Opinion

SQL Server 2008 R2 is ready for primetime!

SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed authors are online all this month - October 2010

Ig Nobel awards make sly commentary on oil spill, economic collapse

BP, AIG et al "win" Ig Nobel prizes for chemistry and economics

Best practices for endpoint security, Part 1

Avaya and Skype team up

* Will deliver real-time communications and collaboration solutions

Smartphones, mobile apps mushroom, says researcher

* Mobile platform heterogeneity persists while IT remains fragmented

Book, white paper tackle IdM issues

Service-now.com bolsters ITSM SaaS offering

* IT cost management, runbook automation and software development life-cycle key focuses

New Month, New Exam

Discover this blog’s exam focus for October, 2010.

Cisco flexes its Jawbone

Collaborates with Bluetooth headset innovator on mobile collaboration

iPhone 4 scalpers prompt Apple Store in China to shut down temporarily

The iPhone 4 launch in China this past weekend got off to an incredible start, but iPhone 4 scalpers recently prompted an Apple's flagship retail store in Beijing to shut down temporarily

What Microsoft’s Minnesota win means for cloud

Minnesota says using BPOS in the cloud improves security

Google gives URL shortener its own site, touts performance and security

Meet goo.gl - Google's newest website

FAA pays out first $500,000 grants for commercial spaceports

FAA incrementally ramping up commercial space operations

FTC slams shut telephone cramming scam

FTC case shuts cramming business, says scammers must return $37 million

Open Source On Same Side of Lawsuit As Microsoft, Apple, Google, Intel and Dell

Sign that the apocalypse is upon us or common sense prevailing?

Too little too late? China’s rare earth threat prompts US action

Scarcity of rare earth materials could cause future problems in high-tech, military systems

iOS 4.2 Beta 2 points to iPad Tethering

New settings in the iOS 4.2 Beta 2 suggest that tethering may soon be coming to the iPad

Get rich on Windows Phone 7?

Microsoft takes next step in mobile ad service for WP7 apps

Defending Apple’s use of ‘magical’

Master illusionist has his own spin on Apple's spin

Astronomers discover planet that could support life

NASA, NSF-funded research spots planet that could sustain life

Developers Are Taking Over the World!

And That’s a Good Thing ...

Red Hat urges patent office to deny most software patents

Red Hat's legal team has found a silver lining in the Supreme Court's Bilski decision, and wants the USPTO to use it.

Apple continues to tout its FaceTime feature with four new European ads

Whether you think Apple's FaceTime feature is revoultionary or merely a gimmick, there's no denying that Apple holds the technology in high regard and is doing all it can to roll it out across all its devices.

Worlds collide: Apple iPhone app manages mainframe

IPhone, iPad apps manage IBM mainframe systems

Dell Helping Transform Data Centers

with VIS

Home TelePresence coming from Cisco?

Blogosphere lights up with specualtion on Oct. 6 consumer product launch

Zoho brings business apps to Google’s Gmail

Zoho latches on to bigger rivals Google and Microsoft with integration tools

Unix How-To: More Alias Quickies to Save You Time

Research: Microsoft is nearly invisible in the mainstream press

Microsoft coverage in the mainstream media has fallen off drastically compared to five years ago, researchers say

MIT researchers tout network intrusion recovery system

MIT researchers say RETRO will make recovery from system hacks easier