Cisco acquires NeoPath
Cisco Tuesday acquired file-area networking company NeoPath Networks for an undisclosed amount.
Data breaches: Blame sloppy companies, not hackers
Electronic records in the United States are streaming out of companies at a rate of 6 million a month this year, up roughly 200,000 a month from last year, according to a University of Washington researcher.
Trend Micro acquires HijackThis antispyware
Trend Micro Wednesday announced it has acquired the antispyware freeware tool HijackThis from its Netherlands-based creator, Merijn Bellekom, for an undisclosed price.
Next shoe to drop for Vonage: Sprint?, 03/13/07
Could Sprint Nextel be the next shoe to drop for Vonage?
SkyPilot looks to make citywide Wi-Fi more affordable
SkyPilot has added to its outdoor Wi-Fi mesh offerings with a new mesh node aimed at cutting some of the capital costs of municipal wireless networks.
Psst. Wanna hear about Novell’s secretive virtualization company buyout?
Novell in November quietly acquired a company whose resource virtualization software is being used to bolster the data center automation capabilities of Novell’s ZENworks management package.
AT&T doubles IP network spending
AT&T plans to spend $750 million this year to expand the geographic reach of its IP backbone and bolster its business services portfolio. The funds earmarked for IP network and service enhancements are roughly twice the amount spent in 2006, AT&T officials say.
Dell polls PC users on favorite Linux varieties
Dell Inc. began polling customers about their software preferences on Tuesday as part of an effort by the struggling PC vendor to meet a popular request for desktops and notebooks that run on Linux instead of Windows.
Study: Economic impact of tech often understated
IT has driven nearly all of the economic growth in the U.S. since 1995, but lawmakers too often ignore the tech industry or create policies that hurt it, according to a report released Tuesday.
Case studies
Using network technology to treat hospital patients like cars
University of New Hampshire researchers are working to make hospital operating rooms safer by fostering better communication among computerized healthcare equipment, such as hospital beds and blood pressure monitors.
Law firm relies on traffic shaping for WAN performance
A project to consolidate servers in a central data center highlighted the need for international law firm Reed Smith to use traffic-shaping technology to ensure that its most important applications perform well on its now-critical WAN.
Blogs
Today on Layer 8, where we wish our government were sometimes seen and not heard:
Seems it’s OK for some portions of our government to go looking pretty willy-nilly for information about us, but we can’t get information easily about them. A report found widespread failure among federal agencies to follow the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendments that took effect in 1997.
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