In what is becoming an annual Network World tradition, we are naming the top IT turkeys of the year for Thanksgiving. This year, we had several nominations for VP candidate Sarah Palin, but except for one notable hiccup, it would be hard to call her a turkey of the IT variety. And we should also note that columnist Mark Gibbs has his own idea about the perfect IT turkey: American Express. With all that said, let's take a peek at this year's list.
Algorithms are not just the playthings of lab rats. Many of them play a significant role in your daily life from helping to predict the weather to determining whether or not you ran that stop light on the way to work today. We decided to round up a few of the more interesting algorithms and look at how they impact your community. 2
These newcomers are focused on everything from video surveillance to application whitelisting to malware blocking 1
Cool new announcements from Fulcrum Microsystems, Zenoss, Paralles, Pano Logic, Hyperic and others.
Here's our list of the hottest rock stars in the U.S. tech industry. These are the CEOs, analysts, venture capitalists and authors whose opinions are so well respected that they attract standing-room only crowds at conferences. Geeks from Boston to Austin, Silicon Alley to Silicon Valley hang on their every podcast. Be sure to scalp some tickets to see one of these celebs when they're in your hometown. 1
TOKYO (11/13/2008) -- What a difference a year makes. This time last year few people were thinking about buying a Blu-ray Disc player because the battle with HD DVD was still going strong but that all ended early in 2008 and now Blu-ray Disc is making strides into the consumer electronics mainstream.
So what better time than for Sharp to come out with its first flat-panel TV set that includes a Blu-ray Disc recorder? Let's take a closer look at Sharp's latest offering, plus other exciting new products hitting the market this month.
We love 007 gadgets and we've always wanted to be able to own some of them. Here are our top 7 (007 -- get it?) gadgets from classic Bond movies. Some of the technology is actually available today. Other gadgets are being developed by various researchers and sadly others are not yet real at all. View Jamey Heary's full Bond gadgets blog post for more information on these technologies including which ones you can buy today.
Earlier this month, the Rails Rumble 2008 announced the eight winners of its programming competition where teams of up to four people had 48 hours to build original (and somewhat complete) Web apps. Ruby on Rails is perhaps best known as the app development platform that built Twitter. But competitions like the Rumble prove how powerful the young platform can be. Here, we showcase the competition winners along with other cool apps of enterprise appeal from the 130 qualifying entries. Winners were selected by an open vote on the Internet and were judged on appearance, completeness, innovation and usefulness.
Cool new announcements from Juniper, Sun Microsystems, Woven Systems, Cisco, HP and others.
Sun's Amber Road Storage 7000 series contains three new iSCSI appliances combining storage with the latest AMD chips and software based on OpenSolaris, the MySQL database and the ZFS file system. The appliances provide multiple tiers of storage and make it easy to optimize performance by moving storage among tiers including regular spinning disks and flash memory. Here's a look at the three new appliances. 1
