Wireless / Mobile

Billion dollar financial fraud revealed within Satyam, a collaboration partner of Cisco

Brad Reese — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:52:52 -0500

The above photograph shows Cisco chairman John Chambers and Satyam chairman B. Ramalinga Raju announcing a collaboration that evolved into Satyam Global LifeNet (SGL), a joint venture between Cisco and Satyam. In his resignation letter this week, Satyam chairman B. Ramalinga Raju listed the following financial fraud irregularities on the books of Satyam Computer Services:

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Clearwire stake could pierce Google

Google Subnet — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:29:32 -0500

Major investors in Clearwire, the new firm that plans to build the first nationwide high-speed 4G wireless broadband network, are feeling the pain of the economic downturn, big time.

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Google loses two key search deals to Microsoft

Google Subnet — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:43:42 -0500

Maybe Microsoft's Steve Ballmer was really serious when he said Microsoft intended to truly compete with Google in the search arena. As the Wall St.

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Power source a mini nuke plant in your lap?

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:43:25 -0500

so whats the battery, its not a mini nuke like i was thinking when i clicked here. Just another chunk of consumer fluff that will be outdated in a year just like all the others.

China CCIE count grows 11 times more than U.S.

Brad Reese — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:20:20 -0500

This week Cisco released the January 2009 net new worldwide CCIE count. According to Dual CCIE #18532 Security/Routing and Switching - George Morton, Ph. D:

"The trend from the last update done in November 2008 has continued to show that the growth in CCIEs is coming from outside the U.S. Using a five month average the growth during this period was just above the five month average. "Now for the U.S. you could argue that Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. played a role, and you might be right; but then why did Europe have more CCIEs in the same period?"

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Welcome to Vegas, CES time!

Keith Shaw — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:23:43 -0500

OK, I'm going to try and remain positive, despite a trip that began with a two-hour flight delay, de-icing of a plane, a 6-hour flight in which another passenger passed out about two rows in front of me (first time I've ever heard a flight attendant ask for a doctor over the intercom), a wicked-bad migraine and then the fireworks/music extravaganza that is the Siren show (the old pirate show at Treasure Island was much better) blasting right outside my window as I write this. I'm officially in Las Vegas, and despite what possibly was the longest run-on sentence I've written in a long time, I'm still ready to hit the show floor and press previews and cocktail parties and cab lines (wait, maybe those will be shorter since "nobody" apparently is coming, at least to the cab driver I spoke with on the way in) at the Consumer Electronics Show 2009. For the next few days Jason Meserve and I will be roaming the halls producing videos, doing our Twisted Pair podcast (sometime between all the appointments) and we may even have time to write some blog entries or two. Mostly, though, I'll be adding short, pithy commentary via my iPhone and Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/shawkeith – what, you haven't signed up yet to follow me?). We've got a ton of other CES news, blogs and videos scattered throughout the site as well, so stay here at Networkworld.com for all your CES updates.

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The next Android phone: the Kogan Angora, at CES

NWW Staff — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:41:45 -0500

This week at CES, Kogan Technologies will showcase its just-announced Android-based smartphone, Kogan Angora. The Australian company has just released a video and some actual photos (previously only renderings, apparaently, were displayed on the site).

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Researchers applying P2P to traffic control

Alpha Doggs — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:03:15 -0500

University of California, Irvine researchers are applying lessons learned from music and video peer-to-peer file transfer networks to a system for reducing traffic jams on the roads.

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Macworld Expo 2009: Soonr links iPhone to your Mac and PC files

John Cox — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:18:50 -0500

A new cloud service links your Apple iPhone with files and documents residing on desktop Macs and Windows PCs. The idea behind the service, from startup Soonr, is that your desktop becomes a kind of online cloud computing service accessed from your mobile device. You need software for your iPhone, from the App Store, and software for the computers you'll be accessing.

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Macworld Expo 2009: The Apple keynote speech video is online

John Cox — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:03:32 -0500

It wasn't the stuff of high drama, and it wasn't Steve Jobs on stage. But if you want to check out the last Apple keynote speech at Macworld Expo, you can find the video online, and a podcast at iTunes.

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Macworld Expo 2009: two movies premiere on the History of the Mac

John Cox — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:45:08 -0500

Macworld's Rob Griffiths has a story on seeing not one but two feature-length documentaries about the history of the Mac (and in part of Apple), drawing on the memories and experiences of a wide-range of little-known participants. The two films are "Welcome to Macintosh," which screened Monday night, and "MacHEADS the Movie,"which screens Wednesday night.

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More Macs, iPhones appearing on enterprise networks

John Cox — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:52:40 -0500

Macs and iPhones are gaining enterprise fans, according to this week's story by NW reporter Jon Brodkin. Though only 1 in 20 corporate desktops sport a Mac, the number is growing. According one analyst cited, it's due to Apple's relentless focus on the "user experience."

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Eee Keyboard

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:26:28 -0500

Now this looks great and something different in the market place. I would love to have one of these for just surfing the net if the price is right

PipelineDeals iPhone Ediition

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:09:33 -0500

Great list and if I may add one more suggestion. PipelineDeals has had a web-based iPhone application for some time now. Give it a test drive and here is a link for more information. Thank you! http://www.pipelinedeals.com/content/mobile_crm

Top 8 Microsoft Research projects to improve our lives

Mitchell Ashley — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:42:53 -0500

I'm always fascinated by the ideas folks come up with for research projects when it comes to how we use computers and technologies in our daily lives. Microsoft Research has a Web site covering its socio-digital systems research projects. Much of the work is about unlocking the personal photos and information in our Documents folders to better connect with family members. Other projects are about how technologies and user interfaces can improve how we preceive and interact with our digital lives.

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Mobile Handset Subsidies: More Harm than Good?

Craig Mathias — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:39:08 -0500

OK, I've really got to move on with projects for this year, so that means all that fun time surfing the Web over the holidays really does need to come to an end. But one final note here, based on a series of predictions for 2009 from Yankee Group. As is always the case, annual wrap-up/forecast articles are all the rage around this time of year, and one of Yankee's predictions caught my eye: "Subsidies on smart phones will strangle operator profits". Wow!

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Fed up with Microsoft's mobile browser? Join the boycott!

John Cox — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:42:20 -0500

Blogger Robert McLaws, of Windowsnow.com, is mad has heck and isn't going to take it anymore. On his blog this week, McLaws declared he's boycotting Microsoft's IE Mobile Web browser, banishing it from his Windows Mobile smartphone and using Opera Mobile instead. (You can find another take, and additional context, on McLaws' boycott call on our Microsoft Subnet.

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Acer ASPIRE one is realy the best one

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:48:00 -0500

i newly buy Acer ASPIRE One.it is light wight , powerful , producing very low heat and battery life is about 6 hour (with 6 cell battery).it is my swiss army knife and i do all my networking related task with that.the performance is acceptable and the only cons is small display and touchpad (very small).but it is more better that heavy notebook if you need to console session to your router or ssh connection to your net devices.

Cisco launches wireless multi-room audio system, digital media NAS

Keith Shaw — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:54:02 -0500

The news of Cisco's home entertainment product push came out last month, but today we have learned some more details about the product names, pricing and availability. Linksys by Cisco (another name change?) announced today two new home entertainment-related products (the Wireless Home Audio system and Media Hub) that it will show at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system reminds me of the Sonos, Logitech Squeezebox Boom and other multi-room audio systems, in which users can stream audio files stored on PCs, devices and over the Internet throughout different "zones" set up around the house. The Cisco system uses Wireless-N (802.11n) technology to deliver music throughout the home, and supports Internet music services such as Rhapsody, AudioLounge and RadioTime.

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Cisco goes Hollywood with product placements

Brad Reese — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:09:09 -0500

Cisco product placements seem to be everywhere in Hollywood these days, catching both TV and movie viewers' attention.

In the recently released hit movie comedy, Yes Man, starring the hilariously funny Jim Carrey, a Cisco IP phone catches everbody's eye as Carrey's character, a bank loan officer named Carl Allen, rubber-stamps YES on all loan applications that cross his desk for approval, regardless of a loan's credit risk. Approving those hundreds of loans eventually made Carrey's character the top loan producer for the bank earning him a promotion "upstairs to corporate," along with a fat pay raise.

At the 2 second timemark in the Yes Man Movie video trailer below, you can see a Cisco IP phone prominently featured on the bank desk of Jim Carrey's character, a bank loan officer.

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