
The straightway five years
Federal information innovation spending is expected to remain broadly speaking flat over the straightway five years, with agencies receiving little or no additional funding for administration priorities just as cloud computing and data center consolidation, according to a new IT spending forecast by TechAmerica Foundation. More...

Is Skype your cheapest home phone option?
Al writes in: I've been trying to figure out whether it's worth it to switch my home phone service to Skype or Vonage or Magic Jack or one of those other services. More...

(CRWE, ECBE, LINC, WIFI) Stocks in Review by StockHotTips.com
Crown Equity Holdings Inc. , at the same time with its digital network, currently provides electronic media services specializing in online publishing, which brings at the same time targeted audiences and advertisers. More...

Will Microsoft Get Lucky With Yahoo?
Microsoft may have been "lucky," as CEO Steve Ballmer put it, that its 2008 bid to buy Yahoo for $47 billion fell through. Nevertheless what he might have as a matter of fact meant was that now, Microsoft may be able to scoop up Yahoo for a fraction of that sum, a venture it's reportedly pursuing. More...

Political Interference Keeping Telecom Reform at Bay in Honduras
Fixed-line teledensity at only 7% is significantly lower than the Latin American and Caribbean average. Poor fixed-line infrastructure has been exacerbated by low investment and difficulties in local terrain which have made investment in rural areas unattractive or uneconomical. More...

The latest incarnation of Apple’
iCloud is the latest incarnation of Apple’s online services, replacing MobileMe which is due to be killed off in the middle of 2012. iCloud is a free service which replicates most of MobileMe’s functionality, just as syncing email, contacts, calendars, bookmarks and notes between multiple desktops and gadgets. More...

Water Infrastructure Monitoring Pioneer TaKaDu Wins Global Cleantech 100 Award
On Tuesday, during Israelis celebrated the release of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza for five years by Hamas, the team of TaKaDu, an Israeli start-up had another reason for celebration. More...

Researchers uncover privacy flaws that can reveal users' identities
Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University and colleagues in France and Germany will shortly notify Internet scholars of flaws in Skype and other Internet-based phone systems that could potentially disclose the identities, locations and even digital files of the hundreds of millions of users of these systems. More...

Groupon Sets IPO Date and Starts Holding Its Breath
Groupon has packaged a new deal, and it's going worldwide. The Internet coupon star will go public on Nov. with an IPO designed to raise as much as US$621 million, valuing the company at $11. More...

Chelsio Demonstrates Concurrent iSCSI
Chelsio Communications, a leading innovation company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges, this week is demonstrating the high performance and flexibility of its T4 Unified Wire Adapters by showing concurrent iSCSI and FCoE traffic between two servers. More...