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Alltel announced during an earnings report conference call this week that it has selected Long-Term Evolution (LTE) as its 4G wireless broadband technology.

Power management vendor Verdiem has updated its Surveyor tools that help users regulate energy consumption by Windows-based PCs with features that solve “PC insomnia” and that automatically close open applications.

Enterprise Management Associates surveyed 1,000 IT professionals between January and March to learn if they planned to maintain or increase budgets.

Yahoo has responded to investor Carl Icahn's threat to take control of Yahoo's board and force it back to the negotiating table with Microsoft. The search company said Icahn's proposal shows "a significant misunderstanding" of how it handled Microsoft's offer, and argued that Yahoo's current board remains "the best and most qualified group" to handle its affairs.

Uptime and fast problem resolution are top priorities in enterprise networks. But purchasing dedicated monitoring devices for hundreds of network points is impractical, but you can use a matrix switch to do the same thing.

A recent study by In-Stat says that fixed-configuration 24- and 48-port switches can vary by more than 600% in terms of how much switching capacity they support in relation to how much electric power they draw.

Classrooms need to adapt to serve students who are plugged in online as never before, and corporations will need to adjust to the "thumb generation" and its thirst for connectivity and numerous computing devices, consultancy Basex says.

A SQL injection attack that has affected at least a half-million Web sites has entered a "third wave" that's more resistant than previous versions to traditional security measures.

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems released a study today showing that Cox and Comcast have both been blocking BitTorrent transfers within the United States at both peak and non-peak hours.

All data-center products claiming to be green are not created equal. That's because metrics to determine how green equipment is usually are vendor-driven and measuring energy efficiency can be a chore for network architects.

Research In Motion, known mainly as a mobile e-mail vendor, is making a surprising effort to leverage the voice side of the BlackBerry smartphone, positioning its server software as a way to blend cellular and corporate voice networks by linking the BlackBerry server with the corporate PBX.

The same question people used to ask about PCs can be asked of social networks: Were our lives easier or harder, better or worse, simpler or more complex, before they came around? The answer is yes. For some folks, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace seem nearly as indispensable as e-mail, but creating and maintaining these virtual circles of friends turns out to be quite a bit of work, often necessarily so. Here are the ten things that bug me most about today's social networking services.

Verizon Business has captured one of the largest federal network deals of 2008: a 10-year contract to provide managed network and security services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that is valued at $678.5 million.

Sprint Nextel today announced that WiMAX has met its commercial deployment standards and is due to be launched commercially later this year.

The departure of a longtime Cisco executive last week is the latest sign that the company is transforming itself from a pure networking vendor into more of an overall provider of IT systems.

One week after hiding Internet Explorer attack code on his Web site, security researcher Aviv Raff has posted details on how to launch the attack.

Businesses alone are not doing enough to avert an impending shortage of Internet Protocol addresses, and governments must work with them to secure the future of the Internet economy, according to a report published Thursday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

NATO plans to set up a cyber defense center in Estonia later this year to research and help fight cyber warfare, the organization announced Wednesday.