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NASA ice-watching satellite crashes into sea

NASA ICESat decommissioned, not expected to add too orbital debris problem

Excel 2010 Might Be Slower Than Excel 2003 For Power Users

As you contemplate the move from Excel 2003 to Excel 2010, you need to have your Excel gurus give their processes a spin. Slowdowns & problems are most likely to occur in the fringe; places where influential business analysts tread.

Burning Man is the proving point for Earth friendly, open source Linux-based cell tower

With its super low-cost, solar or wind powered base station, OpenBTS has the power to change the world

iPod Nano poised to undergo radical new design

Photos of upcoming iPod Nano cases all but confirm that Apple will announce a completely redesigned iPod Nano at this weeks media event, scheduled for Wednesday, September 1.

What’s After VOIP?

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Fret not for the printed dictionary … yet

Comment by Oxford English Dictionary exec sparks premature obituaries

Sign of the apocalypse or the times?

University offering course based on video game

Is it safe to use a SIP trunk as your outbound dialing option?

SIP trunk security measures

The potential challenges of virtual appliances

Smart Modular, NVELO launch solid state products

A new SSD acronym debuts

Cisco Unified Computing System is 75% Networking – Who Knew?

Sort of Like Finding Out Water is Wet

How Microsoft could save $1 billion in Phone 7 marketing

Do a ‘Gizmodo’ minus the door-kicking search

One Exam per Month

Cisco Cert Prep is a blog with a mission.

Microsoft files petition with Supreme Court to overturn i4i patent ruling

Microsoft lost $290 million in a judgment against it over use of XML in Word

Most popular stories this week: Aug. 27

The most-viewed stories at Network World for the week ending Aug. 27.

The Dawn Of The Age of Open Source 4.0

Some say we are entering a new "golden age" of open source. Open Source 4.0

A FOSS project isn’t necessarily a software product

FOSS the question isn’t just build vs. buy but also borrow versus share.

DARPA takes aim at insider threats

Military researchers want protection from insider threats to important data

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant – Where’s the Magic?

Sure, we’d all like an instant way to pick the ideal wireless LAN – but it ain’t gonna happen

Why you should use your smartphone as your credit card

Fighting intrusions on both sides of the switch

* Different systems for different jobs

A good governance policy goes a long way

* Recent data breaches demonstrate the need for companies to strengthen their policies and procedures

Gmail’s new call feature takes off

* More than a million phone calls are made in the first 24 hours of the service, which lets Gmail users make outbound calls from their computers

Where to turn for low-cost help desk management

* ManageEngine provides Cetero Research full functionality at a fraction of the cost of high-end products

From Multi-Purpose to Focused Analytics

Need Targeted Analysis? There’s An App For That – Soon

Sources to protect you from the zero-day Windows DLL exploit

Microsoft's DLL exploit mess could eventually lead to safer libraries. Until then, get ready for a manual fix.

Open-sourcing SETI

The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence got a boost this week with the release of the first open source code from setiQuest.

Time to take another look at Open Source?

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NASA Kepler spacecraft spots 2 new planets crossing same star

NASA says Saturn-like planets are first star system found to have multiple transiting planets.

NSF awards $20M to jazz up university research networks

National Science Foundation looks to bolster research networks