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TWC's un-metered broadband is, err, metered
In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Time Warner Cable stops imposing metered broadband and instead, imposes metered broadband. Not to mention Sockington the cat, celebrating 300,000 Twitter followers...
- TAGS:CBB, DOCSIS, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, TWC
- IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation, Internet, Networking
Oracle-Sun: "Dumb... Sad... Moronic."

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers chew on Oracle's surprise acquisition of Sun—and they're not particularly positive about it. Not to mention running the Boston Marathon dressed as an iPhone...
- TAGS:Java, M&A, Oracle, oracle-sun, ORCL, Sun
- IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation, Hardware, Internet, Servers & Data Center, Software
Obama's CTO is Aneesh Chopra
In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches President Obama finally get around to picking his CTO... Aneesh who?. Not to mention executive foreheads...
- TAGS:Aneesh Chopra, Barack Obama, Obama, protection
- IT TOPICS:Development, Government & Regulation, Hardware, Internet, Mobile & Wireless, Software
Mac malware builds botnet, while smug fanbois gently weep
In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches a Mac OS X Trojan construct a botnet for distributed denial of service attacks and sending spam. Not to mention Drop7...
- TAGS:AAPL, Apple, botnet, ibotnet, iservices, Mac OS X
- IT TOPICS:Cybercrime & Hacking, Desktop Applications, Macintosh & Apple, Security
Office/Exchange/SharePoint 2010 "wave" breaking
In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Microsoft reveal Office, Exchange, and SharePoint 2010: not waving, but drowning? Not to mention Error'd...
Spam study's scary CO2 numbers
In a special IT Blogwatch Extra, Richi Jennings watches bloggers debate the carbon footprint of spam and spam filtering. Not to mention another Photoshop disaster...
- TAGS:carbon footprint, climate change, CO2, global warming, McAfee, MFE, spam
- IT TOPICS:Enterprise Software & Services, Internet, Security, Software
Amazon.com: FAIL and you
In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the AmazonFail, and asks how this could have happened and what could be done to prevent it. Not to mention Facebook pages we'd like to see...
Windows 7? Not this year.
In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches worries about Windows 7 deployment plans—but is everything quite as it seems? Not to mention a second-hand Elite gag...
- TAGS:Dimensional Research, KACE, Microsoft, MSFT, Windows 7
- IT TOPICS:Desktop Applications, Emerging Technology, Management, Windows & Microsoft
Twitter reels from Mikeyy's XSS 'sploits
In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Michael Mooney exploit cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Twitter. Not to mention LOL-Cat Face...
Conficker botnet wakes up and smells the coffee
In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Conficker/Downadup/Kido stir, raising worries about the coming son-of-Storm and floods of spam. Not to mention parents that join Facebook...
- TAGS:botnet, Conficker, Downadup, Kiko, storm, Waledac
- IT TOPICS:Cybercrime & Hacking, SaaS & Cloud Computing, Security, Windows & Microsoft
Hostile hackers threaten power grid
In Thursday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers fear for the safety of the U.S. electrical grid in the face of hostile hackers. Not to mention Penelope Cruz necked...
Windows 7 candidate leaks?
In Wednesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches the run-up to the Windows 7 release candidate, as "escrow" build 7077 leaks to BitTorrent. Not to mention the Fruit Computer Lab...
- TAGS:7077, 7077.0.090404-1255, 7100, 7105, Microsoft, MSFT, RC, release candidate, Windows 7
- IT TOPICS:Cybercrime & Hacking, Emerging Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Windows & Microsoft
RIM/Verizon prep. Wi-Fi touchscreen BlackBerry Storm 2
In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches rumors that Research In Motion and Verizon are already preparing a "BlackBerry Storm 2," which will include Wi-Fi. Not to mention Error'd...
- TAGS:Blackberry, blackberry storm, RIM, RIMM, Verizon, VZ
- IT TOPICS:Mobile & Wireless, Networking, Personal Technology
Sun jilted at the altar by IBM?
In a special IT Blogwatch Extra, Richi Jennings watches the latest play in the IBM/Sun acquisition saga. It seems that IBM wants to pay less, but Sun isn't happy with that, so the deal's off -- or is it? Not to mention IKEA slapstick...
- TAGS:IBM, Java, M&A, Sun
- IT TOPICS:Hardware, Open Source, Servers & Data Center, Software, Storage
Google is/isn't/is/isn't buying Twitter
In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers raise question marks over Twitter acquisition rumors. Not to mention an old-school, Shadowgate-style game in Mac Classic graphics...
- TAGS:Biz Stone, GOOG, Google, M&A, Twitter
- IT TOPICS:Emerging Technology, Internet, Personal Technology, SaaS & Cloud Computing
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