Cisco is announcing a bundle of gear and services aimed at helping companies design and install remote-site communications that replicate the connectivity workers have when they’re located in corporate sites.

Founded by former Wily Technology (now part of CA), IBM Tivoli and Relicore (now part of Symantec) veterans, BlueStripe Software tackles application performance management across physical and virtual resources.

IBM Monday said it has spent $2 billion boosting its storage offerings through acquisitions, research and development over the past three years.

The future of broadband networking at Japan's NEC is clear. The company's WiMax operations far outpace its work in the telecommunications industry's mobile broadband standard, LTE (long term evolution).

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Microsoft Monday said the Live Migration feature for its hypervisor technology is slated for delivery with the next version of Windows Server, which is likely to be delivered in 2010.

Intel announced four new quad-core Xeon processors on Monday that use a halogen free packaging technology that is easier on the environment.

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In the latest example of a privacy controversy that has become increasingly familiar nationwide, it came to light this week that a publicly accessible Web site maintained by the Iowa County Recorders Association (ICRA) has been posting land records containing the Social Security numbers of thousands of state residents — including Gov. Chet Culver — since January 2005.

A team of researchers have built a malicious Facebook program called "Photo of the Day," which serves up a new National Geographic photo daily. But in the background, every time the application is clicked, it sends a 600 K-byte HTTP request for images to a victim's Web site.

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Samsung came out all-guns-blazing at this week's IFA electronics show in Berlin with its lightweight X360 laptop that appears targeted at Apple's Macbook Air.

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For nobody it is a secret any more, that social networks have conquered the Internet - about 90 percent of web users are users of any social network. The Runet (Russian speaking share of internet ) does not concede to the western segment of the Internet by the amount of available social networks.