Opinion

Ambitious Google not setting any limits; Report: Apple prepping nano-iPhone this year

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Google to buy Postini for $625 million; EMC’s VMware announces IPO

Emoticon turning 25: Thank this guy :-) … or not :-(

Juniper scales down service router; U.S. seeks 7 years for Qwest CEO

Legacy wins in build vs. buy battle; Vendors line up to manage VMware

A robotic dog you can take hiking

Barracuda adds zero-hour threat protection; Incorporating data-breach issues in employee training

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Allied Telesis ships Gigabit Ethernet switches

* Two Gigabit Ethernet switches from Allied Telesis

VoIP Two Way Radio Integration Continues to Attract

New Nano iPhone Predicted

A robotic dog you can take hiking

Web 3.0: Games, games and more games (at work too)

Researchers: Computer games help heal the world

Cisco resellers struggling to compete with Avaya, Mitel price cuts

Survey: Cisco, Riverbed top choices for WAN acceleration

Cisco to double its India workforce

NetMon v3.1

DC Comics Website wants online comic creators

The emoticon is turning 25: You can thank this guy :-) … or not :-(

A few words with Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Scott Fahlman

This Week in Backspin: Forget Big Brother, Watch out for Big Entertainment

A whole lotta Live for Microsoft

Vista Service Pack could be released next week

You’ve been bumped: Agency looks to change airline overbooking compensation

GPLv3, the end of Microsoft/Novell deal?

CAPTCHA Cracked

Jajah Just A Dial Around Service

Are We Looking at a New World of Cellular Carriers

A practitioner’s advice on biometrics for authentication

* Greg Faust, CEO of Florida-based Valid Technologies offers some practical information about using biometric authentication for enterprise IT

Forget Big Brother — Watch out for Big Entertainment