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Microsoft virtualization tools reinforce user's data center plans

Hosting provider RackForce Networks expects that Microsoft's just released Hyper-V virtualization technology will give it a chance to take a major step in its business...

Air traffic network glitch cleared-up for now

As of this morning, the FAA said flights around the country were not longer being delayed after a massive communications malfunction Tuesday.

Cisco buys into e-mail with $215 million PostPath acquisition

Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration... 3

Locked iPhones can be unlocked without a password

Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses. 3

Baseball's video and secure telephone links ready for instant replay

Major League Baseball has installed a video setup and secure telephone links in all 30 stadiums in preparation for Thursday's debut of instant replay.

China aims for petaflop computer in 2010

China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the country's...

Mozilla garners praise over Firefox security feature

The debate over the self-signed certificate issue in Firefox 3.0 has fostered an add-on from Carnegie Mellon researchers and it seems a prevailing tide that Mozilla is headed... 1

Mt. Sinai Medical Center looks to open standards for patient smartcards

New York City's Mt. Sinai Medical Center, which a few years ago began a project to give patients a smartcard storing identity and health records, is realigning its focus with...

Immersion to pay Microsoft $20 million to settle patent suit

A company that makes touch sensors for interacting with computer applications and games has agreed to pay Microsoft more than US$20 million to settle a patent suit.

Expand Networks secures $8.5 million in venture capital

WAN optimization vendor Expand Networks taps $8.5 million for R&D 1

Alcatel-Lucent intros Gigabit Ethernet switches

Alcatel-Lucent is delivering a new family of Gigabit Ethernet switches that fit into its architecture for blending data, voice and wireless connectivity and are designed for... 5

Storage market thrives in down economy

Worldwide disk storage shipments will double in capacity every two years through 2012, IDC predicts.

Hosted RFID service targets mobile users

A new hosted service from SkyeTek is designed to apply RFID technology for mobile users and applications.

Best Western downplays data breach

Best Western International has acknowledged it suffered a data breach but says the number of customers affected is a dozen or less, not 8 million. 2

Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0

Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android...

Unified communications takes center field at ballpark

The New York Mets will have new networking and unified communications systems in their new home, Citi Field, when they start playing baseball there next spring.

Microsoft invests in Move Networks

Microsoft made an undisclosed investment in Move Networks, a company that supplies streaming video technology, in an attempt to boost its online video presence.

Moves show telepresence's stellar progress

It's no great surprise that Tandberg is the subject of acquisition attempts. Any company that has made inroads in to the market for telepresence should be looked at by stock...

YouTube to carry Olympic videos in some countries

The International Olympic Committee is launching its own video channel for the games in cooperation with YouTube, to territories in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the IOC...

AT&T launches voice for U-Verse

AT&T is testing out its new U-Verse voice services by making them available to all current U-Verse customers in the San Antonio area. 1

Unified comms boost for customer satisfaction

Early users of unified communications systems have found that improved customer satisfaction scores higher than cost savings when it comes to assessing the benefits. That's...

Enterasys users should welcome Siemens deal -- for now, analysts say

Enterasys Networks customers should be encouraged that the joint venture between Enterasys owner Gores Group and Siemens strengthens the vendor's product portfolio and... 5

What are critical issues with VoIP service?

A look at the VoIP industry's most pressing issues, including SIP interoperability, TDM-to-SIP transition services and VoIP security issues. 1

Skype won't say if it decrypts VoIP calls for law enforcement

The encryption of Skype VoIP phone calls might not be as secure as you think. 4

IBM/Lotus sharpens weapon for unified communications battle

IBM/Lotus is banking on the integration of its Sametime platform and collaboration software with tools from telephony partners to fuel its climb up the ranks of unified... 2

China's video site back online after more than a month

One of China's top three online video sites resumed service Friday, after an unexplained interruption of over a month.

Sick of travel costs, Deloitte embraces Nortel telepresence

Nortel this week said professional services firm Deloitte has selected it to provide global telepresence, video conferencing and associated multimedia services. 6

Avaya, Cisco address VoIP vulnerabilities

Avaya and Cisco have addressed a VoIPshield Laboratories report that their VoIP gear is vulnerable to a variety of attacks. The vulnerabilities also impact certain Nortel... 1

Avaya, Cisco and Nortel face VoIP vulnerabilities

VoIP customers of Avaya, Cisco and Nortel should look Wednesday for patches that correct newly found vulnerabilities that, if exploited, can result in remote code execution;... 6

Telepresence system takes aim at the low end

Tandberg is announcing what it calls an instant telepresence system and a new video phone, both of which attempt to make high-quality videoconferencing accessible to more...

Grim outlook for U.S IT spending, study says

U.S. companies are pulling back hard on IT spending as the economic downturn continues, a new study by ChangeWave Research has found.

Uganda power utility readies self in new IT age

Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited is set to engage an independent consultant to advise it on the IT investments necessary to better serve Uganda.

Connecting with hiring managers

You've probably grown tired of hearing about the importance that connections play in finding a new job. It can be frustrating advice if you don't have a robust network that...

20 ways to survive a layoff

Tips for getting back on your feet and into the IT job market from someone who's been there and back

20 ways to survive a layoff

On Feb. 20, IT manager and Network World columnist Ron Nutter was called into his boss's office and told he was being let go - that day. Once the initial shock wore off,... 13

Alternative careers for tech workers that aren't in IT

If you're a tech worker, now's a good time to consider getting out of the IT profession. For good. 3

College dropout is one-man IT shop — at college lab

A college dropout is the sole system administrator for a groundbreaking college lab. 5

Fluke Networks acquires Viola VoIP management assets

Fluke Networks' acquisition will enable the vendor to broaden its VoIP analysis capabilities and provide customers with pre-assessment, active network-performance and...

Gartner says IT spending growth to slow across board in 2009

Research firm Gartner projects that worldwide IT spending growth will slow down to 6% in 2009, though the firm says this will represent fairly robust growth in a challenging... 1

Gartner: India's top outsourcers will win bigger deals

India's top outsourcing companies will likely become the next generation of "megavendors" for IT services by 2011, competing for deals worth more than $1 billion, analyst...

Fair Labor Standards Act: What IT workers need to know

The class-action lawsuit that a former Apple network engineer filed last Monday has put tech workers' relationship with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) into the...

To telecommute or not to telecommute?

Not every employee is chomping at the bit to telecommute. A survey commissioned by Steelcase, a manufacturer of office furniture, shows that professionals have decidedly...

Judge rejects student visa injunction sought by H-1B opponents

A U.S. district court judge in New Jersey this week rejected an attempt by H-1B visa opponents to halt the Bush administration's extension of student visas from one year to... 7

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008

NEW YORK - Microsoft has released the SQL Server 2008 database to manufacturing, including the release a new Web edition of the product aimed at its hosting partners, the...

Orange Business adds application management service

Orange Business Services is adding application management to its business acceleration services, with the goal of helping businesses optimize the performance of applications...

Locked iPhones can be unlocked without a password

Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses. 3

Build your own free security suite

Do-it-all suites are the name of the security game these days. Sure, you can gather free programs that cover the bases much as a suite would, but who wants to bother with... 1

595 immigrants arrested at electronics plant

Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have arrested approximately 595 people suspected of being illegal aliens in the U.S., some with alleged... 33

Mt. Sinai Medical Center looks to open standards for patient smartcards

New York City's Mt. Sinai Medical Center, which a few years ago began a project to give patients a smartcard storing identity and health records, is realigning its focus with...

Nortel uses USB drive to secure remote work

Nortel hopes to tackle the security of remote work with an "office on a stick," a USB drive that can link an employee's PC with a corporate VPN and keep all the information...

Best Western downplays data breach

Best Western International has acknowledged it suffered a data breach but says the number of customers affected is a dozen or less, not 8 million. 2

Privacy group: US border-crossing database raises concerns

A plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect personal information on every traveler coming into the country and keep that information in a database for 15... 1

Call out a phisher, get attacked by malware

Users tired of phishing attacks who retaliate by talking back are being targeted with exploits designed to hijack their computers, a security researcher said Tuesday.

Cyber-threat environment becoming increasingly severe

Today's cyber-threat environment is increasingly severe, compounded by the emergence of new types of attacks.

Mozilla garners praise over Firefox security feature

The debate over the self-signed certificate issue in Firefox 3.0 has fostered an add-on from Carnegie Mellon researchers and it seems a prevailing tide that Mozilla is headed... 1

Four quick tips for choosing an IM security product

Instant messaging (IM) has become an increasingly useful business tool for modern corporations. Data from a Forrester Research survey suggests that 71% of businesses will...

Novell's iPrint open to attack, say researchers

Attackers can exploit bugs in Novell's iPrint application to obtain corporate information or hijack computers, security experts said today.

Researcher Web sites to access bank accounts

A recent Google search of the popular social networking site MySpace for several variations of terms describing a person's maternal grandparents returned more than 11,000...

Microsoft to add privacy features to IE8

Microsoft on Monday described some new privacy features that will come with IE8, the next release of its browser. The features are designed to make it easier for people to...

Antivirus policies remain contradictory for VMware

Have you read your security policy today? Does it take virtualization into account?

China Mobile says music users top 80M, touts temblor efforts

China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone service provider, on Wednesday said it had mostly recovered from the earthquake that hit Sichuan, China earlier this year.

iPhone fantasy football draft tools

About a decade and at least one employer ago, I had a boss who decided to give us, his underlings, some unsolicited career advice during a staff meeting. "If some of you were...

IEEE standardizes fast Wi-Fi roaming

The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between access points, improving the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs.

Mi phone finds a home in Kenya

In a market with an ever-increasing appetite for mobile phones, the low-priced Mi phones have found a home in Kenya, with sales of 10,000 units in the past quarter.

Nokia widens market share lead

Economic trouble in many regions of the world is slowing down mobile phone sales, presenting challenges to some phone vendors and opportunity for others, say Gartner...

Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0

Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android...

India adds 9.22 million mobile phone connections in July

India added 9.22 million mobile phone connections in July, but some of the gains may have come from the replacement of existing fixed line connections.

AT&T announces two new international data plans for iPhone

For U.S.-based travelers who spend a lot of time abroad, the iPhone can be a useful device to carry--but getting online around the world is an expensive proposition. AT&T is...

Platinum Solitaire for iPhone

Platinum Solitaire is certainly more limited in scope than some other solitaire games for the Mac--it has six games, including "traditional" solitaire (Klondike), Golf,...

Nvidia claims 10 hours of HD video on Tegra chip

Nvidia's Tegra system-on-chip will allow portable devices to play high-definition video for more than 10 hours, an engineer from the company told the Hot Chips conference on...

Mobile phones help pastoralists fight livestock theft

The mobile phone has revolutionized the way Kenya's pastoral communities work and conduct business, according to Joseph ole Kishau, an elder in the Maasai community.

Hosted RFID service targets mobile users

A new hosted service from SkyeTek is designed to apply RFID technology for mobile users and applications.

LG and Philips ensure the iPhone's got competition

While the iPhone 3G has just been launched in India and other Asian markets, competitor are hot on its trail. LG has announced the LG10000, a CDMA smartphone that will use...

What a Verizon-Google deal would mean for mobile search engines

With Google reportedly poised to strike a deal to become Verizon's default mobile search engine, many Verizon subscribers may be wondering what's in it for them. 6

NYTimes for iPhone

News junkies have good reason to rejoice over the NYTimes app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Say what you will about the New York Times, it remains one of the finest...

One For All launch rubber protected remotes

One For All has launched a new family of programmable remotes that are covered with circular stripes of rubber, which work both as buttons and shock protection, it announced...

Maxian to show new PMPs at Berlin's IFA

South Korea's Maxian will unveil a couple of new portable media players at the IFA consumer electronics in Berlin later this week.

Consumer electronics will do well, says Philips CEO

The future for consumer electronics looks bright and high oil prices will help the industry, according to Hans-Joachim Kamp, who spoke at IFA in Berlin on Wednesday.

Palm Treo Pro, HP iPaq 910c Business Messenger

In the world of smart phones, while Apple's TV ads insist that the iPhone 3G "works great with work" and BlackBerry fans eagerly await RIM's BlackBerry Bold, new Windows...

LG puts Bluetooth into new LCD, plasma TV sets

LG Electronics is on the verge of launching a new range of LCD (liquid crystal display) and plasma TV sets in Europe that feature Bluetooth wireless networking, the company...

LG to launch DVD player with Divx HD support

LG Electronics is at this week's IFA electronics show with two DVD players that will challenge Blu-ray Disc for a share of the optical-disc spotlight.

Sonoro combines Internet and FM radio

A new, cube-shaped radio called the elements W supports both Internet radio and good old FM broadcasts and is on sale now, Germany's Sonoro Audio announced at the IFA...

Cowon shows new portable media players for IFA

Gadget-maker Cowon is planning to introduce three new portable multimedia players at the IFA consumer electronics show that begins in Germany later this week.

Nokia launches N85, N79 and N96 for the U.S.

Nokia has expanded its N series of smart phones with two new models: the N85 and the N79. The company will also start selling an Americanized version of the upcoming N96, it...

LG to launch consumer, SOHO NAS system at IFA

LG is targeting home and small-office/home-office (SOHO) users with a network-attached storage (NAS) server that it plans to introduce at this week's IFA consumer electronics...

HTC adds S740 to smartphone portfolio

HTC is launching the Windows Mobile-based S740, which drops support for touch in favor of a classic 12-key numberpad and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, it announced on Tuesday. 2

Consumer electronics expo kicks off in Berlin

Europe's biggest consumer-electronics show, the Internationale Funkausstellung, kicks off in Berlin this week

Olympic tech's winners and losers

The flame is extinguished, and as such the games of the 2008 Olympics are closed. While the medal count is now final, a few awards have yet to be given out: those for the...

Sanyo to debut entry-level full high-def projector at IFA

Sanyo Electric is bringing full high-definition video to the entry level of the projector market with its PLV-Z700 that launches in Berlin this week at the IFA consumer...

Microsoft completes Small Business Server 2008, preps for November launch

Microsoft Friday said it has completed development on Small Business Server 2008 and that the software will hit its targeted ship date of Nov. 12. 1

Air traffic network glitch cleared-up for now

As of this morning, the FAA said flights around the country were not longer being delayed after a massive communications malfunction Tuesday.

Baseball's video and secure telephone links ready for instant replay

Major League Baseball has installed a video setup and secure telephone links in all 30 stadiums in preparation for Thursday's debut of instant replay.

Expand Networks secures $8.5 million in venture capital

WAN optimization vendor Expand Networks taps $8.5 million for R&D 1

Foundry unveils line of Carrier Ethernet switches

Foundry Networks this week unleashed a series of Carrier Ethernet edge/aggregation switches designed to scale Ethernet services while reducing the burden on MPLS routers.

Alcatel-Lucent intros Gigabit Ethernet switches

Alcatel-Lucent is delivering a new family of Gigabit Ethernet switches that fit into its architecture for blending data, voice and wireless connectivity and are designed for... 5

Zambia women's organizations get trained in Web 2.0

The Zambia Association for Research and Development is aiming to help women's organizations by training them in the use of Web 2.0 technologies. 1

Network failure delays flights across U.S.

A network failure at a Georgia facility is being blamed for multiple flight delays across the eastern United States, including flights departing from major Northeastern... 3

Adtran switches on SMBs

Adtran rolled out a series of Ethernet switches for the SMB market that are more power efficient, higher density and Wi-Fi "friendly" than previous generation platforms.

African telecoms refuse to share infrastructure

MTN and Zain Zambia have refused to share infrastructure in a quest to expand to rural areas of Zambia, claiming it would be difficult to maintain quality assurance.

East Coast Web connections run laps around rest of U.S., study says

A new study claims that states on the East Coast have significantly faster median download speeds than the rest of the country, with the top states doubling or nearly... 2

Comcast: No new traffic-management plan yet

Comcast has made no final decisions on how to manage network congestion, despite news reports Wednesday that it will slow traffic for heavy users for up to 20 minutes during...

Kenya banking on triple play to lower digitization costs

The Kenyan government is banking on technology convergence to lower the cost of migrating from analog to digital broadcasting, said Bitange Ndemo, permanent secretary in the...

New router algorithm offers hope for old routers

A team of computer scientists has proposed a new algorithm that makes routers operate more efficiently by automatically limiting the number of network route or link-state... 11

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo sued for sex selection ads in India

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India's Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting techniques and products for the...

Cisco combines SMB engineering teams

Cisco Systems has combined the engineering teams for all its small and medium-sized business (SMB) products, forming a single group to develop products for the Cisco and...

Sony opens lithium-ion battery plant in Singapore

Sony was scheduled to open a lithium-ion polymer battery plant in Singapore on Thursday, marking a milestone in the company's efforts to expand its production capacity for...

New Hynix chip factory may hurt NAND flash prices

The global NAND flash memory market has been suffering from oversupply all year, keeping chip prices down, and a new factory built by Hynix shows why: companies have built...

China aims for petaflop computer in 2010

China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the country's...

Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip

Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with...

Samsung: Market for SSDs in low-cost PCs exploding

The popularity of low-cost PCs around the world is driving "explosive growth" for SSDs (small capacity solid state drives), Samsung said Wednesday as it announced three new...

Dell puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for emerging markets

Dell unveiled Wednesday two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises (SME), governments, and...

MSI's Wind low-cost laptop to launch in Europe at IFA

Micro-Star International's (MSI) low-cost Wind laptop will get its formal European launch at this week's IFA electronics show in Berlin, the company said Wednesday.

Micro Express MicroFlex 82B value desktop PC

A powerful, fully equipped value-oriented system, the MicroFlex 82B sports a 3-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU, 2GB of memory, a 250GB Serial ATA hard drive, and Windows Vista...

IT nonprofit looks into operating in Uganda

Close the Gap, an international nonprofit aimed at reducing the digital divide, has undertaken preliminary inquiries into the possibility of operating in Uganda.

Why does my PC suddenly shut itself off?

If Windows inexplicitly closes and your PC shuts down, it's almost certainly overheated. The PC, which monitors the temperature of the CPU, is protecting it's delicate...

Cisco buys into e-mail with $215 million PostPath acquisition

Cisco is buying PostPath, a maker of e-mail and calendaring software, for $215 million and plans to add those capabilities to its on-demand Web Ex Connect collaboration... 3

Zambian manufacturers concerned over Free Trade Area

The Zambia Association of Manufacturers (ZAM) has expressed concern over the newly launched Free Trade Area in the Southern African Development Community region, which will...

Microsoft virtualization tools reinforce user's data center plans

Hosting provider RackForce Networks expects that Microsoft's just released Hyper-V virtualization technology will give it a chance to take a major step in its business...

Kenyan techies launch Skunk Awards

Kenyan techies have launched the Skunk Awards 2008 to recognize top IT companies and individuals. The awards were created through the skunkworks list serve, a forum where...

Alienware Area-51 ALX gaming desktop

If you're looking for an ultimate gaming PC, look no further than the Alienware Area-51 ALX. But at a list price of US$7639, all this power will not come cheap.

Mozilla extension would tap into typed commands

An experimental extension to Mozilla Firefox lets people substitute simple text commands for complex Web tasks such as putting links to maps in e-mail messages.

Oracle integrates CRM On Demand with Siebel

Oracle has developed prebuilt integration software for its CRM On Demand product and the on-premise Siebel CRM, providing customers with a single view of their CRM data, the...

Immersion to pay Microsoft $20 million to settle patent suit

A company that makes touch sensors for interacting with computer applications and games has agreed to pay Microsoft more than US$20 million to settle a patent suit.

Open source still looking to shake off concerns

Although open source software has gained a place in enterprise networks alongside proprietary software, it can't seem to shake doubts about security and intellectual-property... 1

Tiger Woods walks on water in new EA Sports ad

In a new viral advertisement from Electronic Arts, golf pro and apparent savior of mankind Tiger Woods walks on water.

'Eternal Sunshine' director behind Microsoft Seinfeld ad?

Michel Gondry, the innovative director of films, music videos and numerous TV commercials, is directing at least one of the TV spots starring Jerry Seinfeld touting Microsoft... 1

The Coke/Pepsi brain scan and other cool experiments at Human Neuroimaging Lab

The Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine performs groundbreaking research using fMRI scanners. Here's a look at some of the lab's major experiments...

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