Network failure delays flights across U.S.
A network failure at a Georgia facility is being blamed for multiple flight delays across the eastern United States, including flights departing from major Northeastern cities such as Boston, New York and Washington, D. ...

Foundry unveils line of Carrier Ethernet switches
Foundry Networks this week unleashed a series of Carrier Ethernet edge/aggregation switches designed to scale Ethernet services while reducing the burden on MPLS routers.

Verizon's anti-iPhone "propaganda?"
Cox: Gizmodo's Kit Eaton is bent out of shape over a document that is allegedly a set of Verizon talking points criticizing the iPhone, which in the U.S. runs only on the 3G cellular network of Verizon rival AT&T Wireless. You can tell Kit is bent out of shape because he uses the word "propaganda" to describe a marketing data sheet.

MapReduce just became something large enterprises should care about
Monash: MapReduce sits at the heart of Google's data processing -- and Yahoo's, Facebook's and LinkedIn's as well. But it's been highly controversial, due to an apparent conflict with standard data warehousing common sense.

Exam preparation can put your career at risk
Would you compromise your personal integrity for $80? How about risk your IT career for $200?

Mozilla garners praise over Firefox security feature
The debate over the self-signed certificate issue in Firefox 3.0 has fostered an add-on from Carnegie Mellon researchers and it seems a prevailing tide that Mozilla is headed down the right path.

U.S. law enforcement arm girds for high-tech criminal battles
Protecting digital evidence, employing advance VoIP devices to help fight law-breakers and using a variety of leading edge collaboration as well as biometric tools to keep ahead of the criminal element are but a few of the directions outlined by the US Department of Justice’s research and development arm, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ).

IT ASKED AND ANSWERED

Cisco or Juniper for the data center? Ron Nutter, who comes from a Cisco background, begins the discussion with things to consider while shopping for Cisco gear. Juniper users, please jump in.

VIDEO

Did tech strike gold at Olympics?
As the Olympics wrapped up earlier this week in Beijing not only are the athletes now counting their medals, but the sponsors are too. Many bet big budgets to show off their names in association with the games, but did they win gold?

PODCAST

5 Technologies That Will Change IT
Larry Quinlan, CIO of Deloitte & Touche LLP, draws on vast IT experience to discuss the tehnologies that will change the industry. Also: video version.

DEMO NEWS

Aternity signs Ness Technologies to manage IT sales in Israel
Aternity Inc. (DEMO 08), an enterprise IT user-experience management platform, today announced an exclusive deal with Israel's largest IT services company, Ness Technologies (NASDAQ-NSTC), to sell and support Aternity's products in Israel. The Westborough, Mass. start-up, which located its research and development in Israel, said enabling Ness Technologies to be "its local arm in Israel," signals Aternity's channel strategy to grow outside the United States by finding "well-entrenched, trusted consultant companies" to roll selling and supporting Aternity's IT products into their countrywide efforts, said Trevor Matz, Aternity's president and CEO.

Green Plug names Keyworth, ex HP director and Reagan science advisor, to its board
Green Plug (DEMO 08), advocate of a universal power supply, today named former presidential science advisor and physicist George "Jay" Keyworth II, Ph.D., 69, of Piedmont, CA, to its board effective Sept. 1. Keyworth currently is chairman and senior fellow of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank studying the implications of digital technology on public policy, and is on the board of General Atomics of San Diego, a division of General Dynamics that builds nuclear power reactors, state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles, and radar systems.

BLOGS

Today on Cisco Subnet
Former Cisco CTO Judy Estrin says U.S. innovation has lost its edge; Cisco picks its A-team for its Cisco Associate Systems Engineers program.

Today on Microsoft Subnet
Microsoft kills native support for SOAP from SQL Server 2008; Microsoft's SQL Server and Oracle's flagship database software both gained market share since 2007 but open source vendors are growing like gangbusters; Can you manage Hyper-V with Vista? Not natively, but it can be done, says Glenn Weadock; Blogger Alex Lewis offers you a source for a long list of performance tweaks for Exchange 2007; Can it be true that IE8 will offer new privacy protections at the expense of online advertisers?

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU
Network World recently shared the story of Justin King, who heads up IT on his own at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Now we want to hear your one-man-IT shop story. Are you managing everything on your own? How did you come to be in that position? What challenges do you face daily? Let us know!

LIVE CHAT

IPv6 strategies for the enterprise
Chat live with Fred Wettling, Patrick Grossetete, Ciprian Popoviciu on Wednesday Sept. 10 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST. The co-authors of the book Global IPv6 strategies will be available to answer your questions about IPv6.

AUGUST GIVEAWAYS

August giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
We're giving away 15 copies each of the following titles: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Unleashed; Network Security Technologies and Solutions (CCIE Professional Development Series); and Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Part 1 (CIPT1) (Authorized Self-Study Guide). We're also giving away a Cisco training course worth up to $3,495 courtesy of Cisco training partner Skyline-ATS, and a Microsoft training course worth up to $2,500 from New Horizons. In addition, you can win a copy of Cisco Unified Communications Manager self study guide. Entry info to all the giveaways can be found here.