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• XBox Delivers a Profit Nintendo still dominates, but Microsoft's Xbox Division posted its first-ever annual profit.
• AT&T Objects to Sprint-Clearwire Deal The FCC gets a formal complaint from a rival to the WiMax network planned by Clearwire and Sprint.
• FCC OKs Sirius Acquisition of XM The deal will leave the US with a single satellite radio service.
• Gateway to Stop Selling PCs Through Web Site Gateway on Friday said it would not directly sell PCs through its Web site any more, but will now sell PCs through retail and...
• Microsoft Bolsters Ruby Efforts Company unveiling initiatives accommodating popular language.
• Three Keys to Getting Projects Under Control, Part 2 Idea clarity is key: Know exactly what you are trying to accomplish. You know you "have an idea" when you can answer the questions Where are you going? How are you going to get there? What will it cost? What is the payoff?
• SharePoint Helps Insurer Avoid Risks Allied North America, an insurer for construction firms, says its customer portal built using Microsoft SharePoint helps track construction site activities and analyze data to reduce risks for its clients.
• 14 Common Project Management Mistakes Nearly 70 percent of IT projects are dogged by cost-overruns or aren't completed on schedule due to poor planning, poor communication or poor resource allocation. This story assess the impact of the 14 most common project management mistakes and offers ways IT groups can avoid them.
• Smart Robots Will Explore Universe by 2020 Much like the probe in The Empire Strikes Back, smart bots will find and send info back to Earth.
• VMware to Offer Low-Fooprint ESX Hypervisor Free To help it compete against Microsoft's low-cost Hyper-V, VMware will offer the low-cost version of its hypervisor at no cost.
• Software Piracy Hurts the Open-Source Community Too OpenOffice.org community manager sees fallout when proprietary wares are jacked.
• Look Out, Cisco: Here Comes Brocade/Foundry $3 billion deal raises stakes in Ethernet switching market.
• PPM Software Yields Savings for Energy Company HP's updated software shows IT managers where resources spend their time and why projects get delayed.
• Control Freaks: Network Admins Can Spell Trouble 'Keys to the kingdom' are often the center of IT strife.
• My Book Mirror Edition RAIDs Your Data Western Digital's new desktop storage system offers a 1TB dual-disk enclosure with RAID for under $600.
• Study Paints Open-Source Software as a Security Risk "Go into this with your eyes wide open," says Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity czar.
• Project CrackBerry U.K. college wants the dope on your BlackBerry addiction.
• Collaboration Under SOA: The Human Aspects This book chapter from Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect shows how Web 2.0 business concepts apply to businesses, especially those enterprises that adhere to the philosophy of SOA.
• Printer Ink, Prohibitions, and a 108-Inch LCD This week our readers are all over the map, weighing in on printer ink, Sony's 108-inch LCD, and the FCC's probable action against Comcast.
• Report: Microsoft Online Chief Leaves for Juniper Networks Kevin Johnson, the man behind Microsoft's failed bid to buy Yahoo, is leaving, the Wall Street Journal reports.
• HP Folds Voodoo PC Business Unit HP folded the Voodoo PC business unit, opting to sell the high-end PCs as part of its expanded consumer offerings.
• State to Replace Sinking Data Center The state of Tennessee works on a new $68 million data center 25 miles southeast of Nashville.
• Sleeping Executives Make IT Projects Fail Why big projects are unhealthy for CIOs.
• Open Source Leadership Lessons Passion, smarts and what open source can learn about management.
• Complex Network Access Control Slows Deployments But experts say rollouts will pick up as companies become more NAC savvy.