| Tech companies had lots to be sorry for in 2009
Kanye West, President Obama and David Letterman grabbed headlines this year when they apologized for assorted ill-advised acts or rash statements. But they more than met their match in the high tech industry, where big names from Amazon to Apple to Microsoft were forced to issue mea culpas in the wake of bad and worse decisions. Microsoft game software preps soldiers for battle
Soldiers may go into battle better equipped to handle equipment, thanks to an intellectual property licensing deal between Microsoft and Lockheed Martin that will deepen the defense giant's access to visual simulation technology. Data center start-up expands Gigabit Ethernet switch line
Arista Networks has unveiled a Gigabit Ethernet data center switch designed to better accommodate increasing traffic loads between the server access and core layers of the network. Inside the world's most advanced LCD factory
A robotic forklift picks up a sheet of glass thinner than a credit card and as big as two table-tennis tables, and effortlessly swings it 90 degrees before gently placing it into an oven. It's a graceful and finely engineered process and one of several that takes place all the time in Sharp's LCD factory in Sakai, western Japan. SAP readying potential Google Wave rival
SAP is planning to release a "virtual war room" decision-making tool dubbed Constellation, which could be a potential rival to Google's heralded Wave collaboration platform. Researchers develop 3-D squeezable input device
A team of researchers has developed a squeezable mouse-like input device that gives three-dimensional control to its users. Named after a fruit, the Suma uses a system of actuators to record pressure and movement. Sun's share of servers still slipping
Sun's share of the overall server market continues to slip away according to global results released by analyst firm Gartner. IBM offers Tivoli Monitoring for Amazon cloud deployments
Companies running applications on Amazon Web Services can now monitor their environments using IBM's Tivoli Monitoring software. Are YouTube and Facebook guzzling your company bandwidth?
What are enterprise networks used for? According to a new traffic analysis the answer is, increasingly, to let employees spend work time visiting websites such as YouTube and Facebook. What if Oracle's buyout of Sun falls through?
Not likely to survive on its own, Sun would need a new buyer for itself or its technologies Today from the Subnet communities On Cisco Subnet: IBM buys Cisco-funded database security firm and What's Next for Brocade?; On Microsoft Subnet: Patches are the productivity problem; On Google Subnet: Android Fragmentation and coloring outside the lines Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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