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The article discusses the growth in residential broadband connectivity which has led to vulnerability in personal computer systems. Due to this recent growth, there has also been an increase in virus propagation, spam, click fraud, phishing, and other illegal online activities. Recent research has shown that during December 2006, 94 percent of all e-mails studied constituted spam. Nevertheless, the increase should raise awareness to the growing issue of botnets and spam and, therefore, create more technology to combat illegal online activities.

Discusses the status of high-performance computing (HPC). Evolution of HPC; Trends that will be responsible for the new post-cluster paradigm; Development of supercomputers in Virginia universities for use as a regional resource for scientific and commercial applications; Programs and projects of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Financial issues involving HPC machines.

Focuses on the spending of computer industry in research and development. Relationship between the academic research community and industry; Changes in the research and development environment due to evolving technology; Willingness of the federal government to fund sectors of research and development.

The article reports on the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards that highlights the contributions of open source software. The awards give a venue to show the support to the projects and development teams that are proving that Open Source is changing the world. The awards coincide to the plans of further enhancement of SourceForge.net Web site and organization. Jay Seirmaco, SourceForge.net general manager, the enhancements will include the advanced search capabilities to allow site visitors find projects more efficiently, improve mail architecture to allow developer-to-developer email, improved internal systems management and more employees as the site's mission expands.

Features the Next Generation Input/Output (NGIO) technology and Future I/O technology for high-speed server communications standards. Function of a switched fabric design; Availability of NGIO; Implications of the competition between the two standards.