In this interview with John Merrill, director of marketing communications for Xirrus, Merrill explains why the company thinks the time has arrived that IT can ditch some switches for wireless LAN arrays.

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Top IT headlines for Friday, May 9, 2008 -- Details of Internet Explorer 8's security, Wall Street's sway over tech sector, is the GPL still relevant, Office 2007 SP1 data is set, a recap of L'Affair Microhoo, and much more.

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It's difficult to find a good master list of all the IT-related conferences, expos, and events. Thus, here is an updated calendar in order to help TechRepublic readers find the IT events that best serve their interests and the ones that will be showing up their cities and regions throughout 2008.

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Top 10 IT news headlines for Thursday, May 8, 2008: IT should prepare for $200/barrel oil and supporting more remote workers, Microsoft reportedly approaches Facebook, AMD releases plans for 12-core server chips, Dell offers new virtualization options, and much more.

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Like every profession, IT has its own set of dirty little secrets that its members don't often talk about out loud. However, if IT leaders aren't aware of these issues then they can quietly doom an IT department to failure. Episode #2 of Sanity Savers for IT executives shines the spotlight on five of these dirty little secrets.

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Top 10 IT news headlines for Wednesday, May 7, 2008: WiMAX gets major cash infusion, Sun releases competitor to Flash and Silverlight, Cisco releases solid earnings but still wary of U.S. economy, AMD charges Intel with conspiracy, AT&T rumored to be gearing up for 3G iPhone, and much more.

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Sprint is reportedly very close to finalizing a deal to spin off its nascent U.S. WiMAX network into a joint venture partnership with Clearwire that will be funded by Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks.

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The top 10 IT news headlines for May 6, 2008: Yahoo stock plummets, Google puts pressure on Verizon to fulfill its open mandate, IBM reshuffles its executive deck, Sprint could sell off Nextel, and much more.

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Top IT news for Monday, May 5, 2008: Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid, new bill would penalize net censorship in U.S., IBM and Google team up in the cloud, can open source save Sun, 48% see themselves running XP in 2014, and much more.

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I tried to sniff out big trends in the IT industry at Interop Las Vegas 2008 by looking at the booths getting the most traffic, the sessions that were most crowded, the topics that got the quickest rise out of attendees, and the buzz phrases coming out of the lips of the most people. Here are the top four trends that I found.

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Microsoft has reportedly decided to walk away from its highly-publicized $44.6 billion acquisition bid for Yahoo. Negotiation talks broke down and Microsoft decided that the effort of a hostile takeover would not be worth the potential value of integrating Yahoo's online assets with its own.

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Top IT news for Friday, May 2, 2008: Report says Microsoft could be planning a hostile takeover of Yahoo, while Yahoo may be close to an ad search deal with Google, Sun is planning layoffs and blames weak U.S. economy, Motorola predicts end of wired networks, Intel 10Gb NIC preparing to ship, and much more.

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This week, Fortune Magazine released its data on the 2008 Fortune 500, which will officially be released when the May 5 edition of the magazine hits the newsstands. Here are the top 10 technology companies on this year's list, plus the list of the top 10 most profitable companies in tech.

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At Interop Las Vegas 2008, Xirrus tried to convince IT pros that it was time to ditch their switches and replace them with the Xirrus 802.11n wireless arrays. See photos of the gimmicky props at their Interop booth and learn why the whole idea is pure fiction at this point.

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Top IT news for Thursday, May 1, 2008: Incompatibilities sideline Windows service packs, Microsoft might raise bid for Yahoo, Psystar computer arrives in the real world, HP pioneers new type of memory, IBM is trying to lighten energy load in data centers, and much more.

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