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


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TWISTED PAIR

Twisted Pair PodcastTech 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

Network World Panorama PodcastWhy 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

Quotes of the week
"Facebook is fine the way it is. We don't need Microsoft trying to buy it out and making changes.
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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.

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.

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Newsmaker of the Week

Cody PierceCody 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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NW 360 Daily Podcast NW 360 DAILY PODCASTMicrosoft sniffing around Facebook; Google's Paris street photos may spark lawsuits
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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. ...