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Virgin Media to ramp up capacity on core network

News Networking giant Nortel's 40/100G Adaptive Optics Engine was tested on a 217-mile length of Virgin's optical network between London and Manchester - and successfully carried 40G traffic, according to the two companies.

Tags: fibre, nortel, bandwidth, broadband

[09 May 2008]

Microsoft Windows 'collapsing' under own weight

News The Windows user experience will become less integrated and more "a composite adaptive work space", they said, meaning that some applications will be tied to location and the user's identity. Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing under its...

Tags: vista, windows, microsoft, gartner

[11 Apr 2008]

How the good guys fight the security arms race

News What we call adaptive authentication for example is used extensively today in banking and widely deployed for lots of customers. Adaptive authentication is the idea of watching your transactions for suspicious behaviour.

Tags: data loss, rsa, data security, sending

[15 Feb 2008]

Tomorrow's robots - our invisible friends?

News Rather than conscious brains-in-a-box, as Hollywood would have it, they are in fact small pieces of adaptive and flexible software that help drive our cars, diagnose disease and provide opponents in computer games.

Tags: bcs, robot

[11 Sep 2007]

Open source 'not relevant', claim CIOs

News But Pascal Matzke, principal analyst at Forrester, said the IT "ecosystem" will move more and more towards delivering functionality as a service through SaaS, storage-on-demand and adaptive IT services, with the CIO becoming a "service broker".

Tags: open source, saas, forrester, lloyds tsb

[12 Jun 2007]

Voice biometrics coming to phone banking

Voice biometrics coming to phone banking

News The EMC subsidiary said the addition of voice biometrics to its Adaptive Authentication package marks an industry first. RSA Security has introduced a product that adds voice as a way for automated telephone banking services to identify users.

Tags: voice biometrics, biometrics

[25 Oct 2006]

EC pumps cash into grid research

News Viviane Reding, the EC's information society and media commissioner, said the projects will enable businesses to become more adaptive, agile and innovative if they help companies embrace the potential of grid computing.

Tags: grid, grids, european commission

[19 Sep 2006]

Cisco bolsters security of networked apps

News Cisco, as part of its adaptive security efforts to monitor and secure access to applications on the network, is debuting its Content Security and Control Security Services Module. This module, designed for the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA...

Tags: cisco, security

[13 Feb 2006]

Biometrics fuel transport IT spending

News In this respect achieving flexible, adaptive and scalable operations will be crucial. Spending on IT by transport companies in Europe will leap up over the next three years as they start testing biometrics and other security technologies.

Tags: biometrics

[07 Feb 2006]

RFID-tagged driverless cars on roads by 2056

News That could spell the end of motorways jammed with heavy goods lorries, with ad-hoc wireless networks using adaptive networking technologies to co-ordinate "flocks of unmanned aerial vehicles for goods transport", according to the Foresight...

Tags: ladyman, transport, rfid

[26 Jan 2006]

Bluetooth SIG gets some wireless chums

News Bluetooth and wi-fi rely on the same frequency band and, as a result, Bluetooth uses Adaptive Frequency Hopping to eliminate interference. In an effort to speed the development of interoperable wireless networking technologies, the Bluetooth...

Tags: wi-fi, wireless, bluetooth sig, uwb

[13 Dec 2005]

Cisco says hi to citywide Wi-Fi

News One radio uses a radio frequency protocol called Adaptive Wireless Path Protocol for access-point-to-access-point communications. Cisco will throw its hat into the municipal Wi-Fi ring on Tuesday when it announces wireless-network product...

Tags: citywide wi-fi, cisco, wi-fi

[16 Nov 2005]

Unisys backs "mature Linux"

News Blackmore, a former Hewlett-Packard executive who masterminded the company's Adaptive Enterprise strategy, outlined Unisys' strategy for growth at a meeting in London on Wednesday. Open source is now "a mature technology" and the right cost...

Tags: linux

[04 Nov 2005]

Fiorina's out... what should HP do now?

News On the business side, in particular, analysts criticised HP's current "Adaptive Enterprise" effort, which has been to sell itself as a less proprietary version of IBM. Frank Gillett, an analyst at Forrester Research, said: "The Adaptive Enterprise...

[10 Feb 2005]

Re:Viewing 2004: The security industry

Re:Viewing 2004: The security industry

News Filtering malware and unwanted content within email has become a highly specialised, multi-faceted, round the clock task and it is simply no longer possible to keep up with the adaptive nature of this problem at the customer end - with an...

Tags: security, 2004

[16 Dec 2004]

Home Office calls for cybercrime shakeup

Home Office calls for cybercrime shakeup

News They, along with numerous other providers of online goods and services, need to review the security of their offerings, the secure practice information they give customers, and put in place rapid response measures when a vulnerability of some kind...

Tags: home office, police

[14 Dec 2004]

Mozilla puts Outlook in the firing line

News We think users will enjoy our adaptive spam filters in addition to new features like saved search folders and RSS integration. Weeks after the successful launch of its Firefox browser, Mozilla released an email application in another salvo on...

Tags: outlook express, thunderbird, mozilla, outlook

[02 Dec 2004]

Intel touts the "new internet"

Intel touts the "new internet"

News Gelsinger likened the webcasting system to a more adaptive version of internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies. The internet needs to be upgraded with a new layer of abilities that will deal with imminent problems of capacity, security...

[10 Sep 2004]

Sybase outlines its RFID plans

News Also at the conference, the company is expected to announce version 15 of its relational database, called Adaptive server Enterprise (ASE). Sybase is set to outline its radio frequency identification (RFID) plans and reveal details on updates to...

Tags: sybase

[16 Aug 2004]

Storage now more software than hardware, says Meta

Storage now more software than hardware, says Meta

News An area of more promise would seem to be information lifecycle management, covering areas such as archive and retrieval, interoperability and adaptive storage resource management. The last year has seen only "incremental" advances in storage...

Tags: storage

[22 Jun 2004]

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