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The meter's on all the time: Tech's 'greed is good' era arrives

Adobe Creative Cloud is the first blatant move to make us pay, pay again, and pay some more for nonservices technology

The meter's on all the time: Tech's 'greed is good' era arrives

Syria disappears from the Internet again

Virtually all network connections became unavailable Wednesday morning

Sorry, IT still doesn't do attitude adjustments

Tech support can fix the VPN, but it can't bend the laws of physics for a demanding, bullheaded user

Verizon Enterprise chief looks past AT&T, eyes Amazon and Google as rivals

John Stratton discusses prospects of mobile platform to rival iOS and Android, how the cloud is reshaping IT, and more

Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy

The GreenTouch industry consortium says new technologies could cut network power consumption by 90 percent

What you need to know to build a solid Ethernet WAN

Sourcing solid network connectivity, such as for linking a pair of data centers, isn't always as straightforward as it might seem

Here's to 20 years of the Web -- may it stay open and free

CERN first made available the Web's source code 20 years ago. We can still learn from that spirit of openness today

McAfee's new network security appliance has Intel inside

NS-series network intrusion prevention appliance pairs Intel hardware and McAfee software, boasts deep packet inspection with 40Gbps throughput

Commodity hardware will be hallmark of SDN networks

Riverbed researcher says hardware used to run networks of the future will get less and less important

Open Compute Project's next target: The network

Facebook, Intel, Broadcom, VMware, and company put the commoditization of switching hardware on the agenda

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2009 Technology of the Year: Networking...

The nine winners of the 2009 Technology of the Year Awards: Networking and Security. more

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Why WiMax should be on the CIO's...

High speeds, freedom from carriers' app limitations will be chief advantages -- when broad coverage finally arrives more

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