The Internet is nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The Italian edition of Wired magazine has nominated the Internet to be a contender for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Read more...

EU Parliament rejects secretive ACTA in vote for openness

Google still tops, but Bing inches ahead in search market

Only 21% of Twitter members are active, report says

Worldwide poll: 4 of 5 call Internet access a basic human right

Update: U.S. lifts Iran, Sudan, Cuba Internet services export ban

Microsoft to maintain China operations, report says

Mourners eulogize IE6 at funeral for aged browser

Google-Microsoft search war hits new heights

Chapter 1: Introduction and What's New

More Internet Business Stories

Chapter 1: Introduction and What's New

Retired GM CIO Ralph Szygenda on Joining iRise
Former General Motors CIO Ralph Szygenda spoke to CIO.com Editor-in-Chief Brian Carlson in this interview about his new role with iRise and the innovation he anticipates from enterprise IT over the next decade.

ZyXEL's NWA-3166 Wireless Access Point
Building and maintaining a wireless network isn't difficult when all of your employees fit around a single access point. Once you need to juggle radio profiles, security settings, and Quality of Service (QoS) configurations for multiple access points across an office building, a dedicated wireless-management product starts to look compelling.

The deepening data center skills crisis
With a state-of-the-art data center recently opened in Atlanta, PricewaterhouseCoopers is on the prowl for a few good people. The challenge looms just about as large as the 80,000-square-foot building housing the IT infrastructure.

From sea to shining data center: One IT exec's rise to the top
Plying the world’s oceans may seem an odd start for someone who now oversees data center planning at one of the world’s financial powerhouses, but that’s precisely Jim Carney’s professional pedigree.

10 recession-proof IT skills
The enterprise data center has become the corporate center of attention. If you want in, here are the skills you need to have.

How to become a data center top dog
Top dogs in the data center come into their positions from all sorts of starting points.

Wireless broadband: There's a gap for that
Back in 2007, Nemertes Research predicted a "broadband access" gap that would begin affecting Internet connectivity by the year 2012.

Net neutrality: Needless yoke or new opportunity?
The Federal Communication Commission's net neutrality proceeding represents huge opportunities for network operators and equipment manufacturers to demonstrate that differentiated speed and service quality in vertically integrated networks will promote -- not diminish -- investment, innovation and consumer welfare.

Ten IT Talking Points Your CFO Will Love
Do you know how to talk to your CFO in terms that he or she understands? Here are ten talking points for the year ahead.

Editors' Picks

Think your PC is completely protected? Not necessarily. There are some hidden dangers out there you may not have thought of. The success of open-source software raises a tantalizing question: Could the same design philosophy work for tech gadgets? The first devices using USB 3.0's SuperSpeed spec are now hitting the market. We try out a few to see how fast they really are. Options include public clouds and external private clouds. Here's how to choose wisely.

IT Jobs

hot topics

Get the latest news, reviews and more about Microsoft's newest desktop operating system.

• Apple
• E-book readers
• Google
• iPad
• Mac A to Z
• Microsoft
• Twitter

special report topics

General Mills, Genentech, San Diego Gas & Electric, University of Pennsylvania and Monsanto top the list.

Riverbed is the IT performance company. WAN optimization solutions from Riverbed liberate businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility - all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Business Value of Performance IDC Whitepaper Are you looking for a complete solution that addresses insufficient or congested bandwidth, lagging application performance, slow remote backup and replication or obstacles to IT consolidation? This paper will explain how Riverbed, and its Steelhead family of WAN optimization appliances, can drastically accelerate the performance of your business. Disaster Recovery 2008: Reduced Costs and Improved Performance How long can your Enterprise afford to be without your data? With an accelerated disaster recovery program, you never have to answer this question. Download this webseminar and learn how advancements in WAN optimization can reduce RPOs and RTOs even more. And hear featured customer case studies demonstrating how enterprises are putting these solutions into practice today. With lost data being a competitive liability, there is no room for downtime in today's business world. An In-Depth Look at ROI In this economy, as IT budgets remain flat or get reduced, doing more with the infrastructure you have has never been more important. But is investing more money in the same old networking infrastructure wise? In this whitepaper, Riverbed discusses its compelling and powerful return on investment in hard dollars, and a way to leap past the obstacles preventing you from reaching your IT objectives. View Entire Zone

"It won't be released for two weeks, but the FCC's national broadband plan is already drawing critics, who say it..." Read more "Google's proposed ultra high speed broadband experiment is an audacious stick in the eye to ISP monopolies. Bravo, Google!..." Read more "My fiasco with my cable modem continues as I realize that my equipment wasn't the problem after all. Meanwhile, poor..." Read more More broadband Blogs See all Computerworld Blogs

Disaster Recovery & Cost Savings Zone
Thousands of customers world-wide have turned to virtualization solutions from Riverbed as a way to reduce costs.

Fired up about IT? Join Sharkbait and share your true tales of IT. SharkBait is the place for you to sound off about everything IT – the good, the bad, and the rest of the weird stuff you deal with every day. New baits

Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Web, Security If it's tech, it's in our blogs.