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As Microsoft releases its Silverlight 2.0 media player tomorrow, it is claiming strong momentum for its free, would-be Adobe Flash-killer.

As handheld devices become more like full-fledged computers in their own right, the question of whether business travelers might be better served by leaving their laptops at home is again being asked by IT managers and end users alike. But that still appears to be more of a future goal than a current reality.

It's a good time to aspire to IT stardom.

New York City-based think tank Intelligent Community Forum last Friday named the Gangnam District in Seoul, Korea, as the 2008 Intelligent Community of the Year as part of its annual conference held last week at Brooklyn Polytechnic University.

The National EPC Network Demonstrator Project (NDP) Extension has achieved a 100 percent RFID tag identification rate, up 5 percent on last year's pilot, researchers claim.

It has been said that buyers should generally avoid the first year of a new model car, Version 1.0 of just about any application and most Rev. A computers -- especially Rev. A computers.

Results of a year-long pilot project on RFID usage involving the CSIRO and the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) and the private sector were released yesterday.

Mergers and acquisitions have become a way of life across many industries. With vendors, competitors and in some cases their own companies consolidating at a rapid clip, enterprise IT managers and staffers at all levels have to stay on their toes in order to ensure job security.

At the Pacific Telecommunications Council's 28th conference in Honolulu, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf declared that major Internet growth will now come from Asia, which represents 56 percent of the world's population.

IBM Tuesday announced it bought portal software maker Bowstreet for an undisclosed amount.

Despite the hype associated with RFID, when you hear success stories from a very large organization, you have to believe there really is something there.