Opinion

Aruba Networks adds cloud services to improve Wi-Fi in remote/branch locations

Virtual Branch Network builds on access points that connect to central controller

Mobility: The 1½-Body Solution

A step towards virtualizing the mobile device?

IBM, Canonical, Simmtronics Offer Cheap Netbooks For Emerging Markets

The lightweight computers run on Ubuntu and come pre-loaded with IBM's office productivity suites built on OpenOffice.org code.

Android: The Scratch-Resistant OS

Why OSS and Hardware Release Cycles Impede Contributions

How tech CEOs are faring at the pay window

Some just fine, thanks; others not so well

CloudCrowd: Crowdsourcing 2.0

Aastra, Alcatel-Lucent, Polycom announce new IP devices at VoiceCon

* Devices include IP phones optimized for Microsoft 14 and 'smart desk phones'

Directory service wish list still rings true

* Ten years later, SSO, identity federation, self-service password change and multi-factor authentication still make up a large part of an enterprise IT road map

Wireless does community service

* Behind-the-scenes municipal applications help urban traffic flow

Policy Implications of FCC Reliance on Faulty ISP Performance Data

ISP performance testing should be subject to scrutiny and oversight

Good news on certification…

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Is Enterprise IT Here to Provide Great Internet Access?

THE NETWORK IS SLOOOOOW!!!

Sprint readies big internal announcement?

Likely: a big change in the employee stock option program, currently pretty worthless

Cisco wins approval for Tandberg deal

Company expects to close purchase within weeks

Is US unmanned aircraft biz too booming for its own good?

Predator, Reaper, Global Hawk find fast success, but at what cost?

Cisco lands largest TelePresence deal

Bank of America to deploy 200 systems

State Department putting UC Berkeley web visualization tool to work to gauge public opinion

Opinion Space website asks: What would you ask Hillary Clinton?

How Much to Charge for Cloud Based Open Source?

xTuple becomes the latest open source provider to offer a trial in the cloud. The question is what do you charge

iPad lacks Adobe Flash, but Brightcove can serve HTML5 video to the tablet

Brightcove's goal: raise HTML5 to the level of Flash

Recession Fallout: The IT Job Search

Looking for a job when you have to

Getting to Interoperable Video Conferencing

UC

IT managers could avoid grief by curtailing admin rights in Windows

Study shows 90 percent of Windows 7 bugs 'mitigated' by access control

A breakout year for virtual appliances

Dell rolls out multiple storage advancements

Including object-based storage

Restrictions on intellectual property

The Battle for Internet Freedom part 3

FCC Relying on Faulty ISP Performance Data from comScore

ComScore testing underreports actual ISP performance

Steve Jobs promises universal inbox for mail app on the iPhone

Steve Jobs sure is putting his iPad through its paces. Over the past 2 weeks, Jobs has been responding to customer emails with unusual frequency, and while some of the aren't terribly pressing, Jobs recently dropped some clues about what we can expec

First look into Call Manager 8.0

Call Manager 8.x new features and some basic install tips

Start-up Abiquo manages public, private clouds via open source

Open source software gets Microsoft Hyper-V support, automated virtual machine conversion features to better enable heterogeneous cloud management capabilities.

Radio Shack poised to sell $95 iPhone in 3,000 nationwide locations this weekend

Radio Shack will begin selling the iPhone in 3,000 of its 4,500 nationwide stores this weekend, making it the second largest retailer of Apple handsets behind Walmart.