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18 mars 2010 : National broadband plan: What's in it for businesses?

We've heard a lot about how the Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan aims to provide 100 million U.S. households with 100Mbps broadband connections so far, but precious little on how it will affect enterprise (...)

18 mars 2010 : Mobile developers take measure of Windows Phone 7

Mobile developers had their first chance to learn details of the radically redesigned Windows Phone 7 mobile platform at Microsoft's MIX10 conference this week. They've got a lot think about, and they're thinking hard.

18 mars 2010 : Comcast, ISC offer IPv6 transition tool

Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium have released open source software to help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

18 mars 2010 : Windows XP: No IE9 for you

Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 9, will not run on Windows XP, now or when the software eventually ships, the company confirmed.

18 mars 2010 : Microsoft lowers Windows licensing costs for virtual desktops

Microsoft is lowering the price of licensing the Windows operating system in a virtual desktop deployment, and announcing new bundles with partner Citrix in an announcement Thursday.

18 mars 2010 : Apple's Ban on Screen Protectors Makes (Some) Sense

Apple is reportedly removing iPhone, iPod, and MacBook screen protectors from its online and retail stores, just a couple of weeks before the iPad hits the stand.

17 mars 2010 : Corporate IT eager to deploy Windows 7, survey shows

Dimensional Research surveyed 923 IT professionals in January 2010 to learn more about their plans to migrate to Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system.

17 mars 2010 : Cowboys Stadium: Big is better in football and technology

Getting Cowboys Stadium ready for its 2009 opening was a massive job for many people, including IT infrastructure chief Bill Haggard.

17 mars 2010 : New Cisco Ethernet switches to play broader video, security roles

Cisco Wednesday is unveiling new Ethernet access switches and enhanced routers designed to take on more of the jobs frequently handled by separate devices, such as those dedicated to handling video traffic or ensuring network (...)

17 mars 2010 : MIT researchers enable self-assembling of chips

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday released research detailing how molecules in chips can self-assemble, potentially reducing manufacturing costs.

17 mars 2010 : Microsoft touts 'browser with no name' in Windows Phone 7

At the MIX Web developer conference, Windows Phone 7 executives had relatively little to say about the now-unnamed browser on the new mobile operating system. At the same time, the company announced "preview" version of much advanced technology and features in what will eventually be Internet (...)

17 mars 2010 : It does not take a village -- or a country

olumnist Scott Bradner says concerns of a "cyberwar" miss the main threat to network infrastructures. To date, essentially all cyberattacks where the perpetrators have been identified have been the work of small groups of individuals.

17 mars 2010 : Who else wants national broadband?

Let's say that the Federal Communications Commission's $15.5 billion broadband deployment plan helps produce the fastest nationwide broadband network in the modern world -- is there any guarantee that more people will use it?

17 mars 2010 : Microsoft touts speed, HTML 5 support in IE9

Microsoft previewed its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser to MIX10 attendees and promised to drive standards work on HTML 5.

16 mars 2010 : 8 things you didn't know about Windows Phone 7

Details of Windows Phone 7 and the development environment are coming to light at Microsoft's MIX10 Web developer conference.

16 mars 2010 : It's Official: Facebook Rules the Web

Facebook ruled the Web last week just squeaking past Google to become the most popular online destination among United States users. For the week ending March 13, Facebook claimed 7.07 percent of U.S. Internet visits, while Google was right behind the social network with 7.03 percent, according (...)

16 mars 2010 : New Internet browser threat sneaks by traditional defenses

An undetectable browser exploit that bares corporate networks to attackers tops the list of the most potentially effective new attacks that have been devised by researchers seeking vulnerabilities to take advantage of, according to a study by White Hat (...)

16 mars 2010 : Novell's Mono project bringing .Net development to Android

Developers for the Mono project also are readying a version of Silverlight for Apple's iPhone

16 mars 2010 : Why is cloud computing hard? Top tech execs speak their minds

Everyone's talking about cloud computing and security. But what makes it so hard? Execs at Microsoft, Trend Micro, EMC's RSA division, McAfee and Symantec tackle the question.

16 mars 2010 : Digg, like Twitter, rips out MySQL

Digg's engineering team has stopped using MySQL, echoing a move recently made by Twitter, another major social networking site.

16 mars 2010 : Happy 25th Birthday 'Dot Com': A Look Back

The Internet is filled with nostalgia on Monday as geeks all over the world celebrate the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first dot-com domain. On March 15, 1985, a small Massachusetts-based computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. registered Symbolics.com. It would be more than a (...)

16 mars 2010 : HP, IBM, Dell launch servers with new Intel chips

Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM rolled-out new servers on Tuesday based on Intel's latest Xeon 5600 microprocessors, which promise better performance and power consumption.

16 mars 2010 : Free Microsoft Windows Phone 7 developer tools released

At the start of its annual MIX 10 Web developer conference, Microsoft announced the immediate free release of mobile-enabled versions of its latest core development tools for Windows Phone 7.

16 mars 2010 : The Internet receives Nobel prize nomination

The network that made possible the sale of messiah-inscribed toast and popularised videos of cats playing piano — the Internet — has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

16 mars 2010 : Pay plummets for Motorola co-CEOs

Without the benefit of an enormous sign-on bonus, Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha saw his total compensation fall to $3.8 million in 2009 from $104.4 million in 2008. Greg Brown's total compensation declined to $8.5 million from $24.2 (...)

16 mars 2010 : AMD CEO's pay falls 15% to $4.5 million in 2009

Advanced Micro Devices turned a profit in 2009 after three successive annual losses, but CEO Derrick Meyer's total compensation fell 15%.

16 mars 2010 : 60% of virtual servers less secure than physical machines, Gartner says

Sixty percent of virtual servers are less secure than the physical servers they place, the analyst firm Gartner said in new research Monday.

16 mars 2010 : Microsoft: No native code for Windows Phone 7

Microsoft officials Monday confirmed at the company's MIX 10 developers event in Las Vegas that native applications will not be allowed on Windows Phone 7 devices. Only applications running in the Silverlight runtime environment or games in the XNA Game Studio runtime will be (...)

15 mars 2010 : FCC's national broadband plan: What's in it?

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to release a national broadband plan next week that will lay out an ambitious set of goals for broadband deployment and adoption.

15 mars 2010 : Security group preps IT shops to ask vendors 'nasty questions'

The Jericho Forum, which advocates improving e-commerce security through knowledge that network perimeters are fading, says organizations need to ask themselves and their vendors tougher questions.

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12 mars 2010 : Microsoft's four big Windows Phone 7 priorities at MIX10

Microsoft will unpack the technical details of Windows Phone 7 at next week's annual MIX development conference. Here are the company's priorities for the its retooled mobile platform.

12 mars 2010 : FCC broadband test greeted by skepticism

The Federal Communications Commission's Consumer Broadband Test is drawing criticism from skeptics who are calling it too simplistic and inaccurate to yield useful data.

12 mars 2010 : Former Barclays programmer gets four years for role in TJX attacks

A former Barclays Bank programmer who helped launder money for the mastermind behind the data thefts at TJX Companies Inc. and other retailers, was sentenced to four years in prison by a federal court in Boston.

12 mars 2010 : iPad Alternatives: Considering the Competition

It's finally iPad pre-order day, but remember: Apple's not alone in the tablet game. Since the iPad announcement in January, other companies have been hyping tablets of their own, pointing out what they have that Apple doesn't. (See "Tablets Steal the Show at CES" for a showcase.) Before (...)

12 mars 2010 : Three new options emerge for managing smartphones in the enterprise

The surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain.

12 mars 2010 : FBI details most difficult Internet scams

According to the FBI and the IC3 Web site, the “popular scam trends for 2009” included hitman scams, astrological reading frauds, economic scams, job site scams, and fake pop-up ads for antivirus software.

12 mars 2010 : Security execs express surprise over CISO's firing following RSA talk

Several security executives today expressed surprise over the firing of Pennsylvanias chief information security officer, apparently for publicly speaking about a security incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system without getting the required approvals (...)

12 mars 2010 : IBM stops disclosing U.S. headcount data

IBM says it is the No. 1 technology employer in the U.S. and the world, but as time moves on it may be harder to tell just what is happening to its domestic workforce.

12 mars 2010 : 12 Types of Cell Phone Users That Drive Us Nuts

Mobile phones have become unquestionably valuable tools, yet our devices can literally transform us into some pretty darn strange characters--often without our knowledge.

12 mars 2010 : iPhone to Add Multitasking, says Report

Apple's iPhone will finally support multitasking for third-party apps as part of its iPhone OS 4.0 release, according to one of many rumors surfacing as interest in what's next for the iPhone mounts.

12 mars 2010 : ZeuS botnet code keeps getting better… for criminals

The latest version of ZeuS botnet toolkit includes a $10,000 module that can let attackers take complete control of a compromised PC.

12 mars 2010 : AT&T CEO's pay jumps 35% to $20.3 million in 2009

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson's stock awards fell 8% in 2009, but he earned a cash bonus of $5.85 million that helped increase his total compensation by 35%.

12 mars 2010 : Ethernet switch sales may have forced Brocade product exec out

Senior Vice President Marc Randall left Brocade following disappointing first quarter sales of Ethernet switches.

11 mars 2010 : IE zero-day exploit code goes public

An Israeli researcher has published exploit code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that Microsoft had just disclosed on Tuesday.

11 mars 2010 : NASA, cosmos community turn up volume on International Space Station

While detractors say the ISS is a costly lab that may never see a great return on investment, building the ISS has cost NASA $48.5 billion, the leaders of the ISS agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia, and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan recently to reaffirm its (...)

11 mars 2010 : Tighter security coming for .org names

The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the .org domain in June -- a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache (...)

11 mars 2010 : Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk

Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealths online driving exam scheduling (...)

11 mars 2010 : Salesforce.com outage has customers tweeting

Salesforce.com customers were abuzz on Twitter Thursday morning as the result of what they described as a North American outage.

11 mars 2010 : Banish Seven Bad Tech Habits

You floss daily, rotate your tires regularly, file your taxes on time, and exercise at least twice a week. In other words, you have lots of good habits. But when it comes to technology, well, we need to talk. You know all the icons cluttering your desktop, and the passwords you keep in Notepad, (...)

11 mars 2010 : MySpace Extends Social Network to Microsoft Outlook

Now under new management, MySpace is looking to reinvent itself and rise like a Phoenix from the ashes. The once dominant social networking site fell from nearly 70 percent of the social networking market, to only 30 percent in less than a year, and was plummeting on the verge of (...)

11 mars 2010 : iPhone apps usage shifts into high gear at night, on weekends

Maybe iPhone users aren’t wasting countless hours at work fiddling with their smartphone apps after all.

11 mars 2010 : Poor Bill Gates: Mexican telecom tycoon grabs Richest Man title

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list released Tuesday, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.

11 mars 2010 : Android Dominates, Windows Mobile Plummets, iPhone Stagnant

The results are in from comScore for the most recent quarter for smartphone usage in the United States. With smartphone use up 18 percent over the previous quarter, topping 42 million users, Google's Android mobile operating system stands out as the dominant winner for this (...)

11 mars 2010 : After takedown, botnet-linked ISP Troyak resurfaces

Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he meant.

11 mars 2010 : Virtual desktop start-up targets VMware and Citrix users

A virtual desktop start-up Unidesk is aiming to improve deployments of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with management software that it says reduces storage costs and gives users a more personalized desktop than the VDI tools by (...)

11 mars 2010 : Zeus botnet dealt a blow as ISP Troyak knocked out

Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines.

11 mars 2010 : CA buying Nimsoft to further cloud computing ambitions

CA inks a deal to acquire for $350 million Nimsoft, an IT service management player with customers in the managed service provider market.

11 mars 2010 : WiMAX device shipments surged in 2009

In another sign that the 4G wireless Internet market is revving up, market research firm Maravedis reports that shipments for WiMAX devices grew by 147% in 2009.

10 mars 2010 : Ex-Sun chief dishes dirt on Gates, Jobs

Don't expect Jonathan Schwartz to go quietly.

10 mars 2010 : Cisco, Microsoft certifications increase high-tech salaries

IT professionals with certain IT certifications could make bank compared to counterparts, according to a study of 17,000 high-tech workers conducted by Dice Learning.

10 mars 2010 : Procter & Gamble tries a bring-your-laptop-to-work program

Procter & Gamble Co. is letting several hundred of its employees use their own laptops at work as part of an experiment -- one of numerous efforts by companies trying to keep workers happy.

10 mars 2010 : EFF dubs Apple a 'jealous feudal lord' over iPhone dev contract

Apple's agreement with iPhone developers contains several "troubling" clauses that paint the company as a "jealous and arbitrary feudal lord," the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Tuesday.

10 mars 2010 : Google opens Google Apps Marketplace

Third-party developers can integrate with Google's own applications

10 mars 2010 : NASA space shuttle gearing up for big phase out

NASA is working to finish out the space shuttle program with some key missions. First, the next space shuttle, Discovery, currently is sitting on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

10 mars 2010 : Sun's open source chief leaves following Oracle merger

Sun open source chief Simon Phipps announces his departure in a blog post.

10 mars 2010 : Your guide to all those damn smartphone lawsuits

Having trouble keeping track of who is suing whom among smartphone and mobile technology players over the past few months? Here's a quick rundown:

10 mars 2010 : VMware unveils experimental projects on new Web site

VMware is making experimental projects available to developers through a new "VMware Labs" Web site.

10 mars 2010 : Excel vulnerabilities revealed on 'slower' Patch Tuesday

Coming off a record-making Patch Tuesday in February, Microsoft announces a lighter load of bulletins and advisories targeting client operating systems, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer.

9 mars 2010 : Schneier: Fight for privacy or kiss it good-bye

If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won't and individuals don't have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference.

9 mars 2010 : Are Macs Really Cheaper To Manage Than PCs?

Does "I'm a Mac" mean "I'm less expensive to manage?" An Enterprise Desktop Alliance survey says Macs cost a lot less than PCs to manage -- yet Macs come with special challenges for enterprise IT admins.

9 mars 2010 : Microsoft seeks browser comeback with IE 9

Industry watchers say Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser could help the software giant regain market share and get products in front of more customers.

9 mars 2010 : The Windows 7 procrastinators

Although even some large shops are delaying Windows 7 implementation, observers caution not to wait too long.

9 mars 2010 : New routers let companies exploit 3G cellular data networks

Machine to machine (M2M) communications via 3G cellular data links is expanding in the enterprise. Sixnet offers a battery of new products to make it simple and cost-effective to network kiosks, remote offices, point-of-sale equipment and digital (...)

9 mars 2010 : IBM CEO's pay hit $21.2 million in 2009

IBM CEO Sam Palmisano’s bonus fell 14% in 2009, but his stock awards rose 11%. His total compensation is up slightly compared to 2008.

9 mars 2010 : MIT opens new Media Lab Complex, expands research space

MIT has expanded the footprint of its Media Lab with a new $90 million, 163,000-square-foot modern building.

9 mars 2010 : Adobe CEO's 2009 compensation falls 68% to $5.2 million

Compensation for Adobe Systems president and CEO Shantanu Narayen took a big hit in 2009, as did the company's annual revenue and income.

9 mars 2010 : Android Finally Invades AT&T

AT&T has finally added the Google Android platform to its portfolio of mobile devices with the launch of the Motorola Backflip. AT&T, the exclusive provider of the Apple iPhone in the United States, now offers business professionals a more diverse array of choices--expanding even further later (...)

9 mars 2010 : IT centralization is back in fashion

When the economy plummeted at the end of 2008, the Western U.S. branch of The Salvation Army was ahead of the cost-cutting game. CIO Clarence White had centralized the IT organization a year or two earlier, and he had consolidated the database and storage servers from the business units into a (...)

8 mars 2010 : US Treasury as free speech purveyor

The Treasury Department said it would add general licenses authorizing the exportation of free personal Internet-based communications services – such as instant messaging, chat and email, and social networking – to Cuba, Iran and (...)

8 mars 2010 : Microsoft delivers feature-rich SSL-VPN

We tested Whale Communications' SSL VPN back in 2003 and the product didn't fare very well. Microsoft bought Whale in 2006, jettisoned some of the strange idiosyncracies of the product, dramatically simplified management, and subsequently integrated several Vista and Windows 7 (...)

8 mars 2010 : LTE speeds faster than expected in Verizon trials

Verizon said that its field tests of LTE, or 4G, technology has shown wireless data speeds much faster than first expected.

8 mars 2010 : Pa. district accused of student spying puts IT workers on leave

Two IT employees of the suburban Philadelphia school district accused of spying on students by activating the cameras on their school-issued laptops have been placed on administrative leave.

8 mars 2010 : The state of 4G in 2010

The transition to 4G services will slowly start to take shape by the end of the year.

8 mars 2010 : Apple's iPad hype machine rolls into action at the Oscars

Apple chose the Oscars on the ABC television network to air its first iPad commercial on Sunday night in the U.S.

8 mars 2010 : Intel investigating sale of fake Core i7 chip

Intel acknowledged Monday that at least one counterfeit version of its Core i7-920 processor made its may into the U.S. market, and said it's trying to determine how many more are out there.

8 mars 2010 : IBM looks to pair security technologies for software development

Former Watchfire and Ounce Labs capabilities would be partnered in an enterprise-level product to be released later this year

8 mars 2010 : The 10 network-iest movies of all time

6 mars 2010 : Data centers tackling cyber terrorism, slowly

The data center is receiving more public scrutiny than ever before, with IT managers facing a range of challenges from making systems run more efficiently to protecting computers from cyber terrorism, says AFCOM chief executive Jill (...)

5 mars 2010 : Wi-Fi troubleshooting gets easier, more portable

The cool new handheld Wi-Fi troubleshooter from Fluke Networks can help network technicians who aren't RF engineers to quickly diagnose a range of common wireless LAN problems.

5 mars 2010 : Google sheds light on Chrome OS Netbook security

Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users from malware and other threats, a Google engineer said at the RSA Conference Thursday.

5 mars 2010 : Cisco exiting WiMAX RAN?

Reports have surfaced that Cisco is exiting the WiMAX radio access networks business following its $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks.

5 mars 2010 : Better, faster, stronger: 4G's impact on app development

With 4G networks due to hit the mass market over the next two years, some application developers are looking at ways to exploit the new high-speed connections to improve their apps' performance and capabilities.

5 mars 2010 : Windows Mobile apps won't work on new phones

While Microsoft still isn't commenting on whether current Windows Mobile phones will be upgradeable to its new Windows Phone 7 software, it has finally officially revealed that existing applications won't work on the new platform.

5 mars 2010 : Netgear Announces Fast Powerline Network Products

Home networking giant Netgear plans to introduce a 500 megabit-per-second line of HomePlug AV powerline products this fall. Netgear announced a slew of products, including next-generation powerline and advanced multimedia-optimized Wi-Fi products this week at CeBIT, the giant tech trade show in (...)

5 mars 2010 : Microsoft's tax-for-hacks 'horrible' idea, say security experts

Microsoft's idea that the fight against malware could be funded by an Internet tax is "horrible," an analyst said Thursday as other experts weighed in on a recent comment by the company's security chief.

5 mars 2010 : Microsoft plans to patch 8 Windows, Office bugs next week

Microsoft today announced it will ship two security updates on Tuesday to patch eight vulnerabilities in Windows and Office.

5 mars 2010 : CISOs rain on cloud-computing parade at RSA

Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week's RSA (...)

5 mars 2010 : Juniper helps virtualization security vendor Altor raise $10 million

Virtualization security vendor Altor Network has raised $10 million in a new funding round from investors including Juniper Networks.

5 mars 2010 : Microsoft's Ballmer: 'For the cloud, we're all in'

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at University of Washington about cloud computing, the company's strategy and why it's not just for techies.