Networking

Coffee company brings on the guilt trip

Coffee company brings on the guilt trip

We've all seen them, those moochers who sit with one cup of coffee in an internet café for hours using the Wi-Fi effectively for free – one company has now come up with an ingenious way of preventing this.
Emma Hughes Nov 4 2008 6:52AM Networking
Sun Microsystems slumps to US$1.68bn loss

Sun Microsystems slumps to US$1.68bn loss

Sun Microsystems has posted a first quarter net loss of US$1.68bn, compared to an US$89m profit in the same period last year, as the supplier feels the bite of the global financial crisis
Tom Young Nov 1 2008 9:57AM Networking
Feature: How to cut energy costs at the node

Feature: How to cut energy costs at the node

Socket-level monitoring is this year’s hot button topic in power management. iTNews takes an in-depth look at how much power your servers are really drawing and the costs involved.
Ry Crozier Oct 30 2008 12:37PM Networking
Virtual servers to roam across networks

Virtual servers to roam across networks

A consortium of University researchers has developed a way to make Internet switches and routers both open and programmable, a move that will allow virtual servers to roam between networks in real-time.
Staff Writers Oct 30 2008 12:26AM Networking
University of Queensland advances Windows cluster trial

University of Queensland advances Windows cluster trial

University of Queensland is conducting tests on a number of research applications to potentially run on its Windows-based high performance cluster.
Ry Crozier Oct 29 2008 12:25AM Networking
Fujitsu to ‘free cool’ new Perth data centre

Fujitsu to ‘free cool’ new Perth data centre

Fujitsu has revealed further details of a new multi-million dollar data centre to open in Perth in ‘late 2010’, including the free cooling system it will use.
Staff Writers Oct 28 2008 10:50AM Networking
Internet breaches the final frontier

Internet breaches the final frontier

Internet creator looks to the stars for his next project.
Sylvie Barak Oct 28 2008 6:41AM Networking
Amazon floats new cloud service

Amazon floats new cloud service

Amazon Web Services has officially released its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) hosted computing service.
Shaun Nichols Oct 27 2008 6:41AM Networking
Change-room mirror likes what you’re wearing

Change-room mirror likes what you’re wearing

NEC Australia has developed an innovative 'magic mirror' prototype that can display information relating to garments as people try them on in-store.
Ry Crozier Oct 25 2008 1:04PM Networking
Inside Fujitsu's new tier-3 green data centre

Inside Fujitsu's new tier-3 green data centre

Fujitsu is nearing completion of a new tier-3 multi-floor data centre in Sydney, which will complement its existing facility at North Ryde.
Ry Crozier Oct 22 2008 12:23AM Networking
NEC evaluates redundancy shift to Polaris data centre

NEC evaluates redundancy shift to Polaris data centre

NEC may shift its global data redundancy capability from Japan to the new Polaris data centre in Queensland.
Ry Crozier Oct 21 2008 12:11AM Networking
NICTA slashes hosting costs for MMO P2P networks

NICTA slashes hosting costs for MMO P2P networks

NICTA has released a beta version of its massively multiplayer online (MMO) peer-to-peer (P2P) network engine, Badumna.
Staff Writers Oct 21 2008 12:01AM Networking
Data centre operators stake green incentive claims

Data centre operators stake green incentive claims

A data centre construction firm has claimed they should be paid up to $30 million in government incentives to help them transition Aussie businesses to greener computing facilities.
Ry Crozier Oct 20 2008 2:40PM Networking
Intel to buy NetEffect for US$8m

Intel to buy NetEffect for US$8m

Intel has agreed to acquire networking specialist NetEffect for US$8m.
Shaun Nichols Oct 17 2008 7:10AM Networking
UIPv6 protocol stack released

UIPv6 protocol stack released

Cisco, Atmel and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) have announced the availability of uIPv6.
Aharon Etengoff Oct 15 2008 6:56AM Networking
Smart meter deployments underway in Victoria

Smart meter deployments underway in Victoria

Logica has engaged 'a number' of energy and utility customers to deploy smart metering locally, the global consultancy’s local chief has said.
Ry Crozier Oct 11 2008 6:00AM Networking
Microsoft gets off of its Cloud

Microsoft gets off of its Cloud

It looks like Microsoft does not really like the idea of being too literal about the name of its long-rumoured cloud operating system.
Nick Farrell Oct 10 2008 7:30AM Networking
Google slips AdSense into games

Google slips AdSense into games

Google is rolling out a new version of its AdSense advertising program for game developers.
Shaun Nichols Oct 9 2008 3:21PM Networking
Interactive takes green hip pocket hit for customers

Interactive takes green hip pocket hit for customers

Data centre operator Interactive has found a way to sell customers a service that uses green energy -- by absorbing the substantial 45 percent cost increase themselves.
Ry Crozier Oct 8 2008 2:07PM Networking
Intel flogs rackmount server biz to Kontron

Intel flogs rackmount server biz to Kontron

Maker of German mini computers, Kontron, is snapping up Intel’s rackmount server business.
Sylvie Barak Oct 7 2008 12:46AM Networking

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