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Wired Windows

By Dave Kearns

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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