WiMax vs. Long Term Evolution: Let the battle begin
In the upcoming battle over next-generation wireless, WiMax has generated a lot of attention, but it may eventually be drowned out by Long Term Evolution, another fast wireless technology backed by the nation's two largest wireless carriers. Read more...

Interop to offer products for app delivery in the data center, 802.11n survey tools

Skype's new packages show VoIP becoming commodity

Comcast, BitTorrent to work together on network management

Safari's engine, Opera browser nail Acid3 test

VOICECON: Extreme Networks, HP boost VoIP security

Mr. Gates goes to Washington as U.S. decision on OOXML nears

Microsoft releasing OOXML SDK

Update: U.S. likely to maintain 'yes' vote for OOXML in ISO

33M Internet domain names added in 2007, VeriSign says

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Opinion: Get ready for these 6 game-changing technologies
Hype and promises abound in the IT world, but these six breakthroughs really will change your life, says author and former IT manager John Brandon.

Opinion: InfiniBand answers consolidation multiple-choice questions
As companies consolidate and virtualize multiple physical servers onto one, they are encountering a physical limitation in the number of expansion slots available on the server. InfiniBand offers the additional bandwidth needed to address throughput limitations.

Skype video chats
A look at how Skype VoIP software, combined with Logitech webcams, can provide videoconferencing.

The Cisco-Microsoft battle for unified communications
Microsoft product falls short on a number of issues that are going to be important to larger corporations, but it also has a lot of factors going its way in its war with Cisco.

'America's Most Wired College' dives in to 802.11n wireless networking
Despite the draft status of the 802.11n wireless networking standard, Morrisville State College has taken the full plunge into the technology as it maintains its reputation for innovation.

Why Skype and Vonage must die
Opinion: Mark Gibbs says quality, support and integration issues hamper these 'closed' communications systems and the industry should move to open, standards-based technologies.

IPv6: Dual stack where you can; tunnel where you must
In preparation to a full migration to IPv6, Scott Hogg recommends using dual-stack strategies when possible and -- if necessary -- using tunnels to carry one protocol inside the other.

Network evolution -- services-centric networking
Vendors have begun to release products that are taking the next steps in the evolution to true services-centric networking.

Ethernet Alliance shepherds venerable standard through new tech frontiers
The nonprofit organization is working to guide the 30-year-old networking standard into areas such as GPS, Wi-Fi, avionics and data center backplane.

BT customers begin migration to IP network
As part of BT's ambitious A$24.5 billion (US$21 billion) 21st Century Network overhaul, Alcatel-Lucent will assist BT customers who have begun migrating from the company's legacy telephone network.

Specialists have retrieved about 99% of the data on a disk drive on board the crashed space shuttle Columbia. Don't miss the photographs of the recovered drive. These big ideas were supposed to revolutionize technology, but they never actually appeared. In a few cases, you'll be glad they didn't. Nearly 20 years after the first Internet worm, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes stock of the malware/anti-malware landscape and spotlights how the two sides are approaching the battle. Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system, says reviewer Michael DeAgonia.

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