Juliet Mann sits down with the CEO of British Telecom who tells her how the future looks for communication.
At a hacker conference no one is safe.
Fortune: Cisco aims to serveupdated: Tue Mar 03 2009 13:57:00
It is the buzz of the tech world: Cisco Systems may soon try selling servers, those heavy-duty computers that companies use to run critical back-office applications. The prospect of router giant Cisco's entering the already crowded $55-billion-a-year server market is intriguing (imagine if LeBron James decided to try his hand at football) but also has the potential to disappoint. (Remember Michael Jordan's ill-fated effort to play professional baseball?)
Apple Inc.'s flashy new iPhones may be jamming parts of the wireless network at Duke University, where technology officials worked with the company Wednesday to fix problems before classes begin next month
Nearly half of U.S. IT jobs involve the upkeep and maintenance of computers - a sector previously thought to be safe from offshoring. But technological change is sweeping the industry, and soon the servers that host your favorite websites or run your online banking could be run from halfway around the world.
If you're using Wi-Fi, chances are you're doing it from your home office or a coffee-shop hotspot. Corporate IT departments have shunned wireless networks, mostly because Wi-Fi can open a huge secu...
Is your Wi-Fi's WEP turned on? What's the difference between bluejacking and bluesnarfing? Do you know your SSID? Get a handle on the details behind the acronyms and jargon that is wireless technology with this Wi-Fi glossary.
CHRIS ROULAND, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER of Internet Security Systems, recently visited a big telecom company that bans employees from putting up their own antennas for wireless Internet access, or ...
When Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard ventures into hostile territory, does he wait for aliens to pound the Enterprise with plasma torpedoes and then patch it up with Galactic Fix-It Goo? Hell, ...
Earnings warnings and analyst downgrades hit technology stocks hard Tuesday, knocking software, microchip and hardware stocks on fears about the strength of upcoming earnings.
Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, said Wednesday it may be forced to stop selling some computer chips in China this summer because of a new requirement set by the Beijing government.
You, the guest in room 201, thanks for letting me hijack your computer to spew Viagra ads over the Net.
Fortune: Can Sun Succeed?updated: Mon Oct 13 2003 00:01:00
It's not unreasonable to wonder whether Sun's diminishing position in the IT firmament had anything to do with Bill Joy's decision to walk. After all, the company that, among other things, coined s...
I keep looking for killer business models built around location-based services, simply because so many companies are throwing money into technologies that tell the network where you are. One thing ...
I am a hamster. We all are. For 20 years I have been on a wheel created by the PC industry, constantly feeling behind and racing to keep pace, buying new systems for my one-man software consultancy...
The hottest entry in the race to build faster, more robust phone networks is--surprise--Ethernet, a 25-year-old computer standard developed for linking PCs in office networks. Don't yawn. A handful...
Once every couple of weeks Matthew Cwieka marches out of his parents' house in Chicopee, Mass., with his computer teetering on top of his skinny arms. He piles his equipment into the car and heads ...
I'm trying to cut loose. Literally. I'm determined to reduce the number of wires that connect me to my data. After all, the pundits say that this is going to be the year of wireless communications....
What it all comes down to is a different set of values to throw away or mobilize to use. --Sun Volt, "Questions"
Like peddling pickaxes during the Gold Rush, the best way to cash in on the Internet is to outfit hopeful prospectors with the proper hardware. Thus the networking infrastructure industry, which ti...
CALL 1993 the year of the announcement. Ambitious corporations bellied up to the publicity bar, bragging about the billions of dollars they would spend delivering something called the ''information...
SOON AFTER you switch on a new computer, it starts to sprout cables like branches and peripherals like leaves. Time-lapse photography would show how quickly the typical personal computer can strang...
TRAILING OUT the back of nearly half the desktop computers at FORTUNE 500 companies these days are thin round cables that snake off into floors or walls and disappear. Where they go and what they c...
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