3Com is back: What next?
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The Enterprise beckons once again Comment Heroic comebacks are something of a rarity in the high technology industry. Companies that fall from grace disappear, either through bankruptcy or absorption into larger players. However, the switching market has a couple of interesting examples of long-established players that may be in a position to buck the trend.â¦
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Consultation doc hits doormats Ofcom has published the first of its consultation documents looking at how Spectrum Usage Rights (SURs) are going to work in the real world, and the future looks bad for mesh networks with their lack of centralised control.â¦
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MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- 3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS - message board) today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire publicly held TippingPoint Technologies, Inc.
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com December 3, 2004, 10:33 AM PT. While its neighbors, software infrastructure and hardware upgrades, switched places this month, security held its spot at number three.
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Maybe the third time will be the charm for Microsoft&#39;s Windows XP Media Center Edition. Previous versions, released in 2002 and 2003, appealed to the early adopters among us.
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Third-generation (3G) network operators in the U.K. could begin testing a technology to improve indoor network coverage before the end of the year.
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A few months ago I made a list of all the phone numbers I have. It disturbed me a bit.  I started with the usual trio of home, office, and cell. Then I added a BlackBerry (RIMM) that I use primarily for e-mail, but also the occasional call when my Motorola (MOT) KRZR runs out of power.
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Intuit's move to acquire financial services vendor Digital InsightÂ this week, Â and 3Com Corp.'s deal to buy out Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd's stake in their joint venture are signs that mergers and acquisitions activity continues unabated. The question is what this means for technology generally.
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ON THE SCENE - Product managers at TechEd 2007 here gave BetaNews an early glimpse of Microsoft's next videoconferencing application, which will tie into both Office Communications Server (which we saw in detail at WinHEC three weeks ago) and Microsoft's own subscription-based conferencing services.
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Continuing the thread on commoditization of scalable server software, the third installment. Yesterday, Matt Tucker from the OpenFire community, said: "I'm not sure that S3 magically kills off the scaling priests. It certainly makes it easy to turn on more storage resources, but writing an application to scale efficiently across multiple virtual machines is no easy task." To which I responded... It won't make scaling obsolete, but what it does do is commodify it. Right now I can't buy a Jabber server that scales without also hiring someone who will scale it for me. But in a few years I should be able to buy a Jabber server that, when it needs more CPUs, just asks for them all transparently to the user, the same way my word processor asks the OS for more memory today. I remember word processors that didn't do memory management, you got a 64K buffer and that's it. One document. When you filled it up, you started another. Technology will go forward and scaling won't be a black art, it'll be something built into the software you license.
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Good news for broadband customers Eircom has confirmed it is to invest â¬60m over the next three years on upgrading its central telecommunications network.â¦
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3Com Corp. today announced an agreement worth approximately $1.9 million with privately held Tresnet AB, Sweden, to supply Voice Core eXchange (VCX) V7000 IP Telephony Voice Systems and Services for an initial
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The Motley Fool - For more than three years running, networking equipment maker 3Com (Nasdaq: COMS - News) has consistently bested Wall Street's consensus earnings estimates -- yet it hasn't earned a profit in any quarter over the whole stretch. Last quarter, the firm managed to break even; might tomorrow's fiscal Q2 2007 report finally put 3Com in the black?
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(InfoWorld) - âI-triple-what?â was the question being asked last week, after the Wi-Fi Alliance said it will start certifying next-generation wireless LAN products by the first half of 2007, regardless of whether the IEEE has signed off on new wireless specifications for them. The announcement last Tuesday was a break from tradition for the Alliance, which tests and certifies wireless LAN products from different vendors for interoperability; typically, the group waits until the IEEE has fully certified a wireless standard before testing products against it and putting its seal of approval on those that pass the test. In question is final approval of a specification for 802.11n, a proposed wireless standard that would support data throughput of 100Mbps or higher. A nasty fight over how to use multiple antennas and radios to achieve that performance boost has pushed back the expected approval of the specification several times. Final ratification of the specification is now scheduled for April 2008. With Wi-Fi products supporting some 802.11n features already available, the Wi-Fi Alliance couldnât wait around, said Managing Director Frank Hanzlik. The Alliance will use a two-phase certification process, testing for interoperability against whatever parts of the standard it believes are solid and unlikely to change, Hanzlik said. In Phase 2, the Alliance will use the approved IEEE standard, whenever itâs finished. Vendors strongly back the Wi-Fi Allianceâs dual-stage plan, even though some chip set makers have already performed interoperability tests for draft 802.11n products, Hanzlik claimed. âThe only way to really get the right kind of user experience is if thereâs an industrywide interoperability program,â Hanzlik added.
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Touts 'second-generation wireless' against health hysteria 3Com has decided to fight the hysteria over WiFi in schools. The company has hooked up with a reseller that specialises in the education market called 802.UK to promote "second-generation wireless" - by which it means enterprise-class managed WLANs - for schools.â¦
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3Com Corp. COMS.O on Monday said it  will buy network security firm TippingPoint Technologies Inc.  TPTI.O for about $430 million, as 3Com expands its  telecommunications equipment offerings to compete better in the  market for large corporate users.
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MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - 3Com Corp. said today its quarterly revenue will come in around 10 per cent below its previous expectation, an announcement that sent shares of the communications network supplier down nearly 10 per cent.