The words "swine flu" had barely been uttered last spring when spammers and malware authors, hoping to take advantage of fears and curiosity about the virus, began devising ways to trick people with clever subject lines and fake web sites. In April, only days after officials began to talk about the virus, officially known as H1N1, researchers with several security firms reported spam relating to the virus already accounted for 4 percent of all unwanted emails.
High school seniors are facing stiffer-than-ever competition when applying to the nation's top computer science programs this fall. But admissions officers and professors at elite tech schools can offer tips aimed at helping your child get accepted come spring.
Apple this week announced that the fabled white iPhone 4 has been delayed yet again, now until spring 2011. The news brought to mind how a classic American novel might be updated for the 21st century….(You can find the full text of "Moby Dick" online.)
Apple says it sold more than 3 million iPad tablet computers during the first quarter they were on the market and nearly 5 million in the quarter ended Sept. 25. One analyst expects Apple, which only rolled out the iPad this past spring, to sell 45 million of the tablets next year. You may or may not be among the growing legion of iPad owners, but here’s a collection of resources from Network World and its sister publications from the past few months that should be of use whether you own an iPad or have
Verizon Wireless will introduce Cisco's Cius tablet for its fast LTE mobile broadband network in the spring of 2011, and the companies will also offer LTE interfaces for Cisco's second-generation Integrated Services Router for small and medium-size businesses.
Remember when you flipped open your mobile phone and only made calls with it? It wasn't that long ago, but after watching the demos of mobile applications startup companies at DEMO Spring 2011, the flip phone seems prehistoric.
An Apple senior VP has confirmed that the company will have a white iPhone out this spring, but it's still a mystery as to whether it will be an iPhone 4 or iPhone 5.
Actor/Twitter powerhouse Charlie Sheen might be the people's choice for commencement speaker at some colleges this spring, but many schools are lining up a more serious A-List of technology industry bigwigs to send the Class of 2011 off into the world.
Tech-savvy fans of the Georgia Aquarium got a special deal this past spring: a big discount on ticket prices. The aquarium offered 25% to 40% off admission prices from February through May to people who followed it on Twitter or signed on as Facebook or MySpace fans.
It may be starting to feel like spring where you are, but at the top of New Hampshire's Mount Washington, the highest point in the Northeastern U.S. and home to the self-proclaimed "World's Worst Weather," it just about always feels like winter.
The security associated with industrial control systems (ICS) is facing heavy criticism this week at the ICS Joint Working Group 2012 Spring Conference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS is concerned cyberattacks could disrupt America's energy, water and manufacturing facilities.
The New York Mets will have new networking and unified communications systems in their new home, Citi Field, when they start playing baseball there next spring.
When the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill implemented network access control campus-wide last spring, it was as much a natural progression of the school's network management strategy as it was a security project.
After years of stagnant or lackluster growth, Extreme Networks tapped Oscar Rodriguez to bring new life to the switch maker in 2010. He scrutinized global operations, streamlined the product line and brought a new focus that he says will really come through this spring with a new wave of switches.
Top Chinese search engine Baidu forecast a recovery in its ad sales this spring as it reported a second consecutive decline in quarterly revenue on Tuesday.
iPhone 5 prototypes are popping up like Spring daffodils, and the iOSsphere is intoxicated with them even though none have yet turned up in a beer house.
The cool new Internet ideas of yesteryear often create the headaches of today, and some startups at the Demo conference are starting to try to solve those problems.
An Apple supplier known for making iPads has been penalized by Chinese authorities for turning a nearby river in Shanghai "white" after dumping pollutants during the nation's Spring Festival holiday.
Georgia Tech this spring will offer a comprehensive free, 6-week online course about software-defined networking, one of the hottest topics in enterprise IT.
Editor's Note: Daylight Saving Time is less than a week away. Are your systems ready for the clocks to "spring ahead"? Check out our complete DST coverage here.
Larry had the chance to attend VoiceCon Spring 2007 in Orlando last week. Unlike many of the past shows that seemed to have a central theme espoused by the exhibitors and keynote speakers, this time the messages and news were widespread — something we attribute to the maturing VoIP industry.
How much would you pay for a portable hard drive that lets you tote around 160GB in a shirt pocket -- with no need for a power brick? Apricorn is betting you'll be willing to spring for upward of US$260 for its 160GB Aegis Mini. However, it remains to be seen how many are willing to pay that price for portability.
While we weren’t able to attend Spring 2007 VON last week, we did take note of the dozens of announcements timed to coincide with the conference. Today, we’ll cover two announcements that caught our attention.