22 Feburary – Five Stories You Need to Read

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 the improvement of virtualization.”

According to BBC News, “[b]roadband is getting faster in the

UK

but some customers are not reaching the speeds that service providers have advertised, shows a survey.”

In a different story, BBC News reports that “Apple and Cisco Systems have resolved their dispute over the iPhone brand, with both companies agreeing that each can use the name for their products.”

Finally, Networkworld reports that “[e]arlier this month at the RSA conference, vendors such as Extreme Networks and Foundry Networks demonstrated their support of Microsoft’s Network Access Protection, or NAP.”