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Week of January 24-28, 2005 Dell’Oro Group of Redwood City, Calif., a marketing research firm tracking sales of WLAN products, says in a new five-year forecast report that in 2005 the market for such equipment will grow 13% to $2.6 billion—a number that will almost double by 2009. Centralized systems—WLAN switches with “dependant” (AKA thin […]

Fireman’s Fund (FFIC) is ensuring that its IT infrastructure is current with on-demand services and managed hosting, and it’s getting ready for Voice over IP (VOIP) deployment too. The insurance agency has awarded IBM a seven-year, $157 million contract in order to build an on-demand infrastructure, the company said. AT&T also was hired by Fireman’s […]

Google has reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its failure to register stock options issued to employees, according to a financial document filed on Thursday. When Google handed out some 23.24 million shares of stock and 2.5 million options to employees and contractors between 2002 and 2004, it neglected to register […]

There’s no question, tech got cool again in 2004 thanks in part to the rise of blogs, open source, IP telephony, big power in small gadgets and Google’s IPO, along with the the decline of the desktop computer that we knew only a decade ago. But these are just a few blinks of an eye […]

Like a cat soaking up the noonday sun, Microsoft’s Media Center Edition is basking in the spotlight at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Two years after the launch of Media Center Edition, the specialized Windows XP operating system for home and digital entertainment, it is gaining traction as more consumers use […]

By Eric Grevstad, Executive Editor, Hardware LAS VEGAS — It’s a brave new world, but it still has the Blue Screen of Death. The memory-dump system crash, coming during Xbox program manager Garrett Young’s presentation of the forthcoming Forza Motorsport game, was one of two or three demo gremlins that, along with emcee Conan O’Brien’s […]

Communications services specialist Equant said Daniel Caclin has resigned as CEO and director after four years with the company. The news was announced in a short statement just before the Christmas holiday. The company’s special nominating committee has tapped Charles Dehelly, an executive with the French electronics company Thompson, to take over the top job. […]

Level 3 Communications has signed a multi-year contract to provide broadband transport and co-location services to France Telecom , the companies announced today. Specifics of the deal between the Broomfield, Colo., fiber-optic network operator and the Paris voice and data carrier weren’t disclosed. “We’re pleased that France Telecom will continue to rely on Level 3 […]

We called 2004 a year to build on the recovery after three years of a technology recession, and expected no shortage of sharp minds and strong personalities supplying new breakthroughs to the resilient industry. We were not disappointed. Amid Oracle’s battle to take over PeopleSoft, the low-level warfare between SCO Group and Linux, the emergence […]

Week of December 20-24, 2004 Government Computer News is reporting that the non-profit Open Park Project’s free wireless around the Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., is getting ready to expand. Congress and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration are both supporting the expansion, which will move next into the National Mall and Smithsonian museums. The […]

Week of December 20-24, 2004 Netgear continues its expansion of its “Double” line of dual-band products for home networks. The latest is the $90 Double-108 Mbps Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter (WG111U), suitable for desktops and notebooks. The chip inside is from Atheros and supports their Super A/G speed boost, up to a data rate of […]

Cisco Systems acquired security monitoring provider Protego Networks in a $65 million cash deal Monday, one of a flurry of year-end mergers and consolidation among software providers in the past week. The privately held Protego, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., makes security monitoring and threat management appliances for small-to-medium business networks. Cisco said the purchase will […]