Opinion

How long is your downtime?

How much padding should you put into your downtime estimates?

Verizon fires workers who ran, participated in office football pool

Super Bowl pool costs six workers their jobs – 32 others suspended

System Center Service Manager 2010: Why Should We Care?

Service Manager rounds out and integrates Microsoft's System Center Suite

Commercial devices to get military-grade security

Suite B cryptography emerges for government agencies, enterprises

Stop Using FTP! How to Transfer Files Securely

Conan O’Brien sees Apple going all barbarian

It was only a matter of time …

Actuate Performance Management: Another Way To Save Money With Open Source

Measuring performance, providing insight leads to millions in savings

Setting the record straight on US, Canadian governments’ trusted identity programs

Cernam raises the bar for capturing and preserving online content as evidence

What if Gallup asked how much you weigh?

You’d tell the truth, of course, but what about others?

Snagging the video we paid for

A new 15.1(2)T IOS feature that should be considered when upgrading

Default behaviour change in voice gateways

Network troubleshooting gets smarter, faster with ‘Traffic Visibility Networking’

Cloud and Complexity drive the need for a new market I’ve dubbed Traffic Visibility Networking

Cisco invests again in cloud telephony company

RingCentral gets another $10 million in its effort to eliminate on-premise phone systems

Why I’m ignoring my W7 warning messages and other Microsoft Patch Tuesday news

Microsoft will issue five patches to five 15 holes, none critical while the world deals with the SSL certificate mess.

How Rice University researchers could bring wireless to 5G level

Full-duplex wireless technique could double throughput, make video on smartphones much better

10 years later, and still so far to go

Network World story package looks at IT and emergency response systems at the tenth anniversary of 9/11

Got acne? There’s NOT an iPhone, Android app for that, FTC says

FTC for first time goes after health claims of mobile apps

OpenFlow inventor: Network provisioning will inevitably be automated

Martin Casado, inventor of OpenFlow and CTO of stealth startup Nicira, talks about the future of OpenFlow, networking and the job of the network engineer.

US blusters up $43M to grow off-shore wind energy

DOE once again tries to move along development of off-shore wind technology

Saks 5th Avenue store features 64 iPads in interactive display

iPad mosaic links to online images, video and tweets

Competing for privacy in a social media world

Carnegie Mellon opens competitions aimed at building slick robots

Carnegie RoboBowl robot challenges will address healthcare, manufacturing, security realms

Gluster Offers Storage Choice in Red Hot Hadoop Space

Gluster's open source, software only storage approach is now a Hadoop option

Intel Joins the Windows 8 Developer Push

IDF takes place at the same time as BUILD, and the Wintel alliance (for now) is linking arms to reach out to developers.

What Will be our Options When it Comes to Metro?

Microsoft isn't being entirely clear on the options surrounding the Metro UI.

Three Top Open Source Bug Tracking Apps

Space scientist, MIT PhD, pleads guilty, gets 13 years in prison for espionage

Planetary scientist, physicist, Stewart Nozette thought he was selling US military, satellite secrets to Israel

The iCloud name looks to have opened up for Apple

Company that filed trademark lawsuit against Apple has change of heart

SAN/LAN convergence can pay dividends today