Japanese researchers break record for Terahertz Wi-Fi transmission
May 18, 2012 | SOPHIE CURTIS
Researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan claim to have broken the record for wireless data transmission in the Terahertz band with a data rate 20 times higher than most current Wi-Fi connections.
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BYOD genie is out of the bottle
May 17, 2012 | ZAFAR ANJUM
IT managers recognise benefits of BYOD but concerned about employees’ awareness of risk: BT
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HP's Meg Whitman in China to reaffirm PC commitment
May 14, 2012 | SOPHIE CURTIS
HP chief executive Meg Whitman has reaffirmed the company’s commitment to its PC business, and has promised that HP’s newly created Printers and Personal Systems (PPS) division will get “more than its fair share” of R&D investment in the coming years.
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10 reasons your Wi-Fi speed stinks (and what you can do about it)
May 14, 2012 | SANDRO VILLINGER
The first 801.11ac chipsets are coming soon, but 802.11n is likely to stick around for many years to come -- both in the business world and our homes. Unfortunately, the 300Mbps (megabits per second) that the n-standard promises rarely delivers anything even close and proves to be a massive bottleneck in the days of 50/100Mbps (or more?) broadband connections, 1080p video streaming, massive backups and so forth. On the business side of things, even menial tasks such as remote desktop or real-time collaboration suffer from a poor Wi-Fi-connection.
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Singapore’s nationwide fibre network close to completion: OpenNet
May 8, 2012 | ZAFAR ANJUM
Ninety percent coverage today due to aggressive rollout, says company laying the foundation for Singapore's ultra high-speed broadband network, Singapore's Next Gen NBN.
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Going Wireless in the Data Center
May 8, 2012 | JOHANNA AMBROSIO
Bouncing information around a data center, via 60GHz Wi-Fi, can speed things up by 30% compared to using traditional cables, a group of researchers found. The technique is still being perfected, but it could yield an interesting approach for enterprises in the not-too-distant future.
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VMware ups its collaboration offering with Lithium integration
May 4, 2012 | BRANDON BUTLER
VMware Thursday announced that its SocialCast sharing tool will now work with Lithium Technologies tools to capture and integrate external customer data.
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