Big news in the Wall Street Journal (must be big!) - Skype gets SIP. Picked up on GigaOM, it looks as if the service is in limited Beta initially. Combined with OCS recent SIP capabilities and even Digium getting in on the game (i.e. count Asterisk in), that means Enterprise VoIP is getting even more an more [...]

Back in December I asked “Does Cisco Still Love The Enterprise?” Well, it appears to be spending it’s money elsewhere these days. The much rumoured Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition has taken place, as Cisco buys it’s way into Apple territory.
So, why should business IT folk worry? Well, it isn’t for the reasons you think. [...]

Michael Kassner has written a piece on TechRepublic about the security risks of URL shortening. Whilst it has one or two valid points, it also has more technical holes than a gamers PC case.
URL-shortening services such as TinyURL and Bit.ly are becoming popular attack vectors. You may not want to automatically click on the shortened [...]

I was a bit shocked by this one. ZDNet ran with the title “RIM’s CIO: We record all employee calls to protect intellectual property“. The piece was based on an interview ZDNet Australia with Robin Bienfait, CIO of RIM.
“Everything I have that’s on RIM is recorded and retained as RIM. So if they want to have [...]

One of the downsides of cloud-based applications is an even greater need to watch the security of the network protocols in use. Traffic going outside the private network (and potentially traffic on it) needs to be securely encrypted between the user and servers, if it contains sensitive information. If passwords are compromised, users need to [...]