Merlin includes a virtual telephone dialling pad, which lets users with voice-enabled PDAs to dial numbers straight from their address book and use some other advanced telephony services. Microsoft has launched the latest version of its operating...
End users only need to go to a 'dumb' client such as a Sun Ray workstation, slide their Java cards and they will be able be retrieve their desktop, he said. Unlike present PCs which house their own processors, Sun Ray desktops mostly rely on a...
Japan-based electronics maker Matsushita Electric has cast some light on next-generation IPv6 home appliances with a new web-enabled desk lamp. An IPv6 internet address is automatically assigned to the lamp when the LAN cable is plugged in, so...
The virtual IPv6 backbone stretches from New Hampshire to California and will be permanent, so that equipment makers, software vendors, service providers and anyone else who would like to test IPv6 interoperability in a live network can do so.
NAC enables Cisco switches, routers and other devices to check users' machines to ensure their laptop or handheld device meets policy requirements before they log on to the network. If their devices don't, their connection is funnelled to a...
Some license their libraries of URLs which can then be embedded in appliances that act as a proxy for all internet activity. Web acceleration appliances from vendors such as Expand and Riverbed ensure traffic is compressed before transmission and...