| Cool slideshows: 15 nifty BlackBerry apps for IT pros
Research in Motion last week joined Apple and Google by opening its online store to sell third-party applications for its smartphones. The BlackBerry App World, which can be downloaded for free onto your BlackBerry, offers hundreds of applications for social networking, productivity, reference, entertainment, personal finance and more. In this slideshow, we'll look at 15 we found that should be useful to a busy IT pro. Hands on with Sony's new X-series Walkman
Sony is refreshing its Walkman line with new flagship models that pack noise cancelling, a bright touchscreen display, mobile TV, and the ability to surf the Internet and watch YouTube videos. Latest Cool Tool blogs: Are these IT guys cool, or the butt of a joke?
I'm having a hard time deciding whether the guys in this video are cool or not. On the one hand, it looks like a bunch of IT guys who have a little bit too much time on their hands. In addition, the cool retro '80s video reminds me of when Herbie Hancock was leading the charts. On the other hand, it's a bunch of middle-aged guys singing about mini-vans. The leaked version of Wolverine movie: Here's the footage
You may have heard the news about footage from the new Wolverine movie that was leaked on the Internet without some of the final CGI or music added. Normally I wouldn't condone such actions, but after seeing some of the footage, I've felt that I need to share it with my readers to show how awesome the movie is gonna be. Enjoy. Turn yourself into a Vulcan
As part of the marketing that's going on with the next Star Trek movie, the folks at Cheez-It (Ashland, Mass.'s favorite snack food!) and Oddcast have come up with "Trek Yourself", one of those "upload your photo and see something funny happen" types of Web applications. In this case, if you upload a good picture of yourself you can see what you'd look like as a Vulcan, the Captain of the Enterprise, a Romulan or other Starfleet Officer. Latest Network World Panorama podcast: Prepping for Tougher Health Data Rules
As part of the recent stimulus bill, the HITECH Act will create standard electronic health records for every American by 2014, as well as introduce strict new rules for the protection of these health records. John Linkous from eIQnetworks discusses the components of the act and how IT can start preparing now for the new standards. (10:12) Latest from The video library: Computer Control via Clapping
New software that uses onset detection and pattern recognition can tell the difference between different clapping sounds. The software can help create interfaces for controlling computers and running applications. Panasonic displays 'green house'
Panasonic opened its eco-ideas house showroom in Tokyo on Wednesday. The house contains much of Panasonic's latest environmental technologies and a few prototypes and the way of living that it promotes isn't too far away. Dodge Circuit: The battery-powered sports car
The Dodge Circuit runs on lithium ion batteries that produce 200 kilowatts of power. The first luxury hybrid car?
The Fisker Karma is what the company claims to be the first plug in luxury hybrid to come to market. Sun discusses Nehalem servers, IBM rumors
Sun Microsystems launched new servers this week based on Intel's Nehalem microarchitecture. Sony Walkman gets Wi-Fi
Sony's new Walkman music players were launched today in Tokyo, and includes a 3-inch OLED touchscreen, and Wi-Fi network connectivity. Worldwide availability comes later this year. Latest JavaWorld's Java Technology Insider podcast: Alex Miller: Java enterprise clustering with Terracotta
Alex Miller is a respected Java concurrency and scalability enthusiast who works on Terracotta, an open source, Java-based clustering system. In this talk with Andrew Glover, Alex demystifies Terracotta, explaining the programming magic that enables enterprise customers to run 50 to 100 JVMs on a single application server instance. Alex also talks about Terracotta's "sweet spot" - storing session data off of the database - and Terracotta 3.0, which promises new features that he says will eliminate certain scalability barriers. April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. | 
From WiMAX hotspots to $2,000 cell phones, a look at what caught our attention at CTIA Wireless.
Sure, the new generation knows Facebook, Android and Twitter. But what about ISDN, SNA and X.25? Take the quiz!
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