Die weltweit in einigen großen Regionen erfolgreichen CDMA-Netze bekommen prominenten Zuwachs: nach Verizon Wireless, dem größten nordamerikanischen Netzbetreiber, startet nun auch der CDMA-Operator Sprint in den USA sein Highspeed-Netz. Über EV-DO lassen sich unter Laborbedingungen Datenraten bis zu 2,4MBit/s erzielen, in der Praxis erreicht man einen Datendurchsatz von 400-700kBit/s, also eine Downloadgeschwindigkeit zwischen 50 und 80 Kilobytes pro Sekunde... …mehr
IT spending projections for the next 12 months dipped in October to their lowest level this year, according to the monthly CIO Magazine Tech Poll released Tuesday. …mehr
Acknowledging a decline in IDE revenues, Borland Software instead is focusing on development services, with an emphasis on people, processes, and technology. …mehr
A federal commission charged with devising a strategy to make health care information more broadly accessible to providers and consumers wants the U.S. government to develop a nationwide patient authentication standard to enable the secure exchange of electronic health information. …mehr
Thousands of Windows NT servers and clients will be upgraded over the next 18 months, as national banking and financial institution Suncorp aims for more agility with its infrastructure. …mehr
Samsung Electronics, a provider of thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, says that it has successfully concluded the pilot test of its newest LCD production line, Line 7-2. …mehr
Steve Guggenheimer is the new general manager of Microsoft's Application Platform Development & Marketing group, which focuses on application platform strategy and markets the company's development tools, the SQL Server database and BizTalk Server business process integration software. Upgrades to all three of these product lines will be officially launched at a gala event in San Francisco on Nov. 7. A Microsoft official since 1993, Guggenheimer previously held roles in the company's Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partners Group, Microsoft's U.K. subsidiary and the Windows for Workgroups organization. He also participated in marketing major Windows releases. In an interview with InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill at Microsoft's Mountain View, Calif. Offices last week, Guggenheimer offered perspective on the Nov. 7 rollout and other issues. …mehr
Delivering on a promise made last spring, Avaya unveiled Tuesday the first in a series of integrated communications and business applications in partnership with SAP. …mehr
A Seattle-area start-up last week publicly released a beta version of software that enables Windows network administrators to manage Linux servers, joining at least two other companies in the space. …mehr
IT spending projections for the next 12 months dipped in October to their lowest level this year, according to the monthly CIO Magazine Tech Poll released Tuesday. …mehr
