Vonage’s future questioned after latest setbackFAQ: Vonage’s latest blow explainedUPDATE: Vonage gets temporary stay in Verizon suit
After Vonage’s most recent setback this week, the industry is asking: What’s next for the VoIP pioneer?
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The 50 best tech products of all time
The Beatles. Citizen Kane. Muhammad Ali. Many have laid claim to being the “best ever” in their respective fields of work, but only one can top the list. And the same is true when it comes to technology.
Cambridge to host wireless sensor network
Researchers at Harvard University and BBN Technologies have designed a wireless network capable of reporting real-time sensor data across an entire city, they said Friday.
Google apologizes for using part of rival’s software
Google Monday issued a brief apology for using part of a software application developed by rival Sohu.com in a recently released Chinese software tool of its own.
Qwest founder, ex-president testify in Nacchio case
Jurors heard testimony from Qwest’s founder and former president in the insider trading trial of ex-CEO Joe Nacchio.
BladeLogic files for IPO
BladeLogic, a vendor of data center automation software, filed Thursday for an initial public offering worth $75 million.
Virtualization security risks being overlooked, Gartner warns
Companies in a rush to deploy virtualization technologies for server consolidation efforts could wind up overlooking many security issues and exposing themselves to risks, warns research firm Gartner.
Sending IPv4 and IPv6 packets via semaphore flags
Could waving a pair of colorful flags in a particular pattern be the key to bringing IPv6 to the masses?
Blogs
Buzzblog: Microsoft is dead? … Not on this planet.counters Microsoft exec Don Dodge, who offers 4 billion good reasons to buttress his case. Winner by a TKO: Dodge.
“Microsoft is dead,” cries tech guru Paul Graham. … Phooey,
From Cisco Subnet: Used Cisco dealers want an audience with Cisco
The United Network Equipment Dealer Association (UNEDA), which counts 300 members from the used Cisco dealer community, has posted an open letter to Cisco (via the Cisco Subnet forum) asking the networking giant to meet with its directors to thrash out a way to “eradicate counterfeit and black market goods from the networking industry.”
Today on Layer 8, where we have managed to keep all our medals accounted for:One of the cool stories of the week. The FBI announced that it had recovered astronaut James Lovell’s – Commander of the ill-fated Apollo XIII space mission – Presidential Medal of Freedom that had been missing since April 1970.
