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IT slowdown hits Dell's revenue, net profit

Dell's revenue and net income dropped in its third quarter as the company tries to cope with a global IT spending slowdown and less demand for its products.

VMware security chief leaves to run OpenDNS

The head of VMware's security group has left to join San Francisco's OpenDNS, a startup that provides Internet infrastructure services. 1

MySpace for BlackBerry breaks download records

Xohm VP: We are not a telco

The nation's first 4G network is focused on data not voice, according to a senior executive with Sprint's Xohm business, now to be merged with Clearwire to build out a...

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...

Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista

An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.

Foreclosures, consumer cutbacks freeze carrier spending on VoIP

Home foreclosures and a generally bad economy are driving down demand for wired phone lines, which will freeze much carrier spending on VoIP infrastructure until 2011,...

IETF: Should we ignore the Kaminsky bug?

The Internet engineering community is grappling with what to do about a serious flaw in the DNS discovered this summer, and the ongoing debate brings to mind a famous... 2

12 myths about how the Internet works

Thirty years have passed since the Internet Protocol was first described in a series of technical documents written by early experimenters. Since then, countless engineers... 6

Nokia 6010 tops list of 'most recycled cell phones'

According to ReCellular, a self-described "electronics-sustainability firm" based in Dexter, Mich., all of this year's ten most recycled handset models were released...

Google to shut down Lively virtual world

Google will shut down Lively, its browser-based virtual world environment, by the end of December.

Akamai slashes 7% of its workforce

Akamai said this week it will be laying off 100 workers, or roughly 7% of its global workforce, in an effort to reduce its operating costs.

Aruba reports record revenue, but losses soar

On the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average continued its fall, by another 455 points, WLAN vendor Aruba Networks reported record first quarter revenues, but also a much...

Start-up offers rootkit protection, partitions virtual machines

Start-up Integrity Global Security is coming out with a businesses version of technology used on military fighters and bombers that can provide the features of virtual...

Ruby on Rails rolls into the enterprise

The New York Times used Ruby on Rails to pull together, analyze and display election results in near real time on one of its busiest Web traffic days ever. How did...

Foreclosures, consumer cutbacks freeze carrier spending on VoIP

Home foreclosures and a generally bad economy are driving down demand for wired phone lines, which will freeze much carrier spending on VoIP infrastructure until 2011,...

Citrix buys high-def video conferencing player

Citrix has bought Vapps, a provider of high-definition voice conferencing services geared for businesses and service providers. 1

Magic Johnson discusses video phones, Celtics-Lakers rivalry and today's NBA

Magic Johnson's businesses rely on Cisco TelePresence videoconferencing to communicate, cut costs on plane travel. 1

Microsoft/Nortel committed to marriage but future is cloudy

Nortel's rocking financial situation and announced layoffs this week of 1,300 people likely won't have much short-term impact on the company's four-year unified... 1

Message to VoiceCon: UC can help you through hard times

Users buying into idea that unified communications can cut costs, boost productivity

Microsoft touts economic upside of unified communications

Microsoft is pushing unified communications as a way to save money and increase revenues in hard economic times, according to a keynote at VoiceCon San Francisco 2008. 1

How to Make UC and Collaboration Work for You

Like many technology buzzwords, unified communications (UC) has had many meanings in its short life. It's now an umbrella term that covers an array of technologies—including...

IBM exec says bad economy could be good for unified communications

The economy is driving business changes that unified communications can help address -- which means that end users might finally start using the collaboration tools that have...

Avaya puts voicemail into written words

Avaya will let enterprise workers leave voicemail messages and combine them with e-mail, giving both callers and recipients new options for retrieving and saving their...

Cisco promises wireless, video extravaganza at new Yankee Stadium

It looks like baseball fans at Yankee Stadium will get to enjoy some of the high-tech features that Cisco envisions for its proposed Cisco Field baseball stadium in... 5

Unified communications products abound

Network convergence, as in unified communications across applications and between wired and wireless modes, again is a big theme at VoiceCon in San Francisco this week.

Avaya names Kevin Kennedy new CEO

Avaya has named a new president and CEO: Kevin Kennedy, currently the CEO of JDS Uniphase, makers of optical communications hardware.

Avaya CEO Giancarlo weighs in on application server, economic opportunities

Interim Avaya CEO Charles Giancarlo is winding down his tenure at the helm as the company narrows down a permanent replacement for former CEO Lou D'Ambrosio, who stepped down... 4

Avaya readies unified communications application server

Avaya is planning a core server with which customers and independent software vendors can easily build presence, voice and other communications modes into business... 3

Toward a unified front

Establishing effective communications is a challenge in any company, but it's even more so in one created through mergers and acquisitions, such as healthcare services...

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.

Citigroup's 52,000 layoffs will impact IT

Given Citigroup's stated plans, a massive headcount reduction announced today is sure to include a fair share of IT jobs.

Add a staffing firm to your job search arsenal

Today's turbulent economy has made job search efforts more challenging -- and nerve-racking -- for those in IT. 1

5 tech companies that could use a bailout

While tech companies may not have the same level of clout among Washington policy makers as AIG or General Motors, many of the industry's biggest players have hit hard times... 12

NetWitness to offer network-traffic analyzer as freeware

NetWitness Corp. Monday said it's offering its network-traffic analysis tool under a freeware license to end users.

MIT's JoAnne Yates on information overload

MIT Deputy Dean JoAnne Yates is co-author of an upcoming article on information overload called "Ubiquitous E-mail: Individual Experiences and Organizational Consequences of...

You really can do more with less

With the global economy lurching toward recession , everyone is being asked to do more with less, and cutbacks and layoffs are weighing heavily on people's minds. But cutting...

How to Choose the Right IT Outsourcing Provider

So, you have decided to outsource. The journey to that decision was no doubt a difficult one, but now comes the hardest part: the road to selecting an outsourcing partner.... 1

Web site collects ideas for Obama's CTO

Barack Obama hasn't even appointed a chief technology officer yet, but thousands of people are using a new Web site to suggest and vote on ideas they think his CTO should...

Rah, Rah, Apple U.

Apple has long been in the educational market, but now the educational market is working its way into Apple.

CEOs urged to be IT-savvy or risk brand damage

Brand damage. Bankruptcy. Unemployment. These are just some of the consequences company's could suffer with simple loss of corporate information.

Geeks at Your Service: Secret of Best Buy's Success

Great in-store customer service is important, but excellent customer service after you leave, well that stands apart from the crowd. Best Buy has differentiated itself with... 1

How to Avoid Getting Sued by a Former Employer

When the economy goes south, companies get desperate for business. Many resort to layoffs to boost their bottom lines. Some companies, like Fannie Mae, go so far as to cook...

Obama won the Web uptime race, too

Barack Obama had a slight advantage over rival John McCain during the U.S. presidential campaign: His Web site was online more often.

Open source management vendor takes on the cloud

Open source management software provider Hyperic this week introduced an upgrade to its platforms that lets IT managers monitor virtual environments, better plan for capacity... 1

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... 1

IETF: Should we ignore the Kaminsky bug?

The Internet engineering community is grappling with what to do about a serious flaw in the DNS discovered this summer, and the ongoing debate brings to mind a famous... 2

Researchers find vulnerability in Windows Vista

An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.

Start-up offers rootkit protection, partitions virt