Daniel Dern

Wi-Fi, VOIP, Mobility in the Air at CeBIT

Voice over IP, 802.11 Wi-Fi, mobile phones and devices, and combinations of the three have had a strong presence at the CeBIT show currently happening in Hannover, Germany—not to mention a scattering of WiMax (802.16 wide-area broadband). For mobile Palm users looking to get more connected, Enfora is showing its new Wi-Fi Sled for the […]

CeBIT 2005: Double Comdex and Keep Walking

HANNOVER, GERMANY—The annual CeBIT show is happening here this month, with the show floor opening at 9 a.m. on Thursday morning. If you miss technology trade shows with huge numbers of attendees and endless miles to walk around, well, theres no Comdex to look forward to this year (short of major surprises), but if you […]

FCC Says Telco Must Allow VOIP Traffic

In response to a complaint by broadband communications company Vonage Holdings Corp., the U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced on Thursday its ruling that “Madison River shall not block ports used for VOIP applications or otherwise prevent customers from using VOIP applications.” Founded in April 1996, Madison River Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Madison River […]

Recent Advances Boost System Virtualization

System virtualization, seen as offering enterprises and smaller organizations major benefits in application availability and server capacity management, has had several boosts in the past few weeks. While not a product, IBMs recent release of source code for its rHype Research Hypervisor project will, among other things, help the open-source Xen virtual machine monitor project. […]