News of Nortel’s bankruptcy filing hit the news yesterday.  No one is really surprised. First thoughts, you can bet that giants like Cisco and Avaya will be courting some Nortel customers.  The truth of it is, Nortel while they have some great products – was not run well.   Hopefully this s...

Efraim Schwartz over at ComputerWorld reported back in July the results of various studies that indicate that IT jobs will drop in 2009.  Contractors, projects, overall spending down.  The news is dire: “Almost no investment in cloud computing�. Well, I don’t have any studies to refer to jus...

Yeah, Everyone does these.  Top 10 – etc. I thought about it.  Techmeme did a nice job of the biggest stories.  Thanks end the end-of-year read.   So, I’ll analyze it. The Yahoo-Microsoft Story – Yeah this had to be the story of the year.  Microsoft overbids it turns out for Yahoo.  Yah...

Microsoft is now shedding a little more light on the zero-day XML vulnerability.  It seems some Hong Kong-based pornography sites are dropping the trojans Trojan:Win32/VB.IQ.dr and Trojan:Win32/VB.IQ on unsuspecting PC users.   This in addition to exploits discovered on a popular Taiwan search en...

Gloomy news in a down economy abound. Signs are everywhere in many sectors of the technology spectrum. The Social Networking site Linkedin is laying off 10% of its workers. Dell has asked personnel to voluntarily take unpaid leave. Apple is supposedly scaling back its Iphone production. John Furrier...