ZDNet: Net phone customers brace for ‘VoIP spam’ Spam is one of the most intrusive forms of advertising because, unlike telemarketing and direct-mail, spam pushes the primary cost of delivering the advertisement onto the recipient and not the sender. A sender can send out millions of e-mails, the receiver must bear the bandwidth cost in [...]

NetworkWorld: DST: Change goes smoothly, though most IT shops still on lookout for glitches It does indeed look like the DST changeover went well for most people. For once, however, the geeks get revenge; they may have lost countless hours of sleep, but finally, their work ensured that an hour of sleep was lost by [...]

Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Savings Time patches. Man, am I glad I’m not in the datacenter today. “The workstation patches are easy, the stand alone Outlook tool is no big deal. If you’re running Exchange and you try to run the Exchange update tool 930879, good luck. It’s a crap [...]

PCMagazine: The Killing of Wi-Fi John Dvorak talks about how cell phone companies see ubiquitous WiFi is a threat. It’s not about the technology. It’s about the threat of Wi-Fi overall. And I mean free Wi-Fi in particular. If you take a city the size of San Francisco and give the entire population free high-speed [...]

SharkTank at ComputerWorld: “Really, Really good at his job” Monitoring network performance is a complicated and very subtle science. However, sometimes diagnosis is dead-obvious. Fish: Hi, I’m calling from network operations. I’m calling to ask if the power is still on at your location. Branch manager: Yes, it is. Fish: OK, is anyone doing any [...]