Networking

Here's how Vonage customers can use one telephone number at two different locations without moving equipment - or paying additional monthly fees.

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...

Google is publicizing their Google Profiles for the first time this week. If you do a Google search for your name (and who hasn't), you'll now see your Google profile at the bottom of the search results. This is a big deal.

How many are there in a ring? I needed to know before I could set up Vonage's voice mail feature.

AT&T is doubling the download capacity of its HSPA 3G network just before a new iPhone device is expected to launch. The new speeds take AT&T's capacity from 3.6 Mbps to 7.2 Mbps for 3G devices.

To reassure a frustrated public, FairPoint announced new targets for monitoring its service quality. Too bad it doesn't plan to tell anyone how well it is meeting them.

We all know that Google Android Netbook devices will be hitting the streets in the coming months. They are going to be running on really inexpensive ARM-based hardware and be getting a nice, easy interface, care of Google. A perfect storm of events might open the door for the broad adoption of the Google Netbook.

The cable companies seem to be taking over the telephone business these days with their "triple play" bundles, but they're not the cheapest option. Could an independent like Vonage be a better alternative?

A look at today's Swedish court verdict against the four men hosting the notorious file-sharing/torrent-search site PirateBay.org, and one of the men's defiant responses via videos.

Firefox fans take note: A just-released report from the security company Secunia found that Firefox is far more vulnerable than Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer --- and by a wide margin. In 2008, it had nearly four times as many vulnerabilities as each of those browsers.

In today's podcast: eBay to spin off Skype in an IPO; Intel says PC market has bottomed; and OQO needs cash, seeking buyer.

The vulnerability of the US power grid should be a wake-up call to any person or company that has critical or sensitive information on computers: keep those computers off the Internet.

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...

Microsoft is out with its latest semi-annual security report, and there's a startling finding: There's been a big jump in malware masquerading as security software planted on people's PCs when they click email links to access celebrity porn. Call it Britney's revenge.

Capgemini, Liberty group under fire for failure of IT systems to perform.