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Case Study: Peering Through the Network Cloud
White Paper Sappi Fine Paper North America (Sappi) is a division of Sappi, Ltd.of Johannesburg, South Africa, whose 19 mills in Africa, Europe and North America produce more than $4 billion in paper products annually. [29 Aug 2006]
Microsoft set for security shopping spree
News Frontbridge will provide mail archiving and content filtering in the cloud, while the Sybari acquisition [in February 2005] has provided Antigen [email antivirus technology]. There have been a lot of acquisitions in the... [03 Aug 2006]
SurfControl catches BlackSpider
News Patricia Sueltz, CEO of SurfControl, said the ability to offer protection "in the cloud as well as within the network" was a major factor behind the decision. SurfControl has snapped up email and web security company... [13 Jul 2006]
Microsoft to go Live with on-demand CRM
News Microsoft, Ballmer said, will "move with Live implementations to create a platform out in the cloud that is hostable; is extremely, extremely important". Microsoft plans to launch a new hosted CRM service next year under... [12 Jul 2006]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment What's unique about the car-to-car initiative is that it relies on very little fixed infrastructure: instead of a car connecting to an IP cloud, it is essentially a node on a network of other cars, fully meshed with... [21 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.06.06
Round-Up Because, before hitting the streets our man rang around pubs listed as having wireless internet access by providers such as BT Openzone, The Cloud and T-Mobile and asked whether this was the case. Mobility is becoming a... [16 Jun 2006]
Ignorance rife among London's wi-fi pubs
News Now wireless internet service provider The Cloud, which supplies 1,000 pubs including many of those in London contacted by silicon.com, is looking to address this problem with an education initiative. [09 Jun 2006]
Wi-fi just got wider for Sirocom
News UK virtual network operator Sirocom has signed a distribution deal with The Cloud and iPass to provide access to a further 7,800 wi-fi hotspots across Europe for users of its Siroconnect remote connectivity service. [30 May 2006]
Citywide wi-fi gets a helping hand
News But early deployments in cities including Tempe, Arizona and St Cloud, Florida are resulting in contractors being required to deploy more access points than had been originally planned and subscribers being forced to... [23 May 2006]
BT kick-starts wireless cities project
News Andrews later told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK that this was a key point of differentiation from the approach taken by The Cloud, which is also rolling out blanket wi-fi in eight UK cities and four London boroughs. [18 May 2006]
Leader: Should we now doubt chip and PIN?
Leader This is a problem of process, not technology and by letting this cloud our judgment of chip and PIN, which is here to stay, we're allowing ourselves to stare so hard at the scapegoat we miss the real problem. [09 May 2006]
The Cloud offers "affordable" wi-fi
News Wi-fi network operator The Cloud announced a new set of pricing plans on Tuesday which it says will make mobile internet access "affordable to everyone". Also available is a weekly subscription for £11.99, as well as a... [03 May 2006]
iPass lands wi-fi roaming deal with the Cloud
News Wireless internet access provider iPass has landed a roaming deal with the Cloud. The agreement will allow iPass customers to access the internet through the Cloud's 6,000 European wi-fi hot spots, most... [13 Apr 2006]
UK airports' wi-fi flying high
News BAA has picked The Cloud to install and maintain the wi-fi network. In addition to accessing the internet, surfers will be able to use The Cloud's network to buy services from its partners including... [14 Mar 2006]
What future for the wireless Square Mile?
News For Niall Murphy CTO of The Cloud, new uses for wi-fi are unclear. According to The Cloud, it will initially be able to support around 20,000 users - a relatively small proportion of the hundreds of... [07 Mar 2006]