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Industry report: SOA is overly hyped

Nucleus Research has found that SOA adoption is more departmentally based, limiting its return on investment and overall use

Overpaying for fiber optics?

RF Micro to buy Sirenza in $900 million deal

RF Micro deal is aimed at expanding its presence in WiMax, broadband, cable TV, and wireless infrastructure

Startup Tilera celebrates coming out party at Hot Chips

Tilera will introduce itself and its 64-core processor to the chip industry at the Hot Chips conference

Femtocells: Obscure name, bright future

Femtocells, small cellular base stations for use in homes and offices, are expected to hit the market next year, but there are still some kinks that need to be worked out

Open source: Innovation through recombination

The stage is set for open source to reinvent itself, fashioning new solutions by borrowing the best code across a broad spectrum of software

Security: The great privacy compromise

No magic technology bullet will solve the ongoing crisis in enterprise security. The answer is political — and a long way off

SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud

Applications delivered through the browser keep SMBs nimble by eliminating application maintenance costs

Desktop technology: Streaming to a screen near you

The technology is finally here for application virtualization, which solves the desktop management problem that has cursed IT for decades

Offshoring: Staying closer to home

India and China are about to get some competition, thanks to a recent surge in near-shoring in Canada and Latin America

Virtualization: A new era of roaming desktops

Application virtualization will make IT’s life much simpler by separating application code from the platform on which it runs. And the technology is ready to roll

Business models: A million ways to pay as you go

In a few years time, what will it be like to buy software by subscription? Consult your mobile phone calling plan for a preview

Green IT: Shuffling virtual servers for optimum power efficiency

Today's datacenters squander AC power on excess capacity. But what if you could assemble dynamic, virtual server farms on the fly and consume only the power you need?

Storage: Services in the cloud will meet tomorrow’s storage needs

Storage remains a bear to manage — and few signs point to significant improvement. The solution? Let someone else do it

Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores

The era of the big, muscular CPU is on the decline. The real trend is toward slicing and dicing cores virtually, one for each thread

Databases: Packing larger sizes into smaller spaces

Databases are ballooning to gargantuan proportions, killing performance. That's why the next frontier is new compression technology

Application development: The new face of Internet apps

Blending the best of conventional desktop and Web apps, rich Internet applications occupy the hottest app dev real estate around

High-performance computing: Supercomputing everywhere

Plummeting costs, Moore's Law, and creative new applications are making high-performance computing a commodity

Middleware: Sharing behavior across a service-oriented landscape

New middleware will expose methods or service calls as if the whole application infrastructure were running on one big, local system

Networks: A fabric smarter than its end points

As switches, routers, and servers bulk up on processing power, the pendulum is swinging back to intelligence residing in the network itself

Skype service back online after two-day outage

VoIP service back from the dead after two-day outage due to algorithm deficiency

Update: Skype outage continues, business users affected

More than 36 hours after the outages began, engineers are still working to fully restore service as many SMBs that depend on Skype try to find workarounds

Google opens click-fraud Web site

The Ad Traffic Quality Resource Center is designed to be a centralized resource center for all of Google's information about click fraud

Google Gadgets can be misused by phishers

A security researcher has found that phishers could use the gmodules.com domain to get around antiphishing filters

MS plans build improvements in Visual Studio 2008

Another Brocade exec faces backdating charge

Former CFO and COO Michael Byrd has been charged with failing to intervene to stop stock backdating as he should have

eBay says Skype was not attacked

The recent outages the VoIP service has suffered are due to an algorithm problem, not an alleged denial-of-service code posted by Russian hackers

Microsoft plugs single sign-on again with Windows Live ID Web Authentication 1.0

Software development kit is the company's latest attempt to woo developers to Live ID system

Open source outsourcing

SAP to provide more clarity on A1S hosted app on Sept. 19

New on-demand offering based on SAP's NetWeaver middleware is due to ship in early 2008

IBM reportedly eyes Wind River deal

Big Blue could establish a strong presence in the market for embedded operating systems with Wind River buy

Troubled Pakistan aims for a larger share of outsourcing

Pakistan hopes to combat its image problem and promote the advantages of its highly skilled, English-speaking people for the IT, BPO, and call center industries

Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project

Acquisition brings together the Snort and ClamAV open-source security technologies

Three indicted on software piracy charges

Florida men allegedly sold millions of dollars worth of counterfeit software through several Web sites

August’s coolest gadgets

Camcorders, cellphones make this month's coolest list, but top place goes to Sony's new recycling service

Singapore Air sets date for online auction of A380 tickets

Online auction of tickets for the first commercial flight of the world's largest passenger jet will start on Aug. 27

Prosecutors to appeal Allofmp3.com acquittal

Russian Web site was shut down, but senior manager is acquitted of selling pirated music without paying royalties

Wikia CEO on lunacy, air miles, and being profitless

Interview: Gil Penchina expounds on Wikia's tenets of free information, free software, and making the world better in some way

Skype VOIP problems may continue throughout the day

Skype is still trying to restore service to millions of customers almost 24 hours after users began having problems logging in to the VOIP service

Sony to offer US-wide free recycling

Sony's new Take Back Recycling Program will include 150 drop-off locations in the U.S. within the year

IT not immune to credit meltdown

Nokia asks US to ban import of Qualcomm products

Nokia says Qualcomm has engaged in unfair trade practices through the infringement of five patents

Outage of Skype’s VoIP service appears to be over

Company says more work remains to be done to fix a 'deficiency' in an algorithm within Skype's networking software

IBM unveils Version 8 of Lotus Notes, Domino

Client is built on Eclipse framework and includes ODF editors for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations

Weird, scary and bizarre iPhone tales

Come on, come all for the freakiest iPhone oddities from around the globe

BEA: Revenues up but license fee collections down

Company offers mixed snapshot of second fiscal quarter

Dell to restate results after finding manipulation

After finding that some employees had changed account balances to meet corporate goals, Dell will cut $50M-$150M of net income from fiscal years 2003-2006 and Q1 2007

Credit concerns dampen IPO, M&A news

Despite encouraging signs, such as VMware's blockbuster IPO and Hewlett-Packard's strong profits, current stock market holds no guarantees for IT investors

PC and software sales boost HP’s revenue, profits

Acquisition of Mercury Interactive coupled with strong demand for consumer systems helps Hewlett-Packard see healthy jump in bottom line

Next for IBM and Sun: Solaris on z mainframes

Having already secured a deal to bring Solaris to IBM's x86 servers and blades, the two companies are looking at bringing OpenSolaris to IBM's System z mainframes