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IT professionals are still facing salary reductions, potential layoffs and lengthy unemployment stints, a new survey reveals. Also, IBM is spending $100 million to research in mobile communications over the next five years. (5:36) Bizarre Bugs: 9 of the Strangest Software Glitches Ever
Writing buggy applications is a cinch -- for decades, the world's software developers have been proving that with just about every program they release. Truly interesting bugs, however, are a relatively rare breed. University flees fire with network in a box -- literally
When fire again threatened to char Santa Barbara, Calif., last month, the IT staff at Fielding Graduate University literally raced flames out of town with its network stashed in a cardboard box safely resting on the back seat of the getaway car. Sun reportedly cancels 16-core Rock processors
Sun cancels a high-profile server chip project as Oracle prepares to acquire the company. High-speed Ethernet on tap from Juniper?
Juniper and the New York Stock Exchange are hosting an event next week to announce that they will "invest in a next-generation, best-of-breed financial trading network, designed to deliver one of the world's fastest quote and order fulfillment/execution response times for several billion daily transactions," according to a media alert from Juniper. Intel, Oracle, PayPal back ID technology interop group
The Kantara Initiative, formed to promote interoperability among identity verification applications and services, launched on Wednesday with big-name backers like Oracle, Intel, eBay's PayPal, AOL, CA, Novell, Fidelity Investments, Liberty Alliance, Boeing, Internet Society and British Telecom. IBM, Qwest team on managed services
IBM and Qwest have signed a five-year agreement that will give Qwest customers access to several IBM managed services targeted at medium-sized businesses. Apple's Window To Gain PC Market Share Is Narrowing
My recent blog post about the new Apple OS X Snow Leopard release not being enough to "beat" Windows 7 sparked quite a response from many Apple users. I understand that, when users are passionate about a product, brand and/or a company, as so many Apple users are. Apple's always been successful at building loyalty with their customers. Palm Pre: The official Cool Tools review
The touchscreen Pre is Palm's latest entrant into the smartphone market, and includes all of the features users would expect from today's smartphones. Is the $99 iPhone an industry earthquake?
We've all been ooohing and ahhhhing over the new iPhone 3G S and missing the real news: Apple's decision to slash the price for the older iPhone 3G in half to $99, says Roger Entner, SVP, Head of Research and Insights, for Nielsen's Telecom Practice. Your Voice on managing Voice (and Video)
Enterprise Management Associates is mid-way through collecting input for a research project to study how IT teams are deploying and managing latency/loss-intolerant IP communications, including VoIP and Video technologies such as telepresence and desktop video conferencing. Is a Federal Cloud Computing CTO a good or bad thing?
Last week, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) decided that it didn't need a Federal Cloud Computing CTO just yet. As a result, Patrick Stingley left this post and and returned to his previous post as CTO of the Bureau of Land Management. Industry, military experts discuss murky cyberwar issues
Nations increasingly touched by cyberattacks are still in the very early stages of figuring out how to deal with incidents that could escalate into critical national security threats. Satellite glitch rekindles GPS concerns
News today that Air Force is investigating signal problems with its latest Global Positioning System satellite are likely to rekindle the flames of a congressional report last month that said the current GPS coverage may not be so ubiquitous in the future. June Giveaways
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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