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Cisco defectors; Holiday gift guide 2009; Chrome OS: A visual tour

2009-11-24T14:13:00.000-08:00

Holiday gift guide 2009; Google Chrome OS: A visual tour

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Holiday gift guide 2009
The holidays are here, and it's time to rock! With more than 100 products to choose from, let us take you on a journey through our favorite personal technology products and gift ideas for the rock star techie on your list:
Cell phones, smartphones, accessories
Home and office gear
Computers and notebooks
Home entertainment
Digital photography, video and Webcams
Travel gear
Mice and keyboards
Digital conversion
Portable entertainment
Video games and accessories
Storage, big and small

Google Chrome OS: A visual tour
Expected in late 2010, this first look at the new OS for Web appliances exemplifies Google's simple cloud approach.

IBM cat brain simulation dismissed as 'hoax' by rival scientist
A rival neuroscientist says IBM's "historic milestone" in brain research is nothing but a PR stunt.

Microsoft issues security advisory on IE vulnerability
Microsoft Monday night issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer.

Obama backs U.S. return to math, science, tech
President Barack Obama said today that more has to be done to encourage students to take up in math, science and technology disciplines, while indirectly warning of the global competition for highly skilled jobs.

Apple Enters AT&T vs. Verizon Ad War
In a battle between AT&T and Verizon Wireless that never seems to end, AT&T's partner Apple now appears to be getting into the mix with two retaliatory iPhone TV ad that air Monday night. The ads comes hot on the heels of AT&T's TV ad campaign that aimed to "setting the record straight" around Verizon's "there's a map for that" campaign.

'Godfather of Spam' sentenced to four years in prison
One of the most notorious U.S.-based spammers was sentenced to more than four years in jail on Monday for a scheme that used spam to manipulate stock prices in order to make a profit.

Supercar aims to rocket past 1,000MPH
It looks like something NASA would aim at the sky and launch into orbit but no, it's a car. And by the time its builders' blast it across a desert in South Africa next year, they hope to set the land speed record by going well over 1,000MPH.

Are Cisco emerging market product sales in a free fall?
While it moved into 30 plus market adjacencies, did Cisco take its eye off the ball in emerging markets? Cisco CEO John Chambers appears to have admitted as much during the Cisco F1Q10 earnings call.

IBM smartphone software translates 11 languages
Researchers at IBM say they have created smart software that that translates text between English and 11 other languages including Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic.

November giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page.

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About Computer Networking: Tips for Maintaining Wireless Home Networks

2009-11-24T09:25:00.000-08:00

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	from Bradley Mitchell This week's feature article looks at common methods that help keep your wireless home network running well. One "tip" not included in this piece is the idea of adding a Wi-Fi body weight scale to your network. Call me crazy, but one of those wireless scales from Withings (see sidebar) isn't likely to be talking to my router or my Twitter account anytime soon.

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Tips for Maintaining Wireless Home Networks
A basic Wi-Fi home network can be assembled fairly quickly, but maintaining and enhancing it over time takes more effort. You may not know about the many options available to improve the capability, performance and security of wireless home networks. Wi-Fi scale not included.

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Sun claims fastest storage array on planet; Patent trolls, Machiavelli's descendents

2009-11-24T07:52:00.000-08:00

Data Center Alert - Newsletter - NetworkWorld.com

Patent trolls, Machiavelli's descendents; Al Gore: Supercomputers can reverse climate change

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Patent trolls, Machiavelli's descendents
Mark Gibbs thinks he knows what Machiavelli's descendents do for a living they've become patent trolls.

Al Gore: Supercomputers can reverse climate change
Supercomputing technology, according to Al Gore, will aid the expansion of renewable energy use and create models that help people understand the severity of global warming.

Reports: Computer gllitch causes flight delays in U.S.
A computer system used by airline pilots to file flight plans in the U.S. was not working properly this morning, according to news reports.

Supercomputing centers acknowledge Amazon influence
Amazon.com's Electric Cloud Computing service is helping to boost the visibility of supercomputer centers to business users.

Georgia Tech supercomputer powered by graphics processors
Georgia Tech says graphics processors may help pave the way toward future exascale supercomputers.

EMC brings Avamar backup to PCs, Macs
EMC is extending its Avamar backup software to all parts of an enterprise's infrastructure with clients for PC and Mac desktops and laptops.

Riverbed looks to speed cloud applications, storage
Riverbed has a plan to accelerate applications and storage resources that are located in a cloud computing environment and delivered over the Internet to private data centers, distributed branch offices and mobile users.

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Zeus launches pay-as-you-go traffic management

2009-11-24T07:49:00.000-08:00

Microsoft technology reduces network redundancy; The broadband gap: Is FCC grabbing for the wrong tool?

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Microsoft technology reduces network redundancy
Researchers at Microsoft Research India have developed a compression and redundancy elimination technology that can operate as a host service in enterprise systems without the use of accelerator devices over a WAN.

The broadband gap: Is FCC grabbing for the wrong tool?
Columnist Scott Bradner tries to make sense of what the FCC is up to in addressing the broadband service gap in the United States.

Hurricane Electric's IPv6 network doubles
Hurricane Electric says its IPv6 network has doubled in size in less than a year -- a sign of how rapidly IPv6 traffic is increasing across the Internet.

Cisco survey finds business at a loss for remote access during loss
Companies are unprepared to enable most of their employees to telecommute during workforce disruptions such as transit failures or natural disasters, Cisco found in a recent nationwide survey.

Internet routing blasts into space
A radiation-proof Cisco router was sent into space today aboard an Intelsat satellite with the goal to set up military communications from space.

Google Chrome OS: Web optimized browser on steriods
Google's laying it all out on the table with Chrome OS.

BackTrack4 uses IPv6 to cover tracks
The latest version of BackTrack 4 has Miredo support to help auditors establish a secret IPv6 back-channel to their exploited systems -- which shows the security community is recognizing how IPv6 can be used as a backdoor to owned systems.

Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business
Ciena will pay $769 million for the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business, the two companies said on Monday.

Broadband stimulus grants delayed
The two government agencies in charge of doling out broadband stimulus cash have pushed back the dates for when they'll start handing out grants.

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Google Chrome: Redefining end user computing

2009-11-24T07:45:00.000-08:00

All Things Gibbs - Newsletter - NetworkWorld.com

Patent trolls, Machiavelli's descendents;

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How to Improve NOC Efficiencies
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Bringing smarter networks to industrial world

2009-11-24T06:30:00.002-08:00

100G Ethernet cheat sheet; Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business

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100G Ethernet cheat sheet
With enterprises and carriers moving beyond 1G and 10G Ethernet to 40G and 100G Ethernet, we thought it might be handy to bundle up our most recent coverage of high-speed Ethernet in one tidy package.

Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business
Ciena will pay US$769 million for the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business, the two companies said on Monday.

What's Next for Brocade?
I never really believed the rumors about HP buying Brocade. No disrespect to Brocade, I just thought that HP's interest was really in Ethernet and IP networking and not Fibre Channel. Will another company acquire Brocade? I can't think of any obvious takers.

Wide Area Ethernet Key steps in the evolution
For the history of the telecommunications industry, there have been some schisms within the networking organization. One of the most fundamental was always between the "WAN" folks and the "LAN" folks. And there were good reasons.

Internet routing blasts into space
A radiation-proof Cisco router was sent into space today aboard an Intelsat satellite with the goal to set up military communications from space.

The broadband gap: Is FCC grabbing for the wrong tool?
Columnist Scott Bradner tries to make sense of what the FCC is up to in addressing the broadband service gap in the United States.

Internet = InterNOT @ Interop
I was in New York last Wednesday, 11/18 for a one-day whirlwind tour of the Interop show floor. Sorry to say I did not have time to attend the keynote presentations, but my schedule only afforded enough time to catch up with the twenty or so management vendors who were exhibiting. Little did I know that I would be forced to live the day as one of the unfortunate - the "have-nots" - the "Internet unconnecteds."

Google adding IPv6 to YouTube
Google plans to upgrade its YouTube video streaming Web site to provide support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

Broadband stimulus grants delayed
The two government agencies in charge of doling out broadband stimulus cash have pushed back the dates for when they'll start handing out grants.

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Total Cost Comparison: IT Decision-Maker Perspectives
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Protecting Your Intellectual Property
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An Executive's Guide to Web Application Security
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Microsoft begins paving path for IT, cloud integration; BMC takes service desk to the cloud; CloudMade takes on Google Maps

2009-11-24T06:30:00.001-08:00

Cloud Computing - Newsletter - NetworkWorld.com

Underwhelmed by Chrome OS? That's kinda the point; BMC takes service desk to the cloud via Salesforce.com

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Underwhelmed by Chrome OS? That's kinda the point
Early critics have slammed Google's cloud-based OS for being exactly what it is intended to be: lean, fast, and simple.

BMC takes service desk to the cloud via Salesforce.com
BMC and Salesforce.com partner to deliver BMC's Service Desk Express on Force.com platform.

Cloud computing: Which IT projects are right for the cloud?
Cloud computing is poised to win the title of most popular, and populist, buzzword of 2009.

Virtualization is NOT Cloud
And for that matter virtualization is not just server virtualization .and server virtualization is not just VMware (although kudos to them for establishing the brand they have).

Supercomputing centers acknowledge Amazon influence
Amazon.com's Electric Cloud Computing service is helping to boost the visibility of supercomputer centers to business users.

Riverbed sets a course for the cloud
While many organizations are in the early stages of cloud computing adoption, Riverbed's intent is to keep advancing its optimization wares so that as enterprises get deeper into the cloud, they'll have WAN acceleration options to consider.

Open-source CloudMade takes on Google Maps
CloudMade is gearing up to release a set of tools that will enable people to quickly and easily contribute to the OpenStreetMap project.

EU security agency highlights cloud computing risks
Cloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data, difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data moves from one legal jurisdiction to another, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).

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Closing the Risk Gap in Privileged Access Control
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Managed Security for a Not-So-Secure World
Today's risky data environment, which has seen 213 data breaches in the first five months of 2009, is colliding with an IT landscape of shrinking resources. This paper explains how an IT and security service provider can provide a practical, manageable and reliable solution.
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Wide Area Ethernet Key steps in the evolution; Hurricane Electric's IPv6 network doubles

2009-11-24T06:30:00.000-08:00

Hurricane Electric's IPv6 network doubles; Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business

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Hurricane Electric, a Fremont, Calif., ISP, will announce on Monday that its IPv6 network has doubled in size in less than a year -- a sign of how rapidly IPv6 traffic is increasing across the Internet.

Mobile groups protest proposed net neutrality rules
A month ago, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission began a proceeding to create formal net neutrality rules for broadband providers, and the proposals have generated serious debate in the telecom community.

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Rapid Replication for Virtual Servers
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Six Key WAN Optimization Criteria
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Retooling IT for a Mobile Workforce
As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, IT needs to consider automated tools that provide proactive monitoring and desktop management and ensure compliance with IT policies. Not only is end-user productivity at stake, but organizations have to deal with IT governance, regulatory compliance, and security issues. Check out this research note from IDC for guidance.
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Recap of a week in storage; Sun claims fastest storage array on planet

2009-11-24T06:00:00.001-08:00

Sun claims fastest storage array on planet; Synology Disk Station DS409slim

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Sun claims fastest storage array on planet
Sun Microsystems today announced an upgrade to its Sun Storage 7000 family of disk arrays that it says doubles the performance and capacity of the system.

Synology Disk Station DS409slim
The extensive features offered by network-attached storage (NAS) devices are garnering more interest from consumers, but the difficulty in setting up the devices have kept them out of the mainstream. Synology's Disk Station DS409slim DS409slim is a uniquely-designed NAS device that has four bays for laptop-size hard drives, numerous RAID configurations, multiple features that advanced users will enjoy, and--a welcome improvement over other NAS systems--a simple setup system.

Got Extra USB Drives? Updated Pogoplug Puts Them to Use
Have some extra USB hard drives you'd like to put to a good use? How using them to create an Internet storage cloud for your company, yourself, or your family?

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Executive Guide - Storage Virtualization
Storage virtualization isn't a no-brainer technology, and enterprise IT executives must carefully study how best to implement and manage it within their data centers. In these articles, Network World, along with its sister publications Computerworld and CIO, explore the benefits and challenges of storage virtualization.
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Five Steps to Determine When to Virtualize Your Servers
Server virtualization isn't just for big companies. Entry-level virtualization tools are low cost, and there are many benefits to virtualization. It's not a question of "if" you should virtualize your servers - but "when." This white paper outlines five solution-agnostic steps to help you determine when to virtualize your servers.
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Is 128-bit Windows a reality or just a great story..

2009-11-24T06:00:00.000-08:00

Outlook 2010 to become Facebook for the enterprise; Google Chrome OS - Web Optimized Browser On Steriods

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Outlook 2010 to become Facebook for the enterprise
Microsoft today announced a plugin for Office 2010 that let's users access third-party social networks through Outlook.The tool is dubbed Outlook Social Connector. While it's a great concept to turn e-mail into a social network, it may suffer the fate of many cool ideas from Microsoft: iffy execution.

Google Chrome OS - Web Optimized Browser On Steriods
Google's laying it all out on the table with Chrome OS. My editor posted an excellent article about Chrome OS and we're already expecting a Chrome OS update from Google. Despite the distraction of a bank robbery and shooting in our city last week, I managed to dig my paws into Chrome OS to try and really understand what Google's up to.

MDX Union? Use Subreports...
Another interesting question came up in a recent SQL Server Business Intelligence class: "Can I perform a UNION in MDX similar to SQL?". There is a UNION operator but it's not quite the same, so we had to think outside of the box for this one... The question came from a student who was trying to switch a complex report from running against the relational Data Warehouse to produce the same results...

Sneak Peek at Outlook 2010
So another set of common questions I get is "Do I need to run Outlook 2010 after I migrate to Exchange 2010?" or "What don't I get if I'm still on Outlook 2007 in an Exchange 2010 environment" or "Can I still use Outlook 2003 against Exchange 2010?" or "Which Outlook 2010 features work against an old Exchange 2003/2007 Environment?" Here are answers to these and

Capture SSIS Progress tab...
An interesting question came up in a recent class regarding testing SSIS in Visual Studio: "How can we capture the information in the Progress tab after a debug session?". My immediate reaction was to implement package logging but the answer lay elsewhere...

How to capture your Progress in SSIS...
An interesting question came up in a recent class regarding testing SSIS in Visual Studio: "How can we capture the information in the Progress tab after a debug session?". My immediate reaction was to implement package logging but the answer lay elsewhere...

Enterprise 2.0: Great Advice on How to Get it Wrong from Andrew McAfee
I just returned from the 13th annual KM World conference this week and listened to a really interesting keynote from Andrew McAfee (the "king of Enterprise 2.0" according to KM guru Tom Davenport). McAfee summed up his talk with a list of basically how to get it Enterprise 2.0 wrong:

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Comparing Research In Motion and Microsoft Mobile Solutions
The concept of working "any time and anywhere" has become popular. To support this concept, many organizations are adopting mobile solutions. As employees use these solutions, their expectations are increasing. This paper compares the Research In Motion BlackBerry solution with the Microsoft mobile solution by analyzing features of the user experience and the administrator experience.
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Microsoft IE exploit code unreliable, but more coming; 15 free downloads to pep up your old PC

2009-11-24T04:49:00.000-08:00

15 free downloads to pep up your old PC; Internet routing blasts into space

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Microsoft begins paving path for IT, cloud integration
Microsoft is finally starting to explain the "plus" in its software-plus-services plan with the first slate of technologies to support integration of the cloud and existing IT resources.

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Free Android app rats out bandwidth hogging applications
University of Michigan professors and students have created an Android smartphone apps that gives users and developers a window into how much power their apps are chewing up.

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8 Tech Tools For Black Friday Deals
To get the best deals on Black Friday, you'll need patience, aggression and preferably advanced knowledge of what you're looking for. But with the help of Web sites, mobile apps and social media tools, your day of shopping can be made easier, or even avoided thanks to online or early deals. Here's a list of tech tools to ease the pain of Black Friday.

Internet = InterNOT @ Interop
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Malware enlists iPhones for botnet; Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet; What next for Brocade?

2009-11-23T13:19:00.000-08:00

Ciena will pay $769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business; Seeing is believing: Eight elegant ways to present data

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Five ways to lose your identity (and wallet) this holiday season
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The $2 Britney Spears iPhone App and 5 Other Ways to Waste Money
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Will Chrome Breed Copycats? Internet Explorer OS, Anyone?
If the world needs one browser-based operating system, why not three more? With the interest Google's Chrome OS has generated, can operating systems based upon Firefox, Internet Explorer, even Opera, be far behind?

Underwhelmed By Chrome OS? That's Kinda the Point
When Google unveiled its open source Chrome OS on Thursday, many commentators were quick to dismiss the new operating system as unimpressive and underwhelming. Citing everything from the browser interface that represents the entirety of the user experience to its limited hardware support and inability to install apps or play PC games, early critics have slammed Google's cloud-based OS for being exactly what it is intended to be: lean, fast, and simple.

UNIX caretakers marking 40th anniversary with photo contest
With this year being the operating system's 40th anniversary, UNIX steward organization The Open Group is conducting a photo contest featuring replicas of the iconic UNIX "Live Free or Die" license plate.

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Ciena Wins Nortel Units

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- Cisco Rolls Out iPhone Security App

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- U.S. Cellular Offers Mobile Plan Notifications
Wireless plan customers nearing their limits on minutes or text messages can opt to receive notification from the carrier via SMS.
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- Nokia Sees Enterprise Demand For Netbook
The Booklet 3G's embedded mobile broadband and long battery life are attracting mobile professionals, not the mass market it had aimed for, Nokia says.
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- First LTE Data Call Made On Live Net
Alcatel-Lucent's live call is the latest in a series of Long Term Evolution tests and trials in preparation for the launch of LTE.
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- Medicine Bottles Get Net Connection
A new pill bottle cap with a wireless Internet connection flashes when it's time to take a pill and even calls forgetful patients with reminders.
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Go aims to combine the benefits of rapid application development with program execution speed.

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- Microsoft Forensics Tool For Law Enforcement Leaked Online
Security experts worry cybercriminals will figure out ways to circumvent the tool, which was discovered in a file-sharing forum
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Internet = InterNOT at Interop; How Nikto saved my tail; 6 greatest threats to US network security

2009-11-23T10:47:00.000-08:00

How Nikto saved my tail on a cold Wisconsin morning; The six greatest threats to US network security

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How Nikto saved my tail on a cold Wisconsin morning
So I say, "If you can break into my server and capture my flag, I will send you out a Wisconsin Kringle from O&H Bakery and I will wear a dress on the next episode of TechWiseTV." Yeah, that's right. I am moron.

The six greatest threats to US network security
It's not a very good day when a security report concludes: Disruptive cyber activities expected to become the norm in future political and military conflicts.

How Come We Don't Have a Standard Handset Architecture?
Why, I ask, don't we have a standard hardware definition for a cellular handset, along the lines of the PC?

Interoperability: The Next Great Frontier for Telepresence.
Video conference users have for the most part been free of the hassles of trying to figure out how to interoperate products from different vendors, thanks to early and widespread adoption of H.323 signaling protocols and H.261 and H.264 video encapsulation, both sets of protocols well defined by the ITU.

Federal data breach highlights difficulties of data security
The feds went out of their way to define a Windows configuration that was "secure by default," yet a Junior staffer was able to either access a confidential file from an insecure computer or install peer-to-peer software on an FDCC-compliant system.

Steve Jobs is a man of a few words
When The Little App Factory received a legal letter from Apple requesting that they change the name of their popular Mac app, "iPodRip", CEO John Devor decided to pen a heartfelt email to Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself.

Check every day? Geesh, the identity thieves have won
With Cyber Monday approaching, we here in the news business are being inundated as usual with offers of "expert advice" for us to pass along to readers/online shoppers so that they may better protect themselves against identity theft.Most of it we -- and you -- have read a hundred times already.

Android Needs Google For Now
Android is a free and open platform. Device manufacturers can take the platform and put it on their own devices. Software developers can write applications for Android without concern about being blocked from publishing as they can always choose to self-distribute their applications. However, this freedom comes as a price.

London Olympic project could redefine cloud computing
Cloud computing is one of those phrases with a fuzzy definition but there's a new cloud potentially being built in London that makes all previous ones seem staid and boring.

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