| News podcast: Network World 360
eBay announced Tuesday it is planning to spin off Skype, despite the fact that the Internet phone company's revenues are expected to top $1 billion in 2011. Also, despite the economic downturn, investment firms are putting their faith and funding into network start-ups that promise to help corporate IT better manage application performance, virtual systems and information. (5:46) Is spam causing greenhouse gas?
Is spam causing green-house gas? That's what McAfee says in research findings that spam isn't only a nuisance; it's a danger to the environment. Organized crime caused big data breach spike, says Verizon
A new study from Verizon Business claims that organized crime is responsible for a large increase in the number of breached corporate electronic records, which totaled roughly 285 million last year. Tropos introduces 802.11n into its outdoor wireless mesh
Tropos Networks has released a trio of new outdoor wireless mesh nodes, its first supporting the high-throughput 802.11n IEEE standard. What's going on with on H-1B visasMeyler: Nearly two weeks ago on April 1, the government began taking appplications for 2010 H-1B visas. For the past few years, the annual quota was reached within days. Last year, for example, the visa cap was reached just one week after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services opened the application period. In 2007, it was a mere two days! This year has been different, as the government has yet to reach the cap of 65,000 petitions for general H-1B visas. Botnets: Reasons It's Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them
The perpetual proliferation of botnets is hardly surprising when one considers just how easy it is for the bad guys to hijack computers without tipping off the users. Businesses wary of Windows 7 after Vista flop
A new survey has found that the majority of IT staff don't plan to upgrade to Windows 7 in the next year, after Vista's failure to win hearts and minds. But even more concerning for Microsoft is that half are now considering an operating system from its rivals. Human ear could be next biometric system
British scientists are investigating the viability of a new biometric technique that would make use of the human ear as a way for a third party to identify the person they are speaking to. Report: AT&T's exclusive iPhone hold may end next year
As the old saying goes, "love the one you're with." Over the past two years, a number of consumers--myself included--have tried to heed that advice with regards to AT&T. As the exclusive purveyor of the iPhone in the U.S., AT&T has a stranglehold on those who covet Apple's handset; if you want to buy an iPhone, you're going to have to deal with them. But that Faustian bargain may soon come to an end. | 
From WiMAX hotspots to $2,000 cell phones, a look at what caught our attention at CTIA Wireless.
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