AT&T Gobbles Up Spectrum in Preparation for 3-G IPhones and Other Devices (Wired)

Paving the way for the U.S. release of a 3-G iPhone and other next-generation devices, AT&T said on Tuesday it will purchase a substantial chunk of 700-MHz licenses.

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Satire: NASA Announces Plan To Bring Wi-Fi To Its Headquarters By 2017 (The Onion)

NASA administrator Michael Griffin announced during a press conference Tuesday that the space agency is launching an ambitious mission to make Houston's Johnson Space Center wireless-Internet capable within one decade.

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Hi, Jaiku: Google expands communications reach with microblogging service purchase (Ars Technica)

Google has acquired microblogging underdog Jaiku in an attempt to round out its messaging services. It may also result in bringing order to the world of microblogging, including protocol standardization

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100 Gb/s Internet2 completed (TG Daily)

At its Fall 2007 member meeting, the Internet 2 consortium announced that its updated infrastructure is ready to go online and provide an initial capacity of 100 Gb/s to researchers and educators.

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Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 (Network World)

Which technologies must any good IT executive examine in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualization, mashups and social software, Gartner says.

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Fewer CIOs Are Reporting to CEOs, Survey Finds (Baseline)

Far fewer chief information officers are reporting to their chief executives, according to a survey.

Last year, 45% of those responding to a survey by the Society of Information Management said the CIO in their organization reported to their CEO. This year, that number is 31%.

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