Earlier this week, Cisco released a new router and services designed to deliver branch-office network services that are similar to those available in the main office. The 1681 series Integrated...

The use of community-based wikis is beginning to take off. Two major wiki-based projects are uderway: Wikiversity, which supports an open source approach to academic courseware and SENSEable City, a...

In last week's IDC telebriefing, IDC analyst Stephen Minton suggested that the number of bytes of data generated by computers and other personal electronic devices will rival the number of grains...

The GAO has released an update to its investigation of a May 2006 data breach at the Veterans Administration. The auditor's updated report notes that the VA has not completed 20 of 22...

If you're in IT, you should be keeping a watchful eye on the housing market, according to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. The downturn in the housing market is a bellweather for...

Cisco Systems gave wireless networking a bump earlier this month when it released the 802.11n Aironet 1250 wireless network access point. The 802.11n standard isn't expected to be official until...

Earlier this month, WebEx released an upgraded version of its Web collaboration services. WebEx Fall 2007 includes more than 100 improvements to its market-leading Web collaboration suite. The new...

According to a recent survey by SupportSoft, two-thirds of IT managers are dissatisfied with help desk technology investments. Only one-third of respondents report that they are completely satisfied...

Information Week ran an interesting article last week on the emergence of mashups and the challenges they pose for IT. With a growing number of tools available to amateur developers, IT departments...

According to the National Association of Computer Consulting Businesses (NACCB), IT employment in August dipped slightly, countering an anticipated rise. The decline, .1 percent, represents a loss of...

Traditionally, "risk management" as it applied to IT, focused on security strategies designed to minimize, discourage or eliminate threats from hackers, disgruntled employees, and...

According to an article that appeared in the Washington Post last week, Comcast has begun to disconnect subscribers whom the cable provider says consume too much bandwidth. Comcast says that users...

AMD has released its new 1.9 GHz and 2.3 GHZ Opteron server processors. The processor offers four computing engines in a single-chip package. There's nothing unique about a quad core processor;...

UBS analyst Heather Bellini speculated yesterday that the adoption rate of Linux is slowing. She based the conclusion on the results of a quarterly survey of CIOs conducted by the firm. The survey...

According to the outsourcing and staffing firm Hudson, IT workers' confidence slipped in August, after having risen in July. Hudson points to an expected increase in hiring as a factor that offset...

Non-profit organizations are having a difficult time recruiting IT workers, according to an article in Information Week. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies report that 70...

The Storm Worm, which originally debuted in January, is making the rounds again, using multiple routes designed to trick users into activating the worm. Most recently, Storm Worm, which is also known...

Leading anti-viral software manufacturers are taking Sony to task for using an invisible directory on its MicroVault USB memory stick to bury user data. The MicroVault has a built-in fingerprint...