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Net neutrality advocates score big win with broadband stimulus rules: Advocates of network neutrality are cheering Thursday after learning that the federal government will require any applicants to its broadband stimulus funds to maintain nondiscriminatory networks.
3 July 2009
Ex-Bay Networks CEO: Nortel's enterprise group could do well on its own: Former Bay Networks CEO Dave House says he likes the idea of Nortel's enterprise data division -- built around Bay technology -- breaking free and picking up its old name.
2 July 2009
Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems: The grainy video shows a bleary-eyed young man in a hoodie inside the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas. As he hits the elevator button, the theme music from Mission Impossible plays in the background. "You're on a mission with me: Infiltration," he tells the (...)
2 July 2009
Cisco looks to accelerate virtualization deployments: Cisco is looking to accelerate the rate at which customers adopt virtualization in their data centers, company officials said at the Cisco Live event this week.
2 July 2009
Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone: Apple is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root access to the phone.
2 July 2009
Could Cisco take on Microsoft with office app service?: There is only one obvious question in Cisco's overture Tuesday that it might take on Microsoft and Google in the online productivity application arena -- what took so long?
2 July 2009
Government releases $4 billion in broadband stimulus funds: The U.S. government Wednesday said it is releasing $4 billion worth of funds to pay for the first round of broadband projects mandated by the economic stimulus package passed earlier this year.
2 July 2009
Why the iPhone can't be 'killed': Every time a supposed "iPhone killer" hits the market its sales come in well below the iPhone's sales numbers.
2 July 2009
IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing: IBM is bundling its x86 servers with VMware's newest virtualization platform, and offering financing packages to lower upfront costs.
2 July 2009
Users note virtualization foot-dragging among app vendors: Although they have moved to virtualize servers, some IT managers have found there are applications, particularly specialized ones for healthcare, retailing and other industries, where vendors are wary of software support in virtualized (...)
2 July 2009
FTC opens all out assault on economic cyber-scammers: The Federal Trade Commission today announced a wide-ranging attack on cyber-vultures looking to feast on the current moribund economic situation.
2 July 2009
Happy birthday! The Walkman turns 30: Sony introduced its Walkman portable cassette player thirty years ago this week, kicking off a revolution in the consumer electronics industry by changing the way people enjoy music.
2 July 2009
Nortel enterprise data chief wants to bring back Bay Networks: Businesses might not want to buy enterprise network gear from bankrupt Nortel, but how about from Bay Networks?
1 July 2009
Five slick search engines you should know about: With Microsoft's recent addition of Bing to the search landscape, the spotlight is again shining on who has the best engine for finding anything and everything on the Internet.
1 July 2009
Cisco won't take on Amazon in cloud: Cisco Systems won't try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computing providers such as Amazon, and instead will sell its infrastructure to those companies and provide its own software as a service.
1 July 2009
Juniper nixes ATM security talk: Router maker Juniper Networks has barred one of the company's security researchers from discussing security flaws in Automated Teller Machines after an ATM maker threatened legal action.
1 July 2009
Global IT spending to drop by nearly 11% in '09, Forrester says: Forrester Research blames an overreaction to the economy as the cause behind a nearly 11% decline in global IT purchases in 2009.
1 July 2009
Security should be paramount concern with cloud-based e-mail recovery: Cloud-based disaster recovery has become a viable option for safeguarding e-mail, but IT shops need to ask tough questions about data security and resiliency before committing to a vendor, analysts say.
1 July 2009
NASA moon shot gets rocket blast, more money: NASA continued to develop its future moon landing program this week by getting a positive test on the rocket it might use to land humans on the moon and increasing the budget for the spacecraft it will use to get them there.
1 July 2009
NASA boosts packet inspection on 10 Gig WAN links: NASA has turned to a start-up specializing in packet inspection to monitor some of its 10G bit/sec WAN links.
1 July 2009
Google to offer free Google Voice: Google disclosed through a blog posting that it will soon be offering Google Voice free to subscribers on its waiting list, extending the advanced VoIP service beyond the original GrandCentral subscriber base.
1 July 2009
Blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence: A Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him.
30 June 2009
Broadband stimulus exempted from 'buy American': The U.S. government has exempted broadband builders who want federal grants from a "buy American" provision of the US$787 billion stimulus package passed in February.
30 June 2009
DoctorsonDemand.com prescribes an end to doctor's office visits: A recently launched service, DoctorsonDemand.com, uses interactive voice technology that allows consumers to contact an available doctor for a quick consult that could avoid costly in-office or emergency room visits.
30 June 2009
Cisco announces its highest level certification ever: For years, the coveted Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) was the highest, most difficult rank a network professional could achieve. No more. On Monday, Cisco announced a new certification, the Cisco Certified Architect, which will become the rank above CCIE. The new CCA will attempt (...)
30 June 2009
IT salaries, perks continue to shrink: Overall pay for IT professionals declined in the past 18 months, and competition for available jobs got tighter as baby boomers postponed retirement, reports Janco Associates.
30 June 2009
Virtualization, cloud computing pose new challenges, opportunities: Carnegie Mellon's Data Center Observatory teaches lessons on virtualization and the cloud.
30 June 2009
Are sealed-in laptop batteries a good idea?: When Apple introduced its new MacBooks recently, it touted a doubled battery life -- but noted that the laptops' batteries were sealed into the case, not user-swappable as is the norm on laptops.
30 June 2009
DOJ pushes probe of Oracle-Sun deal beyond deadline: The U.S. Department of Justice needs more time to examine Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems beyond an initial review period, Oracle said Friday.
30 June 2009
Juniper boosts edge routers for multimedia: Juniper this week announced enhancements to its service provider edge routers that are designed to improve multimedia service delivery to users.
30 June 2009
How cellular handset exclusivity fails: I suppose that some people did buy iPhones because the phones worked on the AT&T cellular network. This is supposition on my part because I have not seen any articles claiming this to be the case nor have I read any blogs commentaries that support the (...)
30 June 2009
Heightened data-loss prevention needs fuel arms race between vendors: Data-loss prevention is rapidly becoming the next big battlefield in IT security.
27 June 2009
Cisco sends employees home to work: Cisco survey of employees shows internal telework program saves money and satisfies workers.
27 June 2009
Energy-efficient servers earn a star -- but so what?: The Energy Star program for servers is a good first step, most agree, but it measures energy use only under limited circumstances and does not include popular hardware types, like blade servers -- at least not yet.
27 June 2009
Out of business, Clear may sell customer data: Three days after ceasing operations, owners of the Clear airport security screening service acknowledged that their database of sensitive customer information may end up in someone else's hands, but only if it goes to a similar provider, authorized by the U.S. Transportation Security (...)
27 June 2009
Survey casts doubt on cloud adoption: Only 15% of corporate customers have adopted or are considering adopting cloud technology over the next year.
27 June 2009
Palm's financial loss widens, but less than expected: Palm today reported still wider quarterly and year-end losses, but less than what analysts and investors expected.
26 June 2009
IBM embraces private cloud model within its own firewall: Big Blue is building several types of private cloud services within its own firewall to help deliver development and research tools to employees.
26 June 2009
48% of Americans would slash mobile data use to save money: A new survey finds 48% percent of American households would completely drop their mobile data service to save money. But only 10% would do the same for wireline broadband.
26 June 2009
Google begins sending out Google Voice invites: A month after reserving 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, Google today began opening up Google Voice to users who have registered on its Web site since March.
26 June 2009
Win7 upgrade option could mean extra cost for corporate users: Microsoft’s new Windows 7 Option Upgrade Program isn’t much of an option for corporate users and could end up adding thousands of dollars to the cost of migrating to the new operating system for those who blindly jump at Thursday's offer of a free upgrade for new PC (...)
26 June 2009
Nortel: Why Avaya?: If Avaya buys up Nortel’s enterprise properties, the new entity will have product overlap issues but they’ll be overshadowed by something more important: customers.
26 June 2009
Nortel lays off execs connected to Microsoft ICA partnership: Nortel has laid off senior staff in the UK who were responsible for the company’s unified communications partnership with Microsoft, according to sources.
25 June 2009
NYSE taps Juniper for 10G Ethernet network: Juniper Networks has landed perhaps its most significant enterprise customer to date, as the New York Stock Exchange plans to deploy hundreds of the company's switches for a time-sensitive, low-latency 10Gbps Ethernet network.
25 June 2009
Windows installs updates without permission, researchers say: Windows is installing "surprise updates" against the wishes of some users, who have expressly set up the operating system not to deploy patches without permission, researchers charged today.
25 June 2009
Domain-name wars: Rise of the cybersquatters: Domain-name poaching can be costly for businesses in terms of lost revenue and damage to a brand's reputation. Trademark owners say cybersquatting is spinning out of control -- and they're pushing back.
25 June 2009
IBM unveils 3D virtual meetings, puts social networking in cloud: IBM/Lotus has released a 3D virtual environment conferencing service complete with avatars and whiteboards as part of its Sametime collaboration software.
25 June 2009
Sprint makes business case for Palm Pre: Although the Palm Pre is getting a lot of attention for its use to consumers, Sprint representatives today starting pushing its potential benefits to enterprise users.
25 June 2009
Google's speed push more best practices than revolution: Google's attempt at rallying developers, ISPs and others to increase the speed at which the Internet operates focuses less on rip-and-replace and more on a set of best practices that includes compression techniques, optimized JavaScript code and Web graphics, and reductions in HTML file (...)
24 June 2009
FAQ: What's going on with Nortel?: With Nokia Siemens bidding on Nortel's wireless business and Avaya rumored to be grabbing up its enterprise gear, it is all but inevitable that the rest of company will be broken up and sold off in pieces, which raises questions. Here are some of them and the (...)
24 June 2009
Nortel's liquidation could cripple UC relationship with Microsoft: Nortel's liquidation of its assets could possibly gut the 3-year-old unified communications partnership the company has with Microsoft.
24 June 2009
Iran's data leakage 'problem': In the wake of Iran's statistically and historically dubious election results, the world has been glued to screens (both TV and IP) watching the unfolding protests and violence. Despite a complete media and communications blackout, the videos, photos and messages are leaking out continuously. (...)
24 June 2009
Jobs has new liver, 'excellent prognosis,' doctor says: Methodist University Hospital in Memphis confirmed late Tuesday that Apple CEO Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant.
24 June 2009
Palm delays webOS developer kit, Mojo: With little explanation, Palm has delayed the release of Mojo, the software development kit for its webOS platform, until the end of the summer.
24 June 2009
Cisco gives IronPort gear a boost with RSA's data-leak prevention tech: News of the IronPort C-Series upgrade marks the first fruit of the DLP partnership between Cisco and RSA, announced with much fanfare last year.
24 June 2009
Abrupt closure of airport fast-lane program sparks concern over customer data: A company that collected detailed personal information including biometric data on 260,000 individuals as part of a registered air traveler program it operated has abruptly gone out of business, leaving many customers wondering about the safety and privacy of their personal (...)
24 June 2009
Defense Secretary Gates approves creation of U.S. Cyber Command: Defense Secretary Robert Gates today approved the creation of a unified U.S. Cyber Command to oversee the protection of military networks against cyber threats.
24 June 2009
HP introduces new Mini 5101 business netbook: Seeking to cement its lead in the business-oriented netbook space, Hewlett-Packard Co. today announced an updated Mini netbook.
24 June 2009
AT&T enters smart grid sensor business: While the United States isn't yet close to implementing smart grid technology on its power infrastructure, AT&T is trying to stay ahead of the curve by getting into the smart grid sensor business.
24 June 2009
Juniper taps Microsoft sales exec for partnerships: Juniper this week named former Microsoft sales executive Gerri Elliott to spearhead its alliance strategy.
24 June 2009
Simply Continuous launches disaster recovery service: Start-up Simply Continuous targets mid-sized enterprises with backup and recovery services.
24 June 2009
New Internet2 CTO pushes multicast, IPv6: Next week, Randy Frank will take over as the new CTO of Internet2, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based consortium of 200 U.S. universities conducting advanced networking research.
24 June 2009
IBM, Cray lead Top 500 supercomputer rankings: IBM, HP, Cray, Intel dominate Top 500 supercomputer list.
24 June 2009
Avaya reportedly offering $500M for Nortel enterprise biz: Avaya has emerged as the “favored bidder” for Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions group, as Nortel is looking to sell off most or all of its assets, having apparently failed in a bid to emerge from bankruptcy as a viable competitor in data networking and (...)
24 June 2009
Microsoft caps free security software downloads: Microsoft will limit the number of downloads for the beta of Windows Security Essentials, its new free antivirus software, when it posts the program later today.
23 June 2009
Symantec unveils endpoint protection services: Symantec now offers managed endpoint protection services for round-the-clock monitoring and management of computers that use Symantec security products.
23 June 2009
iPhone 3GS keeps Apple ahead of the curve: The iPhone 3GS’s internal hardware indicates that Apple is still at the leading edge of smartphone innovation, say the electronics repair specialists at Rapid Repair.
23 June 2009
Google censors China porn searches: Google engineers have put in place several measures to remove pornography from search results in China, after the government warned the company its filter was too weak.
23 June 2009
Italian court postpones trial of four Google execs: The criminal trial of four senior Google executives in a court in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday was postponed until Sept. 29 because the translator failed to show up, Google said Tuesday.
23 June 2009
Nortel had little choice but to liquidate, analysts say: In light of the overall economy and Nortel’s particular situation, the former telecom giant had little choice but to liquidate its assets as it attempts to restructure under Chapter 11, analysts say.
23 June 2009
Platform Computing tackles tech-agnostic cloud management: Grid vendor Platform Computing has unveiled new private cloud software that aggregates servers, storage, networking tools and hypervisors to create a shared pool of physical and virtual resources.
23 June 2009
Defense stalwarts see cash in cybersecurity: As the U.S. government goes on a cyberdefense spending spree, major government contractors are beefing up their network security expertise so they can get in on the action.
22 June 2009
Comcast lengthens IPv6 lead: Comcast continues to outpace rival U.S. cable companies in the development of next-generation Internet connectivity and content.
22 June 2009
Nortel accepts Nokia Siemens bid for wireless assets: Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks to sell its its wireless network infrastructure business assets for US$650 million, it said on Friday.
22 June 2009
Busting the nine myths of cloud computing: Wherever you turn, someone's ready to tell (or sell) you something related to cloud computing. Cutting through the myths is essential to deciding whether, when, and how the cloud is right for you. Here's our top list of myths; we welcome your suggestions and feedback in our cloud myths (...)
22 June 2009
Data center switch scales to 648 40G ports: Mellanox Technologies is shipping a large-scale switch that scales from 36 40Gbps InfiniBand ports to 648 ports in a single enclosure.
22 June 2009
T-Mobile's Android-powered myTouch 3G due in August: As if the summer smartphone blockbuster season wasn’t competitive enough, T-Mobile has announced a new contender slated for August that will be its second smartphone to run on Google’s open-source Android platform.
22 June 2009
Fraudsters try to scam security expert on eBay: When security expert Bruce Schneier tried to sell a used laptop on eBay, he thought it would be easy. Instead, a sale was aborted twice -- first by a scammer using a hacked eBay account and then by a buyer who tried to trick Schneier into sending her the laptop after she cancelled (...)
22 June 2009
Apple fans flock to buy iPhone 3G S: The iPhone's magic is still there: The crowds turned out to see -- and buy -- Apple's iPhone 3G S early Friday morning as it launched around the world.
20 June 2009
Google grabs 1 million phone numbers for Google Voice: Google last month reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it may finally be ready to roll out its long-anticipated Google Voice service.
19 June 2009
Iran so far unwilling to completely choke off ‘Net: Despite attempts to consolidate Internet traffic, the Iranian government has so far been unwilling to shut down its entire Internet infrastructure, according to analysis from security vendor Arbor Networks.
19 June 2009
Weighing the pros/cons of desktop virtualization: Companies that have deployed virtual servers don't need to start from scratch for their desktop virtualization deployments, but there are a lot of new challenges to tackle.
19 June 2009
ScanSafe downplays Nine Ball's threat: Is the Nine Ball attack really a huge threat? Websense says yes, ScanSafe says no.
19 June 2009
AT&T and Apple: A Failing Partnership?: The iPhone is a fantastic piece of machinery, but as with all cell phones, it's only as good as its service and software providers. AT&T, currently the sole distributor of Apple's iPhone, has not demonstrated it is up to the task, and Apple isn't carrying its portion of the weight (...)
19 June 2009
WLAN market slammed, but 802.11n gains: The first quarter of this year may have been the gloomiest ever for the wireless LAN market, with overall revenue falling about 11 percent from a year earlier, the first year-over-year drop recorded by industry analyst firm Dell'Oro.
19 June 2009
At Pittsburgh hockey games, fans dial up live video, replays from mobile phones: An innovative project from Carnegie Mellon University gives Pittsburgh hockey fans a new way to watch the game.
19 June 2009
Carrier equipment maker Soapstone winding down operations: Soapstone Networks, the company born of Avici Systems' exit from the router market, is liquidating operations.
19 June 2009
Alcatel-Lucent will team with HP to sell telecom products: Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent and IT vendor Hewlett-Packard plan to jointly market their products to businesses looking for converged IT and communications systems.
19 June 2009
Comcast open for IPv6 business: Comcast made big strides toward transitioning to IPv6 this week by announcing that it was making IPv6 transit available for wholesale customers that connect to the company’s fiber network.
19 June 2009
University flees fire with network in a box -- literally: When fire again threatened to char Santa Barbara, Calif., last month, the IT staff at Fielding Graduate University literally raced flames out of town with its network stashed in a cardboard box safely resting on the back seat of the getaway (...)
18 June 2009
What is a router?: Is a router still a router even if forwarding packets is just one of its many jobs?
18 June 2009
Frustrated iPhone users stymied by overloaded Apple servers: History is repeating itself: Apple's activation servers, primed for Wednesday's release of the iPhone 3.0 operating system to existing users strained to handle the flood of requests.
18 June 2009
Dallas Cowboys deck out new stadium with Cisco video technology: The Dallas Cowboys this week signed a deal to outfit their brand new stadium with immersive and interactive video technology from Cisco.
18 June 2009
Sun reportedly cancels 16-core Rock processors: Sun cancels a high-profile server chip project as Oracle prepares to acquire the company.
18 June 2009
Alvarion signs $100 million deal with rural WiMAX provider: Equipment vendor Alvarion will be teaming up with ISP Open Range Communications to build out a WiMAX network that the companies say could reach up to 6 million people.
18 June 2009
Feds: IPv6 is a priority: For the last year, it's been all quiet on the IPv6 front in the United States. But now the U.S. government is making noise about this next-generation Internet technology, as it forges ahead with plans to deploy secure, IPv6-enabled network (...)
18 June 2009
Google keeps mum about Page meeting with EC's Reding: Google was tight-lipped about co-founder Larry Page's Wednesday meeting with Viviane Reding, European commissioner for the information society, but was very forthcoming about the rest of his visit to the European Union's capital (...)
18 June 2009
IBM allocates $100M for research in mobile communications: IBM is allocating $100 million to research in mobile communications over the next five years.
18 June 2009
Intel, Oracle, PayPal back ID technology interop group: The Kantara Initiative, formed to promote interoperability among identity verification applications and services, launched on Wednesday with big-name backers like Oracle, Intel, eBay's PayPal, AOL, CA, Novell, Fidelity Investments, Liberty Alliance, Boeing, Internet Society and British (...)
18 June 2009
Dell diversifies with fixed server offerings: Dell on Wednesday said it would offer pre-configured systems for enterprise customers looking to get server environments up and running quickly.
18 June 2009
It's the Internet, stupid: Response to FCC Notice of Inquiry: Spending government money on broadband is not all that good unless broadband's synonymous for "Internet".
18 June 2009
Broadband adoption and prices increase, Pew survey finds: Both broadband adoption and prices have significantly increased over the past year, according to the latest home broadband adoption report from Pew Research.
18 June 2009
IT job market update: Hiring stalled, salaries slashed: Survey data from Dice and Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows that companies continue to cut costs via salary reduction, layoffs continue to worry many and fewer job openings exist.
17 June 2009
Nine Ball attack strikes 40,000 Web sites: Attack dubbed Nine Ball injects malware into pages and redirects victims to a malicious site that will then try to download Trojans and keylogger code.
17 June 2009
Google urged to beef up Gmail security: Google is weighing whether to encrypt its Web-based Gmail service by default, as suggested by a group of prominent Internet security and legal experts.
17 June 2009
Moblin: 6 key things to know: Moblin, short for mobile Linux, is a free, open-source operating system originally developed by Intel for its low-power Atom processor and designed to run on devices, including netbooks.
17 June 2009
BlackBerry Tour boasts crisper screen, multimedia goodies: RIM's new BlackBerry Tour smartphone adds a crisper screen display and advanced multi-media support, including Apple iTunes synchronization, to lure new users.
17 June 2009
Economy could break outsourcers, analysts say: Smaller deal sizes and extensive contract renegotiations could drive service providers out of business, despite an increase in demand for IT services.
17 June 2009
VMware's vSphere brings storage flexibility, greater speed to SaaS provider: When VMware launched its latest virtualization platform, vSphere, it introduced the phrase “cloud operating system” to the IT industry.
17 June 2009
WiMAX corners Atlanta market: Clearwire has officially launched its WiMAX network in Atlanta, which the company says will provide services to nearly 3 million people over the span of 1,200 square miles.
17 June 2009
NeuStar offers temporary fix for Kaminsky bug: NeuStar will market its proprietary system for thwarting Web traffic hijacking attacks until standard DNS Security (DNSSEC) mechanisms are deployed widely.
17 June 2009
Ex-Googlers behind new security service that flags malware on Web sites: Security start-up Dasient, with co-founders from Google, debuts today with its Web Anti-Malware service to detect malware infections on Web sites and quarantine the malware found to protect Web visitors prior to Web site clean-up.
17 June 2009
Follow the money: HP tool dissects IT spending: HP introduces software to help enterprise IT managers better understand how IT budgets are spent and how much IT services cost.
16 June 2009
Hackers dissect Palm Pre, webOS: A week after the release of the Palm Pre, hackers are eagerly dissecting and sifting through the webOS software that powers it.
16 June 2009
IBM goes beyond just slapping 'cloud' label on old products: IBM has re-tooled its cloud strategy in a way that should appeal to enterprises, analysts say.
16 June 2009
Data Domain board rejects EMC's $1.8B offer, recommends NetApp merger: The EMC-NetApp turf battle over de-duplication vendor Data Domain could be coming to a close.
16 June 2009
No. 1 Best Place to Work in IT: General Mills: Since joining Golden Valley, Minn.-based General Mills Inc. as an intern five years ago, Karla Juarez has worked on projects as varied as the food giant's lineup of breakfast cereals. First there was a project to enable the company's high-profile United Way campaign to go paperless, then a data (...)
16 June 2009
Twitter spearheads Iranian elections coverage: This past weekend, something strange happened in the U.S. media landscape: Twitter helped shape coverage of the Iranian elections protests.
16 June 2009
68-degree data centers becoming a thing of the past, APC says: Cooling a data center to 68 degrees may be going out of style, APC power and cooling expert Jim Simonelli says.
13 June 2009
National broadband happy talk papers over net neutrality fight: Everybody likes broadband; the big question is what type of Internet our broadband connections deliver.
13 June 2009
Cisco says it's not eating its SAN young: Cisco says the dropoff in its FibreChannel SAN revenue and market share in Q1 is attributable to three factors: an early stage migration to 8Gbps; a lower cost migration than rival Brocade; and exposure to financial buyers, which is hard hit by the (...)
13 June 2009
CIOs Sound Off on Snow Leopard and iPhone 3G S: Businesses had much to cheer about after Apple unveiled Snow Leopard and iPhone 3G S at its WWDC event this week. Apple, which traditionally prioritizes business needs below consumer ones, hinted at a change of heart by announcing Exchange support and security features in its flagship (...)
13 June 2009
Police say hacker stole phone time from AT&T, others: An Italian magistrate has issued an international arrest warrant for a Filipino hacker suspected of causing millions of dollars of losses to telecommunications multinationals, and Italian police have arrested five Pakistani nationals accused of exploiting the hacker's work to defraud the (...)
13 June 2009
Sprint starts divesting iDEN network: Sprint today announced its plans for the gradual divestment of its iDEN network in portions of the midwestern United States.
13 June 2009
Microsoft caves to EU antitrust pressure over IE: Although Microsoft plans to ship Windows 7 to the EU market this fall without IE8, browser rival Opera said the move doesn't do enough to restore competition.
13 June 2009
With pandemic alert, firms urged to review disaster recovery: With the first flu pandemic in 41 years officially declared today by The World Health Organization (WHO), companies are again being urged to make sure that business continuity plans are in place and they're prepared for the outbreak.
13 June 2009
Google's Outlook interface a weak nod to corporate reality: While Google is in hot pursuit of an enterprise e-mail business, the announced support this week for Outlook as a client interface for Gmail does little to distinguish the vendor from other players chasing top-dog Microsoft.
12 June 2009
Symantec vows huge push into SaaS market: At its Financial Analyst Day event in San Francisco Thursday, Symantec's top executives vowed a major push into software-as-a service and also offered a glimpse at upcoming back-up products. Enrique Salem, president and CEO, kicked off the event with the investment industry's analysts by saying (...)
12 June 2009
IT shops borrow money, lease in droves as recession strains budgets: The recession has IT shops seeking financing and leasing agreements in ever-greater numbers, and demand shows no sign of relenting.
12 June 2009
Pentagon: Sooner is better for cybersecurity testing: The director of one of the world’s largest software testing operations shares advice about improving the security of IT systems.
12 June 2009
Feds dole out $450 million for U.S. jobs lost to outsourcing: The U.S. Department of Labor releases more than $450 million to states for career training, employment and case management services to workers who lose their jobs due to outsourcing and foreign trade.
12 June 2009
New Novell tool to link Linux management to Microsoft System Center: Novell next week plans to release yet another tool that is the product of its three-year-old integration agreement with Microsoft, this time a plug-in for Microsoft’s management tools that lets users manage Novell’s Suse (...)
12 June 2009
Private clouds a fit for test and development, IBM cloud chief says: IBM’s cloud chief Kristof Kloecker discusses cloud trends, IBM’s plans.
12 June 2009
SMBs more interested in cloud than big businesses? Just a myth, Forrester says: Forrester says conventional wisdom is wrong about adoption of cloud infrastructure services.
12 June 2009
Angry iPhone owners blast AT&T over upgrade pricing: iPhone users angry over AT&T's pricing policy for the new iPhone 3G S have taken their campaign to Twitter, where more than 4,400 have added their names to an instant petition.
12 June 2009
Torvalds proclaims 'new world order' with Linux 2.6.30: Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released with hundreds of changes from the previous version, including a new architecture for suspend and resume which Linus Torvalds says switches the kernel to a "new world order".
12 June 2009
Upgraded BlueCat IP address management appliance could ease IPv6 adoption: BlueCat Networks will announce on Thursday a new version of its IP address management appliance with enhancements designed to reduce the time it takes to manage IP address space. That's an issue growing in importance as network operators adopt IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main (...)
12 June 2009
Nortel customers upbeat but anxious: Nortel customers remain optimistic despite the company's precarious situation, officials of Nortel's largest enterprise user group said this week.
11 June 2009
Symantec, McAfee to pay fines over auto-renewals: Antivirus vendors Symantec and McAfee have agreed to pay the New York Attorney General's office US$375,000 in fines to settle charges that they automatically charged customers software subscription renewal fees without their (...)
11 June 2009
5 cool cloud computing research projects: Next week's HotCloud conference on cloud computing will boast a slew of fresh research into this hottest of IT topics. Here's a glimpse at the work to be showcased.
11 June 2009
Vendors pitch stripped-down servers to giant Web properties: The explosion of giant Web properties has server vendors building a new kind of machine that is stripped down to the bare essentials and optimized for cost- and energy-efficiency, analysts say.
11 June 2009
HP designs new server for 'extreme' scale-out computing: Hewlett-Packard has come up with a new x86 server design for companies that operate very large compute farms, where shaving a few dollars off the power or shipping costs for each system can add up to valuable savings.
10 June 2009
Evolution of the CSO: It's been almost 15 years since David Kent first came to Genzyme, a biotech firm headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., that develops medical treatments for ailments such as certain genetic diseases and some forms of cancer. In 1994, the company had less than $200 million in sales, and only about (...)
10 June 2009
LTE devices must support IPv6, says Verizon: Any manufacturers that want their devices to work on Verizon's upcoming LTE network will have to give them the ability to support IPv6.
10 June 2009
Security on a stick guards British diplomatic business: When it comes to security, the British government's Consulate-General in New York, part of the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission for business and visa-related activities, is taking no chances on spies or other intruders sneaking onto its (...)
10 June 2009
Golden parachutes ready for top Sun execs: If Oracle Corp.'s acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. goes as planned, CEO Jonathan Schwartz will receive a severance package of about $12 million, and board chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, about $9.5 million, according to the proxy statement filed (...)
10 June 2009
Spam drops 15% after FTC pulls plug on rogue ISP: The takedown last week of a rogue ISP by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) slashed spam volumes by about 15% and reduced the spam spewed by a pair of big-name botnets by as much as to just 64%, a security firm said today.
10 June 2009
Cisco and Duke Energy work to build smart grid: Cisco has been enlisted by a Fortune 500 electric power company to monitor and control power consumption by creating a smart grid.
10 June 2009
Google unveils plug-in to marry Outlook, Gmail: Google Tuesday unveiled synchronization technology that supports Microsoft Outlook as the front end to Gmail, giving users an option to scrap Exchange on the back end while allowing users to keep their familiar desktop client.
10 June 2009
Former AT&T CEO Whitacre to chair GM board: Ed Whitacare helped make AT&T into the large, profitable company that it is today. Now we're about to see if he can do the same thing for General Motors.
10 June 2009
T-Mobile: Stolen network data genuine, but fear not: T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems, but said it does not appear customer data is in jeopardy.
10 June 2009
Alliance advocates standard for HDTV-based video surveillance: A recently formed group has proposed a standard for high-definition video surveillance systems that allows HDTV signals to be transmitted digitally over conventional closed-circuit TV media without packetization.
10 June 2009
EMC's Tucci makes his case to Data Domain employees: Joe Tucci's latest move in the EMC/NetApp bidding war for storage vendor Data Domain is an open letter to employees.
10 June 2009
Google to reveal Apps enhancements: Expectations are running high for an event Google will hold on Tuesday to announce enhancements to the business-oriented Premier edition of its Apps collaboration and communication suite.
10 June 2009
China dominates NSA-backed coding contest: Programmers from China and Russia have dominated an international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components.
10 June 2009
Fedora 11 released with new virtualization, software management tools: The Fedora Project on Tuesday released version 11 of its Linux open source operating system, adding expanded hardware support, new software management and improved virtualization.
10 June 2009
Palo Alto adds VPN gateway, traffic shaping to firewalls: Palo Alto Networks is adding an SSL VPN gateway and traffic shaping to its firewalls, offering businesses another opportunity to reduce the number of devices they buy and maintain.
10 June 2009
New iPhones, New MacBook Pros, Snow Leopard, iPhone 3.0: Today at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Cupertino computer maker announced a host of new products before an audience of developers and media. Among other announcements, the company has updated its MacBook Pro product line, launched a new version of its Safari Web (...)
9 June 2009
Palm Pre strong but not revolutionary, says electronics repair company: Not content to merely fiddle around with the Palm Pre's operating system and software, the electronics repair specialists at Rapid Repair opened up the Pre and dissected its guts. What they found, says Rapid Repair cofounder Aaron Vronko, is a device on the cutting edge of smartphone (...)
9 June 2009
Sprint offering $40 monthly mobile business data plan: Sprint is offering business users a mobile data program that gives them 500MB of monthly data for $39.99 a month
8 June 2009
Juniper claims first with 100G Ethernet: Juniper this week is expected to unveil what it claims is the first 100 Gigabit Ethernet router interface in the industry.
8 June 2009
Hidden threat on corporate nets: misconfigured gear: An invisible security weakness is lurking in most corporate networks in the form of millions of lines of code that represent the configuration scripts for all the devices on the network.
8 June 2009
Ethernet data center switch to take on Cisco Nexus: Infiniband vendor Voltaire took a big leap into the Ethernet data center switching arena with a core switch optimized for virtual environments and Layer 2 efficiency.
8 June 2009
Four in 10 CIOs slashed budgets in first quarter, Gartner reports: The economy took a steep toll on IT budgets in the first quarter, CIOs tell Gartner.
8 June 2009
Internet Cleanroom: New weapon against drive-by download attacks emerges: As more employees visit social networking sites while at work, network managers are seeing a rise in accidental malware infections known as drive-by download attacks.
8 June 2009
10 things you didn't know about cyberwarfare: Imagine a situation where a powerful country wants to annex its small neighbor, so it launches a week-long campaign of cyberattacks aimed at disrupting the financial, energy, telecom and media systems of its neighbor's biggest ally. A week later, the aggressor launches a full-scale cyberwar on (...)
8 June 2009
New DOS attacks threaten wireless data networks: NEW YORK CITY -- Forget spam, viruses, worms, malware and phishing. These threats are apparently old school when compared to a new class of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks that threaten wireless data networks.
6 June 2009
Cisco's take on 4G: It's all about video: Cisco is predicting that the advent of 4G services will lead to an explosion of new video applications that will transform telecom service providers into what the company is dubbing “experience providers.”
6 June 2009
CIOs: Your networks have already been compromised: NEW YORK CITY – CIOs should stop focusing on intrusion detection and prevention systems and start dealing with the computers on their networks that have already been compromised by cybercriminals. That's the advice of a computer science professor from New York University, who is pitching (...)
6 June 2009
UnboundID's free sync server aids migration from Sun directory: Directory and identity start-up UnboundID has released a free tool for Sun users to help them add missing capabilities to their directories and migrate off the platform.
6 June 2009
Data Domain asks shareholders to wait on EMC buyout offer: Data Domain's board on Thursday told its stockholders to await recommendation on an unsolicited, all-cash offer by EMC when weighing NetApp's more recent bid, which tops EMC's by $100,000
6 June 2009
Verizon tops in enterprise VoIP market, says Infonetics: A combination of a large subscriber base and financial stability has put Verizon Business on top of Infonetics Research’s rankings of enterprise VoIP providers.
6 June 2009
Three Strikes Against Tony La Russa's Twitter Lawsuit: This just in: A well-known sports figure is making himself look like an imbecile.
6 June 2009
Ex-Google security whiz's start-up exiting stealth mode: Security start-up Dasient is expected to come out of stealth mode in two weeks and reveal its plans to help companies fight cybercrime.
6 June 2009
Microsoft plans jumbo patch day next week: Microsoft plans to deliver 10 security updates next week to patch serious bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Word and Excel.
5 June 2009
Hackers claim $10,000 prize for breaking into StrongWebmail: Hackers love a challenge. And more than that, they love cash.
5 June 2009
Web-hosting firm Pricewert objects to FTC shutdown: Although a Federal Trade Commission order shut down Internet access for San Jose Web-hosting firm Pricewert based on several complaints, the company says the action was unfair and plans to fight the FTC in court.
5 June 2009
Forrester: Microsoft Office in no danger from competitors: Microsoft Office is still the most prevalent productivity suite among enterprise customers, but 2010 could see more adoption of competitive suites as companies ponder their next investments in this area, according to a new report by Forrester (...)
5 June 2009
Ex-Google security whiz's start-up exiting stealth mode: Security start-up Dasient is expected to come out of stealth mode in two weeks and reveal its plans to help companies fight cybercrime.
5 June 2009
Apple picks NC for $1B data center: Apple will spend $1 billion building a major data center in North Carolina, the state's governor announced yesterday after signing a bill that will give Apple an estimated $46 million in tax breaks over the next 10 years.
5 June 2009
Intel to acquire Wind River for $884 Million: Intel said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Wind River Systems for a total of about $884 million in cash, in an effort to bolster its offerings in the market for processors for embedded systems and mobile devices.
5 June 2009
Cybercriminals refine data-sniffing software for ATM fraud: Cybercriminals are improving a malicious software program that can be installed on ATMs running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system that records sensitive card details, according to security vendor Trustwave.
5 June 2009
Microsoft to test interoperability of identity protocol: Microsoft next month for the first time will participate in SAML 2.0 interoperability testing using its Geneva platform to test against other vendors' implementations of the open standard identity protocol.
4 June 2009
Data center network brawl: Cisco has the much-touted Unified Computing System. How do the other big vendors stack up in the battle for the converged data center?
4 June 2009
Cisco adds rack server to data center computing system: Cisco this week extended its Unified Computing System data center convergence platform with rack mountable servers, saying the new form factor represents an "entry level" into UCS and more choice for customers.
4 June 2009
Prep for recession's end now, Gartner tells tech companies: Leading IT companies and CIOs should start preparing for business growth immediately if they want to avoid falling behind competitors once the recession ends, says Gartner Research.
4 June 2009
RIM patches BlackBerry PDF vulnerability: Research in Motion has issued a new security patch for BlackBerry Enterprise Server to fix vulnerabilities in its PDF distiller program.
4 June 2009
Trying to outfox EMC, NetApp raises Data Domain offer to $1.9 billion: The price for Data Domain is going up fast, as NetApp Wednesday morning tried to outspend EMC by offering $1.9 billion to purchase the storage company.
4 June 2009
Five technology bidding wars preceding EMC vs. NetApp: As EMC and NetApp try to one-up each other for Data Domain, we take a look back at five previous technology bidding wars.
4 June 2009
Verizon expands cloud-based computing service: Verizon Business has expanded the reach of its cloud-based services to include management for IT servers, networks and storage.
4 June 2009
WiMAX Forum looks to femtocells to improve coverage: Looking to improve indoor coverage for WiMAX devices, the WiMAX Forum is partnering with the Femto Forum to create a femtocell that routes WiMAX signals over landlines.
4 June 2009
Red Hat virtual desktop technology heads into beta tests: Red Hat's virtualization scheme going forward is based largely on technology obtained via its acquisition of Qumranet. The company will offer virtual desktops and servers, plus a common management platform.
4 June 2009
Opera edges Safari as No. 1 mobile browser. Or does it?: Data from StatCounter gives Opera the number one spot for mobile browsing in May…unless you combine Safari’s count on both iPhone and iPod Touch
4 June 2009
HP wants you to turn off your PC: Hewlett-Packard launched a campaign on Wednesday to get people to shut off their computers when not in use in order to conserve energy.
3 June 2009
Colleges give themselves C+ for network security: Colleges give themselves modest marks in network security and fear malware the most among a long list of potential threats, according to a survey of university technology executives.
3 June 2009
Windows 7 to ship Oct. 22: Windows 7 will be generally available on Oct. 22 and the code will be finalized and sent out to manufacturing in late July, according to Microsoft.
3 June 2009
Report: Hiring by tech companies under DOJ investigation: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating whether the hiring practices of Google, Yahoo, Apple and some other technology companies may have violated anti-trust regulations, The Washington Post [reported Wednesday.]
3 June 2009
Cisco CTO reasserts video's value for work, home: Cisco Systems Inc. CTO Padmasree Warrior today stressed the importance of video and collaboration technologies to the networking giant, as well as its customers.
3 June 2009
Intel targets all-day battery life for netbooks: The ability to run a netbook all day on a single battery charge is one of the goals Intel has set for itself as it develops the Atom platform.
3 June 2009
Server sales dropping faster than in dot-com crash: Gartner: Intel and AMD are spicing up the server market with ever-faster processors, but server vendors have suffered the largest revenue decline seen this decade, Gartner has found.
3 June 2009
Google Search Appliance now can index billions of documents: A revamped software architecture for the Google Search Appliance (GSA) and a new high-end model of this enterprise search device lift its indexing capacity to billions of documents and make it easier to scale it up.
2 June 2009
Forrester: Economy has led to software pricing changes: The worldwide recession has hammered IT budgets but has also prompted vendors to make their software pricing and licensing models more customer-friendly, according to a new Forrester Research report.
2 June 2009
CA plucks automation assets from struggling Cassatt: CA has acquired for an undisclosed sum the assets of data center automation vendor Cassatt, perhaps salvaging the technological innovation developed earlier this decade at the financially struggling start-up.
2 June 2009
OpenSolaris 2009.06 filled with major virtualization, storage upgrades: Sun Monday made available the OpenSolaris 2009.06 operating system, which included for the first time Sun's Crossbow technology for creating virtual network infrastructure on a single system.
2 June 2009
Why the Recession Isn't Driving Outsourcing Prices Down: There has been much discussion about the global economic recession's impact on the price of IT outsourcing services. The consensus has been that buyers keen to cut costs coupled with decreasing demand for IT services would drive prices down across the outsourcing market-welcome news for IT (...)
2 June 2009
40,000-plus Web sites infected in 'Beladen' Web attacks: More than 40,000 Web sites were compromised over the weekend via SQL-injection attacks with malware that attempts to push visitors to a site dishing out malicious software, according to a security firm.
2 June 2009
EMC aims to beat out NetApp with $1.8B bid for Data Domain: EMC today announced it will try to outbid NetApp to buy data deduplication vendor Data Domain. EMC chief executive Joe Tucci said Data Domain's product will round out his company's deduplication offerings and help capture a lion's share of the (...)
2 June 2009
Tiny .biz domain names to be auctioned off to highest bidders: How much is x.biz or .ge.biz worth? That's the question NeuStar is asking the Internet e-commerce community as it adds one- and two-character names to the .biz domain and makes them available to the highest bidders.
2 June 2009
Cybersecurity: What will the attention span be this time?: The idea that the White House would be interested in cybersecurity is not new. At least since former President Bush appointed Richard Clarke as National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism there has been some level of attention to this topic. But this (...)
2 June 2009
Cisco added to Dow: Cisco has been added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing GM. Travelers has also been added to the stock index, replacing Citigroup.
1 June 2009
Intel Delays Itanium Server Chip Till 2010: Intel has once again pushed back the release of its next-generation Itanium server chip, this time from mid-2009 to the first quarter of 2010.
1 June 2009
Red Hat offers customizable app servers: Red Hat Monday introduced an open source application server strategy called JBoss Open Choice and a trio of upgraded middleware platforms that adhere to an architecture that is customized using components.
1 June 2009
AMD pushes six-core chips as upgrade to Shanghai: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced six-core Opteron chips, which make them the fastest server chips the company has released to date.
1 June 2009
Lanco adopts cloud-based URL and security service: In order to keep employees from accessing inappropriate Web sites, Lanco International used to enter the URLs of some banned sites into its Internet Security and Acceleration server filters, but that was a cumbersome process that didn’t nearly cover the vast number of inappropriate (...)
1 June 2009
HP ProCurve converges wireless and wired network access: As wired and wireless devices of all kinds are IP-enabled, HP ProCurve introduces a single-room access devices that lets both connect to a standard-sized wall-jack plate, which combines a Wi-Fi access point with a four-port Ethernet (...)
1 June 2009
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无标题: 31 May 2009
Obama's cybersecurity chief to be a 'coordinator' not 'czar': In a speech at the White House today, President Obama put forward his vision for protecting the nation’s critical IT infrastructure from attack, and announced the new office of Cyber Security Coordinator.
30 May 2009
Sans titre: 30 May 2009
Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking: Racism, hate, and militancy sites have tripled in number over the past year on the Web and within corners of social-networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Yahoo, according to one vendor tracking them.
30 May 2009
VMware denies banning competitors from VMworld: VMware reassures industry that VMworld will remain vendor-neutral, after triggering some concerns with changes to the conference’s sponsor and exhibitor agreement.
30 May 2009
Aerohive upgrade streamlines WLAN security: Aerohive’s new code lets its distributed access points assign unique pre-shared keys to WLAN clients for which WPA is not possible or not feasible.
30 May 2009
AirMagnet retools WLAN applications for wireless VoIP traffic: AirMagnet has issued new versions of two wireless LAN applications, and linked them together for optimizing enterprise WLANs for VoIP traffic.
30 May 2009
Dell building up its cash reserves for acquisition: Dell plans to grow its business by acquiring another company, a senior executive said Friday.
30 May 2009
Windows 7 alluring, but XP is the migration X factor: Corporate migration to Windows 7 may be less about evaluating the new Microsoft operating system and more about how to properly gauge the correct time to get XP off client desktops.
29 May 2009
Upcoming Palm Pre release puts Sprint turnaround plan in focus: Sprint's turnaround plan so far has featured three main components: improved customer satisfaction, WiMAX deployment and a smartphone that can go toe-to-toe with the iPhone.
29 May 2009
Microsoft picks Bing as name for new search engine: Microsoft has picked Bing as the branding for its new search engine, putting to rest months of speculation of what the next iteration of Live Search would be called.
29 May 2009
Economy, industry consolidation take toll on Interop: The recent Interop Las Vegas had its bright spots: cloud computing generated genuine buzz; HP flexed its growing muscles; and dozens of innovative products were rolled out. However, there was no escaping the fact that the dour economy and significant market consolidation have taken their toll (...)
29 May 2009
Google may strip 'beta' tag from some apps: Google may be ready to remove the "beta" tag from some of its online applications in a move to widen their appeal among paying business customers, company officials suggested Wednesday.
29 May 2009
HPC startup SiCortex reportedly closes its doors: SiCortex, a startup that tried to stake out new ground in the high-performance computing market with machines designed for energy efficiency, has reportedly shut down.
29 May 2009
Hitachi unveils clustering software for high-end storage virtualization controller: Hitachi Data Systems today announced new clustering software for its Universal Storage Platform V that will allow data to be migrated between systems witout disruption.
29 May 2009
Cisco's huge router reaches five-year milestone: Five years ago when Cisco Systems introduced its CRS-1 core router platform some criticized it as overkill, but it has enabled a growth in network traffic that in turn has fueled demand for thousands of the devices.
28 May 2009
EMC inks deal to acquire Configuresoft: EMC plans to acquire Configuresoft in a deal that would add server configuration, change and compliance management software to EMC’s portfolio.
28 May 2009
VMware hypervisor still king for enterprise-class workloads, Burton Group says: VMware meets every enterprise-class virtualization requirement, Burton Group says. Citrix is close; Microsoft lags behind.
28 May 2009
Don't overhype WiMAX speeds, analyst warns operators: An analyst from Pyramid Research says WiMAX operators who overhype their networks' peak speeds risk angering early adopters who feel their expectations haven't been met.
28 May 2009
AT&T to again increase 3G speeds: For the third time in the past year, AT&T has announced that it is upgrading the speed of its 3G network, promising peak speeds of 7.2Gbps.
28 May 2009
Verizon trials 100G technology with UK research network: Verizon Business took its next step toward deploying 100Gbps by trialing its 100G optical service with the United Kingdom's national research and education network, JANET.
28 May 2009
Security and regulatory concerns slow some server virtualization efforts: Some organizations, including Stanford Hospital and Clinics, have prescribed a cautious approach to virtualization, mindful that "there's uncertainty" about what’s still seen as a new technology.
28 May 2009
Cisco enhances routers, switches for collaboration: Cisco this week is extending its branch routers and LAN switches in an effort to improve the collaboration capabilities of enterprise customers.
27 May 2009
HP snubs Moblin, rolls out Mi Linux-Atom netbook: In a pre-emptive strike against the expected onslaught of ARM-based netbooks running Google Inc.'s Android operating system, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday announced a new Intel Atom netbook that will run HP's custom version of Linux and cost just $279 upon its (...)
27 May 2009
Ingres bundles Red Hat for application development stack: Ingres on Wednesday announced the Ingres Development Stack for JBoss, a bundle that combines Ingres' open-source database with Red Hat's JBoss Developer Studio and Enterprise Application Platform.
27 May 2009
HP upgrades mobile and desktop thin clients: HP Wednesday announced a new mobile thin client, upgraded desktop offerings and said it will continue to enhance virtual desktop software.
27 May 2009
InfoExpress latest NAC vendor to push services: InfoExpress is introducing a managed network access control service designed to reduce the ongoing costs of network access protection and provide better technical support than many businesses could afford in-house.
27 May 2009
Avaya buys Agile to control contact center software: Avaya has bought Agile Software, bringing in-house the team that created and develops the call center software Avaya sells to midsize businesses.
27 May 2009
VMware invests $20 million in cloud partner Terremark: VMware investment in Terremark enhances cloud computing partnership.
27 May 2009
Want to friend the feds?: The U.S. Government Channel on YouTube -- which was viewed 82,000 times in its first week -- is the latest effort by the feds to embrace social media.
26 May 2009
Nokia opens the door to its Ovi mobile apps store: Nokia has opened the Ovi Store, where owners of around 50 different Nokia devices can download applications, games, videos and podcasts.
26 May 2009
Q&A: Christopher Crowhurst discusses Thomson Reuters' massive virtualization initiative: Thomson Reuters is in the middle of a massive virtualization effort involving 20,000 physical machines growing at an alarming rate. The company is increasing storage utilization through virtualization and thin provisioning and using the capital expenditure saving from that to pay for its server (...)
26 May 2009
Cartier sues Apple for trademark infringement: French jeweler and watchmaker Cartier sued Apple on Friday for infringing on its trademark, according to The Associated Press, Dow Jones, and others.
26 May 2009
Stimulus bill to provide 'windfall' for wireless providers, ABI projects: The economic stimulus package passed earlier this year will provide a $6.8 billion windfall to the wireless communications industry, projects ABI Research.
26 May 2009
Verizon: incompetent training or corporate indifference?: The news story sounded awful. A Verizon operator had refused to help police find a subscriber who was missing and likely in need of medical assistance because he was behind on his bill. One of many headlines said it all: "Verizon willing to let 62-year-old man die unless cops pay $20 of his (...)
26 May 2009
One way to build iPhone-BlackBerry-Android-Symbian-WinMobile-friendly apps: Startup Rhomobile says its framework lets developers build native mobile applications that work across different smartphones from the iPhone to BlackBerries to Android devices
22 May 2009
Malware knocks out U.S. Marshals Service network: Malware Wednesday crippled Windows-based computer systems at the U.S. Marshals Service, which hunts federal fugitives and operates the country's witness protection program, knocking the agency’s network offline.
22 May 2009
Apple tablet speculation rekindled in Wall Street report: The rumor that Apple is preparing a tablet-like netbook with a price tag of less than $700 has gained a new lease on life, based on a Wall Street analyst’s new report.
22 May 2009
Ex-Microsoftie: Free software will kill Redmond: Bill Gates probably will not sing the praises of Keith Curtis, a programmer with Microsoft for 11 years who's now left the fold and written a book about why the Redmond way will fail. Oh yeah, Curtis is not afraid to speak his mind as a Linux guru, (...)
22 May 2009
Microsoft sets July kill date for Office 2000: Microsoft is reminding Office 2000 users that it will discontinue security updates for the aged suite in less than two months when it drops all support for the software.
22 May 2009
Enterprise chief says Nortel customers hit 'pause button': LAS VEGAS -- Nortel enterprise customers have pressed “a pause button” in purchasing gear from the company, the chief of Nortel’s Enterprise Solutions group acknowledged this week.
22 May 2009
People, process limitations hamper x86 virtualization, IBM security expert says: X86 virtualization is not ready for highly regulated, mission-critical applications, IBM security expert Joshua Corman argued at Interop Las Vegas this week.
22 May 2009
Fibre Channel over Ethernet a hot topic, so hurry up and wait: Fibre Channel over Ethernet is considered an initial step towards a converged data center switching fabric, and it was a hot topic at this week's Interop conference.
22 May 2009
Conficker still infecting 50,000 PCs per day: The Conficker worm is still infecting systems at a brisk rate and continues to snag computers in Fortune 1000 companies, according to security researchers.
22 May 2009
iPhones in the enterprise leaving IT pros at wit's end: Executives smitten with iPhones are forcing enterprise IT departments to come up with ways to support the mobile devices even though big security and management questions abound.
22 May 2009
MIT: Cloud computing to reshape IT: A panel of experts at MIT Sloan CIO Symposium this week said that more companies would look to cloud computing in the near future because of its potential cost savings and its ability to deliver flexible computing.
22 May 2009
Data center skills discussion sparks debate: Readers respond to Interop panelists who touted the benefits of hiring generalists over IT specialists for next-generation environments.
22 May 2009
IT automation technology dominates Vegas conferences: Automation isn’t new, but with few budget dollars and strapped IT staff, many enterprise network managers are turning to the technology to complete operational tasks and create a more efficient environment.
22 May 2009
Network usage climbs while IT budgets, staff remain down: Network managers surveyed at Interop expect fewer budget cuts and staff reductions in coming months.
22 May 2009
Ozzie: E-mail, collaboration will drive move to cloud: Moving e-mail and collaboration applications to the cloud will drive the first wave of adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise, which is still in its nascent phase, company Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Wednesday.
21 May 2009
NetApp's $1.5B purchase of Data Domain focuses on de-dupe, backup: NetApp has agreed to purchase Data Domain for $1.5 billion in a deal that will bolster the storage company’s ability to de-duplicate data and provide backup for rival vendors like EMC and HP.
21 May 2009
Wanted for hire: generalists, not IT specialists: Interop panelists say the less IT professionals focus on specific skills the more likely they will be hired to manage tomorrow's data centers.
21 May 2009
Adobe snaps to attention over security vulnerabilities: Adobe Systems, whose applications have been hit hard by hackers, is combing through legacy code for bugs in its products and plans a regular quarterly patch release, according to a top security official.
21 May 2009
Virtual server management demands strong policies, automation tools: Automation tools are important, but human processes are the key to preventing virtual server sprawl, Interop panelists say.
21 May 2009
Angered by Apple delay, hacker posts Mac Java attack: In an effort to draw attention to an long-standing security problem in Apple's Mac OS X operating system, a security researcher has posted attack code that exploits the flaw.
21 May 2009
Hard drive missing from U.S. National Archives: A hard drive containing personal information of White House staff and visitors during former U.S. President Bill Clinton's administration is missing from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, the agency said.
21 May 2009
SaaS vendors need to get a clue about APIs: LAS VEGAS -- One big obstacle to SaaS vendors getting their applications adopted more widely is that so many of them don’t offer open APIs. Offering APIs is crucial for vendors to get their applications supported by channel partners and for customers looking to integrate SaaS offerings (...)
21 May 2009
Skype urges interoperability at Interop: Peer-to-peer communications vendor Skype used its Interop keynote slot today to put out a call to traditional PBX vendors, inviting them to make their gear interoperable as the company tries to make inroads with businesses.
21 May 2009
Microsoft, HP follow UC deal with cross-patent agreement: Microsoft and HP Wednesday followed up their UC partnership news with an announcement that the two have signed yet another cross-patent licensing deal.
21 May 2009
Virtualization cost savings hard to come by, Interop survey finds: Network Instruments polls Interop Las Vegas 2009 attendees to learn more about how server virtualization impacts their environment.
21 May 2009
Sprint makes big leap forward in customer satisfaction survey: Sprint's mission to improve its customer satisfaction is starting to pay off, suggests a new study published by the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
21 May 2009
Pricing the cloud an ongoing challenge: How do you pay for the cloud? Vendors are still trying to settle on the right pricing model.
21 May 2009
HP claims Cisco 'alternative' mantle: Emboldened by its extended partnership with Microsoft, HP ProCurve is positioning itself as the clear alternative to Cisco with renewed vigor.
20 May 2009
28% taking smartphones and laptops to bed for work: survey: Go to bed with mobile computing devices? In a London survey of 329 workers, 28% answered "Yes!" with half of those who work in bed doing so for between two to six hours every week.
20 May 2009
Vendors meld IT asset controls, facilities management: Avocent application monitors power, cooling and space alongside IT asset data, while Netreo adds power management, environmental metrics to its OmniCenter DataCenter Dashboard.
20 May 2009
Cisco unveils a grab bag of wireless LAN products: Cisco unveiled a grab bag of wireless LAN announcements at Interop Tuesday, including much of what you'd expect in the form of new hardware. But there's a somewhat surprising twist: the equipment vendor's wide-ranging emphasis on software (...)
20 May 2009
Web attack that poisons Google results gets worse: A new attack that peppers Google search results with malicious links is spreading quickly, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned on Monday.
20 May 2009
Free tools help protect users from IIS zero-day exploit: Security and patch management vendor Shavlik Technologies Tuesday recommended a pair of free tools from Microsoft to help users protect themselves from a zero-day exploit in Internet Information Sever.
20 May 2009
Security group to consider wireless, virtualization standards for payment-card industry: The PCI Security Standards Council may address requirements related to the use of virtualization and wireless technologies by payment-card handlers.
20 May 2009
Sprint CEO preaches patience at JP Morgan tech conference: Acknowledging that his company's brand has taken some damage in recent years, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Tuesday that Sprint was slowly but steadily rebuilding its reputation as a wireless carrier.
20 May 2009
Microsoft, HP putting $180 million into UC deal: Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have expanded their partnership to develop and sell a common platform for delivering voice, video and messaging services to office workers.
20 May 2009
New DNS bug and fix announced: Domain name registries are scrambling to patch a newly discovered bug in popular open source DNS software that could be exploited for denial-of-service attacks.
20 May 2009
Novell's SLED 11 to ship with Active Directory gateway technology: Likewise's software for bridging Linux desktops and Microsoft’s Active Directory will now be included with Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11.
20 May 2009
Microsoft, HP expand unified communications push: Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have expanded their partnership to develop and sell a common platform for delivering voice, video and messaging services to office workers.
19 May 2009
IBM appliance speeds up software installation: In an effort to set itself apart from other server vendors, IBM on Tuesday said it was stepping up efforts to make purpose-built appliances that remove the complexity of integrating software and services in a system.
19 May 2009
Obama's CTO pick faces queries on Va. outsourcing pacts: Aneesh Chopra, President Obama's choice to serve a federal CIO, may face questions during his Senate confirmation hearing today about his use of outsourcers as head of technology in the state of Virginia.
19 May 2009
New $369 Dell netbook for schools has germ-busting keyboard: An anti-microbial keyboard and a "network activity light" that lets teachers know when students are surfing instead of paying attention to their lessons are some of the features of a new Dell netbook aimed at schools.
19 May 2009
Nimsoft acquires the assets of Cittio: Nimsoft acquires for an undisclosed sum the assets of Cittio to beef up its network mapping, topology capabilities.
19 May 2009
Palm Pre available June 6, says Sprint: After months of anticipation, Sprint said Tuesday that the Palm Pre smartphone will be available for purchase on June 6.
19 May 2009
Cloud-management wares multiply: Telemetry, NetIQ, ScienceLogic and Univa UD use Interop to debut products designed to manage performance and availability for IT services delivered via the cloud.
19 May 2009
Nortel continues the enterprise fight: Even though it filed Chapter 11 and is reportedly looking to sell off huge chunks of its business, Nortel is not giving up the enterprise fight.
19 May 2009
Ballmer meeting with Alibaba CEO stirs Yahoo speculation: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met last week with Jack Ma, the CEO of top Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group, which controls Yahoo's operations in China. The meeting drove speculation in China that they may have discussed a potential Microsoft acquisition of (...)
19 May 2009
Security budgets are falling, survey says: More than 200 security managers in the high-tech and telecom industries ace reduced information-security budgets, according to a survey.
19 May 2009
AT&T to offer cloud storage service: AT&T will soon offer an on-demand storage service that will be accessible to enterprise customers through an Internet-based portal.
19 May 2009
Cisco outlines strategy for utility networks: IP network will extend from the power generation facilities to the home
19 May 2009
Emulex fends off Broadcom once more: Emulex has once again rejected an attempt by Broadcom to take over the company, reiterating its stance that the bid undervalues the company and does not adequately compensate its shareholders.
16 May 2009
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 beta in two months: Microsoft will launch an invitation-only SharePoint Server 2010 beta test in July with a select group of customers and then follow the program up with a public testing phase ahead of the Office 2010 release in the first half of next (...)
16 May 2009
Interop network all about redundancy: InteropNet architect Geoff Horne and team built this year’s network with redundancy in mind.
16 May 2009
2009 SAP Wrap-Up: Best and Worst from Orlando: Here's all you need to know about SAP Sapphire 09:
16 May 2009
VKernel secures $7 million to bolster virtualization management: VKernel has secured $7 million in a second round of financing to help expand its virtualization management tools for customers using VMware and other hypervisors.
16 May 2009
Google's latest conquest: Commencement speeches: Google really is everywhere, even at university commencement ceremonies. Google co-founder Larry Page sends off Michigan students; CEO Eric Schmidt going back to back at Pennsylvania universities
16 May 2009
McAfee buying Solidcore for whitelisting technology: McAfee today announced it intends to acquire Solidcore Systems for about $33 million in cash and an additional $14 million if certain performance targets are met.
16 May 2009
WiFi cloud vendor: We charge 2-3 times less than Cisco, Aruba: Meraki offers small-medium enterprise a simple, scalable Wi-Fi network, with new 11n access points and WLAN controller functions hosted as a Web-accessible service.
16 May 2009
Microsoft's software pipeline set to burst: If there was one revelation at this week's Microsoft TechEd conference it was that the company's product pipeline is stuffed with new software timed for release in the next seven to 12 months that will force corporate IT to deftly plan and strategize how it wants to deal with the (...)
15 May 2009
Web-hosting firms defy recession: After the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, mothballed data centers operated by bankrupt companies such as Exodus and PSINet were the most visible signs of the IT-driven downturn. Today, despite the worst recession in 50 years, Web hosting is one of the few thriving segments of the IT (...)
15 May 2009
Corporate-espionage, e-mail break-in case zaps electronics industry: The corporate-espionage case of David Goldenberg, former executive with AMX Corp., is rocking the world of high-end office and consumer electronics systems where Goldenberg, who broke into Sapphire marketing’s e-mail systems to steal information about competitor Creston Electronics, all (...)
15 May 2009
Is the U.S. ready for government-sponsored cyberattacks?: The Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command is ready to defend against cyberattacks. Meanwhile other parts of the U.S. military -- and other countries -- are developing cyber weapons for offensive use. Is the spread of cyber weapons akin to the proliferation of nuclear weapons after World War (...)
15 May 2009
Google blames outage on system error and online traffic jam: Google officials blamed this morning's outage that shut or slowed down multiple Google applications for some users on a system error.
15 May 2009
NSF wants $7B to head off demise of Moore's law, fund cybersecurity research and more: The National Science Foundation is looking to spend a good chunk of its proposed $7.045 billion budget for FY 2010 on advanced network technologies.
15 May 2009
Research groups gravitate to IBM's sideways server cluster: IBM designed the iDataPlex cluster for Web 2.0 companies, but is seeing more interest among universities and research groups.
15 May 2009
10 Ways to Do More with Less in the Recession: As the economic crisis continues, technology leaders are faced with the challenge of considering how best to trim the fat out of their budgets. While some steps are obvious and necessary, others can be like a diet you've been cheating on, which you know what you should be doing, but you don't (...)
14 May 2009
Microsoft outlines OCS virtualization support: Microsoft Wednesday announced that it will support server virtualization for Office Communications Server 2007 R2, its first statement on what portions of its real-time platform will run in a virtual environment.
14 May 2009
Sans titre: 14 May 2009
Most claims dismissed in Hannaford data breach suit: All but one of the legal claims filed against Hannaford Bros. -- the Maine-based retailer that suffered a security breach exposing some four million credit and debit cards -- has been dismissed.
14 May 2009
Craigslist discontinues erotic services advertisements: Online-classifieds site Craigslist said on Wednesday that it will remove the "erotic services" category of advertisements from its U.S. Web site in a week, after the site was criticized by law enforcement agencies as providing a forum for prostitution and other illegal (...)
14 May 2009
IBM touts 'stream computing' for real-time data analysis: IBM's new software analyzes thousands of simultaneous data streams to provide insight that help businesses solve their most challenging problems.
14 May 2009
Microsoft IT goes live with its Geneva identity platform: LOS ANGELES – Two days after shipping the second beta of its newest identity platform, Microsoft's internal IT department is rolling out the software corporate wide.
13 May 2009
Cisco supplying WiMAX gear to Clearwire: Clearwire has selected Cisco to supply equipment for its 4G mobile WiMAX network buildout.
13 May 2009
EU fines Intel €1.06 billion in antitrust case: The European Commission Wednesday found Intel guilty of antitrust violations in the market for PC microprocessors and fined it €1.06 billion ($1.44 billion).
13 May 2009
Oracle buys Virtual Iron, bolsters virtualization management lineup: Oracle's purchase of Virtual Iron will enhance the company’s line of Xen-based virtualization products.
13 May 2009
Verizon sheds rural access lines in $8.6 billion deal with Frontier Communications: Verizon has struck a deal to sell off rural residential access line business in 14 states to Frontier Communications, which already owns rural lines in 11 of those states.
13 May 2009
A buyer's guide to laptops -- from mighty mites to mobile monsters: With thousands of models to choose from, ranging from tiny micro-notebooks to mobile performance beasts, picking the right laptop can be overwhelming. Here's help in finding the right one.
13 May 2009
Cloud security demands greater scrutiny than traditional IT outsourcing, Forrester says: Cloud computing is gaining popularity, but raises new concerns about the safety of data.
13 May 2009
Purported BlackBerry 'Onyx' photos surface: Photos purporting to be a new BlackBerry 3G smartphone have surfaced. The device could pack the BlackBerry Bold's 3G, 11abg radio and keyboard into the sleeker, more compact packaging of the Curve.
13 May 2009
Nortel: Revenues stabilize, but still off 37% from '08 levels: Nortel Networks today reported a 37% drop in revenues during the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2008.
13 May 2009
Data center 10G whets switching companies' appetites: Announcements from four vendors this week highlight a growing trend in data center networking: the rapid uptake of 10 Gigabit Ethernet to accommodate increasing computational and storage density brought on by application growth, increasing use of blade servers and large-scale (...)
13 May 2009
AT&T to buy divested Verizon assets for $2.35B: AT&T has agreed to pay US$2.35 billion for network assets in 18 U.S. states that Verizon Wireless has to divest as part of its acquisition of Alltel last year.
13 May 2009
Win 7 shipping at “holiday season,” Win Server 2008 R2 beta available: Microsoft Monday said Windows 7 will ship "in time for the holiday shopping season."
13 May 2009
Aruba unveils low-priced WLAN gear: Aruba offers 'one-button' provisioning, remote administration simplifies management
13 May 2009
Microsoft: Corporate Vista testers should switch to Win 7 RC: Microsoft Monday said users testing Vista should abandon that effort for the Windows 7 RC candidate. Bill Veghte, senior vice president for the Windows business, said during his keynote address at the annual TechEd Conference that Windows 7 RC should be the platform for users planning a client (...)
13 May 2009
Dark cloud computing: Cloud computing offers tremendous promise for the future of computing. In the cloud you will be able to link together remote computing resources to achieve massive amounts of computing without any of the capital infrastructure (...)
13 May 2009
Google, VMware argue over private clouds: In a budding argument between Google and VMware, Google is downplaying the benefits of private clouds while VMware says Google's online applications aren't ready for the enterprise.
13 May 2009
SharePoint 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server: SharePoint 2010 will require a 64-bit version of SQL Server and it will not support Internet Explorer 6, according to Microsoft.
13 May 2009
Juniper ships 'cloud' switch: Juniper Networks today announced the availability of the EX8216 Ethernet switch, a 16-slot platform with a switch fabric capacity of 12.4 terabits.
13 May 2009
Microsoft's identity cloud platform enters Beta 2: Microsoft Monday released the Beta 2 of Geneva, its identity platform for the cloud, adding single sign-on capabilities across server applications and cloud-based services, and long-awaited support for SAML 2.0
13 May 2009
Virtual desktops cut costs at Denver transportation agency: Thin clients and desktop hypervisor help Denver-area transportation agency roll out new desktops faster and for less money.
13 May 2009
Pirated Windows 7 software part of criminal botnet: Microsoft Windows 7 pirated versions have been found with hard-to-detect trojans intended for cybercrime purposes, according to a security firm.
13 May 2009
Too much experience could be hurting your IT job search: Beyond.com research shows that while more IT professionals with between five to 10 years experience are looking for work now, employers this year are hoping to fill open positions with candidates with between three and five years (...)
13 May 2009
Virginia Dept. of Health: Prescriptions database breached but not deleted: The Virginia agency in charge of an online medical-prescription database acknowledged a potential data breach of it may have occurred by refuted the notion that the entire contents were wiped out by an attacker claiming to hold the contents for $10 million (...)
8 May 2009
Multi-gigabit wireless spec on tap by year-end: A group of silicon, computer, and device makers are banding together to draft an interoperable specification for up to 6Gbps wireless connectivity. The short-range technology is designed to handle high-def video, and large data transfers, among a wide variety of devices in a single (...)
8 May 2009
GE to spend $6 billion on health tech initiative: General Electric will spend $6 billion over the next six years in an effort to improve healthcare quality and drive down costs to consumers, the company announced Thursday.
8 May 2009
FutureNet 2009: IPv6 coming, ready or not: Although many businesses say that they see no economic advantage to deploying IPv6 over their networks, several panelists at this year's FutureNet said that they soon may not have a choice.
8 May 2009
Security breach cost Heartland $12.6 million so far: Heartland Payment Systems intends to deploy end-to-end encryption with its merchants to protect its payment processing system from cybercriminals.
8 May 2009
As economy softens, Microsoft ramps up research: Even as the world economy languishes, Microsoft is putting an increasing focus on its research efforts in areas well beyond its traditional desktop and office software domain.
7 May 2009
Despite pledge, researchers release VBootkit 2.0 code: Indian security researchers have released proof-of-concept code that can be used to take over a computer running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system, despite earlier promising not to make the code public for fear it could be (...)
7 May 2009
Symantec sees slowdown in security sales: Citing a slowdown in sales of its security and compliance products and weakness in international currencies, Symantec said Wednesday that it would post a US$249 million loss for the quarter ending April 3.
7 May 2009
The Internet sky really is falling: Many folks are familiar with the modeling we've done over the past few years highlighting the fact that Internet demand is outstripping capacity, specifically access capacity. The findings were, to put it mildly, controversial: We've been called everything from carrier shills to nut-jobs. (No, (...)
7 May 2009
Post-breach, Heartland plans aggressive encryption project: Heartland Payment Systems intends to deploy end-to-end encryption with its merchants to protect its payment processing system from cybercriminals.
7 May 2009
'Pizza box' servers lose relevancy in virtualized data centers: analyst: Why virtualization may spell doom for the 1U "pizza box" server, and other findings presented at IT Roadmap.
7 May 2009
AppZero debuts server applications virtualization on Windows: AppZero Wednesday released a Windows version of its server application virtualization tools, handily beating Microsoft out the door with a technology designed to help users more easily move server applications between internal and cloud (...)
7 May 2009
Unified communications, collaboration can help save cash: Speakers at Network World’s IT Roadmap Boston detail how technology helps them do their jobs more efficiently.
7 May 2009
Sweden may prosecute Cisco hacker: The Swedish man indicted by U.S. authorities for the alleged 2004 theft of source code for Cisco's IOS software may be prosecuted in his home country.
6 May 2009
IPv6 security guru fields questions: Scott Hogg, the coauthor of the Cisco-approved IPv6 Security guidebook, talks discusses how networks could be affected by IPv6 traffic without their owners’ knowledge
6 May 2009
Citrix embraces Apple with iPhone virtualization, app store for corporate IT: Citrix is bringing virtual desktops and applications to the iPhone and has revamped its server virtualization platform with new features that make it more competitive against VMware.
6 May 2009
Virtualization improves efficiency, but brings power and cooling challenges: Network World IT Roadmap speakers tackle virtualization's benefits, challenges.
6 May 2009
Wireless networks must overcome interference, latency and security challenges: Wireless networks bring flexibility but interference, latency and security issues are often obstacles that come with them, too.
6 May 2009
The good cyberattack: NRC report deals with policy issues of the United States mounting cyberattacks on bad guys, other countries.
6 May 2009
McAfee reports huge drop in spam: Spam has dropped noticeably so far this year, according to McAfee's Threat Report for the First Quarter of 2009, which says spam volumes were 20% lower for this quarter compared to the same quarter in 2008 and 30% lower than in the third quarter of last year when they reached their (...)
5 May 2009
IT pros justify high-tech investments during downturn: Network World IT Roadmap speakers discuss the merits of high-tech investments from acceleration to management to compliance during a recession.
5 May 2009
NYSE to implement 100Gbps network: NYSE Euronext, the company that operates the New York Stock Exchange, will soon implement a 100Gbps data network with help from network equipment vendor Ciena.
5 May 2009
Microsoft's Windows 7 release candidate goes public: The near-final version of Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, became available late Monday to the general public.
5 May 2009
Zenprise add-on tracks, manages BlackBerry devices: A new software option for Zenprise's flagship MobileManager platform lets network administrators remotely track, troubleshoot and manage corporate BlackBerry devices.
5 May 2009
Group to test virtual management interoperability: The Distributed Management Task Force Monday established a forum that will further the industry organization's work toward developing standards and tools for enabling interoperability and management in virtual environments.
5 May 2009
Sprint still losing money despite prepaid wireless boost: Despite seeing a surge in prepaid wireless subscribers last quarter, Sprint continued to hemorrhage money and posted a net loss of $594 million.
4 May 2009
Java vendor SpringSource acquires open source mgmt. software maker: Enterprise Java vendor SpringSource has acquired Hyperic, which makes open source system and application management software.
4 May 2009
Interop soldiers on in the face of a bad economy, swine flu: Interop Las Vegas faces challenges because of restricted IT budgets nationwide, the poor economy and the unpredictable impact of a swine flu epidemic, but the show is forging ahead with new programs including a segment dedicated to cloud (...)
4 May 2009
Emulex rejects Broadcom’s hostile takeover bid: Emulex has rejected a hostile takeover bid from Broadcom for the second time this year, saying a $764 million offer "significantly undervalues" the company.
4 May 2009
Interop: 25 random things about Las Vegas: For those who attend Interop this month and think they have some free time, here are 25 quintessentially Vegas things to consider while visiting the city of lights.
4 May 2009
BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 now available: Research in Motion's latest version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which features a Web-based interface for device management, is now available.
4 May 2009
Infiniband vendor catches Ethernet wave: Infiniband data center switch vendor Voltaire has caught the Ethernet bug.
4 May 2009
Juniper bolsters branch router, switch lines: Juniper Networks this week will extend its branch office line with routers and switches designed to enable remote workers to securely access enterprise resources at lower cost.
4 May 2009
Open source cloud platform is commercialized by its creators: Creators of the open source Eucalyptus cloud platform launch private company, get funding.
2 May 2009
Microsoft aligning management, clouds: Microsoft last week shared the latest on its ambitious cloud computing management, though customers and analysts say they still have plenty of questions on issues such as timing and security.
1 May 2009
HP ProCurve gets into security with new server blade: HP ProCurve is adding a security blade to edge and core switches that enables businesses to insert firewalls, VPNs and IDS/IPSs wherever they have one of the switches.
1 May 2009
Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?: As users rely ever more on wireless LANs for network access, some IT groups find the majority of costly wired ports now lie idle. It's time, they say, to rethink the network's edge.
1 May 2009
Illinois programmer sues Google over “Android”: The owner of an obscure Illinois software development company is suing Google and everyone else in the Open Handset Alliance over their use of the word "Android."
1 May 2009
With long history of virtualization behind it, IBM looks to the future: Few people are more aware of virtualization's long history than Jim Rymarczyk, who joined IBM as a programmer in the 1960s just as the mainframe giant was inventing virtualization.
1 May 2009
Facebook targeted by fresh round of phishing: A number of phishing attacks that have struck Facebook users in the past two days have put the social networking site and its users on the defense.
1 May 2009
EMC tries to block executive from joining HP: EMC is trying to prevent top storage executive David Donatelli from joining rival HP, filing a lawsuit to enforce a non-competition agreement.
1 May 2009
Undersea cable investments to grow despite recession: A global recession has yet to change carriers’ plans to increase their investments in submarine cables over the next two years, according to research from TeleGeography.
1 May 2009
U.S. needs transparent policies for carrying out cyberattacks: The notion that the federal government needs to create an arsenal of cyberattack capabilities to help defend U.S. interests in cyberspace is gaining considerable support as concerns heighten about online security threats aimed at critical infrastructure targets. But the U.S. has no clear legal (...)
30 April 2009
Hacker: I broke into Twitter: For the second time this year, a hacker has gained administrative access to a Twitter employee's account.
30 April 2009
Netbook pioneer to stick with Windows in 2009: Asustek Computer (Asus) plans to continue using Microsoft Windows OSs in its popular Eee PC netbooks this year despite widespread interest in alternatives such as Google's Android software.
30 April 2009
20 kick-ass network research projects: While start-up funding and the emergence of exciting new network startups has fizzled over the past year, research projects at university and other labs continue to sizzle. Here's look at 20 of the coolest:
30 April 2009
Microsoft unveils its first online management service: Las Vegas – Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has unveiled System Center Online Desktop Manager, the first online service built around its management tools.
30 April 2009
Microsoft gives users Windows 7 free for 13 months: Microsoft will let users run Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for more than a year, giving them free use of the new operating system for a significantly longer time than it did Vista's previews.
30 April 2009
Palm reportedly prepping second webOS smartphone: Palm is preparing a second webOS-based mobile device to debut after its Palm Pre smartphone ships, according to a technology blog.
30 April 2009
Federal CISOs decry excessive paperwork: Unnecessary paperwork and too much focus on compliance reporting are two of the biggest distractions for federal Chief Information Security Officers trying to shore up government networks from external attacks, a new survey says.
30 April 2009
Network security: What do Britney Spears, the Wizard of Oz and the Dark Market have in common?: Security experts say the darnest things: RSA Conference 2009 brings out the unexpected.
30 April 2009
Federal government cloud adoption will triple by 2013, report says: Government agencies are moving slower on cloud computing than the IT industry as a whole, but federal government spending on the cloud will nearly triple by 2013.
30 April 2009
Four indicted in giant college spam operation: A federal grand jury in Missouri has indicted two brothers and two other people on charges related to an alleged e-mail spamming case that targeted more than 2,000 U.S. colleges and sold more than US$4.1 million worth of products to students, the U.S. Department of Justice (...)
30 April 2009
10 tips for swine flu planning: As the swine flu outbreak spreads, CIOs and other IT executives are dusting off their pandemic plans and preparing for the possibility of high levels of employee absenteeism and extended telework scenarios.
30 April 2009
Watchdogs smack FCC over E-Rate: A new report issued by the Government Accountability Office says it is virtually impossible to measure the success of the Federal Communications Commission’s E-Rate program because the FCC has still not given it a set of concrete performance (...)
30 April 2009
Revving up telework, Obama style: OPM director John Berry today announced a five-part plan to increase participation in longstanding but poorly adopted federal telework programs.
30 April 2009
Signs of IT spending recovery emerge in surveys: Survey results released separately by CDW and ISACA show a notable percentage of IT buyers intend to increase budgets and invest in IT in the next six months
30 April 2009
Start-up Axxana ties disaster recovery gear to EMC software: Storage start-up Axxana has made its disaster recovery black box generally available and integrated the system with EMC's RecoverPoint software.
30 April 2009
Nortel looking to exit LG venture: report: Nortel is reportedly looking to sell off its stake in a joint venture with Korean telecom company LG in an effort to raise cash.
30 April 2009
Microsoft infrastructure stack takes to the clouds: Six months after launching its Azure cloud OS, Microsoft is using the same cloud terminology to describe its stack of datacenter infrastructure software.
30 April 2009
Google unveils search tool to help make sense of public data: Want to see how your area's unemployment rate stacks up against the rest of the country? Or compare the price of cookies, the level of carbon dioxide emissions or the number of wildfires in different regions of the country?
29 April 2009
UPDATE: Trend Micro acquiring Third Brigade as part of data-center security strategy: Trend Micro Wednesday announced it’s acquiring Third Brigade, an Ottawa, Ontario provider of host-based intrusion-prevention and firewall software, for an undisclosed price.
29 April 2009
Microsoft melding view of local, cloud-based virtual machines: Las Vegas – Microsoft Tuesday said it is working on a cloud federation feature for Virtual Machine Manager that will give users an integrated view of physical and virtual resources from a single point regardless if they are running internally or on a hosted (...)
29 April 2009
Microsoft gives server app virtualization sneak peek: Microsoft Tuesday demonstrated for the first time its server application virtualization technology designed to enable on-demand deployment of applications.
29 April 2009
Swine flu threat raises telework questions: The possibility of a swine flu outbreak is prompting companies to think about business continuity and how options such as telework may become a necessity.
29 April 2009
Swine flu latest blow for Mexican offshoring business: Mexico's appeal as an offshore outsourcing location may dwindle further as travel bans shut down businesses in the wake of swine flu outbreak.
29 April 2009
Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management: Microsoft Tuesday opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of June and laying out its efforts to manage datacenters and virtualized environments.
29 April 2009
IBM to resell Brocade’s Foundry switches: Brocade has extended an OEM relationship with IBM to include its recently acquired Foundry switches in a deal that appears to be in retaliation for Cisco’s recent entry into the blade server market.
28 April 2009
McAfee launches 'online 911' for cybercrime victims: McAfee has launched a new Web site designed to help cybercrime victims recover from hacker attacks.
28 April 2009
Software vendor Cassatt in rough shape, bankruptcy possible, report says: Software maker Cassatt, founded in 2003 to manage virtual resources in the data center, is on the verge of a bankruptcy or sale, according to a report on Forbes.com.
28 April 2009
BizTalk Server 2009 ready for the public: Microsoft Monday said the 2009 version of BizTalk server is now available to its MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will be publicly available on Friday.
28 April 2009
Group proposes cloud management standard: DMTF creates new group dubbed the Open Cloud Standards Incubator, which will be dedicated to addressing the need for open management standards for cloud computing.
28 April 2009
Military enlists open source community: The Defense Department is trying to take advantage of Web-based communities to speed up software development and reduce its costs.
28 April 2009
Less expensive, faster flash array served up by Texas Memory Systems: Texas Memory Systems has added a less expensive, faster and smaller form-factor flash storage array to its line of solid-state products.
28 April 2009
Verizon leapfrogs AT&T for wireless subscriber lead: Completing the Alltel acquisition has helped Verizon jump ahead of AT&T to give the carrier the most wireless subscribers in the United States.
27 April 2009
How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi: Kevin Hayes, technical editor for the core of the new Bluetooth-over-Wi-Fi spec, dives into some details on how it was done, how it works, and what it means.
27 April 2009
Report: Apple, Verizon in iPhone talks: Apple is in discussions with Verizon to create a version of the iPhone that would run on Verizon's cellular network, according to a report in USA Today.
27 April 2009
Conficker.E to self-destruct on May 5th?: The evolution of the multi-faceted Conficker worm is expected to take another turn this May 5th when the latest version, Conficker.E, will simply self-destruct
24 April 2009
The legal risks of ethical hacking: Tracking down malicious computer activity can put researchers on shaky legal footing.
24 April 2009
California corrections agency signs $245M services deal with EDS: EDS will provide system integration and application modernization services for California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in $245 million, 4.5-year deal.
24 April 2009
Leaked Windows 7 Release Candidate hits the Web: Pirated copies of the Windows 7 Release Candidate have leaked to file-sharing sites, according to several reports on the Internet and searches of BitTorrent trackers.
24 April 2009
The downfall of Sun Microsystems: There are many reasons Sun wasn't able to survive as an independent company. Chief among these are Sun's hardware strategy and failure to execute after acquisitions.
24 April 2009
Conficker hype a 'problem,' says FBI cyber-chief: Mainstream media hype leading up to the Conficker worm's April 1 software update may have distracted people from legitimate cyber threats, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's head of cyber security said Thursday.
24 April 2009
Hands on: Running Windows 7 on a netbook: Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter edition of Windows 7, a semi-crippled version that only lets users run up to three applications at a (...)
24 April 2009
President Obama to get secure BlackBerry 8830: President Barack Obama is due to receive a high-security BlackBerry 8830 soon, a Washington-based newspaper reported Thursday.
24 April 2009
Apple sells its one billionth iPhone app: Nine months after opening its App Store, Apple announced on its Web site that it reached the milestone of selling its one billionth iPhone application on Thursday. The lucky winner of Apple's contest in celebration of selling its one billionth app will get a US$10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod (...)
24 April 2009
Apple apologizes for approving Baby Shaker iPhone app: Sikalosoft's Baby Shaker app made its way, however briefly, onto the App Store earlier this week--though not, one would argue, into our hearts. On Thursday, Macworld spoke to an Apple spokesperson, who issued the following statement of (...)
24 April 2009
CTIA backs universal cell-phone charger: CTIA, the main industry association for U.S. mobile operators, has put its weight behind an initiative calling for a universal cell-phone charger.
24 April 2009
DNS plays role in Craigslist killer case: Network technology may have played a critical role in law enforcement officials catching the alleged Craigslist killer before he was able to strike again.
24 April 2009
Microsoft posts historic revenue stumble in quarterly earnings: For the first time in its 23-year history as a public company, Microsoft's revenue dropped in year-over-year comparison as the company reported a whopping 6% decline in revenue for its fiscal third quarter coupled with a 32% decline in net income as compared to the same quarter a year (...)
24 April 2009
Cloud security stokes concerns at RSA: Two words — cloud security — dominated discussion and drove the action this week at RSA Conference 2009.
24 April 2009
Funding for network companies drops below $1 billion, first time since ‘96: The recession has taken a deep toll on venture capital funding for network technology companies.
24 April 2009
Some IT skills see pay hikes during downturn: Java, Linux, virtualization and business process skills among those seeing an increase in pay, according to Foote Partners research.
24 April 2009
AT&T reports 10.5 million Wi-Fi connections so far this year: AT&T says users connected to its Wi-Fi hot spots 10.5 million times in the first quarter of 2009, more than triple the volume in Q1 2008.
24 April 2009
Apple dismisses netbook trend: An Apple executive on Wednesday lashed out against netbooks, calling the small and light laptops unusable.
23 April 2009
Cloud computing a 'security nightmare,' says Cisco CEO: If anyone has the right to be excited about cloud computing, it's John Chambers. But on Wednesday Cisco's Chairman and CEO conceded that the computing industry's move to sell pay-as-you-go computing cycles available as a service on the Internet was also "a security (...)
23 April 2009
Researchers show how to take control of Windows 7: Security researchers demonstrated how to take control of a computer running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Dubai on Thursday.
23 April 2009
Sun ties identity software to Google Apps Premier, Amazon cloud platform: Sun Wednesday tied its identity federation software to Google Apps and added its directory and Web application server to the cloud platform it is building for developers to build and test applications.
23 April 2009
VMware to embed RSA security into vSphere 4: Embedded security promised for VMware’s new vSphere cloud computing platform based on RSA’s data-loss prevention and encryption technologies.
23 April 2009
Controversial Einstein systems to inspect U.S. government's Internet traffic: The largest U.S. carriers -- including AT&T, Qwest and Sprint -- are deploying special-purpose, intrusion-detection systems dubbed Einstein boxes in their networks as part of an 18-month-old effort to tighten security on federal (...)
23 April 2009
Apple yanks "Baby Shaker" from App Store amidst public disgust: Apple -- on the verge of celebrating its 1 billionth App Store download -- has pulled a controversial application called "Baby Shaker" from its virtual store shelves that generated public outrage.
23 April 2009
Congress should investigate bandwidth caps, group says: The media reform group Free Press is asking Congress to investigate the usage of controversial bandwidth caps that have recently caused public relations problems for ISPs such as AT&T and Time Warner Cable.
23 April 2009
Microsoft ready to deal: Good time to plan Windows 7, Office 2010 purchases, analyst says: Corporations armed with a savvy knowledge of Microsoft's volume licensing program may be in the best position in a long time to negotiate the cost of software, according to one analyst.
22 April 2009
Broadcom makes bid to buy Emulex for $764 million: Following a rejection of efforts to purchase the company in January, Broadcom on Tuesday made an unsolicited bid to purchase Emulex for $764 million.
22 April 2009
EarthLink suffers Earth Day crash: EarthLink was hit with a major outage today, with EarthLink users unable to access their e-mail or any Web pages hosted by the company.
22 April 2009
Microsoft executive sees rise of tablets, 'room computer': Technology that changes how people give commands to computers could make touch-based PCs more popular and transform the traditional desktop into a "room computer" in coming years, a Microsoft executive said Wednesday.
22 April 2009
Government, military officials at RSA warn of cyber-threats: Cybercrime and military cyber-defense plans were aired by U.S. government officials during the RSA Conference yesterday.
22 April 2009
Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical: Mozilla Tuesday patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta of its next open-source browser, Firefox 3.5.
22 April 2009
AT&T income down slightly in Q1: AT&T reported net income of $3.1 billion in the first quarter of 2009, a decrease of nearly 10% compared to the year-ago quarter.
22 April 2009
NAC can't get untracked: Five years after it burst on the scene as a response to the Blaster and Sasser worms, network access control has yet to make significant inroads into corporate networks. In fact, during a NAC session at RSA, only a handful of the 250 attendees said they had fully deployed NAC, while the vast (...)
22 April 2009
RSA's Coviello calls on security vendors to take lead in fighting cybercrime: Network security vendors need to cooperate more with each other and with the government to effectively fight cybercriminals, state-sponsored cyberspying and cyber terrorists, the audience crowding the RSA Conference 2009 keynote session was told (...)
22 April 2009
UC Berkeley's new Opinion Space Web site visualizes your viewpoints: UC Berkeley's Opinion Space Web site visualizes participants' viewpoints.
22 April 2009
Outsourcing deals get small: Industry watchers say cost-cutting efforts continue to drive outsourcing deals in 2009, but contract size and duration shrink.
22 April 2009
AT&T launches content distribution service: AT&T is offering a content distribution service that lets companies stream video and other multimedia across their networks from behind their own firewalls.
22 April 2009
VMware's version of flexibility doesn't include Microsoft Hyper-V: VMware promises new levels of flexibility in the data center with vSphere, its cloud operating system, but is still refusing to support competing virtualization products.
21 April 2009
AT&T doubling 3G capacity: AT&T is doubling the capacity of its 3G high-speed packet access network to reach peak speeds of 3.6Mbps.
21 April 2009
Wireless sensor system measures, analyzes energy use: Arch Rock has created a special version of its wireless sensor networking product line to monitor enterprise energy use and identify changes to make it more efficient and to save money.
21 April 2009
The FBI as an ethical hacker?: More details are emerging about how the FBI engages in hacking and the planting of spyware.
21 April 2009
AirPatrol upgrades Wireless LAN-cellular intrusion prevention: The new version of AirPatrol's Wireless Locator System has been scaled up for big networks and includes an optional database to store location, intrusion, event and client data for Wi-Fi and cellular devices.
21 April 2009
VMware vows to overhaul data center with "cloud operating system": VMware has unveiled vSphere, the long awaited overhaul of its core virtualization platform that will aggregate all the virtual resources in the data center into one centrally managed computing pool.
21 April 2009
Trapeze revamps Wi-Fi location, asset tracking software: Trapeze's Newbury Active Asset 4.0 offers a new GUI, hierarchical sorting and filtering of tagged assets, and better performance for tracking thousands of wireless tags.
21 April 2009
Oracle-Sun: Apps, systems management coup for customers: Oracle and Sun customers could find the combined company a win when it comes to managing Sun systems and Oracle applications.
21 April 2009
Most businesses don't have their heads around cloud security: survey: Businesses are concerned about the management and privacy of data they entrust to cloud computing service providers, but not many are doing anything about it, according to a Deloitte survey.
21 April 2009
Oracle-Sun union means tough decisions on ID management: Oracle will have to make some significant product decisions and integration plans to address the overlap it has with Sun in terms of identity management software, according to experts.
21 April 2009
BladeSystem Matrix takes aim at Cisco: HP is taking aim at Cisco with BladeSystem Matrix, a converged software, server, storage and networking platform designed to compete against Cisco's Unified Computing System.
21 April 2009
Oracle, entering hardware arena, agrees to buy Sun for $7.4B: Oracle has signed a deal to purchase Sun for $7.4 billion, plunging the enterprise software vendor into the hardware market and making Sun the latest company to be subsumed by the Silicon Valley giant.
21 April 2009
Oracle agrees to buy Sun for $7.4B: Oracle has agreed to buy Sun for $7.4 billion, it announced on its Web site on Monday
20 April 2009
Sun's MySQL could thrive under Oracle ownership, analysts say: Despite competing against Oracle's flagship database management system, MySQL should be in good shape under Larry Ellison, analysts say.
20 April 2009
RSA Conference kicks off on somber note: Against an omnipresent backdrop of recession and uncertainty, IT security pros this week will gather at an RSA Conference focused on malware proliferation, protection of virtualized and cloud computing environments, and the specter of rising government involvement in their (...)
20 April 2009
Carriers to feds: Show me the money on massive telecom deal: Two years ago, the U.S. General Services Administration awarded a 10-year, $20 billion program called Networx that was touted as the world's largest-ever telecom deal.
20 April 2009
FBI used spyware to catch cable-cutting extortionist: The FBI used spyware to catch a Massachusetts man who tried to extort Verizon and Comcast by cutting 18 data- and voice-carrying cables in 2005, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by Wired.com revealed yesterday.
20 April 2009
802.11n complications are imminent: As you likely know, the current fair-haired wireless LAN version, 802.11n, is multidimensional, making product comparisons challenging. Those comparisons are likely to soon get even thornier when 1x1, single-stream 802.11n products emerge for netbooks, smartphones and even laptops. At issue: (...)
20 April 2009
Palm’s webOS lives up to hype, early developers say: Underneath the Palm Pre’s sleek exterior is Palm’s real innovation: a new kind of operating system designed with the mobile Web in mind.
17 April 2009
Cisco getting cozy with UC Santa Cruz: Cisco, University of California at Santa Cruz are collaborating on network research via new lab
17 April 2009
Cellcrypt secure VoIP heading to BlackBerry: Cellcrypt, a British vendor of software for encrypting cell phone calls, has set up shop in Silicon Valley and is getting a product ready for North America's beloved BlackBerry.
17 April 2009
Google's CEO predicts strong year for Android: Google CEO Eric Schmidt on Thursday predicted good times ahead for Android, the company's mobile phone OS and software.
17 April 2009
Researcher offers tool to hide malware in .Net: A computer security researcher has released an upgraded tool that can simplify the placement of difficult-to-detect malicious software in Microsoft's .Net framework on Windows computers.
17 April 2009
The Pirate Bay four found guilty: The four people involved in running The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used BitTorrent trackers for music, movies and software, have been found guilty by the Stockholm district court of being accessories to crimes against copyright law. The court handed down its verdict on Friday (...)
17 April 2009
Third annual scare story about the national power system: As far as the headline writers at the Wall Street Journal were concerned the battle was over and the U.S. electricity grid was under control by the enemy -- "Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies."
17 April 2009
Microsoft discloses ambitious security strategy: Microsoft Thursday began detailing a security strategy that will see it combine its identity management efforts with its Forefront security products built for clients, servers and the network edge.
17 April 2009
Time Warner Cable nixes bandwidth caps: In response to negative customer reaction, Time Warner Cable said today that it was shutting down bandwidth cap trials for its Internet services.
17 April 2009
DOJ asks for extension of Microsoft antitrust judgment: The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a U.S. judge to extend her antitrust judgment against Microsoft by at least 18 months in order to give the company enough time to fix problems in technical documentation required in a communication protocols licensing (...)
17 April 2009
H-1B demand falls short of supply: The number of petitions for new 2010 H-1B visas dropped off this year, and industry watchers say it shows the market will dictate the number of visas needed.
17 April 2009
How the Skype spinoff could change the market: Now that eBay has set a tentative timetable for spinning off Skype, the question becomes whether the Internet phone company can become a legitimate force as a voice service provider.
17 April 2009
Microsoft's cloud identity platform on track: Microsoft's identity cloud platform code-named Geneva which will complement Microsoft’s Azure cloud OS, will grab a spotlight at next month’s annual TechEd conference.
17 April 2009
Report: Sun still open to an IBM bid: Sun Microsystems would be willing to revive acquisition talks with IBM if the latter company "makes a stronger commitment to complete the purchase," according to a Bloomberg News report.
17 April 2009
Cisco reveals aggressive pricing for blade server system: As promised, Cisco this week divulged more details on its Unified Computing System for data centers, including pricing and performance benchmarks.
17 April 2009
Black Hat 'supertalk' halted due to vendor concerns: The Black Hat security conference is full of drama again in Amsterdam, with the last-minute cancellation of a presentation by a group of researchers scheduled to reveal a dangerous software vulnerability.
17 April 2009
ING examines cloud computing, but finds licensing a problem: ING is just the type of large user organization that cloud vendors want signing up for their various online business services, but licensing concerns are holding ING back
16 April 2009
NetApp agrees to $128 million gov't contracting fine: Network Appliance, a California computer storage and data management vendor, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $128 million to settle contract fraud charges brought by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).
16 April 2009
Researcher finds possible bug in Apple's iPhone: Famed Mac hacker Charlie Miller has found another possible security vulnerability in Apple's iPhone.
16 April 2009
Mobile devices tax unprepared IT groups: Mobile platforms in the enterprise are proliferating, and many companies lack the infrastructure to secure, manage and troubleshoot them, according to Osterman Research.
16 April 2009
PBX killer, Voice CAL coming to OCS in 2010: Microsoft will ship a new version of its Office Communications Server in 2010 and another in the following year or more, according to its TechNet Web site.
16 April 2009
IBM licenses patents to BLADE: Licensing agreement with IBM could help BLADE deliver new products to counter Cisco’s recent entry into the blade server market.
16 April 2009
Azaleos launches managed SharePoint service: Managed service provider Azaleos introduces a remote monitoring service for Microsoft SharePoint that covers the server and other necessary infrastructure.
16 April 2009
Exchange 2010 beta leads kickoff of new Office lineup: Microsoft Wednesday kicked off the rollout of its Office 2010 product lineup with the initial public beta release of the next version of Exchange Server.
15 April 2009
Organized crime caused big data breach spike, says Verizon: A new study from Verizon Business claims that organized crime is responsible for a large increase in the number of breached corporate electronic records, which totaled roughly 285 million last year.
15 April 2009
Forced week off at Adobe not exactly a vacation: Forced time off for employees at Adobe is aimed at saving the company money as it copes with the economic downturn.
15 April 2009
Is spam causing greenhouse gas?: Is spam causing green-house gas? That's what McAfee says in research findings that spam isn't only a nuisance; it's a danger to the environment.
15 April 2009
HP Software bolsters application-scanning products: HP Software released updated versions of its application-scanning products HP assessment Management Platform 8.0 and WebInspect 8.0
15 April 2009
Tropos introduces 802.11n into its outdoor wireless mesh: Tropos Networks has released a trio of new outdoor wireless mesh nodes, its first supporting the high-throughput 802.11n IEEE standard.
15 April 2009
Network companies secure nearly $20 million in venture capital cash: ExtraHop Networks, Reflex Systems and StoredIQ find funding to advance their respective businesses during economic downturn.
15 April 2009
eBay to spin off Skype by mid-2010: EBay announced today that it is planning to spin off Skype, despite the fact that the Internet phone company’s revenues are expected to top $1 billion in 2011.
15 April 2009
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday filled with zero-day exploits: Microsoft's Patch Tuesday arrived with a nasty twist, as six of the 23 vulnerabilities spread among the eight patches are already being threatened by exploit code in the wild.
15 April 2009
RFID vendor Reva Systems raises $5 million from venture backers: RFID infrastructure vendor Reva Systems has raised $5 million in a new round of venture funding.
15 April 2009
UC security: When the shoe doesn't fit -- compress the foot: If your security model is location-centric and depends on keeping things separate, how do you respond to a disruptive technology like unified communications? This is a pattern that keeps repeating in many different areas: the security paradigm looked good until a technology comes along, changes (...)
15 April 2009
ForeScout doubles NAC management reach: A software upgrade for ForeScout’s CounterACT NAC platform will enable it to manage 400,000 endpoints, double the number of previous software releases.
15 April 2009
Malicious code spikes in '08, Symantec reports: Malicious code threats more than doubled, and the United States retained the dubious distinction of being the top cyber sore spot, according to Symantec's 2008 Internet Security Threat Report.
14 April 2009
Citrix upgrade reduces Web server requirements for Web 2.0 apps: Citrix has upgraded its NetScaler Web application-delivery appliance to support two-way proxying that cuts the numbers of servers needed for highly interactive Web 2.0 servers.
14 April 2009
VMware to debut new hypervisor April 21: VMware on April 21 will release the highly anticipated vSphere software, the next generation of its flagship virtualization engine, according to VMware business partner Unisys.
14 April 2009
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: List of software affected by critical security updates: Microsoft today released five critical security patches that cover Windows, Windows Server, Office, DirectX and Internet Explorer. Here's a list of affected software.
14 April 2009
Recession resistant: 10 technologies CIOs are still buying: Despite a challenging economy, about 70% of CIOs intend to invest in IT in 2009, citing information security, virtualization and data center efficiency as key initiatives.
14 April 2009
BlackBerry Web e-mail users experience three-hour outage: BlackBerry users around the United States were stranded for about three hours yesterday when their Web-based e-mail service blacked out.
14 April 2009
EMC’s new Symmetrix array targets virtual data centers: EMC is unveiling a new Symmetrix storage array designed to support heavily virtualized data centers with hundreds of petabytes of storage and mass quantities of virtual servers.
14 April 2009
Sun fires back at Cisco with blade network switch: Sun introduced its Nehalem-based server line-up on Tuesday, along with a new networking product that takes aim at an emerging rival in the server market, Cisco.
14 April 2009
Security vendor Marshal8e6 buys Avinti: Security vendor Marshal8e6 will buy Avinti, a company which specializes in behavioral technology that scans e-mail and tests malicious content in a virtual machine.
14 April 2009
Report: Microsoft, Yahoo talking again: Microsoft and Yahoo have begun talking again and this time the focus is on search and advertising deals and not acquisition, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
13 April 2009
Desktop Virtualization and Licensing: IT Wary of Gotchas: CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her college's students, administrative employees and teachers. She bought a MacBook Pro and tested new-fangled desktop virtualization software that allows her to run both (...)
13 April 2009
Microsoft moving XP into reduced-support phase on Tuesday: As planned, Microsoft Corp. will drop Windows XP out of what it calls "mainstream support" Tuesday, the company confirmed Monday.
13 April 2009
TippingPoint offers customer filtering service: TippingPoint will announce at next week's RSA Conference a service that creates filters for its intrusion prevention gear to block potential attacks against vulnerabilities in corporations' custom Web applications.
13 April 2009
Start-up led by Sun veterans unveils Intel-based data access appliances: Schooner Information Technology emerged from stealth mode with high-powered data access appliances designed to speed up Web 2.0 and cloud computing applications.
13 April 2009
Twitter attracting techie labs: As Network World's Alpha Doggs network research blogger, I've been searching Twitter in recent months for vendor, university and government labs and research operations using the popular microblogging service. While I've found a handful, I'm not impressed: For the most part they're just (...)
13 April 2009
Netbook computers spark corporate interest: To critics, netbooks are crippled notebooks. To fans, they're a new way of computing. You can expect big advances by year-end.
13 April 2009
Weekend worms strike Twitter, teen admits responsibility: Twitter was hit with at least three different worm attacks that started Saturday and continued into Sunday, the micro-blogging service acknowledged as it promised users it would review its coding practices.
13 April 2009
Entrust to be acquired by private equity firm for $114 million: Entrust has entered into a deal to be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo for $114 million.
13 April 2009
Google disables uploads, comments on YouTube Korea: Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make.
13 April 2009
Inside the Smithsonian Institution's first "virtual museum": While many education organizations would love to have their own museums, it can be costly to own a building large enough to display their exhibits. The Smithsonian Latino Center has solved this problem by taking its museum online.
10 April 2009
Firetide unveils MIMO mesh node, 400Mbps throughput: Firetide is beta-testing its first wireless mesh node that uses the same technology foundation as 802.11n Wi-Fi products.
10 April 2009
Bluetooth group to release spec for Wi-Fi: On schedule, Bluetooth is about to get a big boost in data rate and in some cases distance.
10 April 2009
China denies cyberattacks on U.S. power grid: Malware attacks from China and Russia designed to shut down the U.S. electrical grid in a time of war did not occur, China said Thursday.
10 April 2009
Microsoft eating up U.S. and global netbook markets: Microsoft's chest thumping last week over its 96% share of the U.S. netbook market for February doesn't appear to be just its normal bravado as the company also is charging toward dominance on a global front.
10 April 2009
Sprint working with Barnes & Noble on e-reader: Barnes & Noble is reportedly working with Sprint Nextel Inc. and an unnamed manufacturer to build an e-reader device to compete with Amazon Inc.'s Kindle and Sony Corp.'s digital book reader.
10 April 2009
AT&T says vandalism to blame for California service outage: AT&T says that the service outages that hit California today resulted from an apparent act of vandalism.
10 April 2009
How serious is threat to power grid? Depends who you ask.: Expert opinion differs widely over a report that the U.S. electric power-grid has been compromised by cyberspies, perhaps from Russia and China, who have installed malware so they can disrupt industrial control systems for electricity distribution in the event of a (...)
9 April 2009
Feds join Twitter revolution: Twitter is taking flight in unlikely skies: the U.S. federal government.
9 April 2009
What’s on tap from EMC, VMware? Major virtualization, storage upgrades promised: EMC has not yet revealed the nature of its upcoming storage announcement, but says it will be one of the most important in its history.
9 April 2009
Conficker, the Internet's No. 1 threat, gets an update: Security researchers say a worm that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been reprogrammed to strengthen its defenses while also trying to attack more machines.
9 April 2009
Cisco to buy Tidal Software for $105 million: Cisco will pay approximately $105 million in cash and retention-based incentives for Tidal Software, which makes application management and automation software.
9 April 2009
Users warned of virtualization's 'dark side': Users are paying little attention to some of the downsides of virtualization in their haste to reap the benefits that the technology can bring.
9 April 2009
F5 upgrade speeds, secures application delivery: F5 is enabling machine-to-machine communications among its Big-IP acceleration devices to secure and speed links among corporate offices.
9 April 2009
Want to change the world? Become an engineer: Northeastern University students laud the diversity of opportunities available to them when they graduate with engineering degrees.
9 April 2009
Nortel expands its NAC offerings: Nortel today is announcing a second offering in its family of NAC products, a software platform that runs only on virtual servers and is intended for deployment in heterogeneous networks.
8 April 2009
Fusion-io lands $47 million to ramp up development of flash storage: Flash storage start-up Fusion-io has had a big start to 2009, remaking its management team with former Apple guru Steve Wozniak and just this week landing a $47.5 million funding round.
8 April 2009
SQL Server 2008 service pack released: Microsoft Wednesday released a preview of the first service pack for SQL Server 2008, improving deployment tools but adding no new features to the software.
8 April 2009
Juniper to fall short on Q1: Juniper Networks this week said its first quarter revenue would fall short of previously stated guidance.
8 April 2009
How one network start-up is coping with hellish economy: Windows data migration start-up AutoVirt gets creative in sales, charitable about compensation and keeps cranking out products.
8 April 2009
Germany fines Microsoft for anticompetitive Office pricing: Germany has fined Microsoft €9 million (US$11.9 million) for illegally pressing a retailer to sell its Office productivity software for a certain price, one of the country's competition authorities said Wednesday.
8 April 2009
Cyberspies have compromised U.S. power grid, newspaper reports: Cyberspies, probably from Russia or China, have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that can disrupt it, says an article in the Wall Street Journal that neither names the source of the information nor where this compromise of the grid is (...)
8 April 2009
Brocade switch joins emerging storage, network standards: Brocade is gearing up for the Fibre Channel over Ethernet era with a new switch and adapters, but says not to expect mass adoption of FCoE until 2011.
8 April 2009
Report: Nokia Siemens bids for much of Nortel: Nokia Siemens Networks, Avaya and Siemens Enterprise Communications are moving in to buy parts of troubled Nortel Networks, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources.
8 April 2009
Unified communications start-up aims to challenge Microsoft, Skype, Google: Dutch start-up Perzonae Unified Communications is working on a service that will combine e-mail, instant messaging and, later, calls and teleconferencing on PCs and mobile phones. The first public beta is now available, it announced on (...)
8 April 2009
HP automates management of VMware, other virtualization systems: HP upgraded software designed to reduce the manual tasks associated with managing VMware, other virtual environments.
8 April 2009
Google updates App Engine, adds Java support: Google has announced a new version of its Google App Engine platform including preliminary support for Java applications with the inclusion of an industry standard J2EE server in the cloud.
8 April 2009
Researcher's death casts pall over major TCP fix: The security researcher who discovered a major networking flaw that could be used to take down Internet servers has died, leaving others to carry on the work of fixing the flaw without him.
8 April 2009
IBM lights online collaboration services: IBM/Lotus has launched the first major piece of its LotusLive online strategy, its biggest move yet to deliver collaboration services online to corporate users.
8 April 2009
Internet-wide problem to be revealed at conference: Organizers of next week's Black Hat Europe conference are promising a security presentation that could impact anyone who uses the Internet, but no details have been released yet.
8 April 2009
Sun made colossal mistake in turning down IBM offer, analysts say: Analysts seem to agree: Sun made a huge error in turning down IBM's $7 billion takeover offer.
8 April 2009
FBI claims ISP stole millions from AT&T, Verizon: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has raided a Dallas collocation facility, investigating a fraud in which telecommunication giants AT&T and Verizon Communications were duped into providing more than 120 million minutes of telephone service to criminals, the FBI (...)
8 April 2009
Apple seen readying huge Wi-Fi boost for iPod Touch, iPhone: Hardware specs uncovered in the iPhone 3.0 firmware beta code hint that Apple will introduce new iPod Touch and iPhone models with high-capacity, low-power 802.11n Wi-Fi.
8 April 2009
Australia to spend $31 billion on national broadband net: The Australian Government will establish a new public company to build the next-generation National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia.
7 April 2009
AP takes aim at Web sites over unlicensed news content: The Associated Press (AP), one of the world's largest news providers, plans to take legal action against Web portals and other sites that use its content without paying for a license, the organization said Monday.
7 April 2009
Microsoft limits Windows 7 upgrade options for enterprises without maintenance contracts: Microsoft will restrict Windows 7 "upgrade rights" for Vista and XP users to 25 machines at any single street address, meaning that larger companies will have to go through volume licensing for their migration plans, according to a Web site chronicling the rollout of the forthcoming operating (...)
7 April 2009
Unified communications applications coming to the cloud: Expect more communications services from cloud-computing providers such as IBM's LotusLive Engage that becomes available tomorrow, according to makers of unified communications gear and providers at the recent VoiceCon Orlando (...)
7 April 2009
High-tech job cuts soar in Q1: The U.S. technology sector reported 84,217 job cuts in the first quarter of 2009 -- the highest quarterly total since 2002, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
6 April 2009
Engineer unemployment rate spikes: IEEE comments on U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics report that the unemployment rate among those in engineering and computer fields rose in the first quarter of 2009.
6 April 2009
Yet another government attempt at cybersecurity: The timing of two cybersecurity bills just introduced by Sen. John D. Rockefeller, IV (D.-W.Va.), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R.-- Maine) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D.-Fla.) seems a bit funny. It is not so much that they were introduced on April Fools’ Day; more importantly, they were introduced (...)
6 April 2009
Storage vendor Sepaton gets another $15.5 million in financing: The venture capital market dried up, but some late-stage companies are still getting cash.
6 April 2009
Trend Micro expands SaaS security strategy: Trend Micro plans sell antimalware software as a service and coordinate with channel partners
6 April 2009
Afraid of losing your job to a younger, cheaper IT worker?: Older, high-salaried workers might be laid off first in times like these. Here's some advice on how to keep your job.
6 April 2009
Netscape alums tackle cloud storage: Cloud storage start-up Zetta promises enterprise-class file system.
6 April 2009
Electronics demand may recover late this year: The current uptick in electronics production may be a first sign of bottoming, but real end-user demand for electronic devices will not emerge until the final quarter of this year, Gartner said in a report Sunday.
6 April 2009
Xerox outsources management of data centers to India's HCL: Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies is to offer data center services to Xerox under a six-year contract.
6 April 2009
Humans prove weak link in Japanese warning network: If there's one thing the Japanese government learned on Saturday -- the first of a five-day launch period for a North Korean rocket -- it's that the government's emergency information network works.
6 April 2009
Collapse of IBM/Sun deal could leave Sun without a suitor, analysts say: Sun Microsystems may find itself without any viable suitors if it does not come to terms with potential acquirer IBM.
6 April 2009
Conficker copycat prowls for victims, says Microsoft: An old, but little-known worm has copied some of the infection strategies of Conficker, the worm that raised a ruckus last week, Microsoft security researchers said late Friday.
6 April 2009
Comcast e-mail outage sparks Twitter updates galore: Comcast.net e-mail went down for potentially millions of subscribers the better part of the day Saturday as users and observers got running commentary on the service provider's efforts to manage the situation via Twitter updates from Frank Eliason, the company's director of Digital (...)
5 April 2009
Cries of protest, censorship greet news of cybersecurity bill: Communism, Fascism, treading on liberties, censorship and other political cries greeted the news of proposed legislation in the U.S. Senate that would give the president power to disconnect the Internet.
3 April 2009
After Conficker: A PowerPoint Zero-Day Flaw: Just when you thought you were safe from dangers such as the Conficker worm comes another hole in Microsoft's security, this time in the form of a PowerPoint zero-day vulnerability. Microsoft issued a statement yesterday warning PowerPoint users not to open unknown or unexpected PowerPoint (...)
3 April 2009
Google to Buy Twitter? Report Says Deal is in the Works: The rumor mill is in full gear over speculation that Google may acquire Twitter. The news comes from two separate and unnamed sources that claim talks between Google and Twitter are in the late stages, according to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. However, Arrington says he has spoken to a (...)
3 April 2009
IT security vendors worth following on Twitter: Enterprise IT companies are setting up Twitter accounts in droves, and security companies are among the most enthusiastic given that Twitter is ideal for quick updates on vulnerabilities such as Conficker/Downadup..
3 April 2009
FCC needs to investigate wireless carrier Skype limits, group says: Free Press this week asked the Federal Communications Commission to decide whether wireless carriers are violating federal rules by blocking such applications as the low-cost Skype VoIP service.
3 April 2009
SaaS vendor converts offering to packaged software: While many packaged software vendors rush to put their products on the Internet, LongJump goes the opposite route.
3 April 2009
RIM becomes a $10 billion company: Research In Motion ended fiscal 2009 with a bang, becoming a $10 billion company and reporting strong gains in revenue, profit and subscribers.
3 April 2009
Apple hints at launch of Nehalem-based Xserve: An Apple online store is set to take preorders of new Xserve servers carrying Intel's new Xeon chips, hinting at launch of the devices in the near future.
3 April 2009
CTIA Wireless: LTE comes into focus: How LTE could change the mobile industry becomes clearer at CTIA Wireless event
3 April 2009
Report: IBM, Sun deal said to be close: IBM and Sun are close to a deal under which IBM will acquire Sun for about $9.50 per share, The New York Times reported in its online edition Thursday afternoon.
3 April 2009
Bill would give Obama power to shut down Internet, networks during cyber attacks: The proposed legislation, introduced April 1, also would give the President the power to “order the disconnection of any Federal government or United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks in the interest of national (...)
3 April 2009
DIY tips for IT pros: How to cut costs and get more from your gear: Finding efficiencies doesn’t always mean cutting budgets or reducing staff. IT professionals with tight budgets share how they pull more value from the software, staff and technology they already have.
3 April 2009
Start-ups air cable industry innovations: A panel of five start-ups at The Cable Show '09 pitched technologies designed to change the cable industry.
3 April 2009
EMC targets e-mail archiving, e-discovery in new product line: EMC is tackling e-mail archiving, e-discovery and legal compliance with a new set of software products announced Thursday under the brand name SourceOne.
3 April 2009
Microsoft Office Coming to the iPhone?: Workaholics tethered to their smartphones have another reason to switch to Apple: Rumors that Microsoft's Office Suite is coming to the iPhone are inching towards reality, and iPhone apps with document and spreadsheet editing capabilities are also on the (...)
2 April 2009
Palm takes next steps on webOS, Pre smartphone: Palm took the next steps in the upcoming release of the Palm Pre, by expanding access to its SDK, unveiling plans for cloud-based services linked to its webOS, and supporting legacy Palm applications on the new handheld
2 April 2009
Motorola exec dishes on LTE role: An interview with Motorola senior vice president Fred Wright
2 April 2009
Greenpeace slams HP, Dell and Lenovo for toxic substances: PC makers Dell, HP and Lenovo have been criticised in the latest edition of Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics, after the environmental campaigner said they are breaking their promises to phase-out toxic chemicals in 2009.
2 April 2009
Conficker may be more widespread than previously thought: The Conficker worm may have infected more machines than previously thought, according to Internet infrastructure provider OpenDNS.
2 April 2009
Cyber espionage from state governments? Don't be surprised: The report "Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network," a collaborative effort by consultancy SecDev Group and the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, says it traced evidence of 1,295 compromised computers in 103 countries, mostly in government (...)
2 April 2009
Verizon spearheads LTE advances: Verizon is hoping to spark innovation for 4G wireless products and applications by founding a new "innovation center" aimed at creating a wide range of devices and services for mobile broadband use.
2 April 2009
RIM unveils BlackBerry application store: Research in Motion this week launches BlackBerry App World, an online catalog to find, buy, and download applications for its smartphones
1 April 2009
Windows server targets branch, small office users: Microsoft Wednesday rounded out its server lineup for small and midsized businesses by releasing Windows Foundations.
1 April 2009
IETF offers phony end-to-end NAT idea: The IETF published its annual April Fool's joke this morning, with a phony proposal for an end-to-end network address translation scheme for the Internet.
1 April 2009
Report: HP may build Android netbooks: Hewlett-Packard Co. may build netbook PCs running Google Inc.'s Linux-based Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
1 April 2009
Microsoft says phones are bad: ORLANDO -- Microsoft used its VoiceCon Orlando keynote today to attack the desk phone and traditional telephony vendors in general as a hindrance to cost savings that businesses need to realize in order to deal effectively with the bad (...)
1 April 2009
IBM lining up run at telephony, VoIP integration: IBM Lotus Wednesday introduced a slew of partners to help with its efforts to integrate traditional telephony and VoIP with collaboration software via Sametime Unified Telephony Server, which the company said will ship in July.
1 April 2009
Is the Internet doomed to fail?: Has the Internet passed its "use-by" date? There are worrying signs that the Internet's architecture may not be able to scale effectively much longer.
1 April 2009
Analyst: Apple readies two iPhone models, for different geographic markets: An equity researcher says Apple has two new iPhone models in the works, each aimed at a different geographic market.
1 April 2009
Does the iPhone belong in corporate networks?: The right mobile handset for business use depends greatly on the organization that’s deploying them, according to participants in a peer-group session at VoiceCon Orlando.
1 April 2009
Group takes Conficker fight to a new level: Forming a global alliance to fight cybercrime isn't easy, and building an organization that can stay one step ahead of cyber crooks in more than 100 countries is close to impossible. But a band of volunteers calling itself Conficker Working Group thinks it can do (...)
1 April 2009
Some UltraDNS customers knocked offline by attack: NeuStar confirmed that some of its UltraDNS managed DNS service customers were knocked offline for several hours Tuesday morning by a distributed denial of service attack.
1 April 2009
Conficker activation passes quietly, but threat isn't over: An expected activation of the Conficker.c worm at midnight on April 1 passed without incident, despite sensationalized fears that the Internet itself might be affected, but security researchers said users aren't out of the woods (...)
1 April 2009
5 best router and switch features you never use: It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities. The same might be true of those managing enterprise LAN switches and routers, a habit that might be costing organizations in unnecessary purchases and manpower at a time when every penny (...)
1 April 2009
AT&T to resell Cisco telepresence gear to feds: AT&T and Cisco have inked an exclusive deal that allows the carrier's government marketing arm to sell fully managed room-based video conferencing systems from Cisco to federal agencies.
1 April 2009
IT spending drop-off worse than after dot.com bust, Gartner reports: Gartner adjusts global IT spending forecast downward as more enterprise companies plan budget cuts and vendors report slowing sales.
1 April 2009
Blocking Conficker domain names: Will it work?: One important effort to try and stop the Conficker worm from being activated by its creators on April 1 and beyond is blocking the domain names that it may use for command-and-control or downloading malware. But will it work?
1 April 2009
Cloud computing vendors converge on standard definition, goals: Cloud computing vendors are moving toward a common definition and forming industry groups to collaborate on building cloud technologies.
1 April 2009
Advanced uses of unified communication apps shine at VoiceCon: The Avaya and Cisco opening keynote addresses at VoiceCon Orlando Tuesday focused on the potential of unified communications, fleshed out with some targeted demonstrations of what that future might look like.
1 April 2009
Conficker's patch gambit exposed by researchers: One technique deployed by the Conficker worm is to patch vulnerable Microsoft-based computers it has invaded. But University of Bonn researchers recently discovered that the Conficker patch is sufficiently different than the official Microsoft patch, giving security firm Qualys the opportunity (...)
1 April 2009
Siemens launches cloud experiment at VoiceCon: Siemens' unified-communications-in-the-cloud experiment with Amazon.com could result in services that avoid capital costs and provide an easy exit plan if customers decide to bail out of individual service elements.
1 April 2009
Fools and jokers coming to a network near you: While there is little known about the origins of April Fools' Day, the list of gags go on and on and this year is certain to add to the list of potty-themed Wii games, scratch-and-sniff Web sites and police-finding mobile applications.
31 March 2009
Cloud Security Alliance formed to promote best practices: Cloud Security Alliance is formed to promote best practices.
31 March 2009
Fake security software scammers jump on Conficker: Google's search rankings are being stuffed with links to fake security software that purports to remove Conficker, a widespread worm that's currently the Internet's number one security threat, but doesn't.
31 March 2009
Cisco rolls out low-end ($89K) telepresence system: Cisco is announcing at VoiceCon Orlando a lower cost telepresence system designed for deployment in existing teleconference rooms without upgrading them to accommodate top-of-the-line telepresence gear.
31 March 2009
Avaya announces server to unify communications via SIP: Avaya is announcing at VoiceCon Orlando a new server that connects disparate SIP-enabled PBXs into a single system with global dial plans and call routing - a cost-saving first step toward rolling out corporate-wide unified communications.
31 March 2009
HP unveils Nehalem-based servers, touts energy efficiency: HP has built 11 new servers which use the highly anticipated Intel Nehalem architecture as well as HP technology to improve performance and manage power more efficiently, the vendor is announcing Monday. Each server in the new line uses fewer than half as many watts as its predecessor, says (...)
31 March 2009
Google Ventures looks to invest in startup companies: Markets may be down and investors depressed but Google apparently believes this is a good time to invest in startup companies. On Monday, the company announced the creation of Google Ventures, a venture capital fund that aims to invest in a broad array of technology-related (...)
31 March 2009
Feds give $50B IT services deal a second try: The U.S. federal government has chosen 59 IT services firms including AT&T Government Solutions, Nortel Government Solutions and IBM for a government-wide IT services program that could be worth $50 billion over the next 10 years.
31 March 2009
Sprint CEO's '08 compensation valued at $15.5 million: Despite seeing his company lose more than 4 million wireless subscribers in 2008, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse received an executive compensation package that the company valued at $15.5 million.
31 March 2009
Conficker on April 1st: Eve of destruction or big joke?: Will the Conficker worm, set to activate April 1, do a lot of damage?
31 March 2009
Preparing for the Pre: Palm and Sprint must get it right: Palm and Sprint are betting heavily on the success of the forthcoming Palm Pre smartphone. Here’s what they need to do to get it right.
30 March 2009
Smart grid, other environmental control systems not smart about security: If lengthy requirements were a measure of success, then smart grid technology is well on its way to being an anomaly in the environmental controls space. But I'm not going to try to hold my breath for that to happen.
30 March 2009
Deep computer-spying network touched 103 countries: A 10-month cyberespionage investigation has found that 1,295 computers in 103 countries and belonging to international institutions have been spied on, with some circumstantial evidence suggesting China may be to blame.
29 March 2009
IBM layoffs incite backlash: News of IBM's recent North American layoffs caused many to speak out regarding Big Blue's strategy to employ lower-cost labor overseas during the U.S. economic crisis.
27 March 2009
10% pay cuts for EMC's Tucci, other top executives: EMC's top five executives, including CEO Joe Tucci, are taking 10% pay cuts
27 March 2009
Report: Skype for iPhone May Launch Next Week: Skype may launch a version of its mobile Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and instant messaging service as early as next week, according to a report from Om Malik of GigaOM. If true, the application could prove popular with cost-conscious iPhone users who'd like to save a few bucks by routing calls over (...)
27 March 2009
Security analyst spots three flaws in Google Docs: A security analyst says he's found three glitches in Google Docs that could expose private data, but Google said the issues don't pose a security risk.
27 March 2009
7 reasons MPLS has been wildly successful: The IETF Thursday threw a birthday party for one of its most successful standards: Multi-Protocol Label Switching.
27 March 2009
IETF: No consensus on IPv6 NATs: The Internet's leading standards body appears split on a controversial proposal to specify network address translators (NAT) for IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol that was designed to eliminate such middle boxes from the Internet (...)
27 March 2009
Avaya's new CEO sets three top goals for company: Avaya's freshly minted CEO Kevin Kennedy will deliver a keynote at VoiceCon Orlando next week, during which he is expected to announce a major addition to its unified communications platform architecture and the promise of cost savings. Leading up to the show, Kennedy answered questions from (...)
27 March 2009
IETF to explore new routing technique: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is forming a new working group to address scalability issues in the Internet’s routing system caused by companies splitting their network traffic over multiple carriers, a practice called (...)
27 March 2009
Will IBM layoffs mean more jobs sent overseas?: IBM confirmed it plans to eliminate some North American jobs, and industry watchers react to speculation that Big Blue may shift some eliminated positions to India.
27 March 2009
Solid-state flash products hit market en masse: Solid-state drives based on flash memory are turning up in products from seemingly every hardware vendor these days, signaling that the technology may be inching closer to mass adoption.
26 March 2009
IBM confirms North America layoffs: Amid reports that it is moving thousands of jobs from the U.S. to India, IBM said Thursday it is notifying employees that some jobs are being eliminated.
26 March 2009
Firefox fix due next week after attack is published: Online attack code has been released targeting a critical, unpatched flaw in the Firefox browser.
26 March 2009
Dell challenges HP, IBM with new offerings: Trying to shed its reputation as an inexpensive hardware vendor, Dell is taking steps to sharpen its enterprise offerings so it can compete more effectively with rivals IBM and HP.
26 March 2009
Ovum projects explosion in mobile broadband users by 2014: Mobile broadband revenues will explode over the next five years as mobile broadband users are projected to total 2 billion by 2014, says IT research firm Ovum.
26 March 2009
Google: IPv6 is easy, not expensive: Google engineers say it was not expensive and required only a small team of developers to enable all of the company’s applications to support IPv6.
26 March 2009
Cisco security updates squash router bugs: Cisco has released eight security updates for the Internetwork Operating System (IOS) software used to power its routers.
26 March 2009
IT security on the cheap: IT security freebies and cheap solutions include leaning on interns, using Twitter and other Web 2.0 tools, and even enticing employees to act in awareness videos
26 March 2009
Google triumvirate sticks with $1 salaries, no bonuses or stock options: Google CEO Eric Schmidt didn't receive a bonus or any new stock or option awards in 2008. Nor did Larry Page or Sergey Brin, who each took a $1 salary and nothing more.
26 March 2009
Dell workstations tap Intel’s Nehalem architecture: New workstation products from vendors such as Dell, Lenovo and Apple are helping shed light on the capabilities of Intel’s highly anticipated Nehalem processors.
25 March 2009
Put more IT spending in stimulus plans, Obama advisor says: Governments should include more information and communication technology investments in their economic stimulus plans, according to an advisor to President Barack Obama's transition team. But governments must also move quickly to realize the desired short-run stimulus effects of these (...)
25 March 2009
Verizon offering full virtualization consulting, implementation services: Verizon Business is now offering a full package of virtualization services that range from assessing potential server consolidation all the way to deploying and managing virtualized servers.
25 March 2009
Biggest mistake for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible, developers admit: The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 - a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol - is that it lacks backwards compatibility with the existing Internet Protocol, known as (...)
25 March 2009
H-1B lottery approaches, experts mull TARP effect: Economic conditions could lessen demand for H-1B visas as U.S. government officials work to limit abuse of the program.
25 March 2009
Sprint to deploy WiMAX in 10 U.S. cities in 2009: Sprint plans to deploy its WiMAX services to 10 major U.S. cities in 2009, with five additional major markets due to get services in 2010.
25 March 2009
Expert cites "major problem" with security policy compliance: Attendees at this week's SecureWorld Boston conference got a stern talking-to Wednesday morning: Keynoter Charles Cresson Wood said organizations need to get their information security policies in order or risk going down the (...)
25 March 2009
Skype is largest international voice carrier, says study: Skype carried around 33 billion minutes of international voice calls last year, or around 8% of all international voice traffic, according to market researcher TeleGeography.
25 March 2009
Sipera gear protects Microsoft OCS when used in unified communications: At VoiceCon Orlando next week, Sipera will announce that its unified communications security gear supports Microsoft Office Communications Server, enabling businesses to safely extend OCS to telecommuters and business partners.
25 March 2009
Microsoft again delays identity management server: Microsoft is again delaying the release of the anticipated upgrade to its Identity Lifecycle Manager 2.0 software that has been years in development.
25 March 2009
Pentagon scraps IPv6 testing program that provided enterprise guidance: The U.S. Defense Department is halting a five-year-old effort to test off-the-shelf network hardware and software products for compliance with IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol.
24 March 2009
Strike looms for AT&T: AT&T faces an April 4 deadline to negotiate a new labor contract or it will run the risk of a massive labor strike, the Communication Workers of America said this week.
24 March 2009
With SUSE Linux 11, Novell draws even closer to Microsoft: The latest version of SUSE Linux Enterprise, Novell's commercial distribution of the open-source operating system, bears more fruit from Novell's controversial two-and-a-half-year-old interoperability alliance with Microsoft.
24 March 2009
Michael Dell hints at smartphones, mobile Internet devices: Michael Dell gave the strongest hint to-date that his company is developing a mobile Internet device or smartphone at a speech in Tokyo on Tuesday.
24 March 2009
101 Great Free Sites and Downloads: In these tough times, the notion of free becomes more attractive than ever.
24 March 2009
Intel CEO Otellini gets $12.4 million in '08: Paul Otellini's 2008 compensation includes a $3.9 million cash bonus plus stock options and awards valued at $7.2 million at the time they were granted.
24 March 2009
FastSoft homes in on small file accleration: FastSoft is upgrading software on its TCP-acceleration gear so it can have an impact on the transfer speeds of smaller files than before.
24 March 2009
Not the "next Google," but still interesting: No start-up on the horizon is likely to overcome Google's breadth of services and Internet mindshare, but there are some recent developments that may just pull users away from Google -- at least for some functions.
24 March 2009
Tufin adds white lists to firewall management platform: Tufin Technologies is upgrading its firewall-management software to include white listing as a way to determine what types of traffic are allowed through corporate firewalls and as a means of safeguarding essential business functions.
24 March 2009
Sun unveils virtual desktop storage upgrades, but lacks offline access: Sun is overhauling its virtual desktop software with new features that reduce storage needs by creating clones of virtual machines, and let users operate multiple virtual desktops on the same client.
24 March 2009
Microsoft to present open source blueprint for down economy: Microsoft plans to use this week's Open Source Business Conference to outline its move into the next phase of its open source strategy around building a business model for the down economy, according to company officials.
24 March 2009
Net neutrality debate spills over to broadband stimulus: Carriers and net neutrality proponents found themselves at odds Monday during a discussion on whether to place strict net neutrality conditions on any broadband network built using economic stimulus money.
23 March 2009
Outsourcing prices falling, buyers getting savvier: Outsourcing prices will drop in the coming months, industry watchers speculate. Plus: Advice for making the most out of outsourced IT services.
23 March 2009
10 Business Lessons From 'Battlestar Galactica': You think your business has it rough? The people of Battlestar Galactica have lived through a recession you wouldn't believe. With dwindling resources, a skeleton crew, enemies constantly lurking out of view, and a pervasive threat of annihilation, Admiral Adama navigates the vast unknown. Like (...)
23 March 2009
Extreme extends connectivity, management to LAN edge: Extreme Networks' ReachNXT enterprise port extender and EPICenter management software aim to ease wired connectivity in challenging locations such as conference rooms and visitor areas.
23 March 2009
InDorse unwraps data-protection suite: InDorse Technologies unveiled a security software suite aimed at protecting data in Microsoft SharePoint environments.
23 March 2009
Skype for SIP targets business customers: Skype is making its second run at corporate business with a service that lets its peer-to-peer VoIP clients interact with existing IP PBXs, and this may be just the start of a larger push.
23 March 2009
Ukrainian cybercriminals raked in $10K/day, Finjan reports: Ten thousand eight hundred dollars per day for cybercrime jockeys? That's what security vendor Finjan says it witnessed during its 16-day infiltration of a cybercrime operation that involved selling bogus antivirus software.
23 March 2009
Force10 fortifies data centers with new switch: Force10 Networks this week unveiled a new line of switch/routers designed to improve the performance, management and cost effectiveness of virtualized data center and cloud computing environments.
23 March 2009
Power grid is found susceptible to cyberattack: An emerging network of intelligent power switches, called the Smart Grid, could be taken down by a cyberattack, according to researchers with IOActive, a Seattle security consultancy.
23 March 2009
Linux penguin mascot gives way to Tuz: A stand-in mascot that has appeared in the latest Linux kernel isn’t intended to push out the traditional penguin named Tux but to benefit the plight of the Tasmanian devil.
21 March 2009
No business case for IPv6, survey finds: Business incentives are completely lacking today for upgrading to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, according to a survey of network operators conducted by the Internet Society (ISOC).
20 March 2009
IBM/Sun deal could benefit Java, says Google's open source chief: Google's chief of open source believes an IBM acquisition of Sun could benefit the Java community, which has occasionally protested Sun’s leadership role over the technology.
20 March 2009
A search is launched for Conficker's first victim: Where did the Conficker worm come from? Researchers at the University of Michigan are trying to find out, using a vast network of Internet sensors to track down the so-called "patient zero" of an outbreak that has infected more than 10 million computers to (...)
20 March 2009
Microsoft proud of its first 'post-Gates' OS, Ballmer says: Windows 7 is the first Microsoft OS developed away from the watchful eye of Bill Gates, and the technical leaders who built it had to adjust to life at the company without its cofounder and former chief software architect, CEO Steve Ballmer said (...)
20 March 2009
Researchers make wormy Twitter attack: Computer security researchers have devised a new Twitter attack that they say could spread virally, much like a worm on the microblogging service.
20 March 2009
Can Cisco sell 'unified' vision to a tough server crowd?: Cisco's biggest challenge in gaining market acceptance for its new Unified Computing System is to convince data center managers to buy blade servers from the router giant instead of from traditional, incumbent suppliers.
20 March 2009
Chinese high-tech spy case inches closer to trial: Did software engineer Hanjuan Jin steal thousands of confidential documents from Motorola to share with the People’s Republic of China? The strange and complex case is expected to go to trial in Chicago.
20 March 2009
Time to cut back cell phone use, budget-conscious Americans say: If the economy does not improve, 39% of American cell phone users say they’ll cut their usage over the next six months.
20 March 2009
Developer accidentally triggers iPhone tethering in 3.0 beta: An iPhone developer working with beta code for iPhone 3.0 has stumbled upon the feature that lets a notebook PC link to an iPhone via USB or Bluetooth and then access the Internet.
20 March 2009
What it will take for mobile VoIP to get enterprise-ready: Mobile VoIP technology has yet to evolve to the point where users can simply switch on their phones anywhere and expect to connect to a secure IP network. Here's what it will take for that to have a chance of happening.
20 March 2009
AT&T reportedly to offer iPhone without 2-year contract: AT&T will shortly launch a new iPhone offering, allowing its existing customers to buy the phone without having to also sign a 2-year service contract, according to online smartphone blog, The Boy Genius Report.
20 March 2009
Palm revenues plunge as Pre's launch draws near: Palm reported a continued steep decline in its smartphone revenues for the quarter ending Feb. 27, as it nears the launch of the anticipated Palm Pre with Sprint.
20 March 2009
Microsoft Exchange service providers merge: Managed service providers Azaleos and M3Technology have merged their operations around remote management of Microsoft Exchange.
20 March 2009
Bracing for NCAA tournament traffic: It's that time of year again: March Madness.
19 March 2009
Cisco buying Flip video camera maker for $590 million: Cisco Thursday announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies, creator of the Flip video camcorder for consumers, for $590 million in stock.
19 March 2009
IE 8 released, made available on Web: Microsoft Thursday released Internet Explorer 8, the next version of its Web browser that includes a number of corporate features, including tools to customize and control the software via centralized policies.
19 March 2009
Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5K: Charlie Miller, the security researcher who hacked a Mac in two minutes last year at CanSecWest's PWN2OWN contest, improved his time Wednesday by breaking into another Mac in under 10 seconds.
19 March 2009
Oracle 11g R2, Middleware 11g coming soon: Oracle is set to release two highly anticipated products within the next several months -- Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g -- company President Charles Phillips revealed during the vendor's third-quarter earnings call (...)
19 March 2009
IBM + Sun: How a merger would impact IT: Nine topics to consider regarding a potential IBM/Sun acquisition.
19 March 2009
IBM/Sun deal won’t be about the software, experts say: If IBM swings a deal for Sun it won’t hinge on open source interests or software, where the two companies have enough overlap to negate any strategic value, observers say.
19 March 2009
Could IBM be Sun's savior?: Speculation that IBM is planning to acquire Sun has high-tech analysts discussing the pros and cons of the two vendors becoming one Big Blue Sun.
19 March 2009
Vivek Kundra reinstated as federal CIO: Vivek Kundra, who took a leave of absence from his job as the federal government's CIO last week, was reinstated Tuesday after the White House determined that he has no connection to an alleged bribery scheme in the District of Columbia's IT department, where he previously was chief technology (...)
19 March 2009
What IBM/Sun talks could mean for cloud computing: Cloud computing market could be shaken up by IBM/Sun acquisition, analysts say.
18 March 2009
Sun begins new push into cloud services market: Sun is making a fresh push into the cloud services market, starting with hosted computing and storage services that it will offer to developers later this year.
18 March 2009
Mobile Firefox aka Fennec hits beta: The mobile version of the popular Firefox Web browser is now available in beta release from Mozilla, but only on one mobile device. One big addition: a much faster JavaScript compiler.
18 March 2009
Report: IBM is in talks to buy Sun: Global technology giant IBM is in talks to buy Sun in a deal that would expand its server market share, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
18 March 2009
Cisco rivals size up UCS with usual reaction: caveat emptor: Cisco's networking competitors weighed in on the company's new unified data center platform with the predictable reaction: buyer beware.
18 March 2009
Major shift to cloud IT services inevitable, IDC says: IT infrastructure and services delivered over the cloud will be ubiquitous within five years, and vendors that ignore the shift from on-premises software to Internet-delivered technology will be left in the dust.
17 March 2009
Beta tester Savvis talks up Cisco's UCS architecture: Savvis CTO Bryan Doerr talks about Cisco's Unified Computing System platform and next-generation data center architectures.
17 March 2009
Apple previews version 3.0 of iPhone OS: Apple Tuesday unveiled a software development kit with more than 1,000 new programming interfaces for iPhone developers, and scores of UI and other changes in version 3.0 of the iPhone operating system.
17 March 2009
Start-up UnboundID unveils directory for Web 2.0: Directory start-up UnboundID slipped out of stealth mode Tuesday and introduced a scalable and high performance standards-based platform aimed at handling the identity and personalization demands of Web-based services and mobile (...)
17 March 2009
IT spending forecasts spiral further downward: Goldman Sachs, IHS Global Insight predict 2009 IT spending will decline more than previously anticipated in 2009 and don't expect the market to recover fully until 2010 or beyond.
17 March 2009
Nokia plans another 1,700 layoffs worldwide: Nokia says it will cut another 1,700 By John Coxworkers as smartphone demand continues to fall.
17 March 2009
Road signs hacked in NYC: Electronic road signs in downtown New York City were broken into over the weekend and instead of telling drivers to go slowly next to a Houston Street construction site, they flashed prankster messages such as "New York is dying," according to a report from The New York (...)
17 March 2009
Web inventor Berners Lee conned by fake Web site: In a classic example of an invention turning on its inventor, Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners Lee, has admitted being conned out of his money by an Internet fraudster.
17 March 2009
HTC to launch 'at least' three Google phones this year: High Tech Computer (HTC) will ship "at least" three smartphones this year that use Google's Android software, HTC's CEO said Tuesday.
17 March 2009
UWB group hands off to Wireless USB, Bluetooth: The WiMedia Alliance, the industry group organized to push UWB (ultrawideband) technology, will disband after it finishes transferring its technology to two other personal-area network organizations.
17 March 2009
Computer science major is cool again: The number of computer science majors enrolled at U.S. universities increased for the first time in six years, according to a Computing Research Association study being released Tuesday.
17 March 2009
ProCurve unveils new SMB switches: HP ProCurve today unveiled a switch line for small to midsize businesses.
17 March 2009
Linux evaluation, adoption on uptick, study finds: Interest in Linux is accelerating because of the downturn in the economy, respondents say.
17 March 2009
GD Itronix reengineers its toughest, fully-rugged notebook: The new GD8000 rugged notebook from GD Itronix has a strengthened magnesium body, more powerful CPU and greatly improved battery life.
17 March 2009
Intel warns AMD about patent breach: Chip maker Intel on Monday sent a notice to rival Advanced Micro Devices that it violated a patent cross-licensing agreement when it spun off a manufacturing arm into a separate company.
17 March 2009
Symbian sets aggressive release plan: The Symbian Foundation plans to release a new version of the operating system every six months, with the first expected to appear in phones at the end of this year.
17 March 2009
Is the Internet killing the news media?: The latest Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism report on the state of the U.S. news media makes for sobering reading if you are a student thinking of pursuing a career in journalism or if you are already in the business. The bottom line is that the business is toast unless you are in the (...)
16 March 2009
A 10-piece sampler from Microsoft’s gushing patent pipeline: Over the past two months, Microsoft again has been making noise with its patent portfolio, first garnering its 10,000th patent in February and then suing TomTom over alleged patent infringement. And over the past two years, Microsoft has topped the IEEE Patent Pipeline Power (...)
16 March 2009
AlgoSec puts its firewall analysis software on an appliance: AlgoSec is coming out with an appliance that has its firewall analysis software already installed, giving customers a fourth option for using the company's tools.
16 March 2009
Sharp turns like Cisco's have a long history: If Cisco announces its first blade servers on Monday, as expected, the news may well herald a major expansion of the dominant networking company's business. But even though it's the most hotly anticipated move in a long time for an IT vendor, this isn't the first case of a company taking a big (...)
16 March 2009
Broadband stimulus: Where do fiber, wire options fit?: How new backbones and fiber solutions could factor into building more broadband in the United States.
13 March 2009
Measuring data center efficiency easier said than done: The Green Grid's Power Usage Effectiveness metric rates the energy efficiency of data centers. It's catching on, but measurements can be misleading.
13 March 2009
Report: Microsoft U.S. search share hits 12-month low: Microsoft's share of Internet searches in the U.S. fell to a 12-month low according to Comscore's report of Internet search queries for February.
13 March 2009
FBI probe of Kundra’s former D.C. technology office may widen: FBI agents have charged two men, one a staffer in the D.C. IT department run by Vivek Kundra, the Obama administration’s CIO, with bribery, fraud, and money laundering. While Kundra has not been implicated, FBI documents show at least five others may be (...)
13 March 2009
Data center budgets rising despite economy, survey finds: Despite a rough economy, large enterprises are boosting their data center budgets and planning expansions, one survey finds.
13 March 2009
Rackspace challenges Amazon with new cloud server, storage services: Amazon has a new competitor in the cloud computing arena, with Rackspace debuting pay-as-you-go server instances and an online storage service
13 March 2009
Sprint shareholder sues over telco’s financial performance: Cora Bennett, a Sprint common stock shareholder, filed a class action lawsuit with the U.S. District Court of Kansas yesterday alleging that Sprint executives had knowingly concealed information from shareholders about the health of the company’s finances and (...)
13 March 2009
Sale of key Nortel assets may be inevitable: Nortel may have no choice but to sell off key parts of its business, industry analysts said after reports that the company is in talks with competitors to do just that.
13 March 2009
IBM 'online theater' may boost care at Boston hospital: IBM is working with a Boston hospital to develop a browser-based application that uses mashups to let medical experts in different locations study patient data as if they were sitting side by side, IBM said Thursday.
13 March 2009
Apple to unveil iPhone 3.0 OS update next week, new developer tools: Apple is expected to preview version 3.0 of its iPhone software next week, prompting speculation that a new iPhone may be in the works for summer release
13 March 2009
IBM software to ease multivendor security management: IBM is introducing software that lets customers manage multivendor desktop security agents via a single console, affording them a broader choice of security products without proliferating management platforms.
13 March 2009
Conficker.C variant set for April 1st surprise, CA says: The third Conficker variant is set to activate April 1, says CA, generating 50,000 URLs daily with its download function poised for instructions.
13 March 2009
Google Voice - One number for all your phones: Tired of having colleagues and friends miss you when they call your office while you're in the car with another phone? Or having to call into three or four different voicemail systems to get all of your messages?
13 March 2009
Report: Nortel seeks to sell off more business units: Nortel may sell off more of itself than previously announced, leaving very little as a core business if all the speculated sales go through.
13 March 2009
Best security questions to ask about SaaS: Security issues have to be clearly examined before diving into software as a service (SaaS), warns Burton Group analyst Eric Maiwald, who shed some light on the subject at this week's Infosec conference.
12 March 2009
Data center talent pool shrinks faster than expected: Budget cuts are forcing the most knowledgeable and experienced IT pros out the door, AFCOM Data Center Institute (DCI) reports.
12 March 2009
Motorola semi-rugged mobile computer targets enterprise: Motorola’s new MC55 Enterprise Digital Assistant is intended as a semi-rugged, all-around smartphone/scanner/mobile computer that can stand up to hard use and demanding conditions.
12 March 2009
Cisco quietly downsizing through outsourcing: When Cisco celebrated the fifth anniversary of its New England Development Center in Boxborough, Mass., last fall - a ceremony attended by Massachusetts Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and a representative from Gov. Deval Patrick’s office - the company was quietly preparing to move several (...)
12 March 2009
After Gmail, Google wants to search your voice mail too: Google has begun testing a service that will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable.
12 March 2009
Tech skills crucial to any career, students say: Students want to be tech-savvy to succeed across several job industries, not just IT, according to a survey from IBM and Marist College.
12 March 2009
WLAN market shriveled globally in Q4 2008: The wireless LAN market shriveled at the end of 2008, according to new, if sketchy, data released by Infonetics.
12 March 2009
Microsoft, Intel to back Cisco's "Unified Computing" launch: Contrary to previous reports, Cisco's data center vision does not seem to be a largely solo effort.
12 March 2009
Web Genome Project offers Web search alternative: Internet users can test two new search techniques that were both announced Wednesday.
12 March 2009
Verizon lands massive $2.5 billion DoD service contract: Verizon Business has signed a contract that could be worth up to $2.5 billion to provide telecom services to U.S. military installations around the world.
12 March 2009
Nortel to cancel room reservations at Las Vegas CTIA Wireless show: Nortel is asking bankruptcy court to help it back out of rooms it booked for a trade show in Las Vegas just weeks before filing for bankruptcy that including a suite with double Jacuzzi and flat screen TVs in the bedroom, bathroom and (...)
12 March 2009
Company turns bad airflow into good cash flow, green IT: For Wade Lowder, paying attention to which way the wind blows has had an enormous effect on his green IT initiative.
12 March 2009
Lockheed Martin gives homegrown social-networking platform a spin: Lockheed Martin's internal social-networking platform -- dubbed Unity -- combines blogging, Wiki functions, personal pages and group forums.
12 March 2009
Mother Nature speeds school district virtualization project: The road to virtualization for Michael Riggs was covered with five feet of snow, which it turns out was a blessing.
12 March 2009
What vendors will need to examine as they look to shed assets: Companies spent trillions on software and Internet mergers and acquisitions in the post-bubble boom. Some of those acquisitions have fueled growth, geographical expansion and innovation. However, many have fallen short of expectations, taken companies outside of their core focus, or drained (...)
12 March 2009
Verizon offers new Unified Communications service: Verizon Business is now offering a unified communications managed service that gives users desktop access to their voice, email, SMS and Web conferencing services.
12 March 2009
H-1B hiring too much of a hassle?: With more regulatory hoops to jump through, U.S. companies may reconsider bringing H1-B workers on board, lessening the appeal of U.S. education and employment for foreign nationals.
11 March 2009
Cisco's data-center push holds promise, perils: Cisco's move into the heart of data centers, expected to be laid out at an event next Monday, holds the promise of easing a big IT headache but may also escalate competition between the company and its partners.
11 March 2009
Bad Symantec update leads to trouble: Symantec says a buggy diagnostic program spurred a rash of Norton antivirus user complaints late Monday and Tuesday morning.
11 March 2009
EMC looks to build strength through acquisitions: EMC is on the lookout for acquisitions but only wants to buy companies that will help solidify its existing business rather than acquiring companies that push EMC into new markets, the storage vendor's top executive said.
11 March 2009
Layoffs leave orphaned hardware, unused software licenses: Pat Beemer, IT director for Seattle Lighting, has a lot of orphaned computer hardware and unused software licenses on his hands -- the result of what he calls "serious" layoffs at the company.
11 March 2009
AT&T earmarks $11 billion for wireless, wireline broadband in '09: AT&T plans to spend more than $11 billion to expand and improve its wireless and wireline broadband networks in 2009.
11 March 2009
Broadband stimulus funding timeline set by government: Members from several government agencies delivered on Tuesday a basic timeline for funding broadband stimulus projects, with the goal of getting all broadband stimulus money out the door by October 2010.
10 March 2009
IBM CEO Palmisano gets paid nearly $21 million in '08: IBM chief's compensation includes a $5.5 million cash bonus plus stock options and awards worth an estimated $12.22 million at the time they were granted.
10 March 2009
HP services menu goes a la carte: HP unbundles its outsourcing services so customers can mix and match offerings while keeping costs down.
10 March 2009
'Outlaws and terrorists' amplify security challenges, Motorola security chief says: "I've never seen the world this unstable and dangerous," said Bill Boni, Motorola's corporate security officer, at the Infosec conference in Orlando.
10 March 2009
Microsoft cuts software leasing costs to retain companies: In an attempt to retain recession-hit companies seeking to opt out of their software maintenance contracts, Microsoft is wooing them by cutting the price of leasing software by as much as 26%.
10 March 2009
Arbor Networks bolsters Internet monitoring system: More than 100 ISPs participating in Arbor Networks' ATLAS system share anonymous traffic data with one another on an hourly basis.
10 March 2009
Sun's Rock processor on track for this year, exec says: After a year's delay, Sun Microsystems' 16-core "Rock" server chip is on track for delivery in the fall, the head of Sun's systems business said Monday.
10 March 2009
MIT professor snags 'Nobel' of computer science: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. Barbara Liskov will receive the 2008 A.M. Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize of computer science.
10 March 2009
Symantec's Altiris 7 boosts Mac, Linux PC management: Symantec Tuesday announced Version 7.0 of its Altiris client and server management suite. The upgrade, the first released since Symantec's acquisition of Altiris almost two years ago, includes new features for remotely deploying and managing Mac and Linux desktop PCs and, on the server side, (...)
10 March 2009
Jive refining corporate social networking tools: Jive Software next week will ship a suite of corporate social networking tools tailored for various activities such as employee collaboration or brainstorming that will pull together both internal and external users.
10 March 2009
Iridium satellite network back to full strength after collision: A backup satellite in the Iridium communication network has replaced the one knocked out in a collision with a dead Russian satellite last month. This should clear up intermittent delays caused by traffic being routed around the missing (...)
10 March 2009
Cisco, cities work on being green: Cisco this week said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Metropolis, an association of 106 of the world's largest cities, to develop its plan for greener cities.
10 March 2009
Novell links tools for management, virtualized desktop setup: Novell last week created the first link between its tool for virtualization of desktop applications and its software for managing configurations.
10 March 2009
Ruckus unveils 2-radio 11n access point, with its beam-forming antenna array: Ruckus this week announces a new high-end 802.11n access point, its first with 2 radios for dual-band operation, and an update to its controller software that will allow a single controller to oversee up to 500 access points instead of 250. The company is betting that 11n plus the signal (...)
9 March 2009
Juniper introduces Adaptive Threat Management: Juniper is this week introducing software that lets security platforms – even those made by other vendors – share and analyze log information in order to determine the root cause of network problems and fix them.
9 March 2009
Akamai CEO sees opportunity in economic downturn: With many companies cutting headcount and costs to weather the economic downturn, Akamai Technologies President and CEO Paul Sagan wants his sales team to spend more time with customers, part of a bid to make sure that its content delivery and edge-hosting services don't end up on the list of (...)
9 March 2009
Rod Beckstrom resigns as director of National Cybersecurity Center: Rod Beckstrom, director of the National Cybersecurity Center, resigns his position in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, complaining about the large role of the National Security Agency in the NCSC's (...)
9 March 2009
Symantec identifies third, more aggressive Downadup/Conficker variant: A third version of Downadup, also called Conficker, has been identified, and Symantec says it's better at defending itself from anti-malware tactics.
9 March 2009
Corporate SaaS considerations myriad, complex: Amid the growing popularity of software-as-a-service, IT managers are faced with a sometimes monumental task of developing big-picture strategies and policies to govern service-based applications as well as defining performance metrics and (...)
6 March 2009
Microsoft confirms IE8 kill switch in Windows 7: Microsoft Friday confirmed that users will be able to remove Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), as well as several other integrated applications, from Windows 7.
6 March 2009
Clearwire aims to reach 120M people in 2010: Clearwire plans to launch its WiMAX wireless broadband service in 80 markets and reach as many as 120 million people by the end of 2010, the company said Thursday, as it disclosed its financial results for the fourth quarter of (...)
6 March 2009
IT pro gets four years for building botnets: An employee of search engine startup Mahalo has been sentenced to four years in prison for infecting as many as 250,000 computers with malicious botnet computer code.
6 March 2009
Sybase unveils SMS services for mobile location and advertising: 6 March 2009
Windows security patches coming next week: Microsoft will release three sets of security updates next Tuesday, fixing at least one critical bug in its Windows operating system.
6 March 2009
Vivek Kundra named America's CIO: President Barack Obama has officially named former Washington, D.C. tech chief Vivek Kundra as the federal government's Chief Information Officer.
6 March 2009
U.S. loses IPv6 leader: The United States has lost one of its most ardent proponents of IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, with the death of Jim Bound earlier this week.
6 March 2009
Ortiva upgrades mobile streaming video with H.264 compression: Ortiva adds super-efficient H.264 compression to its optimization server for mobile video streaming
6 March 2009
Beyond Downadup: Security expert worries about smart phone, TinyURL threats: Downadup/Conficker worm has been a nightmare, but just wait until you see what malware writers have in store for smart phones and social network sites, security expert says
6 March 2009
Insider theft at New York Police Dept. impacts 80,000 cops: Former director of communications for NYPD's pension fund is accused of stealing computer tapes containing sensitive information on about 80,000 current and retired police officers
6 March 2009
Firefox update improves security: Mozilla released an update for its Firefox Web browser, addressing several issues, including improving the security of the browser.
6 March 2009
AppZero moves workloads from private data centers to the cloud: AppZero’s new technology brings the goal of merging private data centers with public compute clouds one step closer to reality
6 March 2009
EU loosens Microsoft monitoring requirement: The European Commission is no longer requiring a full-time monitor to oversee a 2004 decision that found Microsoft broke EU competition law by restricting interoperability with Windows and integrating the OS and media player software. The Commission ruled Tuesday that the technical assistance (...)
6 March 2009
Blackberry App Store Sets Recession-Defying Prices: Research In Motion (RIM) Wednesday announced its application store for BlackBerry devices, now called as App World. The service, previously known as App Center, will offer BlackBerry owners an easier way to buy and install new applications on their phones, similar to Apple's popular App Store (...)
6 March 2009
Microsoft Windows on a mainframe?: Software that for the first time lets users run native copies of the Windows operating systems on a mainframe will be introduced Friday by datacenter automation vendor Mantissa.
5 March 2009
Network skills in demand, pay well in down economy: Network management, desktop support and Windows administration among the sought-after skills that continue to pay during the downturn.
5 March 2009
Virtual schools rapidly building online education foothold: "Virtual schools" are a growing phenomenon for the nation’s public K-12 schools, with Florida taking the lead later this summer with a new law requiring the brick-and-mortar public schools there to offer a "virtual school" option to their (...)
5 March 2009
DEMO 09: Recession clouds hopes for cash-hungry startups: Thirty-nine DEMO presenters face an economy in which venture cash is hard to come by.
4 March 2009
NWW readers: "We're not gonna pay a lot for this bandwidth!": A look at how Network World readers are reacting to AT&T’s $5,000 bandwidth overage charges
4 March 2009
3 Nightmares When Managing Macs: How hard is it managing Macs in the enterprise? Harder than you might think. Expect lackluster enterprise support from Apple and its horde of Mac developers, for starters. Enterprise savvy Windows developers rushing poor Mac components to market bring frustration, (...)
4 March 2009
Catbird tightens security of virtual machines: Catbird is upgrading its virtual security software platform to better track virtual machines as they replicate themselves and to make sure the proper security policies follow them wherever they go.
4 March 2009
Google finding more fans in the workplace, Schmidt says: More companies are trying out Google's products for the workplace, possibly because IT budgets are tight and they are looking for cheaper alternatives, CEO Eric Schmidt said Tuesday.
4 March 2009
Foxconn plans billion dollar high-tech city: Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is planning to spend a few billion U.S. dollars over the next three to five years to build a digital city with the latest technologies added to make it a healthy, clean place to live, the chairman of the company said (...)
4 March 2009
Fiorina has surgery for breast cancer: Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP and a prominent supporter of the U.S. Republican Party, had surgery for breast cancer on Monday.
4 March 2009
Sprint comeback: Hard, but doable: Sprint had a rough year in 2008, but its WiMAX launch and incremental gains in customer service ratings could help its turnaround chances.
4 March 2009
Novell chief nets $6.9 million in '08: Ron Hovsepian, president and CEO of Novell, received a compensation package worth $6.9 million in 2008
4 March 2009
Linux Foundation taking over Linux.com site: The Linux Foundation Tuesday said it will take over management of editorial and other aspects of Linux.com and create a set of community tools around the Web site.
4 March 2009
User sues AT&T over $5,000 Web bill: An Oklahoma woman is suing AT&T after the company allegedly billed her more than $5,000 for going over her monthly data cap.
4 March 2009
Microsoft devising Office for netbooks: Microsoft is bending its Office franchise toward netbooks and is developing packages that are unique to that market, according to the head of the company's business division.
4 March 2009
Cisco, NASA ally on environmental monitoring: Cisco and NASA this week said they are collaborating on an online global monitoring platform to capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world.
4 March 2009
Microsoft testing search engine to take on Google: Microsoft this week will start internal testing of Kumo, the company's update to its Live Search Web site and part of its stated effort to keep the pressure on Google.
4 March 2009
The fantasy and reality of government security: In the movies the government has always got the best toys, the cutting edge technology and the tightest security standards. Those who have worked on security projects within the government know that in real life government security standards and implementations can vary all across the range (...)
4 March 2009
DEMO 09: Real-time online dating and the world's first $399 refrigerator magnet: Six-minute DEMO presentations highlight technology that lets you search for singles in the immediate vicinity and electronically flirt with them; a netbook-like computing device that can be mounted on your fridge door; and software designed to match patients with kidney (...)
4 March 2009
Volantis updates open-source mobile Web development tools: New connectors are designed to make it easier for Web developers to tap into the applications, data and services on social networking and collaboration sites
4 March 2009
Special-purpose device in a general-purpose world: Fortune Magazine broke the story in late February that newspaper giant (though getting smaller) Hearst Corp., is developing a wireless newspaper e-reader. This project seems like almost exactly the wrong thing to do.
4 March 2009
New Android app warns of telemarketers: Telephone directory company White Pages has developed an application for open-source mobile platform Android that alerts users whenever known telemarketers try to call.
4 March 2009
Most CIOs not planning IT layoffs, survey finds: Eight percent of CIOs anticipate adding staff, 6% expect to reduce headcount and 83% plan to maintain current staffing levels, according to a new Robert Half Technology survey.
4 March 2009
New online community launches for embedded Linux developers: MontaVista is sponsoring a new online open source community, designed to bring together embedded Linux developers.
3 March 2009
Microsoft executive says layoffs offset by more R&D: Up to 3,000 employees could be needed for Microsoft's research efforts this year, in part offsetting layoffs announced in January, a top company executive said Tuesday.
3 March 2009
Cisco debuts e-mail security services: Cisco is wheeling out three flavors of e-mail security services, the first of a series of hosted security services the company plans to announce.
3 March 2009
Koobface worm to users: Be my Facebook friend: A worm that hit Facebook last December has resurfaced, a security researcher said today, and is now hijacking user accounts -- not only for that social networking service, but also for MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal and others.
3 March 2009
Realtors sold on software that ferrets out illicit password sharing: Stopping illicit password use is a tough problem to solve but Ray Moore, member of the board at the Mountain Central Association of Realtors, says a little technology combined with a lot of diplomacy has made the difference in stopping unauthorized use of the association's MLS (...)
3 March 2009
DEMO 09: Recession weeds out uninspiring start-ups: DEMO 09 kicked off Monday morning with 39 new technologies designed to help consumers and make businesses more efficient.
3 March 2009
Verizon CEO's 2008 compensation tops $20 million: Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, took home roughly $20.2 million in compensation - including pay, vested stock and exercised option awards - in 2008, according to documents filed last week with the Securities and Exchange (...)
3 March 2009
New carbon codes let consumers decide how products are carbon-neutralized: At DEMO 09, start-up eFormic unveiled a new system for certifying carbon-neutral products and giving consumers the ability to choose between different carbon offset programs.
3 March 2009
Microsoft online services trial won't begin until end of March: Microsoft Office Communications online service will go live in April
3 March 2009
Nortel curtailing Carrier Ethernet switch/router investment: Nortel this week said is winding down its investment in Carrier Ethernet switch/routers (CESR) in favor of packet optical transport platforms.
3 March 2009
Damballa unveils anti-botnet product, badmouths McAfee A/V: Start-up switches from service-based model to on-site management console
3 March 2009
Zenprise extends mobile monitoring to Windows Mobile clients: Zenprise has extended its automated mobile management software to cover Windows Mobile, along with BlackBerry and iPhone devices.
3 March 2009
Microsoft details contents of enterprise bundle for Windows 7: In a series of briefings held on both coasts last week for product reviewers, Microsoft detailed the features that will be included in its Windows 7 Enterprise edition when it is released later this year.
2 March 2009
Storm clouds ahead: Cloud computing, which refers primarily to an on-demand service delivery model that may span both outsourced and premises-based platforms, is the hot, new paradigm.
2 March 2009
More science, less drama: IT pros defend engineering careers: Network World readers give their take on why engineering is a viable career option and how the industry could be made more appealing to students.
2 March 2009
HP wins $1B, 10-year services contract: EDS will use HP and Cisco technology to transform U.K. insurer Aviva's two data centers under the terms of a $1 billion 10-year contract.
2 March 2009
Cisco vet launches net management start-up: Windmill Networks’ technology promises to pull together data from multiple management tools distributed across an enterprise network
2 March 2009
Downadup worm may hammer Southwest Airlines URL March 13: Computers infected by the Downadup worm will "phone home" to several legitimate URLs this month, including one owned by Southwest Airlines , potentially disrupting those sites, a security researcher said Sunday.
2 March 2009
IBM tries to tackle nanotube chip cooling: IBM researchers on Monday said they are looking at ways to improve heat management in carbon nanotube transistors to prevent them from self-destructing.
2 March 2009
Touch-screen laptop, iPhone service highlight DEMO 09: A sleek touch-screen laptop, a voice-to-text service for the iPhone, and various tools to help employees work more efficiently are being unveiled this week at Network World's DEMO 09 conference in Palm Desert, Calif.
2 March 2009
DEMO 09 presenters unveiled: DEMO 09 organizers have announced the latest crop of hand-picked emerging technologies, including a portable device that works as a netbook and touch-screen tablet, a voice-to-text SMS application for the iPhone and a network of small, battery powered wireless cameras that stream video directly (...)
28 February 2009
RIM: Battery not source of BlackBerry Bold overheating: Research In Motion on Friday confirmed that NTT DoCoMo has halted sales of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone in Japan due to overheating, but said that the battery wasn't the source of the problem.
27 February 2009
Tech crime blotter: February's top 15 stories: A look back at the month’s biggest technology stories involving alleged and actual crimes, including Microsoft putting a bounty on the head of the Conficker worm authors and the FBI warning about "swatting"
27 February 2009
Open source PBXs make corporate gains; how much is up for debate: Open source IP PBX studies show gains but numbers vary wildly
27 February 2009
TomTom suit shows Microsoft's split personality: Microsoft has been vocal about its interest in working more closely with the open-source community in the past couple of years, actively promoting interoperability, forging new relationships and donating code to open-source projects. But the patent-infringement suit it filed Wednesday against (...)
27 February 2009
Economic downturn not taking the fight out of Microsoft: Microsoft last week outlined its intent to stand and fight against a difficult economy with a plan to go after competitors and seize market share in areas like netbooks, mobile devices/services, browsers, databases and even search/advertising.
27 February 2009
WLAN product blitz shows 802.11n getting more affordable, useable: New 802.11n products are on tap from AirMagnet, D-Link, Enterasys, Meraki and Motorola’s AirDefense unit
27 February 2009
Obama's broadband stimulus: Will wireless fit the bill?: Could wireless technologies offer the national broadband capabilities President Obama seeks? Although the government has allotted $7.2 billion for broadband deployment in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the bill does not specify what sort of technology the money will be (...)
26 February 2009
Commerce chief faces 5 Internet emergencies: If former Washington State Gov. Gary Locke (D) is confirmed as the new U.S. Commerce Secretary, he'll face several Internet policy issues that require immediate attention and decisive action in 2009.
26 February 2009
New Google dashboard provides downtime information: Google made good on a promise to keep its customers better informed of service outages by introducing a new dashboard for Google Apps on Wednesday.
26 February 2009
Appliances big opportunity for Linux, Novell says: The modularity and licensing of Linux makes it well suited as the platform of choice for the burgeoning software appliance market, a Novell executive said at the VMworld conference in Cannes.
26 February 2009
Netbooks: All About the New Ultraportables: The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful information about this category of machines. Sure, they all have wireless networking, but so does every other laptop. Originally what the term helped to identify was a class of small, ultralightweight, cheap-as-dirt mobile PCs. Netbooks (...)
26 February 2009
Study: Hackers still enjoy vandalizing Web sites: A study of 57 Web site hacks from last year showed that 24% were aimed at defacing a site rather than financial gain.
26 February 2009
Global Crossing teams with Limelight, EdgeCast for CDN services: Global Crossing customers can now access content delivery network (CDN) services from Limelight and EdgeCast
26 February 2009
Citrix audio conferencing goes HD: Citrix is rolling out a high-definition audio conferencing service that supports better-than-toll-quality calls from PCs fitted with a Skype client.
26 February 2009
On leave, Jobs is still involved in Apple's decisions, executives say: Although he's turned over operational control, Apple CEO Steve Jobs remains heavily involved in company decisions, according to Apple executives who spoke at the one-hour annual meeting held at the firm's Cupertino, Calif. headquarters.
26 February 2009
iPhone plagues Princeton with flaky Wi-Fi problems: Princeton University iPhone and iPod Touch users are being plagued with Wi-Fi connectivity issues on the campus network, according to a story this week in the Daily Princetonian, an independent student newspaper.
25 February 2009
Nortel announces more layoffs: Nortel Networks will further cut its workforce by 3,200 and eliminate bonuses as part of its ongoing bankruptcy reorganization.
25 February 2009
Microsoft: SP2 for Windows Server 2008, Vista hit final beta: Microsoft Wednesday made available to its MSDN and TechNet subscribers the final beta of Service Pack 2 for both Vista and Windows Server 2008.
25 February 2009
HP to distribute, support Sun's Solaris: HP and Sun Microsystems -- fierce competitors when it comes to hardware sales -- unveiled an expanded partnership on Wednesday that will see HP become a key distributor of Sun's Solaris operating system.
25 February 2009
Network management vendors land hefty venture funding: Network management vendor Apparent Networks and identity management vendor Aveksa separately bring in venture capital cash.
25 February 2009
Start-up VirtenSys improves workload performance with virtual I/O: VirtenSys is aiming to reduce data center complexity and expense by virtualizing the I/O resources that connect servers and storage to the network.
25 February 2009
PCI council ranks security risks, milestones: Businesses shouldn't let financial pressures put PCI-security compliance on the back burner, and the PCI Security Standards Council has devised has devised a 12-step program to help merchants get there.
25 February 2009
Versata Enterprises acquires AlterPoint: Venture capital investors sell their shares of AlterPoint to Versata, and AlterPoint executives say the move will help it further develop technology, sell products and cater to customer needs during tough economic times.
25 February 2009
Server revenue sees big drop in Q4, IDC says: Worldwide server revenue saw its biggest quarterly drop in years in the last quarter of 2008 and may not recover until next year, IDC said in a survey released on Wednesday.
25 February 2009
Juniper joins top-of-rack switch fray: Juniper this week unveiled a top-of-rack data center switch targeted at high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet deployments.
25 February 2009
After CERT warning, Microsoft delivers AutoRun fix: Microsoft is pushing out a software update to some Windows users that fixes a bug in the Windows AutoRun software, used to automatically launch programs when DVDs or USB devices are introduced to the PC.
25 February 2009
Visto's Good buyout relieves Motorola: Motorola's sale of the former Good Technology to Visto may benefit the embattled equipment maker more than either push e-mail provider, though the deal should help Visto bulk up for competition against Research in Motion, according to industry (...)
25 February 2009
Gmail chat invaded by phishing scam: Google’s e-mail service has been invaded by a virus that is spreading itself through users’ instant message accounts.
25 February 2009
Microsoft has big growth plans even as economy limps: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts Monday that the weak economy and declining PC sales would continue to challenge the company but that Microsoft would focus on growing market share within its seven core businesses.
25 February 2009
Juniper's answer to Cisco in the data center: Stratus Project: Juniper said Tuesday it is partnering with server, storage and software companies to develop a converged data center fabric under a multiyear project that will compete with Cisco's largely solo effort.
25 February 2009
Check Point overhauls its security software architecture: Check Point is in the midst of a major overhaul of its security software architecture so customers can pick and choose the applications they want and dedicate computing resources to each depending on the performance they want to (...)
25 February 2009
VeriSign: We will support DNS security in 2011: VeriSign has promised to deploy DNS Security Extensions – known as DNSSEC – across all of its top-level domains within two years.
25 February 2009
Juniper CEO sees IT spending down 15%: Overall IT spending is down 10% to 15% from 2008, according to the CEO of Juniper Networks.
25 February 2009
Internet Safety Act: Rashomon in real time?: From what you read in the trade press and blogosphere, you would think that Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Lamar Smith have decided to use the excuse of fighting child pornography to attack the Internet itself.
25 February 2009
Gmail struck with service outage: Google's Gmail service was unavailable starting around 10:30 AM GMT on Tuesday. Google acknowledged the problem and said it was working to restore service.
24 February 2009
Motorola sells Good Technology to Visto: Motorola agreed to sell its Good Technology division for an undisclosed sum on Tuesday, bringing an end to the company's foray into push services.
24 February 2009
Apple releases public beta of Safari 4: Apple on Tuesday released a public beta of Safari 4, the next generation of its Internet Web browser.
24 February 2009
Microsoft tells laid-off workers to keep extra severance pay: Microsoft will let about two dozen laid-off workers who were overpaid severance keep the money, the company's head of human resources said Monday afternoon.
24 February 2009
VMware aims to merge private and public clouds: VMware customers will soon be able to seamlessly connect their private data centers to storage and processing pools provided externally by cloud vendors, and manage internal and external resources from within the same software (...)
24 February 2009
Techies end-run feds on DNS security: The Internet engineering community is forging ahead with an alternative approach to allow DNSSEC deployment without the DNS root zone being signed. Known as a Trust Anchor Repository, the alternative was announced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last (...)
24 February 2009
Microsoft takes first crack at high-end data warehousing: SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse is the first step on the road to realizing Microsoft's Madison project, a highly scalable database technology that will be available in an appliance.
24 February 2009
AT&T makes $1 billion ’09 network investment: AT&T will invest $1 billion this year to expand and upgrade its global network with a particular emphasis on rolling out more business applications such as managed hosting, content delivery and telepresence.
24 February 2009
More than half of booted workers steal data on way out, survey finds: A survey of 945 individuals who were laid off, fired or quit their jobs in the past 12 months shows that 59% admitted to stealing company data and 67% used their former company’s confidential information to leverage a new (...)
23 February 2009
Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero: Citrix and Microsoft try to steal VMware's thunder at VMworld Europe
23 February 2009
EMC adds flash to another array and de-dupes primary storage: EMC Monday is introducing three storage arrays with options for solid-state disks, and is offering de-duplication and compression of primary storage for the first time.
23 February 2009
Fed agencies push new security audits: Several federal agencies today expressed backing for the "Consensus Audit Guidelines," a set of proposed 20 cybersecurity controls, that could end up as network and application security requirements for federal agencies and their (...)
23 February 2009
Open-source toolkit aimed at telcos: Although the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) has become the default architecture for telcos to deliver services such as SMS, voicemail and VoIP, CIMI Corporation president Tom Nolle thinks it’s too slow to keep up with market (...)
21 February 2009
Nortel wants to unload application-delivery unit to Radware: Nortel wants to sell off its application-delivery gear to Radware, but to keep on selling it under an OEM agreement.
20 February 2009
Conficker worm gets an evil twin: The criminals behind the widespread Conficker worm have released a new version of the malware that could signal a major shift in the way the worm operates.
20 February 2009
Emulex combines FCoE, iSCSI, IP networking into one chip: Emulex's newest converged network adapter, due out later this year, contains several key improvements.
20 February 2009
Bradford's NAC Director gives pipeline firm more control: Mark MacDonald was looking for NAC because he had trouble controlling outside contractors that need to connect to the Enbridge Gas Distribution corporate network in Ontario, Canada.
20 February 2009
Undermining expectations at Mobile World Congress: A lot that was expected to happen at Mobile World Congress -- the cellular industry's premier showcase -- didn't. And that's interesting.
20 February 2009
DHS names Callahan privacy chief: The Department of Homeland Security Thursday named Mary Ellen Callahan as the department's Chief Privacy Officer.
20 February 2009
Security researcher Kaminsky pushes DNS patching: Dan Kaminsky, who for years was ambivalent about securing DNS, has become an ardent supporter of DNS Security Extensions.
19 February 2009
HP cuts pay, benefits after poor financials: HP squeaks by with small revenue growth for the first fiscal quarter of 2009, but executives decide to cut compensation in an effort to carry the company through the current economic crisis.
19 February 2009
Cloud security fears are overblown, some say: It may sound like heresy to say it, but it's possible to worry a little too much about security in cloud computing environments, speakers at IDC's Cloud Computing Forum said on Wednesday.
19 February 2009
Virtual desktops ripe for deployment, hindered by cost: Desktop virtualization technology provides clear benefits in security, manageability and flexibility, but upfront costs make ROI a long-term proposition.
19 February 2009
Microsoft retail stores a risky proposition: Microsoft's decision to open retail stores is a calculated risk that will likely prove a more challenging endeavor than Apple's move into retail eight years ago.
19 February 2009
Sprint posts $1.6 billion Q4 loss, wireless customers fleeing: Sprint reported net losses of $1.6 billion for Q4. For the year, Sprint lost $2.8 billion, down from the $29.8 billion it lost in 2007 that was due largely to writing off the Nextel purchase of 2005.
19 February 2009
Stimulus bill aims for 'national broadband plan': The U.S. economic stimulus package is law - all $787 billion of it - and of that, $7.2 billion has been set aside for improvements to the nation's broadband infrastructure. Let's take a closer look at what that means.
19 February 2009
Google News suffers 14-hour glitch: Google acknowledged late Wednesday afternoon that some users experienced problems with its Google News search results during a span of more than 14 hours earlier Wednesday.
19 February 2009
IBM uses BPL to extend broadband coverage to rural areas: IBM has started building out broadband over powerline (BPL) networks in four different states that the company says could provide broadband connectivity to 200,000 people living in rural areas.
19 February 2009
Microsoft Win Server 2008 R2 pre-release details available to IT: Microsoft is offering pre-release documentation on how to configure new technologies that are part of Windows Server 2008.
18 February 2009
AMD shareholders favor manufacturing spinoff: Advanced Micro Devices shareholders on Wednesday voted in favor of spinning off the company's chip manufacturing operations into a separate company.
18 February 2009
New Bluetooth standards to bring speed, energy efficiency: Although Bluetooth technology is commonly used today for syncing up mobile devices with headsets or for wirelessly networking PCs with mice and printers, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group is working on two new standards that will make the technology both faster and more (...)
18 February 2009
Nortel loses bid for Verizon Wireless business: Nortel lost out on a key LTE contract with Verizon Wireless, a missed opportunity that will add to the company’s revenue challenges as it goes through bankruptcy proceedings.
18 February 2009
Verizon confirms details of U.S. LTE deployment: Verizon plans to have two U.S. cities covered with a pre-commercial 60Mbps LTE wireless service by year-end, with commercial service expanding to as many as 30 markets the following year.
18 February 2009
No Microsoft phone, executive says: Microsoft stated emphatically Monday that it would not be building a phone; instead it would roll out services and rely on partners to supply the hardware.
18 February 2009
Accused rogue admin Terry Childs makes his case: He's been in jail for seven months now, but former San Francisco network administrator Terry Childs says he's going to keep fighting to prove he's innocent of computer crime charges.
18 February 2009
Twitter's Stone talks search, changing the 'Net: Twitter is arguably changing the way people socialize and communicate online.
18 February 2009
Trustwave buys NAC vendor Mirage: Managed security provider Trustwave has bought up independent NAC vendor Mirage Networks and will add NAC to the list of services Trustwave provides.
18 February 2009
Symantec to release Endpoint Virtualization Suite this spring: Symantec Tuesday unveiled Endpoint Virtualization Suite, its set of server-based tools for controlling and delivering laptop and desktop application environments through flexible online provisioning.
18 February 2009
Nortel exec issues vague promise to detail its reorganization: Nortel plans to deliver more details within a few weeks about how it plans to get out of bankruptcy, a company official says, which may help placate suppliers nervous about the lack of specifics.
18 February 2009
Nokia will ship N97 loaded with Skype calling software: Skype is developing a VoIP software client for Nokia's top-of-the-range N97 smartphone, executives of both companies said Tuesday.
18 February 2009
Storage startup Copan gets $18.5 million investment: Investors have poured an additional $18.5 million into Copan Systems, a storage startup that sells cheap disks to reduce the cost of storing copies of data.
18 February 2009
Facebook CEO Calms Privacy Fears Over TOS Change: Who owns and controls your Facebook information? This has been a question many have debated over the weekend, but Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, finally gave us the answer (almost) Monday.
18 February 2009
ATM hack: Organized crime or market forces?: In November of 2008, a single scam netted more than $9m in a global ATM heist. According to the FBI the attackers compromised pre-paid payroll cards from RBS WorldPay and gift cards, launching a coordinated attack against more than 130 ATMs in 49 cities around the world. The cards were (...)
18 February 2009
FTC principles for behavioral advertising: OK solution to wrong problem: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published a somewhat tweaked set of self-regulation guidelines for companies collecting information on the actions of Internet users for the purpose of providing advertising to those users. I expect the FTC does not feel it has the authority to make (...)
18 February 2009
AT&T to pay $8.2 million in E-Rate settlement: An AT&T unit has agreed to pay the U.S. government $8.2 million to settle a civil suit alleging that the company's technical services unit engaged in non-competitive bidding practices to secure government E-rate contracts.
18 February 2009
Norton Online Family gives parents new tools to monitor kids: Symantec is introducing Norton Online Family, software for the PC and Mac intended to give parents a way to keep track of what their children are doing online via up to five household PCs and a cloud-based analysis service that provides (...)
17 February 2009
LiMo's Linux-based mobile OS stack makes gains: The LiMo Foundation is set to roll out the latest version of its Linux-based mobile phone software stack. At this week’s Mobile World Congress, vendors showed LiMo-based phones, and announced their membership in the foundation.
17 February 2009
ConSentry upgrades its threat engine: ConSentry's new software for its intelligent switches adds a permanent agent for assessing endpoint security and can assess what Windows operating system patches have been applied.
17 February 2009
Fortinet wheels out Web application firewall: Fortinet's security appliance offloads processing of SSL and XML traffic from Web servers.
17 February 2009
Riverbed bundles Microsoft Server in its WAN optimization appliances: Riverbed will sell Microsoft's Windows Server bundled with its WAN optimization devices as a way to simplify purchasing for its customers.
17 February 2009
Altor tracks virtual machines in motion: Altor Networks' firewall software for virtual environments now supports a unique identifier to track particular versions of virtual machines.
17 February 2009
Microsoft strives for mobile mindshare with Windows Mobile 6.5: Microsoft this week unveils Windows Mobile 6.5, with its new full-blown Web browser, IE Mobile 6, in a bid to stay competitive in the fast-changing mobile market.
17 February 2009
Alcatel-Lucent founds 4G industry group: Alcatel-Lucent has founded an industry group aimed at promoting 4G wireless devices, applications and content.
16 February 2009
Congress passes stimulus bill with billions for broadband, electronic health records: The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have both passed the final version of a huge economic stimulus package, including billions of dollars for broadband deployment and electronic health records.
14 February 2009
Down economy fuels IT outsourcing: Companies flocked to IT outsourcing vendors as the recession unfolded last year and industry watchers expect more of the same as companies seek to slash fixed costs and deliver services with smaller staffs.
13 February 2009
Cloud computing obstacles, opportunities outlined by Berkeley researchers: UC Berkeley researchers have outlined their view of cloud computing, which they say has great opportunity to exploit unprecedented IT resources if vendors can overcome a litany of obstacles.
13 February 2009
IT's glass – full, empty or too big?: The economy is down the tubes and so is your budget. If you keep thinking you have to do more with less, you're wrong. In these tough times the goals should be doing less with less.
13 February 2009
Conficker Worm Draws a Counter-Attack: In response to the Conficker worm's massive infection of millions of PCs worldwide, industry heavyweights including Microsoft, Symantec and others Thursday announced they're forming a new team to fight back against the worm.
13 February 2009
Hey Obama: Invest in fiber, open up spectrum: The Yankee Group has written an open letter to President Barack Obama providing him with suggestions for deploying broadband Internet across the United States.
13 February 2009
Mobile World Congress: contracting economy forces new cellular priorities: The only reason an enterprise IT professional would go to this year's Mobile World Congress is to track down a good Spanish Priorat red wine.
13 February 2009
IBM leads IT out of the data center: IBM hosted its Pulse 2009 conference in Las Vegas and revealed its dynamic infrastructure strategy, which envelopes digital, physical, cloud and virtual environments in one service management strategy.
13 February 2009
Startup Neocleus building bare-metal desktop hypervisor: Abstract: A startup called Neocleus is preparing to ship a bare-metal desktop hypervisor that it promises will improve endpoint security and let IT shops manage how virtual desktops interact with each other.
13 February 2009
Microsoft renames, expands free online services for higher-ed: Microsoft Thursday expanded its Exchange Labs online messaging service that is offered free to university students and changed the name of the service to Outlook Live.
13 February 2009
Iridium calls may suffer outages from satellite crash: It was perhaps inevitable that satellites would collide in space. Indeed that happened Tuesday when an Iridium satellite smacked into an inactive Russian Cosmos-2251 military satellite.
13 February 2009
Microsoft announces $250,000 Conficker worm bounty: The spreading Conficker/Downadup worm is now viewed as such a significant threat that it's inspired the formation of a posse to stop it, with Microsoft leading the charge by offering a $250,000 reward to bring the Conflicker malware bad guys to (...)
12 February 2009
What the U.S. can learn from international net neutrality, broadband policies: Broadband investment, return to common carrier rules could improve U.S. 'Net quality, some experts say.
12 February 2009
New amplifier paves way for 10Gbps wireless Web: A professor at the University of California San Diego has invented a frequency amplifier that could be used to help deliver wireless data at 10Gbps over the span of a kilometer.
12 February 2009
WiMAX coverage to reach 800 million by 2010, Intel says: Intel (INTC) expects WiMAX deployment to increase rapidly over the next year as the company expects that 800 million people worldwide will have access to the technology by the end of 2010
12 February 2009
Savvis bursts into cloud computing: Savvis (NASDAQ: SVVS) on Thursday announced cloud computing services aimed at companies with bursty Web traffic that are looking for a cost-effective way to handle peaks without over-provisioning their networks or data centers. (...)
12 February 2009
BlackBerry's Storm in the enterprise: Since the BlackBerry Storm's release in November , Scott Slater, technology architect at The Bank of New York Mellon, has been putting it through its paces. He's got some advice for you: Test, rinse, repeat.
12 February 2009
Tough Massachusetts data-privacy regulation facing revision: The Massachusetts data-privacy regulation that went into effect Jan. 1st is now undergoing revisions that are expected to go into effect May 1st, according to the state agency in charge of issuing the rules.
12 February 2009
Palm pulls the plug on Palm OS, bets the future on Pre’s webOS: Palm CEO Ed Colligan this week confirmed that “there will be no more Palm OS products.”
12 February 2009
New Red Hat project looks to simplify JBoss migrations: Red Hat has launched a new open-source project the company said is aimed at making it easier for enterprises to move from proprietary Java-based middleware like Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere to its JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
12 February 2009
Tech layoffs: The real numbers aren't so bad: From the constant drip of tech industry layoff announcements, you'd think huge numbers of IT workers would be out on the street. And certainly Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, SAP, Sun, and others have announced thousands of layoffs. But the numbers they report don't reflect actual people (...)
11 February 2009
WAN critical to virtualization's payoff: Guaranteeing application performance over a WAN is hard enough. Now try doing it in a virtual environment.
11 February 2009
Cisco: Mobile data traffic to grow 66-fold by 2013: A new report published by Cisco says that mobile Web traffic volume will double every year between now and 2013, when traffic will total roughly 2.2 million terabytes per month.
11 February 2009
Obama inauguration guarded by high-def video system: The presidential inauguration event last month was guarded with an advanced video-surveillance system used by local and federal law enforcement to watch over both President Obama and the burgeoning crowds out to observe the historic event in Washington, (...)
11 February 2009
Force10 unveils virtualization framework: Force10 Networks this week unveiled a blueprint for easing the management of virtualized data centers.
11 February 2009
Michael Phelps skips IBM speaking engagement: Embroiled in bong controversy, Michael Phelps reportedly skipped a scheduled speaking appearance at the IBM Pulse conference in Las Vegas Tuesday.
11 February 2009
Microsoft update takes on spam-spewing botnet: Microsoft has beefed up the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) that ships with its Windows operating system so that it will detect and root out the notorious Srizbi botnet code.
11 February 2009
Microsoft patches flaw that could compromise, cripple Exchange: Microsoft Tuesday released a critical patch designed to thwart hackers who could take over Exchange Servers or shut them down with denial-of-service attacks.
11 February 2009
Google's Latitude: Not new, but worrisome: Google recently made a big splash when it announced Latitude - a new application that lets you let your friends know where you are in real time. The size of the splash is a bit puzzling since there is almost nothing new or novel in Latitude. But there are reasons to talk about the service (...)
11 February 2009
No budget for tech services? Charge it: HP Proactive Select program lets customers buy service bundle packages that can be put to use over several years as part of a credit plan
11 February 2009
Voltaire unleashes 40Gbps data center switch: Voltaire this week announced a 40Gbps InfiniBand switch switch for data centers that's designed to provide a low latency fabric for large, high-performance clusters.
11 February 2009
Alcatel-Lucent broadens Carrier Ethernet lineup: Alcatel-Lucent unveiled enhancements to its Carrier Ethernet lineup that include a customer premises switch for business VPNs.
11 February 2009
McAfee touts integrated compliance suite: McAfee has taken steps to integrate its vulnerability assessment and policy management products in a single suite to make it easier for enterprises to stay on top of compliance initiatives.
10 February 2009
Google adds ActiveSync to accommodate iPhone, Win Mobile: Google Monday announced that it is adding support for Microsoft's ActiveSync to Google Sync, which will give iPhone and Windows Mobile offline access to their Google calendars and Gmail contacts from their mobile applications.
10 February 2009
Qwest income down nearly 50% in Q4 2008: Qwest's income took a significant dip in the fourth quarter of 2008, as its $185 million in earnings represented a 49% drop off from its 2007 fourth-quarter earnings of $366 million.
10 February 2009
Nortel to shed shareholders meeting, more employees: Nortel recently revealed plans to cancel its annual shareholders meeting, requested an extension to its bankruptcy protection, and indicated that more layoffs are on the way, in addition to other cost-cutting measures.
10 February 2009
Microsoft shuts off Windows 7 beta downloads: Microsoft has shut off the Windows 7 beta spigot, but will allow users who have started the download process to wrap it up by Thursday.
10 February 2009
Public Greets Massive Data Breach With Collective Yawn: On January 20, as most of the nation focused on an historic inauguration, Heartland Payment Systems, a credit card payment processing company, acknowledged that data thieves had installed spyware on its network to steal credit card details throughout 2008. The company says it handles about 100 (...)
10 February 2009
Verizon extends DoS detection service to 23 countries: Verizon Business is extending the reach of its Denial of Service Detection service to 23 new countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan.
10 February 2009
Microsoft posts 10,000th patent: Microsoft Tuesday said it recorded its 10,000th U.S. patent, which came on the back of technology used in its Surface computing platform.
10 February 2009
IBM, Juniper join in cloud strategy: IBM and Juniper on Monday provided a sneak peek at technology that lets enterprise IT managers easily reallocate computing resources between a private and a public cloud.
10 February 2009
Security services in mind, StillSecure buys ProtectPoint: StillSecure is looking to get into the security services business with the acquisition of ProtectPoint today.
10 February 2009
Green IT, virtualization top of mind at IT Roadmap: Citigroup and other companies will discuss plans for green IT and virtualization at Network World's IT Roadmap event in New York City.
10 February 2009
Microsoft goofs, unveils new Web-based smartphone sync service: Microsoft accidentally raised the curtain on its My Phone sync service, a Web-based platform that lets Windows Mobile 6 devices back up and store all kinds of content to a Web account, and manage it all via a browser.
9 February 2009
Kaspersky says Web hack 'should not have happened': It's the worst thing that can happen to a computer security vendor: This weekend, Moscow's Kaspersky Lab was hacked.
9 February 2009
IBM prepares to take on 21st century infrastructure: IBM announces products, plans to address three key areas enterprise companies will face as they work to manage dynamic environments, volumes of data and advanced infrastructure.
9 February 2009
Managing security in bad times: CISOs speak out: IT security executives are struggling to hold onto budgets and align IT security projects with business needs amid tough cost-cutting
9 February 2009
U.S. misses DNS security deadline: The federal government missed its first deadline for rolling out DNS security mechanisms on its .gov top-level domain.
9 February 2009
Amazon unveils lighter, thinner, text-to-speech Kindle: Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle 2 today, a thinner, lighter version of the original e-reader introduced 14 months ago.
9 February 2009
Fast chip runs on fumes: Mobile computing devices that need charging once a day would need it just once a month with a new type of chip that uses a thirtiethof the power of conventional chips and is seven times faster by virtue of underlying logic that embraces error in its (...)
9 February 2009
Latin American telecom market is muy caliente: Orange Business Services has doubled the capacity of its IP network in Latin America to 2.5 gigabits/sec. to meet increasing customer demand in the region.
9 February 2009
Verizon’s ’09 network roadmap highlights Asian investments: Verizon Business plans an aggressive network expansion throughout Asia in 2009 as it both builds out new cables aimed at linking India to countries in four different continents
9 February 2009
LiMo Foundation gets ready for next-generation platform: The next version of the Linux-based mobile platform LiMo is getting closer to launch and a number of operators are promising handsets during 2009, the LiMo Foundation announced Monday.
9 February 2009
Kaspersky, OpenDNS collaborate to slow Conficker worm: OpenDNS has added a feature to its DNS services to fight a widespread worm, with help from Russian security company Kaspersky Lab.
9 February 2009
Security problems still plague retailers' wireless LANs: A large-scale scan by Motorola's AirDefense group has found that wireless LAN vulnerabilities in retailer networks though much improved over last year, are still all too common, despite repeated, widely-publicized wireless security (...)
7 February 2009
Mommas don't let their babies grow up to be engineers: The American Society for Quality commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct an online youth survey to learn about kids' interest level in engineering careers and parents input on the topic.
7 February 2009
Startup ships quick NIC: Israeli startup Commex Technologies builds network card designed to boost multi-core server speeds.
7 February 2009
Microsoft rounds out voice assault: Nearly 16 months after launching its unified communications platform and taking aim at replacing the venerable PBX, Microsoft now has the technology in its Office Communications Server that could corporate telecom forever.
6 February 2009
Sprint's 4G guy: Todd Rowley on the need for speed: Sprint's Todd Rowley may not have a WiMAX network of his own anymore, but he's leading the mobile carrier's charge into the brave new world of multi-megabit 4G data services.
6 February 2009
Four security updates due from Microsoft next week: Microsoft plans to patch critical flaws in its Internet Explorer and Microsoft Exchange Server software next week.
6 February 2009
Ballmer: Enterprise XP Holdouts Will Get Hell from Consumers: It's not often that Steve Ballmer sounds like Steve Jobs.
6 February 2009
Palm Pre could be on store shelves in spring: The Palm Pre, announced in January by Palm Inc. and to be distributed by Sprint Nextel Inc., is targeted to be in-stock in warehouses on March 15, presumably for sale soon thereafter, according to a blogger.
6 February 2009
MySQL co-founder quits Sun: Michael "Monty" Widenius, the original developer of the open-source MySQL database, has left Sun Microsystems and is starting his own company, Monty Program Ab, he said in a blog post Thursday.
6 February 2009
Porn site feud spawns new DNS attack: A scrap between two pornographic Web sites turned nasty when one figured out how to take down the other by exploiting a previously unknown quirk in the Internet's DNS.
6 February 2009
Oracle to acquire management player mValent: Oracle enters into an agreement to acquire management software maker mValent and incorporate the latter's application configuration management technology into its own Enterprise Manager product.
6 February 2009
Steve Wozniak joins flash storage startup as chief scientist: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has a new gig as the chief scientist at Fusion-io, a startup that is speeding up enterprise applications with a flash memory device inserted directly into servers.
5 February 2009
Researchers: IT security jobs largely untouched by economy: Information security jobs may not be the most glamorous ones in the technology industry. But at least they appear to be a lot more secure than many other IT positions are during the ongoing economic recession .
5 February 2009
EMC, Microsoft extend partnership on virtualization, security and content management: EMC and Microsoft have extended a partnership that focuses on interoperability of products related to virtualization, security and content management.
5 February 2009
Start-up SiCortex puts green twist on high-performance computing: SiCortex is trying to bring the benefits of high-performance computing to smaller enterprises and research groups, particularly those worried about the rising cost of electricity.
5 February 2009
Dell outlines plan to help customers cut energy costs: Dell on Wednesday talked about steps the company is taking to improve energy efficiency in servers, also outlining a server-refresh cycle that could help customers cut energy costs in the long run.
5 February 2009