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Google Earth used by terrorists in India attacks

The terrorists that attacked various locations in south Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating...

Google layoffs: 10,000 jobs being cut, report claims

Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to... 8

Experts to Feds: Sign the DNS root ASAP

Internet security gurus and leading vendors are urging the U.S. federal government to rapidly deploy security and authentication mechanisms at the top level of the DNS... 1

Cisco shutting down between holidays

For the first time in its history, Cisco will be shutting down during the year-end holiday season to save money.

Sun, wind, algae: Future data center power sources?

Researchers and policymakers gathered at E3 2008 to share progress in the development of renewable energy sources including wind, solar and biofuels.

Mobile sales to beat economic gloom, forecasts Ovum

Revenues from wireless services will see strong growth over the next year despite widespread economic gloom, projects research firm Ovum.

Start-ups starting to feel economic pain

I spoke this week with Justin Perreault, a general partner of Commonwealth Capital Ventures in Waltham, Mass., about how enterprise IT start-ups are holding up against the...

Spam levels fluctuate as crooks try to revive botnets

Two weeks after a hosting firm's shutdown sent global spam volumes plummeting, some researchers continue to claim that junk mail rates remain dramatically down, while others...

Mozilla eyes extra beta for Firefox 3.1

Mozilla will probably add a third beta to the development schedule for Firefox 3.1 to get a better handle on remaining bugs and give several new features, including a faster...

Apple working on always-on status indicators for iPhone?

One of the features the iPhone lacks is the ability to display status indicators when the phone is in sleep mode. If you're out and about and just want to know how much...

Grim forecast for holiday e-commerce sales

Judging by the first 23 days of November, retailers can expect flat spending growth for the 2008 holiday e-commerce season, predicts Web measurement firm comScore.

Talking Web, memory assistants and solar-powered cell phones headed mainstream, IBM says

A talking Web, solar technology embedded in windows and cell phones, and the end of forgetting will all come in the next five years, IBM predicts in its third annual Next...

Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming

A big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrected, security researchers said Wednesday, and is again under the control of criminals. 1

Microsoft warns of malware exploiting known vulnerability

Microsoft is warning users of a rise in attacks on a vulnerability in Windows that could trigger a worm infestation on networks, and the company is encouraging companies to...

Internet's bandwidth health still in trouble, report says

Nemertes Research continued to throw cold water on the future of the Internet this week, releasing a study projecting that demand for bandwidth on the Web will exceed its... 4

Foreclosures, consumer cutbacks freeze carrier spending on VoIP

Home foreclosures and a generally bad economy are driving down demand for wired phone lines, which will freeze much carrier spending on VoIP infrastructure until 2011,...

Citrix buys high-def video conferencing player

Citrix has bought Vapps, a provider of high-definition voice conferencing services geared for businesses and service providers. 2

Magic Johnson discusses video phones, Celtics-Lakers rivalry and today's NBA

Magic Johnson's businesses rely on Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing to communicate, cut costs on plane travel. 1

Microsoft/Nortel committed to marriage but future is cloudy

Nortel's rocking financial situation and announced layoffs this week of 1,300 people likely won't have much short-term impact on the company's four-year unified... 1

Message to VoiceCon: UC can help you through hard times

Users buying into idea that unified communications can cut costs, boost productivity

Microsoft touts economic upside of unified communications

Microsoft is pushing unified communications as a way to save money and increase revenues in hard economic times, according to a keynote at VoiceCon San Francisco 2008. 1

How to Make UC and Collaboration Work for You

Like many technology buzzwords, unified communications (UC) has had many meanings in its short life. It's now an umbrella term that covers an array of technologies—including...

IBM exec says bad economy could be good for unified communications

The economy is driving business changes that unified communications can help address -- which means that end users might finally start using the collaboration tools that have...

Avaya puts voicemail into written words

Avaya will let enterprise workers leave voicemail messages and combine them with e-mail, giving both callers and recipients new options for retrieving and saving their... 1

Cisco promises wireless, video extravaganza at new Yankee Stadium

It looks like baseball fans at Yankee Stadium will get to enjoy some of the high-tech features that Cisco envisions for its proposed Cisco Field baseball stadium in... 5

Unified communications products abound

Network convergence, as in unified communications across applications and between wired and wireless modes, again is a big theme at VoiceCon in San Francisco this week.

Avaya names Kevin Kennedy new CEO

Avaya has named a new president and CEO: Kevin Kennedy, currently the CEO of JDS Uniphase, makers of optical communications hardware.

Avaya CEO Giancarlo weighs in on application server, economic opportunities

Interim Avaya CEO Charles Giancarlo is winding down his tenure at the helm as the company narrows down a permanent replacement for former CEO Lou D'Ambrosio, who stepped down... 4

Avaya readies unified communications application server

Avaya is planning a core server with which customers and independent software vendors can easily build presence, voice and other communications modes into business... 3

Experts: Weak economy to grow managed network services

Managed network services are expected to continue to grow at a healthy pace, even as the economy tanks, according to an analyst and industry sources.

Citigroup's 52,000 layoffs will impact IT

Given Citigroup's stated plans, a massive headcount reduction announced today is sure to include a fair share of IT jobs.

Add a staffing firm to your job search arsenal

Today's turbulent economy has made job search efforts more challenging -- and nerve-racking -- for those in IT. 1

5 tech companies that could use a bailout

While tech companies may not have the same level of clout among Washington policy makers as AIG or General Motors, many of the industry's biggest players have hit hard times... 13

NetWitness to offer network-traffic analyzer as freeware

NetWitness Corp. Monday said it's offering its network-traffic analysis tool under a freeware license to end users.

MIT's JoAnne Yates on information overload

MIT Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates is co-author of an upcoming article on information overload called "Ubiquitous E-mail: Individual Experiences and Organizational Consequences of...

You really can do more with less

With the global economy lurching toward recession , everyone is being asked to do more with less, and cutbacks and layoffs are weighing heavily on people's minds. But cutting...

How to Choose the Right IT Outsourcing Provider

So, you have decided to outsource. The journey to that decision was no doubt a difficult one, but now comes the hardest part: the road to selecting an outsourcing partner.... 1

Web site collects ideas for Obama's CTO

Barack Obama hasn't even appointed a chief technology officer yet, but thousands of people are using a new Web site to suggest and vote on ideas they think his CTO should... 2

Rah, Rah, Apple U.

Apple has long been in the educational market, but now the educational market is working its way into Apple.

CEOs urged to be IT-savvy or risk brand damage

Brand damage. Bankruptcy. Unemployment. These are just some of the consequences company's could suffer with simple loss of corporate information.

Geeks at Your Service: Secret of Best Buy's Success

Great in-store customer service is important, but excellent customer service after you leave, well that stands apart from the crowd. Best Buy has differentiated itself with... 1

How to Avoid Getting Sued by a Former Employer

When the economy goes south, companies get desperate for business. Many resort to layoffs to boost their bottom lines. Some companies, like Fannie Mae, go so far as to cook...

Obama won the Web uptime race, too

Barack Obama had a slight advantage over rival John McCain during the U.S. presidential campaign: His Web site was online more often.

Open source management vendor takes on the cloud

Open source management software provider Hyperic this week introduced an upgrade to its platforms that lets IT managers monitor virtual environments, better plan for capacity... 1

London hospitals almost back online after worm infection

Three London hospitals whose computer systems were infected with a relatively old worm are now almost back online.

Mumbai terrorism, worm warning, holiday woe

A wave of coordinated terrorist attacks across Mumbai late Wednesday dominated the news this week, with bloggers and people using Twitter helping to get information to... 1

How spyware nearly sent a teacher to prison

If there's a poster child for the dangers of spyware, it's Julie Amero. 2

Estonian ISP cuts off control servers for Srizbi botnet

An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers,...

Feuding India, Pakistani hackers deface web sites

Indian and Pakistani hackers have once again taken politics to the web, hacking and defacing web sites in the two countries.

Spammers regaining control over Srizbi botnet

The zombie computers used to send spam are coming back to life. 1

Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming

A big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrected, security researchers said Wednesday, and is again under the control of criminals. 1

Microsoft warns of malware exploiting known vulnerability

Microsoft is warning users of a rise in attacks on a vulnerability in Windows that could trigger a worm infestation on networks, and the company is encouraging companies to...

Lenovo service disables laptops with text message

If a laptop is lost, now there is a new way to remotely shut it down -- just text it. 4

Experts to Feds: Sign the DNS root ASAP

Internet security gurus and leading vendors are urging the U.S. federal government to rapidly deploy security and authentication mechanisms at the top level of the DNS... 1

Seven classic PC symptoms

As a small-business person, you might bemoan the fact you don't have 24/7 IT support like your larger-scale competitors. Don't panic. You can solve many of the most common...

Spam levels fluctuate as crooks try to revive botnets