| Microsoft: Word patent ruling, injunction 'miscarriage of justice'
Microsoft's lawyers said the verdict that awarded a Canadian developer nearly $300 million in damages and resulted in an impending ban on sales of the company's popular Word software was a "miscarriage of justice. VMware plows ahead in face of controversy, increased competition
Heading into VMworld, VMware faces controversy and a far more competitive virtualization market than existed when the company began holding the annual conference five years ago. ACLU files lawsuit on border laptop searches
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit demanding that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) release details of its policy that allows the agency to search travelers' laptops at U.S. borders without suspicion of wrongdoing. Researchers target system to surgically jam specific digital signals
Electronically jamming everything from specific cell phones, satellites or any other communications device is the goal of a prototype system military scientists at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to build. Cast your vote: SysAdmin of the Year 2009 launches
BigFix, LOPSA, USENIX and others kick off annual contest that asks companies to nominate an IT professional on staff for SysAdmin of the Year. BlackBerry Loves U2 - But Why?
I was recently mildly surprised to see a TV ad proclaiming that "BlackBerry Loves U2", but with little additional explanation other than a reference to a Web site with similarly little value other than to tease a "U2 Mobile Album" which hasn't yet been released. Why is the king of corporate mobility hyping a rock band via the vaporware route? Windows 7 Feature Focus: Libraries
Every new release of an OS like Windows has it's nuggets and one of Windows 7's is the new Library feature. Virtualization management takes center stage
As virtualization evolves over the next several years, management will play a bigger and bigger role. The Curse of the Ribbon Menu
Everyone wants to take their shot at what's wrong with Microsoft these days so here's mine. Ribbon menus. I've long detested Microsoft's ribbon menu user interface. The biggest issue is what you once knew how to do, you now have to find again (and again). The net gain being a big net loss in productivity. Enterprise Clouds will fail without Dynamic Monitoring
Congratulations! You've successfully virtualized your network/server/storage environments and saved xx% (insert percentage). But who besides your CFO really cares? All you've done is lower the cost of an increasingly commoditized service, and anyone who's spent a day working for a vendor knows that's a very uncomfortable place to be. August Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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