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BULLETIN - Microsoft to appeal US$1.3 billion EU fine

Cisco Q3 report card: Lots of A's and B's

FAQ: What you should know before installing Windows XP SP3

Google adds Web security, remote worker protection to Google Apps

AT&T demos disaster preparedness

Five things to consider before committing to SAP

Can the Clearwire coalition save WiMAX?

Microsoft reportedly inquiring about Facebook's availability

IT pays homage to mothers

Water-cooled servers gaining steam

Tech company CEO compensation raises ire

Deep packet inspection protects financial group

More energy-efficient Ethernet - without the standards-making fuss

Stress testing your application performance appliances

New leadership, new heights for PacketFence

The future of network optimization

IT didn't fail Myanmar during cyclone, people did

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• What network CEOs really make
• Don't trust Verizon, Google warns FCC
• Brad Reese: Cisco is cooking the books
• Indian workers don't want U.S. jobs
• Can the Clearwire coalition save WiMAX?
• How IT can help organizations be green or save green
• Trojan adware hiding in MP3s
• Don't even bother investing in Network Admission Control
• Yahoo cuts off nose to save face
• U.S. firm fined for violations related to H-1B program
• How one site dealt with SQL injection attack
• Microsoft hack pack spells trouble
• 7 dirty secrets of the security industry
• H-1B scandal: New study unmasks H-1B misuse by Cisco and Microsoft
• Easy Windows Management that's even easier on your pocket
• Cisco 'Big Bang' coming
• Linux and Mac OS X need NAC support too
• + More Hot Topics

CELEBRATING MOM

The mother of all mother lists
Check out our list of "non-traditional" mothers. Read more.

• IT pays homage to mothers
• Women in IT thank moms for encouragement
• 10 techie gifts a mother could love

MORE FI THAN SCI

Science fiction's goofiest gadgets
From Super Soaker-style phaser rifles to mysterious bubble machines, we take a look at sci-fi's silliest technology.

• Top 10 real-life Star Trek inventions

OLD-SCHOOL COMPUTING

A five-ton computing engine comes to life
The Computer History Museum debuted Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2., and we got a front row seat.

• Video: The Babbage Machine in action
• Podcast: The man who made Babbage's dream a reality
• Building a mechanical calculator from 19th-century plans

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TWISTED PAIR

Tech vendors are like high school
This week: The Microsoft/Yahoo breakup, Sprint gets cozy with Clearwire (but may dump Nextel), and Google whines about Verizon. Plus, the return of Movie Madness!

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NW Panorama

Why security is still failing
Finding value from data breaches.

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Week in review

Everything that matters from the week of May 5

"Facebook is fine the way it is. We don't need Microsoft trying to buy it out and making changes.”
– A message posted on the "Microsoft Buyout Boycot (sic)" website + More quotes

WIMAX WARS

Can the Clearwire coalition save WiMAX?
For the past year, WiMAX has been a technology under siege. But WiMAX received a big boost this week when Sprint and Clearwire announced that they will be combining their WiMAX businesses to create a $14.5 billion mobile broadband company.

• Terms of the deal
• Mathias: Full speed ahead for U.S. WiMAX
• WiMAX certification not enough for some vendors
• Podcast: Sprint CEO makes WiMAX waves
• Cable companies in talks to fund WiMAX

CISCO SCANDAL?

Cisco profit falls on acquisition charge
Cisco Systems revenue rose more than 10% in the company's fiscal third quarter, though its net income fell due to an acquisition charge and other one-time factors.

• Cisco Q3 report card: Lots of A's and B's
• Is Cisco channel-stuffing?

MICROSOFT-YAHOO

• Gates: Microsoft won't pursue other partnerships
• Yahoo faces angry shareholders
• Yahoo cuts off nose to save face
• Microsoft and Yahoo: Now what?
• Yahoo shares take a hit
• Yang open to higher Microsoft bid
• Google's shadow hung over deal

Newsmaker of the Week

Cody Pierce:
Crackin' the Kraken bot
One of the researchers from Tipping Point's Digital Vaccine Labs reveals how they successfully infiltrated one of the world's largest botnets.

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TOP PICKS

• Top 10 network venture deals from Q1
• Podcast: Top 5 trends in malware
• 'Bribe' or 'miswording'? You make the call
• First Caller-ID spoofers spanked
• Is BUN Chewing Up Your LAN?
• OpenSolaris ready for prime time
• Cisco's Paula Abdul moment
• XP SP3, Vista SP1 back online for automatic updates
• FAQ: What you should know before installing Windows XP SP3
• Laptop wireless security refresher
• Your office, 'The Office,' and social networking
• The Indian front in the Chinese Cyber War
• Have gadget gear in order before call comes to bug out
• Three great IT tools you can carry with you
• How to Pass the CCNA...The Right Way
• 7 dirty secrets of the security industry
• Cisco 'Big Bang' coming
• What 802.11n tech specs mean
• Don't trust Verizon, Google warns FCC
• 100 e-mail bouncebacks? You've been backscattered
• Antispyware efforts by Washington state target registry cleaners
• 5 easy ways to commit career suicide
• Don't even bother investing in NAC
• New Broadcom chip runs from 10Mbps to 10Gbps
• School district uses virtualization to 'kid-proof' 10,000 student PCs
• Cloud computing: What it will take for start-ups to succeed
• Microsoft's infrastructure management aspirations

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VOICES

Friday May 09, 2008 Columnists | Blogs | Editorials | Forums

Buzzblog by Paul McNamara 'Man shot at 8 a.m. in Roxbury'
That's the headline on a story this morning about a shooting in a Boston neighborhood that unfortunately sees more than its ...

Layer 8's Blog by Michael Cooney Controversial taxes, fees exacerbate US infrastructure problems
The basic infrastructure all of us depend on every day –  including aviation, highway, public transit and rail – is falling ...

Nearpoints by Craig Mathias Full Speed Ahead for US WiMAX
As I first noted back in January, Sprint is in fact now officially spinning off its WiMAX project as a joint venture with ...

Gibbsblog by Mark Gibbs The best Web forms system yet
It is a real shame that, with so many FREE [opensource] and true standards-based products of all sorts and categories ...

Brad Reese on Cisco Alarming Cisco 3rd quarter 2008 channel stuffing
It should be an alarming and extremely ominous warning to Cisco stockholders, that the Cisco 3rd Qtr 2008 accounts ...

IP Routing by Jeff Doyle IPv6 at the 2008 Olympics
In my previous post I threw out a few thoughts about the idea of enticing users to switch to IPv6 – a sort of variation on ...

Cisco Subnet Fun with the Fortune 500
While Cisco is one of the big kahunas of networking and continues to roll as seen in its Q3 financial results released this ...

Mitchell Ashley's blog Is Cisco Unloading To Pump Up The Numbers?
Just what's going on at Cisco? And is this a sign of things to come? Brad Reese has a stunning post today with his ...

Microsoft Subnet Write a screenplay, win prizes and grow to love Vista
Love Microsoft or hate Microsoft, you have to admit that it can often rise to genius level when it comes to marketing. ...

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