From The Editor
By Jeff Caruso, Site Editor
- 10 security companies to watch
- Ellen Messmer has picked out 10 IT security-related start-ups doing some groundbreaking work. Check out her list.
- CEO turnover for Symantec, Yahoo
- Perhaps it's unfair to lump these two CEO changes together, but they happened around the same time - Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang announced he was stepping down, and Symantec CEO John Thompson announced he...
- One area where Cisco won't have an easy time staying No. 1
- You may not even have realized that Cisco is the top vendor when it comes to network security. That's because so much of its security gear is integrated into switches and routers.
But there is a...
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- Mobile group to lead expansion of 3G beyond phones
- The GSM Association and several partners, including Vodafone and Huawei Technologies, plan to promote the use of 3G (third-generation) technology in cameras, cars and other devices that could link to mobile phones.
- New handsets needed for Microsoft's mobile IE6
- Microsoft faces a tough sell with its latest mobile browser, Internet Explorer 6, since consumers will need to buy more powerful handsets to run it.
- Google to shut down Lively virtual world
- Google will shut down Lively, its browser-based virtual world environment, by the end of December.
- Microsoft Zune users now get to keep some tracks
- Microsoft announced Thursday changes to the terms of its Zune Pass subscription service, allowing subscribers to keep some tracks each month as part of their permanent collections.
- Yahoo rolls out Glue search pages in the US
- Yahoo rolled out a beta version of its new Glue search concept for the first time in the U.S. late Wednesday.
- IBM tries to bring brain power to computers
- IBM Research on Thursday is expected to uncover work it is doing to bring the brain's processing power to computers, in an effort to make it easier for PCs to process vast amounts of data in real time.
- Teenager pleads guilty to botnet, 'swatting' charges
- A Boston-area teenager has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking and placing fake emergency phone calls in hopes of summoning police tactical response teams to the homes of his victims.
- Former FCC staffers, Google.org chief to help Obama
- Barack Obama's transition team appointed three people to develop technology policy priorities for the Obama administration.
- Fieldrunners for iPhone
- The concept of a "tower defense" game isn't particularly new: It's where you build defensive structures to prevent successive hordes of invaders from attacking your territory. But Subatomic Studios has refined the genre for the iPhone in h--Fieldrunners, and the result is a truly handheld console-quality experience.
- Netbooks set to challenge laptops
- The growing use of powerful and compact mobile devices for personal use makes their appearance in business IT development plans inevitable. Faced with the option of pocketing an ultraportable device or lugging around a hefty laptop and its associated power supply in a carrying case, most people would opt for the former. IT has to acknowledge this and start to plan for a broader range of devices connecting to the network in future.
- Yahoo OneSearch coming to T-Mobile USA
- T-Mobile USA will provide Yahoo's OneSearch search engine on its phones, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday.
- Adobe pushes Flash platform for business apps
- Adobe Systems, whose roots are in the media and publishing industries, is pushing deeper into the enterprise by promoting its Flash platform as a way to improve the stodgy user interfaces that come with most business applications.
- Nortel adds to Metro Ethernet before it subtracts
- Nortel this week said it will resell customer premises Ethernet termination equipment from ANDA Networks.
- More groups call for national broadband strategy
- Iraq War veteran Randy Hickman had a better Internet connection while deployed than he does at his home in rural Alabama.
- International Challenges in PCI Security
- In a country that's seen many regulatory compliance challenges this decade, the headaches of PCI security tend to be analyzed from a largely American perspective.
- Celebrity Tech Gift Guide 2008
- Bring on the Celebs!
- Alliance outlines national broadband strategies
- The Internet Innovation Alliance, a nonprofit advocate for universal broadband in the U.S., held a symposium at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. today to generate new ideas for how the federal government can bring high-speed Internet connectivity to underserved regions throughout the country.
- How much does spam cost you? Google will calculate
- How much is spam costing your company? Google unveiled a nifty little calculator Wednesday to help you add it up.
- Group: Gov't should provide cybersecurity incentives
- President-elect Barack Obama needs to take a new approach to cybersecurity, with government providing incentives for private businesses to adopt security measures, a cybersecurity group said.
- Microsoft Silverlight loses Major League Baseball to Adobe Flash
- Microsoft will no longer play under the bright lights of Major League Baseball, which has decided to throw out the vendor's Silverlight browser add-on in favor of Adobe's Flash.
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- Sports Web site goes virtual as it gears up for expansion
- Fantasy sports site coasts along with server and I/O virtualization.
- Rude robots, stay away from homes
- Robots are fun to play with, but they can be insolent during social interaction with humans if badly programmed, a researcher said on Tuesday.
- When Agile Projects Go Bad
- Agile project management has taken the software development community by storm, with terms like sprint and Scrum becoming part of everyday team conversations. But as Agile techniques are incorporated into company practices, there exists the very real danger that Agile will be adopted in name, but not in spirit. With this in mind, we turned to the original authors of the 2001 Agile Manifesto for advice on how Agile can be subverted.
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- Hot Jobs: Data Modeler
- job description: If database administrators are jet pilots, then data modelers are aerospace engineers, performing the initial design work that enables production systems and applications to use data and drive business processes, according to David Van De Voort, principal human capital consultant with Mercer, a consulting firm. "They are in the business of creating data designs, defining relationships between data fields," he says. "They're doing the blueprint for a design which ultimately will get physically built on a machine."
- Microsoft, Novell toast anniversary with tools, support coupons
- Marking the two-year anniversary of their partnership, Microsoft and Novell said Wednesday they were releasing tools to help users manage and support SUSE Linux.
- Fireworks CS4
- Rumors of Fireworks' demise should finally be put to rest with the release of Fireworks CS4. It is apparent Adobe has been listening to users and has spent considerable resources overhauling Fireworks. With the adoption of the common interface shared by other Creative Suite applications, and the addition of new tools and enhanced features, Fireworks no longer feels like the forgotten child.
- Ballmer says Yahoo acquisition won't happen
- A change at the helm of Yahoo won't revive a Microsoft takeover offer, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during the company's annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday.
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- Group wants to kick start embedded mobile market
- Backed by Huawei Technologies and operators including Telefónica and Vodafone, the GSM Association (GSMA) has launched the Embedded Mobile initiative, aiming to bring down prices of 3G modules that can be embedded in cars, cameras, health monitoring devices and other machines by developing common standards and platforms.
- SAP slashes NetWeaver developer subscription price
- Citing the weak economy, SAP has cut the cost of developer subscriptions for its NetWeaver platform by roughly 50 percent, according to a post this week on an official company blog.
- Flip MinoHD
- The pocket camcorder market is heating up. Pure Digital Technologies got the ball rolling with its $130 Flip Video camcorder and eventually moved to the slimmer and higher-capacity $150 Flip Ultra. Not satisfied that the Ultra was slim enough, along came the $180 Flip Mino, a camera smaller than the Ultra. Scant weeks later, Kodak jumped in with its $180 Zi6, a pocket camcorder larger than the Flip models but capable of shooting 720p HD video.
- Cell One brings Opera Mini to Namibia
- Norwegian browser developer Opera Software has entered into an agreement with Cell One to bring Opera Mini 4.1 to the Namibian mobile operators' subscribers.
- Research sees U.S. making gains in broadband penetration
- Germany, Sweden and the U.S. are expected to experience the greatest rate of broadband penetration growth in the world during the next five years, according to market research company Point Topic.
- CAZ tax proposal hangs in balance
- The consolidated tax proposal by the Communications Authority of Zambia (CAZ) hangs in the balance following last week's dismissal of Zambia's minister of finance and national planning, Ng'andu Magande.
- BT ups pressure on regulator over fiber rollout
- The boss of BT has ratcheted up the pressure on the U.K. telecoms regulator over the rollout of fiber in the U.K., after admitting in a newspaper article that its spending on fibre is being questioned by some of the carrier's shareholders.
- Microsoft launches Dynamics NAV 2009 ERP
- Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009, the latest generation of one of the company's midmarket ERP products, will be generally available Dec. 1 in 14 countries, the company said Wednesday at its Convergence conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Fortinet beefs up midrange FortiGate security appliance
- Fortinet has announced availability of a new FortiGate unified threat management device that will eventually replace an older model for midsize businesses.
- MTN to bring seamless roaming across 21 operations
- Mobile telecommunications operator MTN expects to introduce seamless roaming across its 21 operations in Africa and the Middle East in the first half of 2009, according to a news statement issued from the company's Johannesburg headquarters.
- Templates for NetScaler devices speed securing Web apps
- Citrix is making it easier to configure its NetScaler Web accelerator appliance for specific applications with configuration templates and a tool for quickly viewing what policies have been set up for particular applications.
- Femtocell FAQ: Time for a 'personal cell-phone tower'?
- Are you one of those unlucky souls who enjoys decent cell phone reception when you're out and about, but can't get a signal at home or in the office? You're not alone. Indoor phone calls have long been a weak point of cellular coverage.
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- Experts: Weak economy to grow managed network services
- Managed network services are expected to continue to grow at a healthy pace, even as the economy tanks, according to an analyst and industry sources.
