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Dell and OnApp cooperate on pretested cloud packages

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:52:13 +0000

OnApp and Dell have teamed up to create pretested cloud packages for service providers and make it easier for them to roll out services, which could result in more competition in the cloud space.

5 mini projectors: A show wherever you go

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:01:16 +0000

Have a presentation or a favorite video hiding in your smartphone? One of these five mobile projectors will let you show off.

Pioneer to crowdsource car navigation, add augmented reality

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:46:08 +0000

Pioneer will soon launch a new car navigation system in Japan that uses dashboard cameras to scan the road ahead for approaching street signs and other cars, and will share images of road conditions with other vehicles.

There's an app for that: Avoiding the ugliest business problems

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 10:17:17 +0000

Kindergarten rules for living well can get you in trouble in the corporate world. Now, there is an app for business complications of the worst type.

California may outlaw 3-D printed guns

IDGNS staff — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:48:24 +0000

Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the technology, and said it would distribute its drawings online.

Google revamps admin console for Apps and other enterprise products

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:40:24 +0000

Google is rolling out a new IT administration console for its Apps email and collaboration cloud suite and for other enterprise products such as Maps Coordinate and Chrome OS devices.

Facebook to design an open source switch

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:57:14 +0000

As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

Facebook shakes up switch market with new Open Compute Project

Nancy Gohring — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:48:14 +0000

The new project will describe a switch that disaggregates the hardware and software. The result could lead to more options and better prices, even for non-Web scale businesses.

More support for Windows RT, this time from Nvidia

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:41:16 +0000

Nvidia will stay on board with making Tegra ARM-based processors for Windows RT tablets despite sluggish early sales of the devices, making the same commitment that Qualcomm has made, an Nvidia executive said

VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:33:52 +0000

Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin Casado, chief architect of networking at VMware.

Interop network squares off against controlled 70G bit/sec DDoS attack

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:33:17 +0000

Testing company Ixia launches high-volume DDoS tests against F5 firewalls.

Google may roll out overhauled Maps at Google I/O

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:25:17 +0000

Google Maps is reportedly getting an overhaul that may be shown off at the annual Google I/O conference next week.

Google pushes out software update for Glass

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:58:35 +0000

Google has pushed out an update to Glass, its upcoming futuristic, computerized eyeglasses.

Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:52:32 +0000

Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today.

YouTube Trends Map tells you what North Dakota's watching

IDGNS staff — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:34:50 +0000

According to YouTube, most of the country can't wait for season six of True Blood to begin.