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June 26, 2008
Microsoft this week released its Hyper-V virtualization server, which has been years in the making. Today the technology lacks
the breadth of functionality VMware offers, but now that the technology is readily available, could Microsoft wrest market
share from VMware with its no-cost entry point and by shipping the technology with Microsoft Server 2008? Forrester Research
Analyst Christopher Voce weighs in on the topic. (14:39)
June 19, 2008
Mark Rupp leads an investor group that swooped in this week and rescued Philadelphia's municipal wireless network, after EarthLink
bailed out on the project. (8:36)
June 13, 2008
June 06, 2008
A majority of 539 workers polled by staffing specialist Robert Half International said they will carpool or telecommute to
lessen the impact of gasoline prices on their wallets. This week's newsmaker Katherine Spencer Lee, executive director of
Robert Half Technology, which specializes in IT and technical staffing, says network managers can expediate the telecommuting
plans for companies -- and even schedule work-from-home days for IT staff. (12:02)
May 30, 2008
Excitement over new browser releases is rare, but the pending Firefox 3.0 release is generating some buzz in the tech circles
for its improved performance, "Awesome Bar" and easy-on-the-eyes viewing. We talk with PC World's Ed Albro about his experiences
with beta versions of Firefox 3.0 and what to expect when the final version is released in the coming month. (11:02)
May 23, 2008
The time has come to evolve IT operations from a state of manual chaos to a streamlined automated environment, according to Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software Group. Mills spoke this week to more than 4,000 IBM software users to detail a state of IT operations Big Blue says is long overdue. Listen to why IBM says the time has come for IT to streamline process, reduce wasted resources and put in place automation technology that will enable high-tech operations to run as smoothly as a manufacturing assembly line. (16:18)
May 09, 2008
Two researchers from Tipping Point's Digital Vaccine Labs successfully infiltrated one of the world's largest botnets -- known
as Kraken -- by reverse engineering the encryption routines and figuring out the communication structure between the botnet
owner and the hijacked computers. Cody Pierce, our newsmaker of the week, was one of those researchers. (9:28)
April 25, 2008
Newsmaker of the Week James Staten, principal analyst at Forrester Research, cautions IT executives not to believe all the
green hype and offers tips on how to avoid falling victim to 'green-washed' technologies. (10:42)
April 18, 2008
Doran Swade, guest curator at the Computer History Museum and director of the Babbage Project, wins this week's Newsmaker
of the Week title because he played a large part in transforming Charles Babbage's Difference Engine from a good 19th-century
idea on paper to a 5-ton mechanical wonder soon to be on display in California. (17:27)
April 04, 2008
11-year-old Jon Penn earned Network World's Newsmaker of the Week title by taking charge of his Arkansas private school network and heading up
the effort against viruses, spam and MySpace abuse. (8:35)
April 03, 2008
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse earned Network World's Newsmaker of the Week title when he took the stage at CTIA in Las Vegas to lay
out Sprint's plans to be the first U.S. provider of mobile broadband capabilities by creating a nationwide network based on
WiMAX technology -- a risky move that could give the company a two-year advantage over competitors. (8:11)
March 28, 2008
IBM Lotus' Mike Rhodin earned Network World's Newsmaker of the Week title after he proclaimed during a keynote speech delivered
at VoiceCon Orlando 2008 that collaboration tools such as e-mail, telephones and desktops will die at the hands of unified
communications. (7:13)
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