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Article | 21/01/2008 Hyperconnectivity here we come

Apple CEO Steve Jobs told an interviewer at Macworld this week that Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader will fail. His shocking reason?: "People don't r...

Article | 16/01/2008 E-mail and its security discontents

The late Internet pioneer Jon Postel (1943-1998), among others, developed the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) in 1982 that is still used today fo...

Article | 15/01/2008 Web 2.0: Hot technology for 2008

When it comes to hot buzzwords, nothing comes close to Web 2.0. Nobody knows exactly what it means but everybody uses it. In fact, at Network World we...

Article | 15/01/2008 802.11n: Hot technology for 2008

Some day the IEEE will get around to finalizing the 802.11n standard that it began working on in 2003. That some day was supposed to be 2006. Then 200...

Article | 10/01/2008 CES - Car tech 2.0: Way beyond GPS and booming stereos

The Web has been in 2.0 mode for a while now, and in-car tech is starting to follow suit.

Article | 10/01/2008 CES - Wi-Fi maturing as other networking options emerge

After a rocky start, the latest flavor of wi-fi, 802.11n, should come into its own this year, with prices for new equipment coming down significantly ...

Article | 8/01/2008 10 slick and cool IE extensions

There are certainly enough critics who throw rocks at IE, but we're taking the high road and looking at how users can dress up the old girl with an ar...

Article | 4/01/2008 Mob wisdom means business

Crowdsourcing, mob wisdom, interactive ideation, artificial AI -- call it what you will, but the idea of tapping external collaborators to develop or ...

Article | 24/12/2007 Top 10 stories of 2007: Age of realignment

This year has been a time of realignment and redefinition, as Apple launched its second zeitgeist-defining product of the new century, Dell and Intel ...

Article | 27/12/2007 The 2007 security hall of shame

How bad was 2007 for breaches, vulnerabilities and similar mayhem? On the bright side, it was better than 2008 is forecast to be. With more of every s...

Article | 27/12/2007 NBA: Your last line of defense

There's a new weapon in the security arsenal that monitors network traffic and issues real-time alerts when it spots unusual or suspicious behavior on...

Article | 24/12/2007 Year End - Social networks struggled, thrived in 2007

High drama enveloped social networking companies during 2007 as they pursued significant opportunities and stumbled over mighty obstacles.

Article | 5/12/2007 The Technology Coming to a Gadget Near You

When it comes to the "next big thing," I'm usually pretty skeptical. (It's from all those years I've spent trying to get gear to work as advertised.) ...

Article | 2/01/2008 Beware of 'blended threats,' phishing zombies in 2008

"Blended threats" - online security attacks that combine several techniques - are likely to become more pervasive in 2008, security industry insiders ...

Article | 18/12/2007 Google revs up security play

Far from being a major player in IT security today, Google has ambitious designs on becoming a big name in the burgeoning hosted security market, begg...

Article | 12/12/2007 Two wireless LANs better than one, Carnegie Mellon says

Carnegie Mellon University has launched a massive upgrade of its campus-wide wireless LAN and chosen two WLAN vendors to supply the 802.11n infrastruc...

Article | 10/12/2007 Amazon Kindle does e-mail and more

In all the marketing blather about Amazon.com Inc.'s awesome new Kindle e-book reader, you won't hear "e-mail," "RSS feeds" or "online calendars" ment...

Article | 7/12/2007 Should your company 'crowdsource' its next project?

When Constellation Energy Group's commodities group needed a new system recently, it considered the usual sources of labor: internal staff, a consulta...

Article | 30/11/2007 Review: The good, the bad and the ugly of Facebook apps

A little over a year ago, social networking site Facebook opened its doors to nonstudents, and since that time, businesspeople and the computer-savvy ...

Article | 27/11/2007 Privacy and piracy: What are we telling the kids?

I can't find much difference between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) members' business model and a band of large-scale ticket scalper...