My previous posting was about InfoWorld’s underreported stories for the year. As I mentioned, we had quite an interesting email thread about other stories that were suggested. Items ranged from Microsoft’s end-run on open standards, Microsoft’s gradual but steady entry into open source, programming language trends, convergence of Web 2.0 with Enterprise, Software as a Service (though I think that one may have been overreported!), portable devices ranging from the iPhone to the Nokia N800 and others. But the topic that got the most discussion and the most emotion going was about the role of IT industry analyst firms. As… READ MORE

There has recently been some good and bad news about WiMAX. On the good news part, an announcement made by the WiMAX Forum this month regarding the launching of the Mobile WiMAX certification program through which vendors can get their IEEE 802.16e-2005 equipment tested and possibly certified… On the bad news part, there was the Sprint-Clearwire breakup after three months of announcing a plan to join forces in building a nationwide WiMAX network in the US. Although it is anticipated that each company would carry on with its own WiMAX plans, analysts believe that the breakup would have negative impact on WiMAX deployment in the US… More…

Catbird was recently named one of 10 companies to watch in 2008 by CRN magazine, which makes good sense. The company’s solution marries two hot market segments - virtualization and security. 3Leaf Systems has also been getting a lot of media attention lately and has also received recognition for its virtualization I/O solution.   LISTEN!… READ MORE

There are discussions starting within the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) about the creation of trading market in IPv4 addresses as we approach the inevitable exhaustion of unallocated addresses. The view being put forward is basically “this is likely to happen anyway and by discussing it now, we can ensure it happens in an orderly way”. When I first heard this idea I was a bit surprised. The RIRs are policy based bodies and so a shift to a trading market appears to be an abandonment of that policy base. However I have been partly corrected on that. More…

The Netgear FVS336G includes dual gigabit WAN support, a four port gigabit switch and ability to support 25 simultaneous gateway-to-gateway and gateway-to-client IPsec tunnels as well as 10 client-to-gateway SSL tunnels. Read the review.

The Netgear FVS336G includes dual gigabit WAN support, a four port gigabit switch and ability to support 25 simultaneous gateway-to-gateway and gateway-to-client IPsec tunnels as well as 10 client-to-gateway SSL tunnels. Read the review.

The Netgear FVS336G includes dual gigabit WAN support, a four port gigabit switch and ability to support 25 simultaneous gateway-to-gateway and gateway-to-client IPsec tunnels as well as 10 client-to-gateway SSL tunnels. Read the review.

It’s come to this: a Democratic primary race so close and heated that a fierce battle of rhetoric has begun playing out in domain-name registrations. Hillary Clinton’s campaign quietly registered VotingPresent.com and VotingPresent.org in early December. Though no websites have gone up on the domains, it’s a fair bet the sites won’t be promoting election-themed Christmas gifts: “Voting present” refers to a parliamentary maneuver in the Illinois Legislature that allows a lawmaker to abstain from voting on a particular measure. More…

Sprint is gearing up for deploying the next generation IPv6 Internet protocol with new IPv6 services. The effort by the national carrier is being driven by a June 2008 US federal government mandate for IPv6. Whether or not the government agencies will actually be running IPv6 by June of 2008 is an issue that is still not yet clear. All told, it could amount to billions of dollars of revenue for vendors in 2008 and beyond. More…

The Internet Governance Project has unearthed a consultancy report to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that makes it clear that the issue of root signing and DNSSEC key management has been recognized as a political issue within the US government for long time. More…