Telecomputing Dictionary - Perhaps you need to have this dictionary open as go over your assignment readings. Pop in the acronym and see the meaning.
Red Herring - For High Technology business news and well researched articles on entire high technology industries.
San Jose Mercury - Forget the New York Times. This IS the Mercedes-Benz of daily digital news.
ReCapIt - ReCap IT is an online source for information on and analysis of the alliances and partnerships that are reshaping the information technology industry today. Weekly articles focus on the deals and dealmakers behind the headlines, as well as the trends driving them.
CIO Magazine - It's free, it's well-written, and it's about IT from a strategic and management perspective. The research center area absolutely rocks. If I had one site to recommend to an aspiring IT manager, it would be THIS one. The Standard runs close behind.
Cahners Business Information - Cahners harnesses the power of information to help business leaders make the best decisions and to help marketers sell to those leaders, so goes their hype. Nevertheless, they probably have some of the most extensive free information on the web regarding IS information. They're generally reputable researchers.
The Standard - A Business IT Journal that advertises itself as "Intelligence for the Internet Economy", and while it's more about industry intelligence, it's about as good as a freebie gets.
Frost & Sullivan - You will have to register to get their free reports. Don't worry, they won't bite you. They do this to attract students so that you would later prompt your company to hire them. If they contact you, tell them about this class. You can even tell them about this web site! It's free and so someone on your team should go for it.
The Strategis Group
- The Strategis Group is a telecommunications consulting firms with a staff of over 50 consultants dedicated to the analysis of next generation telecommunications systems around the globe. The site contains lots of freebies on market projections in wireless and broadband services.Case Tools Site - Lists some of the freeware and shareware case tools available for download. None looks as easy as the fabled "Database Design Tool" that is being used by our students.
The Telecomunications Corner - Network and telecom products and news.
Network World Fusion - Latest and greatest in IT network issues. A bit more from the business perspective than the other sites listed here.
Network Computing - Sponsored by tech web, this is an awesome site for getting the 100 foot view on some current network and IT technologies.
Fiber Optic News - Lightwave online journal gives the latest and greatest on fiber rings and things.