| Most claims dismissed in Hannaford data breach suit
All but one of the legal claims filed against Hannaford Bros. -- the Maine-based retailer that suffered a security breach exposing some four million credit and debit cards -- has been dismissed. NSF wants $7B to head off demise of Moore's law, invest in advanced network research and more
The National Science Foundation is looking to spend a good chunk of its proposed $7.045 billion budget for FY 2010 on advanced network technologies. The overall budget would be an 8.5% increase over FY 2009's and would include $1.1 billion on Networking and Information Technology R&D, or NITRD in NSF-speak. NITRD coordinates network and IT investments across agencies, its proposed portion of the budget would represent a 10.6% increase vs. what it is in FY 2009. Google suffers major failure
Various Google products, including the hosted Google Apps applications, were hit with outages this morning. 10 Ways to Do More with Less in the Recession
As the economic crisis continues, technology leaders are faced with the challenge of considering how best to trim the fat out of their budgets. Verizon shows off new rolling command center
My first thought upon seeing the pictures and reading about Verizon's new 51-foot mobile command center had nothing to do with disaster relief, but was instead: Imagine taking that baby to a tailgate party. Guess this means I'm never going to get to run FEMA. The Government-Funded Cellphone
Want a free cellphone and free service? It's yours if you qualify - check out this link. An invitation does not always mean you're invited
So last Wednesday I received an invitation to a Seminar and Luncheon on Unified Communications. Since I have spent quite a bit of time over the last two years writing, speaking and implementing Unified Communications solutions (mostly OSC 2007), I thought it would be cool to attend this function and look at greater detail at some alternatives to the Microsoft offering. Is Cisco CTO, and all Tweeters, brain damaged?
Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior is a big advocate of Twitter. During keynote addresses at major trade conferences, she's hailed its utility as a way to share ideas globally, and almost instantaneously. She's not alone -- millions of people Tweet using Twitter, including many of us here at Network World. Now comes the disturbing revelation that Twitter may be damaging our brains. Google shows off big enterprise wins
It's been a big month for Google in the enterprise. Not only did it just sign on its biggest Apps customer to date (30,000-seats at auto parts supplier Valeo), but it also convinced kitchen appliance maker Hamilton Beach to dump Lotus Notes/Domino in favor of Apps in the cloud. Could it be turning a corner in terms of enterprise acceptance? Two former Cisco employees license all of Cisco's security protocols
Two former Cisco employees, Krishna Prabhakar - Avenda Systems Founder and CEO along with Santhosh Cheeniyil - Avenda Systems Founder and Vice President of Engineering, have signed a five year technology partnership to license all of Cisco's security protocols. Their start-up Avenda Systems is helping Cisco customers who need user and device identity based access technology. The network really is the platform
In our last newsletter we discussed the fact that the Vegas Interop conference is notably less focused on networking than it used to be and that naive people can interpret that to mean that networking is less important. We don't agree with that interpretation and will use this WAN newsletter to discuss a few sessions that Jim will moderate at Interop that highlight just how critical networking really is. | 
From 3Mbps over shared coax to 40/100Gbps over fiber…and beyond.
iPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone.
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