Aten Technology Inc. in Irvine, Calif., has announced a 32-port, eight-console enterprise-class KM0832 CAT5 Matrix KVM switch for midsize and large networks. The product will be available by late July. It will enable systems administrators to manage more than 8,000 computers by daisy-chaining and cascading the units, according to the company. The KVM switches, which can be used for local or remote server access from up to 500 feet away, will sell for between US$5,000 to $5,500 each, Aten Technology said.

Sonexis offers conferencing app

ConferenceManager 6.1 is now available from Tewksbury, Mass.-based audioconferencing vendor Sonexis Inc. Included in the latest release of the integrated, Web-based host control panel of Conference-Manager is ActiveTalker, a feature that visually identifies who is speaking, allowing the conference host to easily moderate the discussion or spot disruptions from noisy connections, according to the company. The new version is also capable of integrating with Microsoft Active Directory. Pricing starts at less than $950 per port.

Palm launches Treo 700p smart phone

Palm Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., has announced the Treo 700p smart phone, which runs the Palm OS and has Evolution Data Optimized broadband wireless capabilities. Like the Treo 700w, the new product runs the Windows Mobile operating system and has a 1.3-megapixel digital camera and 128MB of memory. Users with laptop PCs can also use the 700p as a wireless modem via USB or Bluetooth wireless technology. Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Wireless, which will offer the device, have not announced pricing and availability.