Opinion

Cisco losing deals to rivals as product delays continue

Some customers turning to competitors instead of waiting months for a switch or firewall

Fedora 13 beta released with many goodies for the enterprise

Latest Linux distro features support for IPv6, certificates, and tons of virtualization features.

NASA: Next stop Mars?

President Obama to address NASA’s future this week, Mars could be on agenda

Microsoft wants you to get on the bus, Gus

Road show to promote Windows 7, Office 2010 strains to be hip

Patch Tuesday brings bevy of critical updates

Microsoft’s April security bulletin includes 11 updates for 25 vulnerabilities, 5 of which are deemed critical and impact popular Windows software.

Feds seek to sniff out toxic chemicals with cellphones

DHS working with Apple, Qualcomm and others to convert smartphones into "smell" phones

An inside look at intellectual property theft

GAO takes a measure of what intellectual property theft means to US

Steve Jobs confirms no more support for original iPhone

Steve Jobs this weekend confirmed via email that Apple would no longer continue supporting the original iPhone via software upgrades

Let’s call Twitter’s new revenue stream ‘audition advertising’

Long-awaited scheme will supposedly give Twitter users a say

Can Open Source Defeat the Scourge of Tuberculosis?

The Open Source Drug Discovery Project is applying open source principles to smash barriers and accelerate drug research for diseases like TB which still kills 1.7 million people a year.

Venmo, interesting but those terms!

Conformity announces SaaS solutions

* Governance and compliance solution enables internal auditors to reduce the security and compliance risks associated with SaaS adoption.

Harness wireless for WAN bargaining power

* Telecom experts advocate blending wireless, wired WAN service negotiations

IT cost management and the cloud

Apptio adds cloud computing templates to its IT financial management suite to help customers show the true total cost of ownership of internal and external IT services.

Whaleback offers managed voice service

* CrystalBlue Lite is designed to help carriers deploy OPEX-based managed voice service with no CAPEX costs

Microsoft launches Kin “social” phone

After years of speculation about a Microsoft-designed mobile phone, the Kin has finally appeared.

HP closes 3Com deal, strengthening competition for Cisco

$2.7 billion acquisition still needs to sort through products

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Implementation and Administration Best Practices

Things to Consider When Rolling out System Center OpsMgr 2007 R2

High atop Ball State University with Wimax

Student explains high speed wireless broadband usability project

Report rips key government security efforts

Disruptive cyber activities will continue to plague US resources

Securing the Unknown

Separating access from place

Pendulum swinging away from anonymous comments

There’s a lot to be said for accountability and at least a little more civility

Integrating Social Computing and Unified Communications

UC

Very cool: Riverbed and Vyatta partner for all-in-one router, WAN appliance 

Would you consider the Vyatta/Riverbed option instead of a remote office router?

Educating on open source: Not as easy as it seems

With open source nowhere on the radar in collegiate technology curriculum, some in the OSS community are working to change that.

Is Oracle Sailing the $7B Sun Ship Onto the Rocks?

Now it is the father of Java, James Gosling who is leaving. Will the last open source advocate at Oracle shut the lights on the way out?

Lost in the Cloud: What Happened to My Data?

Online services don’t provide reliable records

The Battle for Internet Freedom in Italy

The networking imperative: Change

NetApp buys Bycast

To bolster its object-based storage