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VoIP deployments on the rise
Plans to deploy VoIP are soaring, but enterprises still have a hard time justifying costs to upper management.
The 15 all-time networkiest TV characters
Some say people like Bob Metcalfe and Vint Cerf got networking going. But these techie TV icons brought networking to the mainstream. Watch the slideshow, then tell us who you think we missed.
Stephenson to succeed Whitacre at AT&T
Randall Stephenson is far from a household name, but that will begin to change June 3 when he takes over as chairman and CEO at AT&T.
Google courts govt sector Webmasters
Google and four U.S. states have partnered to improve the amount of data Google indexes from their Web sites and makes available to users of its search engine.
EarthLink scales back, focuses muni Wi-Fi effort
EarthLink is pulling in the reins on its municipal Wi-Fi business, focusing on existing deals and big cities for the rest of this year, in a move that raises questions about the growing trend of city-wide wireless networks.
Google declares personalized home page glitch solved
Google has finally solved a technical glitch on its Personalized Home Page service that rattled an undetermined number of users.
Microsoft SharePoint falls short in Web content management, analyst firm says
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 does a poor job managing Web content, leading to extraneous JavaScript, difficulties implementing complex forms of navigation, and problems when companies use Web content that needs to be translated …
Acer to buy small PC vendor — but not Gateway, it says
Acer expects to acquire a small company in the coming months to expand its PC business but has ruled out Gateway as a possibility.
Acer strikes back at HP lawsuit
Acer Inc. has hired a lawyer that helped win a big patent case against HP two years ago to help defend itself against two HP patent lawsuits, Acer’s chairman said Friday.
Xerox technology responds to ‘colorful’ language
Xerox researchers are developing a way to change the colors in a computer document using natural language commands such as “make the background carnation pink” or “make the blues slightly less purple.”
Video
Harvard Business School shores up security and saves money
This will make the MBA candidates coming out of Harvard Business School happy: When the school shored up security through a number of means, it ended up saving $220,000 a year in bandwidth charges. John Arsneault, director of network operations at HBS, explains how on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap.
Blogs
Buzzblog: Has Steve Jobs gotten a free ride?
A New York Times writer makes the case that he has when it comes to the stock-options scandal. It’s a fairly compelling case, too.
From Microsoft Subnet: Say hello to our new blogger
John Obeto joins Microsoft Subnet as a regular blogger. John’s no stranger to Microsoft: he’s got his own blog Absolutevista and he knows Microsoft products – he was a beta tester of Vista and has been testing Longhorn Server since it was initially announced almost three years ago.
Today on Layer 8 where we have removed most of our own embarrassing MySpace photos:
This is one of those disturbing stories because really, it could happen to way too many people. According to the Smoking Gun site, a woman in Pennsylvania is suing Millersville University claiming that her teaching career has been derailed by college administrators who unfairly disciplined her over a MySpace photo that shows her wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup.
