Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. His most recent book is Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks. Dave's company, Virtual Quill, provides content services to network vendors: books, manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing, technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill provides "words to sell by..." Find out more at www.vquill.com or by e-mail at info@vquill.com.
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Top 10 venture capital deals of Q3
10/22/07
Of the nearly $750 million that investors poured into the top 10 venture capital deals of the third quarter, only $124 million
went into start-ups building enterprise IT products, according to MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National
Venture Capital Association based on data provided by Thomson Financial.
Letters to the editor: "2007: The Year of Being Outraged?"
02/12/07
2007: The Year of Being Outraged?; Earlier daylight-saving start costing IT departments time; Telecommute. Kill a career?
Letters to the editor: Moving targets
02/05/07
Sprint supports GPS technology for tracking school buses; Exchange 2007 integration issues arise; Telecommute. Kill a Career?;
U.S. cities don’t make the intelligence cut
Letters to the editor: "Gone counter-phishing"
01/29/07
‘Rock Phish’ blamed for surge in phishing; The 50 most powerful people; 2007: The Year of Being Outraged?
Letters to the editor: "Christmas is a busy time for avoiding work"
01/22/07
Christmas is a busy time for avoiding work; French radio stumbles over podcasting; The perils of precaching; letter about
replacing his Alcatel 1000 and SonicWall firewall; 2007: The Year of Being Outraged?
Letters to the editor: "More about BGInfo"
01/15/07
More about BGInfo; Bad ad; Virtualization and EULAs
Commentary: CES and sex in Sin City
01/11/07
A breakthrough in consumer electronics marketing occurred this week. Apparently for the first time at CES, a white lace bustier,
matching stockings and high-heels were deployed as a marketing tool.
Letters to the editor: "Microsoft Research fights critics, targets innovation"
01/08/07
Microsoft Research fights critics, targets innovation; Muni Wi-Fi not just another utility; How much can a LAN switch protect
your network?; Tech is getting easier, CIOs say; Qualcomm: Contrarians at the gate; Hell yes to virtualization!
Letters to the editor: "Are Cisco switches really so expensive?"
12/16/06
Are Cisco switches really so expensive?; Survey: ITIL’s ROI hard to measure; Content filtering to protect intellectual property;
Broadband router throughput
Letters to the editor: "Automating change"
12/11/06
Automating change; IT worker shortage; Carriers: Make stopping spam a priority; Are Cisco switches really so expensive?; Slippery
spam slope; Nuances matter in 'Net neutrality
letters
12/04/06
Thwarting the attack
Letters to the editor: "Spam that delivers a pink slip"
12/04/06
Spam that delivers a pink slip; Antiphishing fighters take on malware; Mismatched job titles; Big Brother gets virtual; Richard
Stiennon’s open letter to Check Point CEO Gil Shwed; Automating change
Letters to the editor: "On the road to operating system glasnost"
11/27/06
On the road to operating system glasnost; In Microsoft partnership, Nortel marries up; Wireless mesh or WiMAX: Which MAN technology
is best?; App launching and yet more Web OSs
Letters to the editor: "Another view of application acceleration"
11/20/06
Another view of application acceleration; Thoughts on Check Point; Murky forecast
Letters to the editor: "Fake network gear"
11/13/06
Mystery of the Broadband Universe; With slip, concerns that XP SP 3 will be cut; ‘Less than zero-day’ threats often overlooked;
Coders gone wild; Cisco looks to push high-end IP video; The Year of Sleaze?
Letters
11/06/06
Support system
Letters to the editor: "Novell’s ongoing Linux makeover"
11/06/06
Sex, gambling and computer game sites being abused by Department of Interior; Novell’s ongoing Linux makeover; Virtual Iron
launches VMware competitor; The trouble with vendor support; Carriers: Make stopping spam a priority
Letters to the editor: "Google testing Sun’s OpenSolaris, sources say"
10/30/06
Google testing Sun’s OpenSolaris, sources say; Reasons to set up a test network; Gartner forecasts security troubles; How
Indiana cleaned its IT mess; update on Praessler AG’s Praessler Router Traffic Grapher; Writing the book on IT
The new IT: infrastructure technology
10/27/06
The enthusiasm and energy at last month's DEMOfall conference made one thing very clear: The IT market is in the early days
of an important new growth cycle. While megadeals, such as the Google/YouTube marriage, grab the headlines, it is enterprise
IT that will be most profoundly affected in this next phase of technology evolution.
Letters to the editor: "Recruiting solution: Invest in U.S. workers"
10/23/06
Recruiting solution: Invest in U.S. workers; Explaining WPA2; Gartner forecasts trouble with rootkits, ID theft; IT worker
shortage
Weaving a software safety net
10/16/06
In software security, there's a depressing but indisputable truth: No matter what you do or how much money you spend making
code more resilient, fortifying the network or electro-shocking developers who write bad code, you can't get rid of all the
security bugs.
Letters to the editor: "Network security tops federal IT execs’ concerns, survey says"
10/16/06
Network security tops federal IT execs’ concerns, survey says; Interop panel: Is network management irrelevant?; Can you cut
it as an IT consultant?; Data-intense, design-simple graphics; Don’t blame VoIP for Vonage’s belly-flop
Letters to the editor: "Vista, not improving security?"
10/09/06
Vista, not improving security?; The new reality for IT security; EBay to test changes to search results pages; Cablevision:
A neutral net that’s not; AutoMate, er, automates
Letters to the editor: "Open source companies to watch"
10/02/06
Open source companies to watch; Neglecting identity management; Embracing the free culture movement; A stroll across campus
without leaving home; Vista, not improving security?
Letters to the editor: "Real IT Guys"
09/25/06
Real IT Guys; All-in-one security devices face challenges; What's to become of the Internet?
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5 IT skills that won't boost your salary
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Women 4 times more likely than men to cough up personal info
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Japan's 10 funniest tech-related commercials [Videos]
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Throwing away a promo CD is "unauthorized distribution"?
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Adults too quick to dismiss educational video games
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Attack of the iPhone clones [Slideshow]
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10 things IT needs to know about AJAX
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This Year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries [Slideshow]
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