broadband news from FierceCIO

After a few months of beta testing, Microsoft has finally released the Service Pack 2 (SP2) update for the Windows Vista operating system. Folks who installed the beta of SP2 last year will have to... Read more...

IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division did a scan of some 2 million computers in the last 24 hours and came up with a startling figure: The Conficker worm was spotted on some 4 percent of the... Read more...

President Obama's economic stimulus package could mean big bucks for IT--roughly $37 billion in all. That includes $20 billion for online health records, $11 billion for a smarter power grid and $6... Read more...

Google has unveiled tools to measure if your ISP is giving you the bandwidth that you paid for. Under an initiative called Measurement Lab (M-Lab), Google is launching an open system where consumers... Read more...

A coalition of broadband supporters is urging President-elect Obama to keep his campaign pledge and develop a national strategy to increase deployment of affordable high-speed Internet access across... Read more...

There's no denying that Sprint's forthcoming XOHM service is going to be innovative--Read more...

Congress is moving closer to extending a ban on Internet taxes, a law that expires on Nov. 1st. Recently, the Senate joined the House in passed a moratorium. However, there are differences in the two... Read more...

I'm willing to bet that more than a few of you wouldn't mind having a PlayStation 3 in your cubicle. Well, you're going to have to take that one up with your boss but in the meantime, this might just... Read more...

The promise of broadband in the United States has always been high, but a more accurate--if less optimistic--reality is beginning to settle in. In April, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and... Read more...

Thanks to the fast proliferation of broadband, mobile devices and collaboration tools in the enterprise, the promise of the joined-up enterprise--the idea that organizations can share data and... Read more...