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Inside the U.N.'s Instant Communications Center \| March 31, 2006 \| NewsFactor - Tech Trends "In the MDTS you find a compendium of all the equipment you would normally find in any communications center," said the U.N.'s Michel Bergeron. "It looks just like a minivan, except for the satellite antenna mounted on the vehicle's trailer." The State of Virtual Reality \| March 24, 2006 \| NewsFactor - Tech Trends "Though the current state of VR technology is ahead of what has been brought to the consumer market thus far, compelling applications still need to be developed -- ones that really open up new services and information sources almost as much as the Web has already done," said Jackie Fenn at Gartner. Living Like the Jetsons \| March 8, 2006 \| NewsFactor - Tech Trends "Although a lot of consumers don't even know this technology exists yet, we can place high-quality video calls over a broadband Internet connection right now," said Dan Kelley, director of marketing at D-Link Systems. The Future of Wireless Networks \| March 6, 2006 \| NewsFactor Network "Right now we are still in the convergence transition period, with a lot of different applications and operating systems out there that need to be put together," said Phil Redman of Gartner. "There's no standardized format for this yet -- it's like a puzzle where the pieces have been all shaken up and now they all need to be organized." Birth of the Enterprise Dashboard - February 22, 2006 \| CIO Today Oracle CEO Larry Ellison keeps track of his 50 percent stake in NetSuite by using the company's dashboard to track key performance indicators in real time. Shown at left is a graphical representation of new leads as compared to a benchmark from the previous quarter. Living Inside Your Computer - February 7, 2006 \| NewsFactor Network Before it's ready to pick your wardrobe and automatically cook your meals, technology first will take on simpler chores, said Jonathan Gaw, research manager at IDC. "If you are about to go to bed and begin to wonder whether you've closed the garage door or turned off the lights, it's a pain to go all the way out to the garage to see. So it's the low-hanging fruit that we'll go for first." Is NASA Selling Its Soul? - January 25, 2006 \| NewsFactor Network "With more commercial players trying to get in, we have an entirely new movement that is thinking about basic design from the commercial as opposed to the government perspective," said Rahul Nayar, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan. The Great Escape from Voice Jail - January 18, 2006 \| NewsFactor Network "Having customers get caught up in a tangle of commands and layers and never getting to an agent has been a constant source of frustration for years," said Forrester Research vice president Elizabeth Herrell. "But don't shoot the technology." The Brave New World of Web Services - January 12, 2006 \| NewsFactor Network "In the past, a process or a function could still be automated but it was almost impossible to integrate multiple functions, geographies, and systems," said Illuminata's Jonathan Eunice. "But now you can have applications up and running that I.T. managers historically have had to go through hell and high water to get to talk to one another." RFID Scare Tactics and the Push To Adopt - January 10, 2006 \| CIO Today CIOs should focus on conveying the consumer benefits of RFID tags, said Forrester Research analyst Christine Overby. "Without clarification about how RFID works, consumers will base their opinion on the Big Brother stories currently making the headlines." Mind Being Tracked by a Tiny Chip? - December 29, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "RFID technology has certainly benefited from people raising privacy concerns, which has driven the industry to solve some of the problems by providing products that are more secure," said Soumilya Banerjee at Frost & Sullivan. Mobile Phone Network Showdown - December 14, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "Speed is an important issue, and as is true for any wireless technology, we can talk about throughput, about downlink and uplink speeds, improvement through compression, and so on," said Lisa Pierce, a vice president at Forrester Research. "But the first thing consumers should ask about is availability, then follow up by asking questions about speed and setup." What Would You Do with a Wearable Computer? - December 8, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network Early efforts to introduce wearable computers failed because of the "dork factor," according to Icuiti Corp. vice president Stephen Glaser. "When you used to see a person talking to himself while walking down the street, you'd have thought he was crazy. But with Bluetooth headsets and other technologies so prevalent today, we now see this type of activity as normal." VoIP: A Type of Vodka? - December 5, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network While VoIP is moving quickly from early adoption to the mass-market phase, Frost & Sullivan senior analyst Lynda Starr observed, there is some bad news. "The bad news is that the consumer mass market has different needs, requirements, and interests that weren't crucial to the early adopters with their high geek-factor quotient." Who's Afraid of Open-Source Office? - November 28, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network Many in the open-source community say that TCO is not necessarily the defining issue for all deployments because of the other benefits that open source offers. "We do see TCO as a central question," said OpenOffice community manager Louis Suarez-Potts. Building the Perfect Multimedia Home - November 11, 2005 7:00AM \| NewsFactor Network When installed in the living room or family room as part of the home-entertainment center, the entertainment PC serves as a powerful multimedia command center for linking everything from digital photos and home movies to MP3 music files, DVDs, and video games. The Stage Is Set: Who Will Control the Internet? - November 8, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network The call has sounded for the creation of an international body to govern the Internet as a global resource. Such a move is expected to draw fierce opposition from the U.S., which holds firm to the belief that any change in the status quo would jeopardize the Internet's ability to function as a medium of free expression. What CIOs Need To Know About Office 12 - October 28, 2005 \| CIO Today The good news is that the changes underneath the hood are expected to bring a much broader benefit to other applications and processes throughout the enterprise. But with Office 12 reaching even deeper than the software giant's offerings do today, should CIOs be worried about escalating security risks? Microsoft Office 12: The Inside Story - October 20, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network The new interface abandons the nested menu format found in past Office suites in favor of a "ribbon" that runs across the top of the window in Word, Excel and PowerPoint and in the authoring sections (calendar, mail notes and contacts) of Outlook. Are You Ready To Be Hacked? - October 25, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "The Air Force and the Pentagon are extremely attractive targets and so the publicity acts as a draw for hackers," said Frost & Sullivan industry analyst for network security Rob Ayoub. "As far as a lot of smaller companies go, there's always a risk but they have a reasonable amount of security through obscurity." The Mobile Data Poison Pill - November 4, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network Passwords are the first line of defense for protecting data whenever a mobile device is lost or stolen. "Then there's the ability for the administrator to wipe stored data remotely by sending a 'poison pill' to that device," said David Yach, vice president of software at Research In Motion. "This measure gives companies an extra feeling of comfort." Mesh Networks: New Options for Wireless Users - November 3, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "Because it features the ability to allow traffic to be routed around problem points, mesh gives certain advantages," said Yankee Group senior analyst Lindsay Schroth. "Due to its self-sealing capabilities, you don't have to have [a dedicated connection between access points]." Living on the Edge of E-Commerce Tech - November 10, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "In just the last couple of years we've seen re-interest in investing in the technology because the Internet has long since proven itself to be a viable sales channel," observed Tamara Mendelsohn, consumer markets analyst at Forrester Research. "It's giving companies the opportunity to influence their consumers and to build brand loyalty, and that's spurred investment." Who Is Listening to Your Internet Phone? - September 29, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "In the old days, all you had to do is clip some monitoring device onto the mainframe and you'd have it," said Ron Cowles, vice president at Gartner. "But now everything gets packetized, which makes it a lot more difficult. These are the kinds of issues that the commission will be working through, and the FCC's final order will have to address this." Is Your Network on the Verge of Total Collapse? - September 30, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "The network-management role has historically been reactive," said Gartner's Jeff Snyder. Network users often announce that they want to build out the network and they want the network managers to make it roll. But, he said, "They don't know what is available and don't know what to ask for." Combating Wi-Fi's Evil Twin - March 18, 2005 \| Wireless NewsFactor I.T. managers should avoid installing access points that will radiate signals beyond the confines of the physical enterprise. This will make it less likely that hackers can intercept enterprise traffic from the corporate parking lot. On the Front Lines in the War on Spam - August 25, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "There are different initiatives happening, but we do not expect anything that would dramatically reduce spamming in the next 12 months," said Arabella Hallawell, e-mail security analyst at Gartner. Moving Beyond the Traditional Firewall - August 29, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "The firewall is a useless doorstop unless it is configured correctly," said Stuart McIrvine, IBM's director of security strategy. "How do you correlate potential security events as they happen? Is a multiphased attack going on? You can't see that by just looking at the firewall." Wireless Telephony: VoIP over Wi-Fi - June 8, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network One-to-one softphone voice calls placed through VoIP providers such as Vonage generally perform well over true broadband cable and wireless 802.11 links. But when participating in three-way or multiway conferencing sessions, softphone calls can, at times, be plagued by annoying delays and dropouts. Top Open-Source Security Applications - June 14, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network According to most security professionals, a top-tier, open-source security tool must have sufficient history to allow a practitioner to use it with confidence. And it must have a sufficiently large developer base to ensure that fixes will be available in light of discovered vulnerabilities. Airborne Viruses: Real Threat or Just Hype? - July 25, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network When it comes to viruses, worms and other forms of malware infecting smartphones and PDAs, security vendors have been warning of the possible dangers for months. Until recently, however, their cries of alarm drew yawns from most industry analysts and security experts. The Incredible Shrinking Smartphone - February 28, 2005 \| Wireless NewsFactor TI's new single-chip technology will give OEMs "the ability to reduce substantially the amount of work space required" by shrinking the electronics to fit onto "a single sided PCB that is less expensive because of the integration." Next-Generation Data Centers: Virtually Irresistible - February 23, 2005 \| Data Storage Today "Think of virtualization as reshaping storage into any size volume that you may need, so you can allocate just the right amount of storage and get away from the current Unix standard of 50 percent storage utilization, which we want to drive into the 70 to 90 percent range." Next-Generation Data Centers: Infinite Possibilities - March 7, 2005 \| Data Storage Today As business cases and success stories begin to gain visibility, and as the enormous value of data-storage virtualization begins showing up on enterprise balance sheets, the market is likely to follow, says Yankee Group analyst Jason Corsello. Putting Linux To Work in the Cellular Space - March 11, 2005 \| Enterprise Linux I.T. "At the end of the day, when you have to integrate all the pieces together, you may not realize all that much of a cost savings from Linux," says Linux product line manager for cellular systems Dana Myers at Texas Instruments. However, she thinks that manufacturers would be wise to examine the broader picture. In Search of Mobile VoIP - March 14, 2005 \| Wireless NewsFactor "There'll be a lot of handsets available with Wi-Fi capabilities, but I see almost no demand from the customer base for voice over Wi-Fi," Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney told NewsFactor. "This is a vendor-driven phenomenon, and the big mistake would be to say that this will be a major thing." In Search of the 64-Bit Killer App - March 23, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "There is really no case in which there will be any kind of performance penalty from having a 64-bit system running a 32-bit application," says Intel Xeon product line manager Jerry Braun. Failsafe: Enterprise-Class Wireless Storage - March 29, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "It all depends on the amount of traffic and number of units involved. But the bottom line is that compared to the typical wire-line solution, the cost of wireless WAN is quite economical," says Cingular Wireless business markets group executive director Hamish Caldwell. Making Security Products Smarter - June 1, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network Frost & Sullivan analyst Nitin Acharekar sees end-point security and identity management as two emerging industry strategies. "The first checks the integrity of the end-point before it is allowed access to the network, while the second checks the identity of the person trying to log in," Acharekar said. PC Chips Get Pumped Up for Virtual Computers - August 3, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "There is already a world of existing virtualization technology software out there," said AMD commercial solutions strategist Margaret Lewis. "The only issue is that running virtualization, especially on an x86 processor, takes a lot of overhead." The Hidden Costs of Dual-Core Processors - August 9, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network "Dual-core and multicore technology is designed to improve system efficiency and application performance for computers running multiple applications, as well as enable customers to get more CPU horsepower in a smaller footprint," observed Sun Microsystems senior director of x64 servers Graham Lovell. Mobile Spam: The Next Battleground? - August 10, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network At least one U.S. market survey suggests that unwanted mobile spam continues to afflict at least some handset owners, with as many as 10 percent of all U.S.-based mobile-phone subscribers having already received and been annoyed by SMS spam, according to Jupiter Research. Mobile Middleware for the Enterprise - August 31, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network Overall, according to Stephen Drake, IDC's mobile software program director, the mobile-middleware market is growing dramatically. IDC expects the market for mobile middleware to become a US$1.3 billion business in 2008, representing an annual growth rate of roughly 24 percent. Dell Servers Go Dual-Core - September 1, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network The industry is moving toward chips that integrate two processing units because the old way of cranking up the processor and frontside bus speed was consuming an ever-larger amount of heat and power, explained Tim Golden, Dell's marketing director for the PowerEdge line. How To Make Your CRM Deliver - September 28, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network Recognizing the deployment problems that have occurred in the past, the major CRM vendors are taking steps to make their systems less risky for their prospective customers. What Went Wrong with IBM PCs? - January 24, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network In response to tougher times ahead, Gartner expects PC price competition to intensify. Vendors will have to struggle to maintain growth as PC replacement activity weakens and sales focus shifts from North America and Western Europe to emerging markets in Asia and elsewhere. What IBM Has In Store - February 4, 2005 \| CIO Today Shocking as it is to many, IBM's exit from the personal computer business is part of a well-considered strategy to focus on higher-margin technologies and services aimed at medium and large organizations. What IBM Has in Store - Part 2 - February 8, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network If RFID had remained a separate IBM initiative, it either would have died on the vine or achieved stunted growth, at best, says Forrester analyst Navi Radjou. But integrating RFID into WebSphere "sends out a strong signal" that WebSphere is now a credible platform "for integrating anything to anything." Can iPod Rescue Apple's Computer Business? - February 10, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network Sales of iPod digital music players and iMac computers propelled Apple to a record $3.5 billion in fourth-quarter sales. Add the new iPod Shuffle and the Mac mini, and Apple looks to be poised for more growth this year.

Updated 08/31/2006	I. T. Enterprise Articles by Mark Long	Satellite Tutorials


Enterprise Linux IT	Open Source Alternatives: Weighing the Pros and Cons - December 28, 2004 Even as such open source software developers as Sun Microsystems and OpenOffice.org wax enthusiastic concerning enterprise deployments of their respective Microsoft Office alternatives, industry analysts are urging caution. ...
Wireless NewsFactor	On the Horizon: The Global Wireless Web - December 13, 2004 Cellular operators may hope to take the hot-spot model and extrapolate from it, but they always will have a bandwidth constraint on their networks, observes Waryas. "Only when you start weaving in all these access technologies together do you get to the nirvana point."
CIO Today	Open-Source Alternatives to Proprietary Windows Applications - December 2, 2004 When considering the total cost of ownership, businesses do not always take into account the day-to-day advantage of being able to control the software environment, whereas OpenOfficeorg is finding "governments in other countries to be very interested in open source solutions because virus and worm attacks end up costing them a lot of money," Suarez-Potts explained.
CIO Today	Videoconferencing Reaches the Enterprise - October 25, 2004 Desktop PCs are finally powerful enough to handle video decoding in real time, and enterprises can now handle the broadband requirement. "We are really moving forward to having rich media communication on a personal basis," observed Radvision's Killko Caballeros.
Wireless NewsFactor	The Cost of Going Wireless - October 15, 2004 "You need to fully understand the limitations of wireless, like lower latency, bandwidth and limited battery capacity," advises Research In Motion's Dave Werezak. "Realize that it can't do as much as the computers in your wire-line environment."
CIO Today	Does VoIP Spell the Death of the Traditional Telephone System? October 8, 2004 "The competitors of the traditional carriers are starting to have success, and it has reached the point at which it is now apparent that it's not going to stop," said John Arnold of Frost & Sullivan. "So the carriers have to come into the IP market with services of their own."
CIO Today	Does VoIP Spell the Death of the Traditional Telephone System? - Part 2 October 11, 2004 "IP telephony will be less expensive for businesses -- but, on the other hand, the carriers can operate IP telephony at a better margin," says Citel CEO Mike Robinson. "The end result will be that the carriers that will become stronger will be those who move quickly, while those that lag behind will suffer for it."
Data Storage Today	Bare-Bones Data Storage Systems - September 16, 2004 "What [choosing a data-storage system is] really all about is the level of business continuity that you would like to achieve," says Gateway's Tim Diefenthaler. "So, the first step is to determine just what you need for your business."
CIO Today	VoIP and the Enterprise: Finding the ROI - September 7, 2004 Companies need to compare apples to apples when it comes to VoIP warranty and maintenance costs, advises Gartner's Jay Lassman. "Don't just look at the cost of the platform itself; take a step back and look at what the projected cost of the whole package will be over three to five years."
Data Storage Today	Tape Backup - Is It Here To Stay? - September 2, 2004 "There's a lot of technology that is applied to disk storage today that has not yet been applied to tape," IBM's Barry Rudolph observes. "But as you put more information on a tape cartridge, then you need to get smarter about how to get data off and on."
Wireless NewsFactor	New Wi-Fi Standard May Boost Security - July 4, 2004 "With 802.1x, user access can be controlled individually, by adding or removing the user and credentials to the Radius server," says Interlink Networks' Mike Klein. "A single user can be removed from the network without reprogramming keys at every other device on the network.
Wireless NewsFactor	Operating the Enterprise on the EDGE - June 23, 2004 "EDGE is getting close to becoming a highly commoditized technology on silicon," says Larry Zibrik of Sierra Wireless. "For EDGE to become a standard feature in handsets, PDAs and smartphones, all that is really required is for demand to fuel large enough volume sales to lower the overall cost."
Wireless NewsFactor	Putting Wi-Fi Behind the Corporate Firewall - May 22, 2004 "For years, company employees have had dial-up access to the corporate network over a virtual private network," says Wi-Fi Alliance managing director Frank Hanzlik. "Today, the security is still provided with a VPN -- they just connect with Wi-Fi."
NewsFactor	Taking the Phone Number Out of the Phone - April 13, 2004 SIP-driven communications infrastructures will be able to connect workers over any device equipped with the individual's SIP address, including desktop phones, PCs, notebooks and PDAs, as well as smartphones, digital cameras and Web-cams.
CIO Today	Avaya CEO D. K. Peterson: Tapping IP Telephony's Potential - March 12, 2004 Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, will play a central role in tapping the full potential of IP converged networks, empowering workers with new types of applications that fulfill the promise of the virtual office and introduce such capabilities as presence into the workplace.
*Data Storage Today*	Is Storage Mania Threatening To Bury Us? - February 26, 2004 "What you want to do is come up with the least-expensive way to add storage, while doing it as non-intrusively as possible from the viewpoint of the people who are creating and using the data in the first place," says DataCore president and CEO George Teixeira.
*NewsFactor Network*	The New Computer Lifecycle: No Free Lunch - February 19, 2004 "Some [companies] regard their computer hardware as strategic, and they will get some smart folks to manage it in-house," says Gartner's Mark Margevicius. For others, it is "a pain to deal with, as well as a cause of grief," and it may be worth paying "a little bit more money" for outside lifecycle-management assistance.
BPM Today	Wringing the Most out of Your ERP System - February 9, 2004 The expectation "that ERP software is some kind of magic bullet -- that by simply installing it, you are going to get results" -- is unrealistic, says AMR Research's Bill Swanton. "With ERP capabilities constantly evolving, you've got to let the business process itself dictate when and where to turn on some new functionality."
CIO Today	A Web-Services Checklist For I.T. Managers - January 16, 2004 Before implementing Web Services on their networks, I.T. managers "will need to take a deep breath, then conduct an assessment" with respect to "the business-critical services and applications that they already have," says Bob Sutor, Director of WebSphere infrastructure software at IBM.
Enterprise Security Today	New Directions in E-Commerce Security - January 5, 2004 Cisco, ISS and Nokia, already have begun to respond to the potential for a major e-commerce security breach by rolling out all-in-one security devices that combine firewalls and intrusion-detection capabilities with antispam and antivirus protection.
CIO Today	Will Web Services Have To Wait? - Dec. 30, 2003 The release of Basic Profile 1.0 represents just the first in a series of milestones that lie along the Web-services development path. Specifications for addressing the future coexistence of .NET and J2EE have yet to be resolved.
NewsFactor	The Future of E-Commerce Technology - Dec. 12, 2003 "One main difference that we're going to see, going forward, is a shift from thinking of e-commerce as just one among many components to the technology becoming the driving force behind all of a company's business transactions," says iCode vice president Steven Toole.
NewsFactor	Where in the World Is the Virtual I.T. Worker? - Dec. 9, 2003 Although broadband connections, collaborative technologies, and remote diagnostic tools have facilitated telecommuting in I.T., there are some jobs that still require "face time."
CIO Today	Latest and Greatest E-Commerce Software - Dec. 8, 2003 "For the operators of small-sized businesses today, the biggest constraint is time, not money," says Lagarde executive vice president Mike Levin. "Companies don't have weeks to test the waters before finding out if something will work or fail miserably."


Updated 08/31/2006	Wireless & Broadband Articles by Mark Long	Satellite Tutorials


Wireless NewsFactor	Mobile Security: One Size Does Not Fit All - October 8, 2004 "There is a balance that needs to be maintained between complete usability and complete security," notes Dan MacDonald of Nokia. "If there's so much complexity that it takes too much time to get to the information workers need, there will not be enough value in doing so."
Wireless NewsFactor	Here Comes the Mobile Enterprise - Ready or Not - October 6, 2004 "In planning for any mobile-device infrastructure, security has got to be at the core of the analysis, because it is both dangerous and costly to implement later on," says Allen Panezic of Reaearch In Motion. "The ability to enforce policies on handheld devices is absolutely critical."
Wireless NewsFactor	Broadband via Satellite: Looking Down? - June 29, 2004 "The only prospects I see for satellite in underserved areas are based on radical price cuts and very aggressive marketing campaigns," says Forrester's Charles Golvin. "I believe that fixed wireless and, potentially, power-line broadband are more likely solutions to this problem."
Wireless NewsFactor	RFID Tags That Break the Cost Barrier - April 8, 2004 "RFID challenges businesses and managers to rethink their business processes, and RFID allows them to modify and streamline some of these business processes to obtain a quantifiable return on investment," notes Texas Instruments RFID global marketing manager Bill Allen.
Contact Center Today	Voice over IP Comes of Age for SMEs - March 15, 2004 Net2Phone has developed the hardware/software packages for enabling even small enterprise operators to benefit from Voice over IP technology. When connected to regular phones or a PBX system, Net2Phone's Max Gateways can enable two to 30 simultaneous calls from a single location.
NewsFactor	Wireless Tracking: Out of the Shadows - Part One, Feb. 24, 2004 "The real revolution has to do with what's happening within the infrastructure itself -- in what one can actually do with the data."
NewsFactor	Wireless Tracking: Out of the Shadows - Part Two, March 1, 2004 "There could be a real business value in providing businesses with redirection, especially in rural areas, and companies are already starting to look at this."
NewsFactor	Top Networking Technologies for 2004 - Part One, Jan. 9, 2004 Intel's I.T. tech department already has deployed wireless technology at more than 80 of its sites worldwide, including the company's factory in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, where the two main buildings already have gone totally wireless.
NewsFactor	Top Networking Technologies for 2004 - Part Two, Jan. 19, 2004 VoIP will fundamentally change the economics of providing voice services to the consumer, as well as alter the fundamental economics upon which telephone companies are based.
NewsFactor	Wireless Security: Is WPA Good Enough? - Sept. 2, 2003 For many IT managers, the question is not whether WPA is better than WEP -- that almost goes without saying -- but whether it is a sufficient improvement to justify taking a corporate network wireless sooner, rather than later.
*e-inSITE*	INTERVIEW: HelloSoft CEO Predicts Bright Future for VoIP Phones "I believe that VoIP is ready for prime time. It not only offers incredible flexibility for inter-office communications but it is now coming to consumers as well."
*e-inSITE*	Blazing Handhelds - An Interview With Emblaze Semi's CEO For the past two years, Emblaze Semiconductor has been at the forefront of the multimedia revolution for streaming video live to wireless PDAs and smartphones....
*e-inSITE*	Pushing the DSP Speed Envelope Texas Instruments has announced that it will be rolling out 1GHz DSPs for real-time signal processing applications beginning in 1H04....
*e-inSITE*	Gates Outlines the Shape of Mobile Devices To Come Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Software Architect outlined his vision of mobile devices to come at the first Mobility Developer Conference, which was timed to coincide with the CTIA Wireless 2003 exhibition in New Orleans.
*Broadband inSITE*	Voice-over-Internet Protocol: A Special Report See this comprehensive resource for commentary, feature articles, interviews, product news, white papers, and more on VoiP....
*e-inSITE*	On the Bus at CTIA Wireless MeshNetworks took hundreds of CTIA attendees on a bus trip to show off the company's wireless broadband delivery platform, which operates at highway speeds....
*e-inSITE*	Xtremely Cool XtremeSpectrum's demo of its Ultra-wideband chipset this week featured the wireless streaming of six MPEG-2 video channels across the room....
*e-inSITE*	TI's RFID Technology Makes Wireless Watch Tick The technology provides end-users with a whole new way to streamline point-of sale transactions, from both within as well as when out of their automobiles.


Updated 08/31/2006	Product Reviews by Mark Long	Satellite Tutorials

Smartphone product reviews by Mark Long: Audiovox SMT5600 Cingular 2125 H-P iPaq 6315 Hitachi G1000 LG Electronics F9100 LG Mobile Phone MM-535 Motorola A630 Motorola i930 Motorola MPx200 Motorola RAZR V3 Motorola RAZR V3c Motorola V551 Nokia 770 Web Tablet Nokia 6620 Nokia 6651 Nokia 6820 Nokia 6822 Nokia 9300 Communicator Ogo Messaging Device palmOne Lifedrive Mobile Manager RIM BlackBerry 7000 RIM Blackberry 7100g RIM Blackberry 7100t RIM Blackberry 7105t RIM Blackberry 7130e RIM Blackberry 7250 RIM Blackberry 7290 RIM Blackberry 7520 RIM BlackBerry 7750 RIM Blackberry 8700c Samsung i730 Samsung p777 Samsung SGH-d415 Samsung SPH-i500 Samsung SPH-i600 Samsung SPH-i700 Sanyo MM-7400 Siemens SX56 Sony-Ericsson Z500a Sony-Ericsson S710 Sony Ericsson W800i Walkman Sprint PPC-6700 Toshiba 2032 Pocket PC Treo 600 from palmOne Treo 650 from palmOne Treo 650 (Verizon) Tungsten W from palmOne T-Mobile SDA T-Mobile MDA T-Mobile Pocket PC 2003 T-Mobile Sidekick T-Mobile Sidekick II Verizon XV6700 Voq Professional Phone Latest & Greatest Wi-Fi Phones Product Review: Roundup: Top Ten Smartphones - August 8, 2005 \| NewsFactor Network When it comes to style, Motorola's V3 RAZR -- one of the smartphones reviewed in this series -- is about as cool as they come, especially now that the product's price has come down from formerly stratospheric levels. The sleek and stylish handset offers support for standard POP3, SMTP and IMAP e-mail accounts. IT Enterprise Product Reviews by Mark Long: Dell PowerEdge 700 Server Dell PowerVault 114T Tape Array Dell PowerVault 745N Dell Latitude D600 Corporate Notebook Fujitsu LifeBook S7000 Series Laptop Gateway 810 DAT72 Tape Autoloader Gateway 820 LTO Tape Autoloader Gateway 823 Series LTO-3 Tape Autoloader Gateway 840 Serial-ATA RAID Enclosure Gateway 9115, 9210 Servers Gateway 450XL Laptop (H-P) Compaq EVO N410c Laptop (H-P) Compaq Presario X1000 Laptop H-P ProLiant DL145 Server HP ProLiant ML310 G2 Server HP Proliant ML350 G4 Server HP StorageWorks DAT 72x6 Autoloader H-P StorageWorks NAS 1200s H-P StorageWorks Network Attached Storage 1500s HP StorageWorks Ultrium 460 Tape Drive IBM eServer x345 IBM ThinkPad T41p IBM Thinkpad R51 Laptop IBM TotalStorage 3580 IBM TotalStorage Netwrk Attached Storage 100 Logitech's Desktop MX5000 Keyboard with Laser Mouse Netgear's WGPS606 Wireless Print Server SpectraLink Docking Wi-Fi Handset Toshiba Portege R100 Notebook Toshiba Satellite A45 Laptop First Look: Internet Explorer 7 Beta First Look: Motorola SLVR iTunes Phone Review: Canon Pixma MP500 All-in-One Printer, Copier, and Scanner Review: Garmin Streetpilot i3 GPS Navigator Review: Google Desktop 3 Beta Review: Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition Review: HP PhotoSmart 3310 Multifunction Printer Review: Kodak EasyShare One Wireless Digital Camera Review: Nokia N90 Camera Phone Review: Palm TX Handheld Review: UTStarcom PC5740 for Verizon


Updated 08/31/2006	Satellite Features by Mark Long	Satellite Tutorials


*CommVerge*	Dishing it out: Satellite players launch two-way broadband
*CommVerge*	Looking up? So far, satellite-based mobile phone efforts have yielded little but debt. Is there cause for optimism today?
*e-inSITE*	INTERVIEW: A Router In The Sky In an interview with e-inSITE, HNS executive Marc Newman provides a progress report on the Spaceway broadband satellite initiative....
*e-inSITE*	Frost & Sullivan Releases Pessimistic Ka-Band Satellite Forecast


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