By Chris Scott Barr If you’ve dabbled in computer networking for very long, you’ve no doubt learned to craft your own cables. You’ve also probably discovered that your average Cat5 cable can be turned into one of several different types, depending on how you wire it. It can get frustrating...

Deals between Microsoft’s Bing and social-networking giants Twitter and Facebook are the type of non-traditional approach Microsoft needs as it seeks to chip away at Google’s big lead in the search market, according to an analyst. “They’ve been at this for four or five years,...

SEATTLE, AUGUST 3, 2009 — F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), today introduced the F5 BIG-IP 3900 hardware platform. The BIG-IP 3900 extends F5’s award-winning solution portfolio. It delivers increased performance to unify application...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF., July 16, 2009 — Appcelerator, the only open source provider that enables developers to rapidly create mobile, desktop, and web applications from a single platform, today announced that just one month after the beta release of its flagship Appcelerator Titanium platform it...

LaCie gave their NAS RAID product line up a significant overhaul today by upgrading their LaCie 2big Network and 5big Network . With this upgrade, you can expect a performance boost, additional features, backup support and a serious expansion of capacity. The most notable improvement is the fact that...

SEATTLE, MAY 11, 2009 - F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced new software releases for its award-winning ARX file virtualization system and Data Manager storage management solution. The new capabilities in both products enable organizations...

Faced with dwindling sales opportunities and a tough economy, many emerging small to medium-sized businesses know that they must embrace operational efficiencies such as enterprise-wide computing to survive. Unfortunately at the state of current economy, many companies also lack the positive cash flow...

Cincinnati, May 11, 2009 — Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG), a global leader in relationship management, announced today that Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world, has renewed its contract for Convergys’ industry-leading relationship...

Now that you’ve had a few months a stream all manners of media throughout your home and backup your small cadre of computers via one of HP’s new MediaSmart Servers , we’re interested in seeing just how you’d change this bad boy. HP popped in a faster processor and a bit more...

Acer-owned Packard Bell is taking Acer’s latest and greatest netbooks and rebadging them for the European market. The 10.1-inch DOT S swipes most of its specs from the Acer Aspire One D250 , while the DOT M (pictured) goes for the 11.6-inch Aspire One ’s guts. There do seem to be a few aesthetic...

You know what really gets on our nerves? When we’re listening to Van der Graaf Generator (look it up!) on our newfangled iPod Shuffle and it pronounces the band’s name wrong. Seriously, this is an important function. Without it working flawlessly, how are we going to know the names of the...

As the New York Times reported, Skype’s founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, are in talks with several private equity firms and are amassing their own financial resources to make a bid for the internet phone business. eBay bought Skype from Zennstrom and Friis for around $3.1 billion in...