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  • The 2009 CES gadget gallery

    The 2009 CES gadget gallery

    by Network World Staff

    The trend at CES this year seems to be consumer gadgets that have a smaller impact both on your personal space and on the environment. In the former category, entertainment devices such as Samsung's 39mm Blu-ray player and Lenovo's ultra-lean IdeaCentre A600 all-in-one desktop are vying to be the thinnest devices ever released. In the latter category, we have manufacturers such as Motorola and Nextar that are creating handsets made out of recycled plastic bottles and solar-powered hands-free cell phone kits, respectively. In this slideshow, we'll take a look at the thinnest and greenest gadgets on display at this week's CES in Las Vegas, as well as everything else that's generating a buzz.

  • 2009's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

    2009's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

    by Paul McNamara

    From the Mac's legendary Super Bowl debut to less flamboyant births of Cisco, Dell, RIM and the future founder of Facebook, 1984 provided a bounty of technological achievement and geeky infamy. There was the divestiture of AT&T, the advent of genetic fingerprinting, quantum cryptography, the book that popularized "cyberspace," and, let's not forget that Bernie Goetz was a hardcore geek before going medieval on that New York subway. NASA even crashed a jetliner ... on purpose. The media will revisit all of them one by one over the next 12 months, but here they are today, neatly alphabetized. 2

  • Tomorrow’s IT: Who will get us there?

    Tomorrow’s IT: Who will get us there?

    by Ann Bednarz

    The New Year is upon us, and by most accounts it will be a tight one for IT budgets. But innovation persists. We've singled out 10 people who are driving the research, product development and industry policies that will shape enterprise IT for years to come. Read on for details.

  • 2009 IT budgets and spending: a snapshot

    2009 IT budgets and spending: a snapshot

    by Beth Schultz

    We recently surveyed IT professionals with budget and spending authority about how 2009 looked to them. We found bad news, but some good stuff, too ...

  • 2009 IT hiring outlook

    2009 IT hiring outlook

    by Beth Schultz

    Slightly less than half of the hiring managers we surveyed said they expect to hire new employees this year.

  • 10 start-ups to watch in ’09: a product roundup

    10 start-ups to watch in ’09: a product roundup

    by Jon Brodkin

    Whether your chief concern is access, networking, mobility, security or Web 2.0, you'll find worthy solutions among these companies and their innovative offerings. 1

  • IT salary survey: a look at loyalty

    IT salary survey: a look at loyalty

    by Beth Schultz

    Apparently, pretty much so...

  • IT salary survey: Satisfaction snapshot

    IT salary survey: Satisfaction snapshot

    by Beth Schultz

    By any measure, the answer is "plenty" - across all regions of the country, industries and companies regardless of size.

  • IT salary survey: pay overview

    IT salary survey: pay overview

    by Beth Schultz

    Broken out by job title, region, industry and a variety of other metrics, here's a look at IT salary expectations gleaned from our annual Salary Survey. This year, 1,854 readers participated in the survey.

  • 2008's biggest tech crime stories

    2008's biggest tech crime stories

    by Brad Reed

    While 2008 didn't see any convictions of corrupt tech execs along the lines of Qwest's Joseph Nacchio or WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers , it did produce convictions for high-profile spammers, botnet operators, porn distributors and online scam artists as well as its share of other high profile network shenanigans, some of which haven't been sorted out in court yet. 5