Verizon launches mobility services for large firms
Verizon Business today announced Managed Mobility Solutions, a new service for large multinational businesses that provides security for mobile devices and mobile expense management.
Verizon officials said the offering is different than those from other carriers such as AT&T since it brings its professional services consulting practice together with mobility management tools from Sybase Inc. for [...]
Juniper invests in data center switch vendor Blade
Juniper Networks has invested in Blade Network Technologies, maker and supplier of switches for data center blade servers.
The amount Juniper invested in Blade’s $10 million B round of funding was not disclosed. Privately held Blade has accumulated $230 million in funding since being spun off from Nortel in 2006.
Juniper is a new investor in [...]
China clears iPhone for network, puts picture online
The pictures showed an 8GB model that may be the iPhone 3G
The Chinese government has cleared a version of the iPhone to use the country’s mobile networks and posted pictures of the handset online, just as carrier China Unicom prepares to launch the phone.
Pictures of the licensed 8GB iPhone appeared on the Web site of [...]
Verizon expands mandatory data plans with Rogue
The new Samsung handset isn’t a smartphone, but buyers will have to get a data plan with it
Verizon Wireless on Tuesday introduced the Samsung Rogue, a phone that may be the first of many similar products: Reasonably priced, not quite a smartphone, but equipped for browsing and sold only with a monthly data plan.
The Rogue [...]
Vivendi to offer $2.9 billion for Brazilian telecom operator
The acquisition would give the French content company a foothold in Brazil
Vivendi, the French communications and content provider, plans to buy Brazilian telecom company GVT in a deal that could be worth more than US$2.9 billion.
Vivendi announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement with GTV’s controlling shareholders to buy the company. The controlling [...]
U.S. buys weather supercomputer with twin backup
Forecasters say duplicate system needed to ensure continuous uptime
WASHINGTON — The U.S. has upgraded the supercomputer used to develop weather forecast models, a system so critical to meteorologists that the government has bought a second, identical system as a backup.
This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) system, which went online in August, is compromised of [...]
IBM tool eases JavaScript development
The Eclipse-based technology features EGL modeling language to help developers build Web 2.0 apps
Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring use of a modeling language, according to IBM sources.
Big Blue’s EGL CE (Enterprise Generation Language Community Edition), released Tuesday, is an Eclipse-based [...]
Wi-Fi, powerline to merge in Atheros-Intellon deal
Atheros plans to buy the pioneering maker of home powerline network gear for $244 million
Wi-Fi chip vendor Atheros Networks plans to acquire Intellon, a maker of chips for home powerline networking equipment, for about US$244 million.
Intellon was a pioneer in technology that lets consumers use the electrical sockets and wiring in their homes to link [...]
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