In an effort to help IT Managers boost network uptime and efficiency, Cisco has announced that it has made some Internetwork Operating System (IOS)- based software advances for its Catalyst 6500 switches.

IDC has reported results from a survey that suggest that contrary to what some may think, digital cameras are not losing popularity at the hands of camera phones.

Two big music publishers won’t take part in iTunes Japan, a business strategem that can best be summarized as “gimme.”

What would happen if Robert Scoble visited Google? Is the animation style made famous by Comedy Central’s South Park an effective vehicle to present speculation…?

Cambridge England’s CacheLogic has released results of a study that it conducted regarding peer-to-peer (P2P) activity and its impact on ISPs.

An Oscar Mayer Wiener to be exact. Here’s a fun example of the power of blogs, and search engines.

One of the growing complaints surrounding the blogosphere is the ever-growing threat of blog spam. Blog-spam normally appears in two forms: comment spam and content spam. Comment spam is much like a email spam because it comes from outside sources and tries to trick people into click-thrus.

Around the world, those who had quietly smoldered for fear of offending the powers that be have found a voice in blogs. For many, the blogosphere has become an anonymous cry to the masses. For the brave, not so anonymous, but equally as scathing, sounding boards are giving them words they hadn’t dared utter in public.

In an earlier article I talked about the evolution of the conference call from a rather limited beginning as an expensive business to business tool to the present possibilities using VoIP and the steadily increasing bandwidth available to web users allowing us to dream of real-time high quality video and audio.

Up to seven days of programming from the BBC’s TV channels will be available for download and viewing.

In a story that will make you pick up a copy of the Constitution and kiss the Fourth Amendment, the Hollywood Reporter relays the news that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) received a search and seize warrant that covers the entire city of New Delhi to fight piracy.

Hear that sound? The sound of pads hitting together signifying It’s almost time for the gridiron giants to resume their modern day re-enactment of the gladiator competitions from so long ago? Yes folks, it’s almost time for football season to start.

The threat of persistently high prices for crude oil through the winter could be a boon to web-based retailers.

The post-update issues plaguing Yahoo advertisers have continued to rear their heads two weeks later.

At Intel’s Developer Forum in San Francisco last week, it was announced that Intel and Cisco have entered a new partnership dealing with the improvement of Wi-Fi security and roaming and VOIP support.

Phillip of Google Blogoscoped did an unscientific study, in which 30 of 50 random Blogspot blogs were discovered to be spam, a 60% splog rate. I once hit the “Next Blog” button seven times before I could find a real blog.

This article shows how to setup your domain and explains DNS, Nameservers, IP Address, Forwarding, domain registration and trouble shooting.

As an English-speaking American who travels a lot, I’m often struck by a paradox. Most of the world doesn’t speak English, but wherever I go in Europe, Asia, or South America, I find enough English speakers to talk to, direct me to where I’m going, and do business with. As Seinfeld might ask, what’s up with that? Let’s consider the facts.

Forget massive CD production costs and printing in-store promotion materials; Warner may be ready to transform digital music.

There is a wealth of SEO techniques we haven’t thought of yet. And sometimes that makes us mad because the premise is so simple. Need to up your website’s link-to factor? Write a two-part article, submit the first part to an article distribution service with a link to the second part. Kind of makes you go, “Duh!”

Federal prosecutors in Phoenix have won indictments against three people accused of violating the CAN-SPAM Act.

I’ve spent a bit of time this weekend upgrading my Movable Type experimental blog to the latest MT version 3.2 released on 25 August.