AT&T income down but mobile business healthy
April 23, 2009AT&T's first quarter income was down 9% on flat revenue but its mobile business -- buoyed by its exclusive iPhone partnership with Apple -- continued to see healthy growth.
China Mobile to launch app store this year
April 22, 2009China Mobile hopes to launch an application service like the iPhone's App Store this year as it unrolls a next-generation mobile network.
Data transfer rates to jump with Bluetooth 3.0
April 22, 2009A standards group today approved specifications for a new Bluetooth standard that speeds up wireless data transfers between devices like smartphones and laptops.
AT&T to double 3G capacity
April 22, 2009AT&T is doubling the capacity of its 3G high-speed packet access network to reach peak speeds of 3.6Mbit/sec.
Thai hospital goes wireless to contain outbreaks
April 21, 2009A hospital in Thailand famous for medical tourism plans to introduce a few new wireless technologies to control outbreaks of deadly diseases.
Android faces fight for smartphone users, despite Google's update plan
April 20, 2009Google soon plans to ship an updated version of Android with new features that users and developers have been calling for. But Android-based phones likely won't leapfrog rivals such as the iPhone.
Weighing the benefits of onshore outsourcing
April 18, 2009The discussion about outsourcing continues to be an on-again, off-again affair -- that is, onshore and offshore.
DynamicOps homes in on VM provisioning
April 14, 2009DynamicOps describes its Virtual Resource Management (VRM) tool as a "unified approach to managing both server and desktop virtualization" regardless of the hypervisor platform.
SC-VMM provides limited view of VMware-based VMs
April 14, 2009The final version of SC VMM -- which began shipping in November -- is much improved over the beta code we tested last fall, but it has still got some rough patches in terms of integration with Microsoft's Operations Manager (needed for monitoring and trending) and as supporting non-Windows VMs goes.
TotalView gives static view of some virtual servers
April 14, 2009Insystek TotalView is designed to be a comprehensive environmental management tool for physical and virtual infrastructure. For the purposes of this test, it supports XenServer and VMware ESX and VirtualCenter and a few older virtualization environments not included in our test bed, but it does not support Hyper-V yet.