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Article | 6/02/2008 Who's behind Wikipedia?
In January 2001 the English language version of Wikipedia opened for business, and was quickly followed by versions in French, German, Catalan and Swe...
Article | 5/02/2008 The Microsoft-Yahoo deal: How does it compare?
Even by the bloated standards of high-tech mergers and acquisitions, Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo appears to be the largest ever among techn...
Article | 29/01/2008 Are You Obsolete?
Vince Kellen has had a successful IT career. Currently CIO at DePaul University, he is also an international speaker on customer relationship manageme...
Article | 24/01/2008 Where to find free TV on the Web
Video is all over the Web, and no wonder. With the advent of superfast broadband connections running at over 5Mbit/sec., widescreen monitors that have...
Article | 23/01/2008 Rock star coders
"You sound great singing in the shower, but there's a rock star inside you!" So read the first line of a job posting placed by Viget Labs in December,...
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 - 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 | 4/01/2008 8 top tips for IE 7
Don't like the way Internet Explorer 7 looks or works? Then change it. There are plenty of ways you can hack it, tweak it or just make it simpler to...
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 | 31/12/2007 15 must-have Firefox tricks
What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is. And that...
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...

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