Sprint Nextel ripe for a takeover?
It’s no secret that Sprint Nextel has been struggling since its $36 billion merger well over a year ago. One analyst firm speculates that the carrier’s floundering might even make it a takeover target.
In-depth: BlackBerry becomes Crashberry as RIM’s net fails for hours
One thing is clear about the unprecedented overnight disruption of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail service. Research in Motion, which runs the service from a network operations center in Waterloo, Ontario, may get a black eye from the net’s failure, but it sidestepped a haymaker, apparently by sheer luck.
Microsoft plans $3 suite for emerging markets
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Thursday is expected to unveil a global initiative by Microsoft to bring computers and technology education resources to emerging countries during an appearance in Beijing.
Internet2, NLR update their merger soap opera
Can two research networks find true love and happiness as one? This is the burning question in the continuing love/hate saga of Internet2 and National LambdaRail (NLR), two non-profit research networks that have been promising – threatening, even – to merge for the past two years. The latest twist in this soap opera occurred this week when the two organizations issued an update on merger talks that were apparently – and very quietly – rekindled last month after an acrimonious split late last year.
Readers weigh in: Is the iPod a threat or a scapegoat?
The recent articles regarding iPod as a corporate security threat and where responsibility for securing the device lies have stimulated much debate on Network World’s Web pages.
Intel’s Centrino package to get WiMAX next year
Intel Wednesday said it plans to next year add WiMAX to its Centrino platform, a long-expected move likely to boost demand for wireless broadband services.
AT&T is making the most of its newly acquired wireless asset
AT&T announced on Wednesday that it has launched a handful of new services and capabilities that marry its wireless and wireline assets.
Microsoft: DNS patch to come by May 8, maybe
Microsoft hopes to fix by May 8 a critical flaw in DNS servers that is being exploited by online criminals, the company said late Tuesday.
E-mail: Why it’s next to impossible to lose
Putting politics aside in the brewing White House e-mail scandal, the real question is: Can e-mail really get lost these days?
Case study
Why Cisco wasn’t a no-brainer for Stanley Works
Ex-Cisco engineer Dave Cote has ambitious plans for Stanley Works’ global VoIP network: hundreds of sites and potentially tens of thousands of Session Initiation Protocol phones. But the project will involve little gear sporting his old employer’s logo.
Blogs
Buzzblog: BlackBerry maker owes this guy a girlfriend
It was just like one of those AT&T/Cingular commercials where gaps in the conversation create terrible misunderstandings, only this time we’re talking about the BlackBerry, yesterday’s massive outage, and real people.
Buzzblog: 4 million days of downtime means..?
Not much, other than that it represents the cumulative downtime for 51.3 million active Web sites during the month of March, according to Pingdom. What’s more interesting is the difference between 99.73 and 99.9.
From Cisco Subnet: Does Cisco have green credentials?
Business 2.0 Assistant Managing Editor Tom Woody in his blog Green Wombat, is writing that Cisco was conspicuous by its failure to respond to a survey by Sustainable Silicon Valley, a group of tech and other firms in the area, to outline how respondents are helping employees reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encouraging them to commute in an earth-friendly manner.
The big list
Network companies to watch
We are always looking for the next great innovation in networking – and there’s no better place to look than to the most innovative start-ups in the business. Here is the big list of companies we think you should watch, compiled over the last year or so.
Editor’s Note
Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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