The neglected Linux.com domain is about to get a facelift courtesy of the Linux Foundation, which said Tuesday it will …
Microsoft converging programming languages
Microsoft will converge features of Visual Basic and C# languages with planned upgrades to the two platforms, a Microsoft official …
NAC: Now? Or Never?
Today's highly mobile workforce, along with a plethora of new tech gadgets and access to the Internet from anywhere, has …
Juniper joins top-of-rack switch fray
Juniper this week unveiled a top-of-rack data center switch targeted at high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet deployments. The EX2500 provides server …
Stimulus could revitalize muni Wi-Fi
Could $7.2 billion in federal funds committed to boost broadband in the U.S. transform small towns like Truckee, Calif., into …
AT&T makes $1 billion ’09 network investment
AT&T will invest $1 billion this year to expand and upgrade its global network with a particular emphasis on adding …
Beating WLANs into submission
You've probably heard mentions of a nascent RF capability called transmit beamforming. A couple things to keep in mind: 1) …
9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers’ Favorite Pick-Up Lines
What the average guy might call a con is known in the security world as social engineering. Social engineering is …
Fortinet wheels out Web application firewall
Fortinet is announcing a Web-application firewall that offloads processing of SSL and XML traffic from Web servers. FortiWeb 1000B is …
Develop a game plan for storage security
How much progress is really being made in securing storage? For several years now, pundits have sounded the alarm about …
Sun premiering JavaFX Mobile component
Proceeding to a critical phase in the rollout of its JavaFX platform for rich media client applications, Sun will ship …
Microsoft lashes out at Adobe over Silverlight comments
Microsoft is crying foul over recent comments made by an Adobe executive that Silverlight has “fizzled” as a competitor to …
Linksys debuts smart home media server
Linksys has announced the availability of its new-generation home media server, dubbed “Media Hub”, to the local market aimed at …
WiMAX coverage to reach 800 million by 2010, Intel says
Intel expects WiMAX deployment to increase rapidly over the next year as the company projects that 800 million people worldwide …
Smart moves
Brocade is already the top player by market share in the modular SAN switch market, ahead of second-place Cisco. Acquiring …
‘Mobile data traffic to grow 66-fold by 2013’
A report published by Cisco says that mobile Web traffic volume will double every year between now and 2013, when …
BlackBerry enterprise server zooms in on IT management tools
Research In Motion Ltd. officials offered a broad-brush preview of Argon, the code name for RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0, …
WAN critical to virtualization’s payoff
Guaranteeing application performance over a WAN is hard enough. Now try doing it in a virtual environment. WAN optimization vendors …
Intel updates laptop, desktop chip plans
Intel on Tuesday accelerated plans to release two dual-core laptop and desktop processors, tweaking its road map as it juggles …
The ‘n’ stands for now
Without delving too deeply into the past, we all remember the war-driving horror stories: buggy Wired Equivalent Privacy implementations, 802.11b …