| News podcast: Network World 360
Nearly 16 months after launching its unified communications platform and taking aim at replacing the venerable PBX, Microsoft now has the technology in its Office Communications Server that could change corporate telecom forever. Also, a scrap between two pornographic Web sites turned nasty when one figured out how to take down the other by exploiting a previously unknown quirk in the Internet's DNS. (6:03) The 10 Most Viral Super Bowl Ads
The Super Bowl score may have been settled on Sunday, but results from the broadcast's ads are just now coming in. Place your bets: It's time to reveal which commercials came out on top. Google Maps finds a wormhole
Lenssen: Now that’s a strange sighting on Google. Avaya Names Bartolo As New SME Leader
Nickasch: Avaya made waves in the SMB telephony markets this week, announcing Anthony Bartolo as the new leader of its Small and Medium Enterprise Division. Carnegie Mellon tech raises Charles Darwin from the dead
If Charles Darwin where alive today, about 200 years after he was born, he’d have a few things to say. That’s the thinking behind a project from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center and Duquesne University that virtually brings the British naturalist and father of evolution theory back to life. More Incompetence - DTV Postponed
Mathias: This really should come as no surprise, but the federal government yesterday postponed (this time for real) the transition from analog to digital TV from 17 February to 12 June. The fund that provides coupons for subsidized converter boxes is out of money, and millions of people, for that reason and certainly others, have yet to become properly equipped for over-the-air digital service. With all of the publicity around the change and all of the advance notice (the rules were set back in 2005!), it's fair to ask why. Don't these folks watch TV? Google phone helps maker post solid Q4, new products coming
The fourth quarter launch of T-Mobile's G1, the first smartphone to use Google's Android OS, helped the handset's maker nearly meet its earnings targets despite a sharp global economic downturn. Microsoft caves in, will change Windows 7 UAC
Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7, Microsoft Corp. Thursday said it will change the behavior of User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7's release candidate. RIM's new bid for Certicom trumps VeriSign's, says board
Research In Motion has doubled the value of its previous offer to buy elliptic curve cryptography specialist Certicom, one of its suppliers. Certicom's board of directors says RIM's latest offer is superior to the bid ... Top 10 spam-friendly registrars named and shamed
When it comes time for spammers to register their Internet domain names, some companies are more popular than others. RIM executives to pay $75M in backdating case
RIM and several of its top executives have settled with Canada's Ontario Securities Commission over charges that the company improperly backdated stock options. | 
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