According to Yahoo! News, Cisco is backtracking on its open-source promise, with Cisco Security Technology Group CTO Bob Gleichauf saying that the company has not yet made up its mind about the future of software. eWeek.com writes that “[t]he Microsoft-Novell connection will provide new options for IT departments, most notably [...]

According to the Sidney Morning Herald, “Telstra has all but ruled itself out of the running to carry Apple's new iPhone mobile when it is released [in Australia] next year with a senior executive launching a withering critique of the device.” CNetNews.com has an interesting article entitled “Opening up an [...]

Yesterday I testified before a joint House/Senate Science & Technology committee of the Georgia General Assembly. SB 59 would make it illegal for a social networking site like MySpace to give minor children access without permission from a parent. It would also give parents surreptitious access to their children's pages. [...]

The International Herald Tribune reports that “Silicon Valley company [VeriSign] is undertaking a $100 million expansion of a crucial part of the system that speeds Web users to their destinations” in order “[t]o keep up with the growing strains put on the Internet by both legitimate users and online attackers”. [...]

According to MSNBC, “News Corp.'s Web network MySpace has been in talks for several months with online auction company eBay Inc. about a partnership” which would allow “MySpace users [to] buy and sell items from each other using eBay's online-commerce technology and its PayPal payment system.” In a different story, [...]