clearwire Corp. has turned to device management vendor Mformation to streamline the activation and maintenance of devices on its U.S. WiMax network. Mformation provides software for over-the-air device setup and management to an array of ...
Open source data center management emerges.
Jun 02, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) The economy isn't the only reason open source management applications are currently garnering a lot of attention. With vendors building commercial business models around the low-cost tools, now is the time to invest in software that can ...
SanDisk releases faster netbook solid state disk drives.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) SanDisk Corp. announced the general availability of two new solid state disk (SSD) drives for netbooks that it said increase random read/write rates by as much as nine times over its first generation netbook SSDs. SanDisk's unveiled the new ...
Never mind the netbook, here comes the smartbook.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) If you still blanche at the term "netbook" for being an ungainly piece of vendor-speak, then prepare to be nauseated later this year as "smartbook" supporters start to bang that marketing drum. What exactly is a smartbook, aside from a term ...
Intel pushes low-power chips for sleeker laptops.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Intel is introducing a new low-power processor for what it hopes will be a new class of thin and light laptops that bridge the gap between netbooks and mainstream laptops. At the Computex trade show in Taipei, Intel will introduce an ...
Windows 7 public previews slow Vista's growth.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Windows Vista's market share growth has slowed since Microsoft released public versions of Vista's successor, Windows 7, according to data published today by Web metrics company Net Applications. For the fourth month in a row, Vista's gains ...
Open source data center management emerges.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) The economy isn't the only reason open source management applications are currently garnering a lot of attention. With vendors building commercial business models around the low-cost tools, now is the time to invest in software that can ...
Intel pushes low-power chips for sleeker laptops.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: faiz@cpidubai.com (Staff) Intel is introducing a new low-power processor for what it hopes will be a new class of thin and light laptops that bridge the gap between netbooks and mainstream laptops. At the Computex trade show in Taipei, Intel will introduce an ultra-low ...
OpenSolaris 2009.06 filled with major virtualization, storage upgrades.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Sun made available the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, which included for the first time Sun's Crossbow technology for creating virtual network infrastructure on a single system. The latest version of the open source operating system ...
Google's move into e-books could be explosive.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) E-books may have been a niche technology so far, but Google Inc.'s entry into the market could burst the online business wide open. The giant search engine company wants to give publishers a way to sell online digital books through a partner ...
Microsoft sued over dynamic Web page technology.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) A patent-holding company has sued Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement for technology used in dynamic Web pages. Parallel Networks filed suit late last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over two patents, ...
Fogra certifies NEC SpectraView monitor.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) NEC Display Solutions is the first and so far only manufacturer to receive Fogra certification for monitors of 24 inches and above. The NEC SpectraView models 2490, Reference 2690 and Reference 3090 fulfil the challenging requirements for ...
F5 CEO talks growth.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Jeevan Thankappan) What kind of opportunities do you see in this market? We are convinced that most of the growth opportunities globally are emerging markets. The beauty of the internet is that it has really been picked up by businesses and ...
Security and regulatory concerns over virtualization.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Security and regulatory concerns have some users warily eyeing the move to server virtualization. For example, during the past year, the Stanford Hospital & Clinics, part of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., has shifted about half ...
Oracle CEO, set to buy Sun, hails Java at conference.(Conference news)
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Reassuring the Java community, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison pledged a commitment to Java technologies, including the budding JavaFX rich media extension to Java, at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Oracle is in the process of ...
TagStone allies with Identec Solutions to tap Oil & Gas sector.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) TagStone, the leading wireless technology solutions integrator in the Middle East, has signed an alliance partnership agreement with international RFID specialist, Identec Solutions, to leverage its technology and offer customized RFID ...
Sun tests new Java Store, Java Warehouse.
Jun 03, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Sun Microsystems Inc. has opened a test version of its Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where developers can connect with millions of computer users who run Java on their desktop. Similar to Apple Inc.'s successful App Store, the ...
Security and regulatory concerns over virtualization.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Security and regulatory concerns have some users warily eyeing the move to server virtualization. For example, during the past year, the Stanford Hospital & Clinics, part of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., has shifted about half ...
Oracle CEO, set to buy Sun, hails Java at conference.(Conference news)
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Reassuring the Java community, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison pledged a commitment to Java technologies, including the budding JavaFX rich media extension to Java, at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Oracle is in the process of ...
TagStone allies with Identec Solutions to tap Oil & Gas sector.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) TagStone, the leading wireless technology solutions integrator in the Middle East, has signed an alliance partnership agreement with international RFID specialist, Identec Solutions, to leverage its technology and offer customized RFID ...
Sun tests new Java Store, Java Warehouse.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Sun Microsystems Inc. has opened a test version of its Java Store, which it bills as a Web site where developers can connect with millions of computer users who run Java on their desktop. Similar to Apple Inc.'s successful App Store, the ...
Windows Server 2008 R2 to be released in October.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Microsoft said that its latest server product, Windows Server 2008 R2, will be broadly available on Oct. 22, the same day as Windows 7. The confirmation came from Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft's original equipment manufacturer division ...
WiMAX Forum looks to femtocells to improve coverage.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Looking to improve indoor coverage for WiMAX devices, the WiMAX Forum is partnering with the Femto Forum to create a femtocell that routes WiMAX signals over landlines. The two industry groups dedicated to promoting WiMAX and femtocells ...
Intel targets all-day battery life for netbooks.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) The ability to run a netbook all day on a single battery charge is one of the goals Intel has set for itself as it develops the Atom platform. "We are going to do more integration, we are going to try to reduce the power in order to have ...
AMD plans DirectX 11 GPUs this year.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Advanced Micro Devices plans to deliver its first graphics processor with support for Microsoft's new DirectX 11 graphics API (application programming interface) later this year, it said at Computex in Taipei. The new system promises to ...
Tibco pushing new cloud application delivery system.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Tibco is set to unveil Silver, a platform aimed at large enterprises that want to develop and deploy applications in cloud-computing environments, but still harbor uncertainties about that model. Large enterprises are intrigued by the cloud ...
Will Oracle kill the Java community?
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) That's the question on everyone's mind at this year's JavaOne developer conference, the last show before Oracle's planned US$7.4 billion buyout of Java's creator, Sun Microsystems. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a surprise appearance at the ...
Mozilla delays Firefox 3.5 RC release.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Mozilla has delayed the delivery of Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate (RC) until late next week to take care of several last-minute bugs, a company executive said. Last month, Mozilla had slated Firefox 3.5 RC to ship in the first week of June ....
RIM patches BlackBerry PDF vulnerability.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Research in Motion (RIM) has issued a new security patch for BlackBerry Enterprise Server to fix vulnerabilities in its PDF distiller program. The patch was issued on a BlackBerry forum last week and was billed as a fix for any customers ...
Microsoft to test interoperability of identity protocol.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Microsoft next month for the first time will participate in SAML 2.0 interoperability testing using its Geneva platform to test against other vendors' implementations of the open standard identity protocol. Microsoft will enter the testing, ...
How to cut network expenses.
Jun 04, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Trimming network redundancy at the University of Connecticut's School of Business was certainly not COO Michael Vertefeuille's first choice to save money. However, as the college faces a 10% budget shortfall this year, falling on the heels of ...
Will Oracle kill the Java community?
Jun 05, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) That's the question on everyone's mind at this year's JavaOne developer conference, the last show before Oracle's planned US$7.4 billion buyout of Java's creator, Sun Microsystems. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a surprise appearance at the ...
Mozilla delays Firefox 3.5 RC release.
Jun 05, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Mozilla has delayed the delivery of Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate (RC) until late next week to take care of several last-minute bugs, a company executive said. Last month, Mozilla had slated Firefox 3.5 RC to ship in the first week of June ....
RIM patches BlackBerry PDF vulnerability.
Jun 05, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Research in Motion (RIM) has issued a new security patch for BlackBerry Enterprise Server to fix vulnerabilities in its PDF distiller program. The patch was issued on a BlackBerry forum last week and was billed as a fix for any customers ...
Microsoft to test interoperability of identity protocol.
Jun 05, 2009 ... Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff) Microsoft next month for the first time will participate in SAML 2.0 interoperability testing using its Geneva platform to test against other vendors' implementations of the open standard identity protocol. Microsoft will enter the testing, ...