Products Brocade Breaks Free, Offers Infrastructure By-the-Month For any kind of provider of network service, every five years or so, the infrastructure procurement problem becomes a long-term guessing game. Where will we be in six years' time? And can we afford today the bandwidth that we'll need in six years, because it takes time to build out and deploy this infrastructure, as well as recoup the… Scott M. Fulton View comments
Apps PhoneGap Plugin for Facebook Mobile app development framework PhoneGap announced today that it is releasing a plugin that will allow developers to easily connect their apps to Facebook. PhoneGap is bypassing the normal Facebook software developer kit and using Facebook's Javascript SDK to connect apps to the social giant. Nitobi, which created PhoneGap, said that the normal… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
mobile A Big Splash for Enterprise Password Management Tools This week SplashData will announce the launch of SplashID Enterprise 2.0, featuring updated Windows and Mac OS clients, new mobile apps and a Web-based application for better ID management. They have also integrated the service into Microsoft's Active Directory and now offer a free 30-day trial for unlimited users, and $5 per user per month… Enterprise David Strom View comments
Location Flickr's New Geofence Feature Flickr will announce a new feature this morning called Geofences, forward- and backward-looking place-specific privacy settings for the location data of the geotagged photos you upload. The feature is live right now and is really well implemented - this is something that every social network ought to enable. Geofencing is a term typically used to… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
VMworld Here It Comes - Mitel's Virtual Desktop Phone Platform The whole point of having a virtual desktop infrastructure is so you can move your office wherever it needs to be, and access it through whatever you can carry with you. And the whole point of unified communications (UC) is so you can integrate all the information and voice traffic you receive into a single console. The problem up to now is… Scott M. Fulton View comments