News

HCL completes acquisition of Axon

Contract IT work through staffing agencies

Cisco: Cyberattacks growing, looking more legit

Cisco's Annual Security Report found that the number of disclosed vulnerabilities in 2008 grew 11.5% over 2007

Microsoft data-center leader joins rival Amazon Web Services

Siemens pleads guilty to bribery-related charges

IBM labs promises five innovations

Cloud-like service offers customizable servers, storage and network

RagingWire co-location takes new approach for midsize customers

IPhone, economy spur better phones, apps

Google, Microsoft say they still support net neutrality

Mobile phones to be primary Internet device by 2020, experts predict

The Web will not increase social tolerance, despite increased exposure to different cultures according to Pew Internet & American Life Project

Microsoft releases toolkit for reusing SharePoint portlets

Trapeze swings for Newbury Networks

WLAN vendor Trapeze acquires Wi-Fi location products

The Top 10 stories of 2008: Not business as usual

Researcher: Chrome, Safari password managers need work

Intel pushing parallelism to developers

Wall Street Beat: IT forecasts slashed

US video game sales grew 10 percent in November

Japanese billboards are watching back

Governments line up to bail out DRAM makers

Multifunction devices pose tax headache for EU policymakers

Wikipedia censorship case sends ‘confusing’ message

Microsoft: IE5, IE6 also affected by browser vulnerability

Corporate IT budgets evaporating, report says

Citi projects 10% to 20% decline in 2009; could be worst-ever year for CIOs

Microsoft’s 2009 to-do list: Deliver services, get virtualized, storm the Googleplex

Services push will test company in new year

Cisco planning significant data center assault

Cisco Blade servers, green switches and collaboration on tap as company morphs into overall IT giant

India to auction 3G spectrum on Jan. 16

Quotes of note from 2008

’09 IT predictions — the economy dominates

Analysts expect Microsoft to warn on Q2 revenue

Web experts: Obama’s vision for e-government will take work

Security vendors leaving ‘old school’ malware detection methods behind

Signature-based virus scanning losing prominence as use of behavior-based detection and reputation analysis grows

Start Page yanked from new Google Apps signups

Tech M&A expert warns CIOs: Be careful what you ask for

Consolidation’s squeeze on innovation a concern; comparing Cisco vs. IBM of old

New G.hn ITU standard for home networks

How an Obama FCC will deal with major telecom issues

Net neutrality, M&A issues loom for Obama’s FCC

Lawmakers ask FCC to slow down on policymaking

Infor cuts 5 percent of its workforce

Gartner: Semiconductor revenue drops on economic woes

Alcatel-Lucent cuts jobs, focuses attention on three sectors

Enterprises, service provider gear and selected vertical markets to receive the most attention.

Fallen Danish IT star says he acted under threat

Wayfinder bid a bold move by Vodafone

Cisco exec rationalizes data center invasion

Sees chance to innovate beyond networking as industry anticipates blade server entry

Sony to close last U.S. TV factory

A 40-year-old demo that still amazes

Kodak sees dramatic consumer slowdown

$41 billion deal to buy Bell Canada collapses

Chinese team mistakenly released unpatched IE7 exploit

What we want to see at CES 2009

Former Intel World Ahead executive joins NComputing

India’s first 3G operator starts service