Network World articles from November 2007

Network World archives from November 2007

Vulnerability assessment; How to test every network device before hackers do.
November 1, 2007... Byline: James E. Gaskin Hackers attack systems by throwing their bag of tricks at a network device and sneaking in through any cracks they find. But they don't just attack computers any more; they're targeting anything with an IP...

Free calculator helps users design Microsoft storage installations; Calculator outlines storage-capacity requirements using Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet.
November 1, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft has released a free calculator to help companies design storage layouts for the upcoming release of Data Protection Manager 2007. The calculator focuses on outlining the storage-capacity requirements...

Immaturity hurting NAC adoption; * NAC's lack of maturity has it losing its appeal with large corporations.(network access control)(Survey)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene The largest corporations are drawing back from NAC until it is more mature, according to the latest security survey by TheInfoPro. According to the study, the percentage of Fortune 1000-sized businesses with NAC...

Wi-LAN sues Apple, Dell, HP, 19 others; Company says defendants violated its Wi-Fi and power-saving patents.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed As if there weren't enough patent lawsuits flying around the telecommunications industry, Wi-LAN announced today it has filed suit against 22 companies. Wi-LAN, a Canadian wireless network vendor, is suing the...

IBM to spend $1.5 billion to improve computer security; Major initiative could double IBM's security spending.(International Business Machines Corp.)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin IBM will spend $1.5 billion developing computer security products in 2008, a sum that could double the company's previous spending. $1.5 billion "is much more than we've ever spent," Val Rahmani, a general...

Upgraded Vyatta software attempts to make users think twice about Cisco; Is open source routing closing the router gap?
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Open source may have taken another step in becoming a considerable alternative to the old guard for enterprise routing. Linux-based router maker Vyatta this week unveiled the latest release of its open source routing...

Cisco to buy policy management vendor for $100 million; Securent brings policy management software to Cisco.(Cisco Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Cisco this week announced an agreement to acquire Securent, a provider of policy management software for enterprises, for $100 million. Securent is privately held and based in Mountain View, Calif. The company's...

MPLS vs. WAN optimization, Part 1; * Vendor agreement.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Life in IT is difficult enough given all the demands and limited resources. Working in IT, however, is a little bit easier when there is at least somewhat of a clear direction in the market relative...

Streamcore emphasizes WAN visibility and reporting; * New StreamAccess tools make it easier for enterprises to share WAN data reports with different end-user groups.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz WAN application performance is one of those IT areas that are of interest not only to IT staff but also to business managers, since application delivery is so closely tied to employee productivity. But the metrics...

Microsoft's SCCM upgrade tackles NAC integration; Next version of Microsoft's system management software will work with the NAP Policy Server in Windows Server 2008.(system center configuration manager)(network access control)
November 1, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft will ship on Nov. 12 its revamped Systems Management Server, now called System Center Configuration Manager 2007, and with it will ship the first piece of the company's integration between its management...

VON panel to telcos: Sell more ads; Says telcos can learn lessons from Google, Skype for future revenue growth.(Google Inc. and Skype Technologies S.A)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed Although telcos are used to being the only major players for voice services, they'll soon have to change their business models to compete with such upstarts as Skype and Google, said panelists at this week's VON...

Recovering from disasters; * The consequences of outages becomes more critical with unified communication platforms.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman The horrible fires in Southern California over the past week, Hurricane Katrina, the blackout in the northeast several years ago, the tornadoes that hit the Midwest every year, a faulty RAID controller and the...

Building quantum computers from scratch; Researcher develops natural method for speeding computer component manufacturing.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Network World Staff A University of Maryland researcher has come up with a method that he says could one day be used by companies to build nanoscale computer and cell phone components faster and less expensively. Ray...

Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 out of Windows Server 2008.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft has pulled SharePoint Services 3.0 out of the upcoming Windows Server 2008 release and will revert to offering it as a separate download as was done in the past.The software will continue to be a free...

What does it take to manage virtual servers? Virtualization demands IT managers take a closer look at management processes, tools.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie Virtualization can help IT managers allocate more resources with less hardware, but not without introducing a slew of management challenges. Server virtualization makes it possible to run multiple applications...

Vulnerability assessment; * Latest Small Business Technology column* Latest SMB News Notes.
November 1, 2007... Byline: James E. Gaskin * LATEST SMALL BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY COLUMN: Vulnerability assessmentHackers attack systems by throwing their bag of tricks at a network device and sneaking in through any cracks they find. But they don't just...

EMC acquires Voyence to broaden change management capabilities; * EMC buys network-configuration player Voyence.(EMC Corp. (Hopkinton, Massachusetts))
November 1, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor EMC this week acquired Voyence in a brilliant move intended to broaden the company's impact on managing the server, storage and network infrastructure. Voyence, which specializes in change management, is at the...

VoIP veteran shares lessons learned; After some growing pains, Hitachi Consulting sees VoIP benefits pile up.(voice over internet protocol)(Hitachi Consulting)
November 1, 2007... When you've lived with VoIP for more than seven years, as Mike Shisko has, you learn a thing or two about what works and what doesn't. Inadequate prioritization techniques can derail a deployment, for example. So can choosing the wrong...

MetroPCS withdraws merger offer for Leap Wireless; Withdrawal comes less than two months after initial rejection.(Leap Wireless International Inc.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed After being turned down earlier this year, it seems that MetroPCS is calling off its proposed marriage with Leap Wireless for good. Claiming it has been unable to engage in any "meaningful negotiations" with Leap...

Social engineering in penetration testing: Planning; * Part 3 of the series on social engineering in penetration testing.
November 1, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay In the two preceding columns, (Oct. 25 and Oct. 30) John Orlando discussed the ethical dimensions of social engineering in penetration testing. Today I want to look at how to use social engineering effectively for...

Dot-com survivor Covisint finds B2B niche.(business to business)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer Back during the dot-com boom, wild fortunes were made overnight as inventors of a new type of Web site got a cut of the action for bringing together buyers and sellers. Auto industry giants GM and DaimlerChrysler...

D-Link pushes Green Ethernet; * D-Link's Gigabit Ethernet switches are environmentally friendly.(D-Link Systems Inc.)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso D-Link isn't waiting for the IEEE to standardize Energy Efficient Ethernet; the company is moving ahead today with what it calls Green Ethernet technology in its Gigabit Ethernet switches. D-Link this week...

Gitmo gets high-bandwidth makeover; U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay reworks its network.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene The U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, notorious as the prison for enemy combatants, poses a lot of other thorny problems, including a copper communications infrastructure extremely unfriendly to high-speed...

DARPA looks to adaptive battlefield wireless nets; Advanced software research, commercial hardware are key enablers.
November 1, 2007... Byline: John Cox A new Department of Defense project is trying to use cutting-edge wireless research to create a tactical radio net that can adapt to keep soldiers linked with each other on the battlefield. Project WAND, for...

Apple flaws fixed; * Patches from Apple, Gentoo, rPath, others* Storm worm pulls Halloween hoax* Spammers employ stripper to crack CAPTCHAs, and other interesting reading.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jason Meserve Today's bug patches and security alerts: iPhone, iPod touch 'jailbreak' app patches critical TIFF bug Hackers have released a tool that "jailbreaks" up-to-date iPhones and iPod touches, but unlike previous...

PCI compliance begins with policy.(payment card industry)
November 1, 2007... Trying to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard can be intimidating because it is a highly prescriptive, broad-reaching set of requirements, potentially including all of your information systems in its scope. ...

Four VoIP must-haves.(Hitachi Consulting)(voice over internet protocol)
November 1, 2007... For Hitachi Consulting, four key features of its IP phone system stand out: Presence. Hitachi's ShoreTel system can indicate presence, so that when users click on an employee's name in the online company phone directory, they can...

Best practices for deploying secure Web gateways; Analysts, users point to cheap upgrades, understanding traffic patterns and flexible policy enforcement as crucial deployment elements.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Sandra Gittlen If you're looking to upgrade your URL filter, you've got the upper hand with vendors of this new class of secure Web products. Use it. "The time is now to get your security providers to add granular control...

Microsoft releases free tool to monitor voice quality; Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 will get Quality of Experience Monitoring Server to collect metrics about individual calls such as the handset model and performance, provides reporting interfaces, and runs analytics.
November 1, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft Wednesday released a free module for its just released Office Communications Server 2007 that lets users troubleshoot voice quality issues by monitoring network performance in real-time. The...

New secure Web gateways eye next-generation Web-application traffic.(Fenwick and West)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Sandra Gittlen Matt Kesner, CIO at Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West, is proud to say his users are on the bleeding edge of the Web 2.0 revolution, using such tools as blogging, instant messaging, Web-based conferencing...

IBM, Akamai look to help with PCI compliance.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer The mandate for Payment Card Industry (PCI) security compliance got attention this week from Akamai and IBM, as each promised new services oriented toward helping companies through the PCI audit process. ...

Behavioral advertising isn't the big problem.
November 2, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs The following quote is from the report "Consumer Rights and Protections in the Behavioral Advertising Sector" presented by a whole passel of privacy activists during the Federal Trade Commission's Town Hall meeting...

Security architecture emerges for first responders; Princeton prof pitches "transient trust" for network security.(Ruby Lee )
November 2, 2007... Byline: Network World Staff Princeton University researchers say they have come up with a new way to securely transmit crucial rescue information to first responders to situations such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks. ...

IBM's $1.5 billion security push marks shift in strategy, analysts say; IBM tries to change perception that it's weak in security.
November 2, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Analysts say IBM's $1.5 billion security push -- just a year after its $1.3 billion acquisition of Internet Security Systems -- is a big statement for a company that was once surprisingly weak in security offerings....

One in six PCs could be infected with malware; Study of 300,000 PCs showed 15% contained unwanted programs.(Brief article)
November 2, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson As many as one in six PCs may have active spyware or malware infections. A recent study performed by U.K. security vendor Prevx of 300,000 PCs showed that 15.6 % of those machines had at least one active...

Google's GPhone reportedly to be announced Monday; Google set to detail partnerships, handset makers and cellphone operators.(Brief article)
November 2, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Google's GPhone may be coming Monday. Google will announce a partnership Monday with "various handset makers and cellphone operators around the world" that will push Google's open source phone operating system,...

50 Greatest Network Arguments: What readers are saying; What about Apache vs. Microsoft IIS and Oracle vs. SQL Server?(Internet Information Services)
November 2, 2007... Byline: Bob Brown What about SNMP vs. OSI CMIP? Anyone remember Word vs. WordPerfect? How could you forget Apache vs. Microsoft's IIS? All good questions, and just the type we suspected we might get when we put together our package on...

Remote database connectivity across a WAN.(wide area networks)
November 5, 2007... Byline: Ron Nutter We have a small office that runs on Citrix connected to our HQ via a Megastream service (1Mb) connection. The remote office needs to connect to a database that contains a 16-Gb database. My problem is this remote...

HP to extend WLAN offerings; Access point, management software on tap from HP.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)(wireless local area networks)
November 5, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy HP ProCurve this week is expected to unveil a wireless access point and management software to enable users to ease deployment and visualization of small networks. The ProCurve Wireless Access Point 10ag provides...

8 ways to green your existing data center.
November 5, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson Companies don't need to build a whole new data center to begin saving on energy. Below are some steps recommended by Burton Group analyst Andrew Kutz that enterprises can take in their existing data centers to...

Creature comforts: supercomputing temperature concerns; At SDSC, it's not just about keeping the servers happy; the new building has to consider the heating and cooling needs of 300 people.
November 5, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson In 2005, the San Diego Supercomputing Center won a best-practices award for the design that will help to make its data-center expansion a model of energy efficiency. As rewarding as that distinction is, the...

Blog readers make lousy editors.
November 5, 2007... Byline: Paul McNamara Before plopping my behind on the blog bandwagon in January 2006, I would ask other journalist/bloggers how it was that posts could go from a blogger's fingertips to a reader's eyes without so much as passing...

Inside a green data center; San Diego Supercomputing Center constructs one using energy-efficient materials and techniques, plus such retro ideas as windows that actually open.
November 5, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson The San Diego Supercomputing Center's $32 million data-center expansion, slated for completion next July, is designed to be energy efficient from the ground up. Slideshow: Take a closer look at SDSC's green...

NAC implementations move forward despite its immaturity; * More results from TheInfoPro NAC survey.(network access control)(Survey)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Tim Greene Last time I wrote about a NAC survey done by TheInfoPro. Today's newsletter follows up with more results from that survey. The major result reported last time was that some early NAC users were actually taking the...

Turning the data center green.
November 6, 2007... Byline: Frank Dzubeck With all the fanfare for Al Gore, receiving an Oscar, Emmy and the Nobel Peace Prize all in 2007, one would think that global environmental concerns rank No. 1 on the list of "corporate social responsibility." ...

10G Ethernet data-center switch on tap; Bechtolsheim-backed Arastra set to shake up 10G aggregation market with $400/port switches.
November 6, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Data centers may not just be getting greener - they could be getting cheaper, too. Arastra, an Ethernet data center switch start-up, this week unveiled its first products: a line of switches that include a 1 rack...

MIT sues architect of $300 million computer science building; Design flaws causing leaks, mold in Stata Center, university alleges.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(Frank Gehry)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz Architect Frank Gehry's celebrated design for the Stata Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is making headlines again -- this time because of a lawsuit claiming deficient design work is the cause of...

10 Gigabit Ethernet for the data center; * Fulcrum's 10 Gigabit chips appear in start-up's data center switches.(Fulcrum Microsystems)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Jeff Caruso Fulcrum Microsystems this week introduced six more members of its FocalPoint line of 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch chips, adding high-performance and low-latency routing. The FM4000 series is designed for Ethernet...

Data integration tool goes open source; XAware changes course by launching software under GPL v2.
November 6, 2007... Byline: Robert Mullins XAware, a provider of commercial data integration software, is now going the open source route, introducing the latest version of its product, XAware 5, under the GPL v2 license. XAware 5 is available as a...

A proactive approach to e-discovery.(electronically stored information )
November 6, 2007... In December 2006 the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to address electronically stored information, with the result that ESI is now subject to discovery, meaning it can be requested as evidence in court cases. Most...

Microsoft dives into enterprise search with free server; New effort ups ante in battle with Google.(Microsoft Search Server Express 2008)
November 6, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft Tuesday made a dramatic statement about its future in enterprise search by introducing a free search server along with a licensed version, both of which align with search software already offered via...

Apple's Leopard backup breakthrough.(OS X 10.5 Leopard)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Kevin Tolly Much virtual ink has been spilled in recent weeks cataloguing various elements of what Apple claims are some 300 new features included in the 10.5 release of OS X. While a string of columns could be filled writing...

Encryption is the name of the game.(Column)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Andreas M. Antonopoulos An old cipherpunk saying goes, "There's power in numbers -- large prime numbers." Encryption is a very powerful tool that's used by almost all companies to secure data in transit over untrusted...

Discovery is becoming more important; *.(Editorial)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Michael Osterman A growing majority of business records for most organizations are stored in e-mail data stores. That means that organizations that are sued or that want to undertake legal actions need to be able to access this...

Succession planning will rely on IT; * Watson Wyatt's HR 2007 Technology Trends survey.(Survey)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Amy Schurr With the oldest of Baby Boomers approaching retirement, succession planning is important in all departments of your organization. As such, many firms are considering overhauling their talent management systems, which...

Social engineering in penetration testing: Postmortem; * What to do after a penetration test.(Editorial)
November 6, 2007... Byline: M. E. Kabay In the preceding column, I discussed how to plan for the use of social engineering techniques in penetration testing. Today I will take a brief look at how to use the information collected during such studies. ...

10G Ethernet Data center switch on tap; Bechtolsheim-backed Arastra set to shake up 10G aggregation market with $400/port switches.
November 6, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Data centers may not just be getting greener - they could be getting less expensive, too. Arastra, an Ethernet data center switch start-up, this week unveiled its first products: a line of switches that include a ...

Specialist works to accelerate ASP.Net apps; * Strangeloop Networks' new appliance speeds Microsoft ASP.Net and AJAX applications.
November 6, 2007... Byline: Ann Bednarz Start-up Strangeloop Networks has built a business around speeding up Web applications developed on the Microsoft ASP.Net framework. Its flagship application acceleration appliance is designed to do the kind of...

MPLS vs. WAN optimization, Part 2; * Vendor disagreement.(Multi Protocol Label Switching)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Steve Taylor, Jim Metzler Both Jim and Steve moderate a lot of vendor panels. In most cases, the vendors go out of their way to be polite to each other, making comments like "I agree with my esteemed colleague and would like...

NLR, Internet2 merger off again; Two nonprofit research networks have been in talks since 2005.(National LambdaRail)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed Internet2's on-again, off-again relationship with National LambdaRail has hit another rough patch. This week, NLR board chair Erv Blythe announced that the NLR board of directors had voted down a motion to approve a...

10 burning questions about Microsoft Office 2007; Microsoft Office is no longer one-size-fits-all, but rather a complicated set of programs users can customize, mix and match. But at what cost?
November 6, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Nearly a year ago, Microsoft released Office 2007 to corporate users and so began the slow and methodical evaluation of the software (unless, of course, you were an early adopter). With migrations to Vista,...

Automated troubleshooting; *Overhaul needed for managing the distributed enterprise.(Editorial)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Robin Gareiss Many factors are intersecting to make branch-office management increasingly difficult. On the bright side, some vendors are focusing on making this challenge a bit easier. First, let's look at the figures....

Symantec airs Vontu integration scheme; Data-loss prevention technology likely headed for endpoint-security offering.
November 6, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer Symantec Tuesday discussed the integration strategy related to its planned $350 million acquisition of Vontu, the San Francisco-based maker of data-loss prevention products. The Vontu deal announced Monday...

Cisco upgrades Catalyst switches for multimedia; Catalyst 6500, 4500 brought up to speed for new applications.(Cisco Systems Inc.)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Jim Duffy Cisco this week is unveiling enhancements to two of its higher-end Catalyst switching lines designed to improve the products' ability to support real-time enterprise communication and collaboration. The...

The gPhone: Google's software erector set; Google's Open Handset Alliance may have a future, but that's up to phone makers.(Product/service evaluation)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Scott Bradner After a frenzied build-up, Google, as you probably know by now, did not announce the gPhone. Instead, the company announced there might be a gPhone in your future. The announcement was heavy on future potential...

Continuous data protection software saves IT's bacon; * Asempra's Business Continuity Server.(Editorial)
November 6, 2007... Byline: Deni Connor For Derek Kruger at the City of Safford, everything about his nightly backups had run amok. "Our backup server was unable to complete a backup on all my critical Exchange, SQL and file servers in the off hours,"...

Nortel makes money despite falling revenue.(Nortel Networks )
November 7, 2007... Nortel Networks achieved a measure of financial recovery in the third quarter as it posted a small profit, even while revenue for most of its businesses fell. The carrier and enterprise network vendor, emerging from years of...

Xbox, iPod and RAZR development shows benefits of taking turns; MIT, Stanford research on innovation focuses on "rotating leadership".
November 7, 2007... Byline: Network World Staff Apple, Google, Motorola and others stand to deliver more successful products the more they are willing to cede total control to development partners - at least temporarily, according to new MIT and Stanford...

Microsoft sets ship date on mid-market server bundle.(Windows Essential Business Server)
November 7, 2007... Byline: John Fontana Microsoft Wednesday christened its forthcoming server bundle for midsize businesses Windows Essential Business Server and said it would release a second beta by year-end and ship the software late in 2008. The...

A remote control for iTunes.(Keyspan's TuneView)
November 7, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs Before you ask, I am no further along in solving the deferred procedure call (DPC) mystery that has been plaguing me for the last few weeks. The DPC problem has simply vanished, and despite my desire to get to the...

New payment application security standard on deck; PCI Security Standards Council set to bolster transaction security.(Payment Card Industry)
November 7, 2007... Byline: Ellen Messmer The PCI Security Standards Council today said it intends to add a new standard to cover payment-application software. The council, which defines the data-security standards required by businesses processing credit...

How to start an embedded Quicktime movie in the middle.(Brief article)
November 7, 2007... Byline: Steve Blass How can I start an embedded QuickTime movie at some arbitrary place in the movie given that I know the timestamp for the place I want to start at? You can use JavaScript commands to control the QuickTime player...

Spammers latch on to political subjects; Spam climbed to 71% of all e-mail in October.(Brief article)
November 7, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson Ron Paul is hot. Image spam is not. According to Symantec's Spam Monthly Report issued Monday, presidential hopefuls for the 2008 election are already hot subject-line topics, with Congressman Ron Paul...

Starting salaries for IT pros to jump in 2008; * Starting salaries for IT jobs to increase by an average 5.3%.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Linda Leung If you're thinking of getting a new job next year, you might be interested to know that starting salaries for IT jobs will increase by an average 5.3% next year, according to the recently released Robert Half...

Carriers clueless on 'Net neutrality.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Johna Till Johnson I've written several pieces pointing out that the issue of 'Net neutrality is more nuanced than either proponents or opponents want you to believe. But with their characteristic cluelessness, providers have...

RIM slashes price of BlackBerry server for SMB market; New version supports double the users of the previous release and costs about half as much.(Research in Motion)(Small and Medium Business)
November 7, 2007... Byline: John Cox Research in Motion turned an army of executives at big enterprises into mobile e-mail addicts with its BlackBerry handhelds. Now it wants to do the same thing for users in much smaller companies. RIM has announced...

Hosted enterprise search vendors lag behind rivals; Google search appliance scares away competitors.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin Web-hosted enterprise search has failed to catch on because of its limited scope and the rise of search appliances from vendors such as Google, analyst firm CMS Watch says in a new report. The Google Search...

IBM, Microsoft, SAP lag behind on Web 2.0; Small, innovative vendors lead the way, Forrester says.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Jon Brodkin IBM, Microsoft and SAP are taking a charge at the business Web 2.0 market, but the big vendors still lag behind smaller rivals who have developed far more innovative technology with quicker release cycles,...

The great networking debates; * Networking's 50 greatest arguments.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Denise Dubie Networking's 50 greatest arguments range from routing vs. switching to frame relay vs. VPNs to IBM vs. DEC. But I know there must be more to debate around managing today's advanced IP networks. Network World...

Social networking integration; * Flock integrates social networking Web services.(Product/service evaluation)
November 7, 2007... Byline: Mark Gibbs If you're interested in the world of social networking then you'll find the Flock browser particularly interesting. Flock has taken the framework of the Mozilla Firefox browser and provided integration with a number...

Spammers beg for money in pre-holiday blast; Latest spam campaign asks to help the less fortunate.(Brief article)
November 7, 2007... Byline: Cara Garretson A new spam campaign has emerged that tells stories of the hard-knock life, and then asks for money. According to security vendor Marshal, this new spam blast - timed conveniently to coincide with the beginning of...

Most iPhone fans want devices for business use; IDC survey on iPhone work use flies in the face of security warnings.(Brief article)
November 7, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed Despite what skeptical industry analysts and leery CIOs may say, a new poll shows that a large majority of iPhone fans want to use their favorite device for work and play. Video: iPhone ad spoof - Jason "No...

Femto Forum adds Morotola, NEC and other heavyweights; Wireless network group dedicated to promoting industry-wide standards for femtocells.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Brad Reed Just three months ago, femtocells were being labeled as obscure technology. But the Femto Forum is hoping that some of its new members will make femtocells an everyday word. The Femto Forum, an industry group...

Red Hat expands Linux server, partners with Amazon; 5.1 upgrade supports broader virtualization, software appliances and computing in the cloud.
November 7, 2007... Byline: Robert Mullins Red Hat is updating its Linux-based server operating system and offering a number of other related improvements aimed at helping the company assume a leadership role in enterprise computing. The enhancements...