Network General to buy Fidelia
San Jose-based
Network General will acquire privately held Fidelia, Inc. of Princeton,
N.J.
N.J. Network General will expand its product portfolio to
cover the entire realm of enterprise application performance management.
Network General will offer the only solution on the market that delivers
an end-to-end, correlated view of performance and availability of
critical business services, and the underlying network and server
infrastructure the applications run on.
Network General
specializes in packet flow-based application and network performance
management.
IT worker optimism plummets
The
Hudson Employment Index for IT workers dropped more than six points to
109.0 in January. Decreased optimism in personal finances and job
satisfaction sparked the decline. Just half (51 percent), of sector
workers rated their finances favorably in January, down from 57 percent
in December. In contrast, the national index remained steady this month,
sliding just .8 points to 102.6.
Nationally, managers were less
confident about their firms' hiring plans in January than the previous
month.
Keyspan adds support for Intel-based Macs.
Richmond-based Keyspan has posted software updates that add
support for Intel-based Macs and for Apple's "Front Row"
software.
Support for Intel-based Macs has been added to Keyspan's
USB serial adapters and USB Server products. Additionally, updated
software support for Keyspan's entire family of award-winning IR
(infrared) remote controls, as well as Keyspan's recently released Easy
Presenter RF (radio frequency) remote, and Keyspan's USB PS/2 Adapter
has been added.
The updates are available as a free download from
http://keyspan.com/ downloads/macosx/intel/ on the Keyspan Web site.
Wireless spending outstrips lines
For the
first time, in 2006 U.S. businesses of all sizes will spend more on
wireless voice services than on wireline, reports In-Stat
(www.in-stat.com). And wireless data services will make significant
gains as well over the next several years, the high-tech market research
firm says. Expenditures by enterprise firms (1,000 or more employees) on
wireless data will grow an average of 18 percent per year through 2009.
Recent reports by In-Stat found the following:
* Mid-sized
firms accounted for 12.4 percent, or $24 billion, of total U.S. business
telecom spending in 2005; these numbers will reach $33 billion and 13
percent of the total U.S. business market by 2009.
* Small
business spending on Internet access will grow to $8.2 billion by 2009,
up from $4.4 billion in 2005, largely due to adoption of DSL and higher
bandwidth services.
PhatWare upgrades
CalliGrapher
Mountain View-based PhatWare Corp. released
CalliGrapher 8.2. The handwriting recognition software for Windows
Mobile-based devices is now optimized for use on square screen devices,
such as the Windows Mobile-based Palm Treo 700w smartphone.
CalliGrapher analyzes pen strokes written in any application
window or in the designated Write Pad area, then converts those pen
strokes into text and sends the recognized text to the target
application.
AmberPoint, Systinet complete
integration
Oakland-based AmberPoint said it completed
integration between its service oriented architecture (SOA) management
software and Systinet 2, Systinet's newly announced SOA governance and
lifecycle management platform.
The integration includes a number
of capabilities that deliver end-to-end governance of SOA applications.
Together, AmberPoint and Systinet provide visibility and control of
distributed, heterogeneous services-based applications, the company
said.
Mahadevan new NeoEdge CEO
Palo
Alto-based NeoEdge Networks namedVic Mahadevan chief executive officer.
Mahadevan was most recently CEO of Maxxan, where he led the
company through the development and launch of its networking
infrastructure technologies for the enterprise storage industry.
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