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May 29th, 2009

University Puts Cisco Mobility To Work

At the University of British Columbia (UBC), the wireless network spans 100 hectares with multiple campuses — and it continues to grow to support more than 55,000 students, professors and staff for learning and research.Like most major universities, UBC relies on technology to help it deliver educational services to its students and keep its faculty on the cutting edge of research and development. When UBC needed a solution that would scale with its growth and allow mobile workspaces anywhere on campus, it turned to Cisco.

“Cisco’s new technologies allow for a faster connection and increased density for lecture theatres that hold hundreds of students, allowing them to simultaneously use throughput-intensive course materials such as streaming media,” said Marilyn Hay, manager of the University of British Columbia’s Network Management Centre.

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Does $200M Deal Indicate Problems at Facebook?

A Russian investment group on Tuesday paid $200 million for 1.96 percent of Facebook, valuing the social-networking giant at $10 billion. Digital Sky Technologies, which also has stakes in Eastern European and Russian Internet businesses, acquired preferred stock.DST also plans to offer to purchase at least $100 million of Facebook common stock from existing stockholders. DST executives will not take a seat on Facebook’s board or hold special observer rights.

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Nehalem-EX Likely To Boost Intel x86 in Enterprises

Nehalem-EX. That’s the code name of the new Intel Xeon processor that Intel previewed this week.The chips will go into production later this year and target server consolidation, virtualized applications, enterprise applications, and technical computing environments.

Intel is betting heavily on its chipset, calling it the heart of the next generation of intelligent and expandable high-end Intel server platforms. Those platforms promise technical advancements to boost enterprise computing.

“The capabilities of Nehalem-EX, especially in highly virtualized environments, offer a clear jump on performance over previous generations of Xeon,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. “What they are talking about with EX is a two-and-a-half times jump in performance over EP. That’s pretty impressive.”

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Cisco Puts Collaboration in Motion

Cisco is making its move in the mobile work space world. Last week, at the Interop show in Las Vegas, the networking giant announced a new initiative called Collaboration in Motion, that draws from a number of its product lines to facilitate collaboration in the mobile work space. Products and services tied to the initiative include Cisco WebEx, Cisco Unified Communications, Cisco Unified Wireless Network, and Cisco Advanced Services.”Together, the transformational power of collaboration combined with the power of the network as the platform can enable businesses to thrive,” said Ray Smets, VP and general manager for the Cisco Wireless Networking business unit. “Evolving modern businesses are comprised of workspaces that are rarely physically connected, and critical business information is collected and shared with mobile devices such as laptops and smartphones.”

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Nokia’s Ovi Store Debuts and Stumbles Under High Traffic

Apple and Research in Motion got some competition for smartphone applications Tuesday as Nokia opened its Ovi Store. There were early reports of problems accessing the store, which Nokia attributed to high traffic starting about 2 a.m. Eastern time. The company said it added servers to the store’s site for intermittent performance improvements.Nokia described the Ovi Store as an evolving media service that consolidates the handset maker’s existing content services into a one-stop online shop for free and paid items. Nokia said thousands of the industry’s biggest content providers, along with independent application developers. are distributing media, applications and games through the store. The company didn’t offer specifics about how revenue is split with developers.

The Ovi Store is open to the approximately 50 million Nokia owners who use more than 50 Nokia devices. Customers can visit the store through their Nokia device browser to download and personalize applications, games, videos, podcasts, productivity tools, and Web and location-based services.

“Ovi Store is open for business and we’ve stocked the shelves with both local and global content for a broad range of Nokia devices,” said Tero Ojanpera, executive vice president of Nokia services. “Ovi Store makes shopping for content and applications easy and fun for feature phone and smartphone owners alike.”

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Apple OKs Rejected App as Rumors See 32GB iPhone

The controversy — and the rumors — are swirling around Apple again this week. In a reversal of last week, Apple approved the Eucalyptus application for the iPhone and iPod touch, an e-book reader that was rejected for giving users access to the Kama Sutra.Michael Gartenberg, a vice president at Interpret, had predicted the rejection was an error and the application would be allowed into the App Store in short order — and he was right. Apple didn’t disclose the reason for its turnabout, but the application is now available.

“Earlier today I received a phone call from an Apple representative. He was very complimentary about Eucalyptus,” said developer James Montgomerie. “We talked about the confusion surrounding its App Store rejections, which I am happy to say is now fully resolved. He invited me to rebuild and submit a version of Eucalyptus with no filters for immediate approval, and that full version is now available on the iPhone App Store.”

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Archive for May, 2009

Chinese drywall problems hit already-battered market

University Puts Cisco Mobility To Work

Does $200M Deal Indicate Problems at Facebook?

Nehalem-EX Likely To Boost Intel x86 in Enterprises

Cisco Puts Collaboration in Motion

Nokia’s Ovi Store Debuts and Stumbles Under High Traffic

Apple OKs Rejected App as Rumors See 32GB iPhone