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Symantec Lays Out Deduplication Plans

Symantec this week announced plans to integrate deduplication into its NetBackup , Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault offerings. "Data deduplication, or single-instance storage, involves the elimination of redundant data," explains Computerworld's Lucas Mearian . "Hash...

Nielsen Online: 5 月份 Twitter 访问量猛增 15 倍

Nielsen Online 的 最新数据显示 ，5 月份 Twitter 的独立用户访问量同比增长了 15 倍达 1820 万，增幅超过了其它任何一家网站。 除此之外，Twitter 用户的停留时间也大幅提升，从去年 5 月的人均 6 分钟 19 秒提高到今年 5 月份的 17 分钟 21 秒。不过与 4 月相比，Twitter 5 月份的独立用户访问量增长并不显著，仅提升了 7%，而且用户平均停留时间还下降了 1 个百分点。 Nielsen Online 数据显示，Facebook 连续 7 个月稳坐全球第一大社会化网站宝座，独立用户访问量达 1.443 亿，令 MySpac...

Google Voice Prepares for Launch

© p_c_w This week, Network World's John Fontana broke the news that Google has reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3 in anticipation of the upcoming launch of Google Voice . "Sources could not say when the 1 million numbers may be assigned," Fontana notes. &quo...

SpringSource Buys Hyperic

Enterprise Java vendor SpringSource has purchased Hyperic . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "The move will expand SpringSource's Java offerings and allow the company to provide a more comprehensive open source stack," writes Ars Technica's Ryan Paul . "Spring...

Think Big! Could Sun/ORCL Trigger IBM/SAP Combo?

• Think Big! Could Sun/ORCL Trigger IBM/SAP Combo? • MySQL 5.4 gets bigger anyway, encroaching on new parent Oracle's turf • 英媒评全球最佳100家餐厅 • Mac 电脑出货量将出现五年来首次萎缩 • 视频下载：Final Fantasy Versus XIII Demo Trailer • Final Fantasy XIII Demo 流程说明与 Q&A • News Corp. Exploring MySpace CEO O...

What's Next For Sun?

© tehduh The talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems have broken down, and it's unclear what will come next for Sun. "Sun and IBM failed to agree on terms and a price, which IBM reportedly had dropped from $10 to $11 per share three weeks ago to as little as $9.40 in the past few...

Seagate Intros BlackArmor NAS 440 and NAS 420

Seagate this week introduced its new Seagate BlackArmor line of SMB storage solutions. "The new products... include the NAS 440 and NAS 420 storage servers, which can support up to 8TB each," writes SlipperyBrick's Shane McGlaun . "Both of the devices are four bay, ho...

Welcome, Tuz!

Linux has a new mascot... at least temporarily. "With a commit introduced on Tuesday evening into the main development tree, Linus Torvalds granted the Linux mascot a three-month sabbatical," The H Open Source reports . " Tuz , an image of a Tasmanian devil wearing a false y...

Verizon Business Launches Hosted OCS Offering

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 8082736 At VoIP Planet , I published an article this week looking at Verizon Business ' launch of a new managed service which offers a hosted version of Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS) R2 . As Michael Marcellin, Verizon's ...

MontaVista Software Launches Meld Developer Community

MontaVista Software this week launched Meld , a networking site for embedded Linux developers. "Meld provides a forum for developers of all skill levels to connect and share information, ideas and software around embedded Linux designs," writes eWeek's Darryl K. Taft . &quo...

The 25 Most Dangerous Places for Outsourcing

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 288691 An interesting article popped up in Network World today highlighting the 25 most dangerous places for outsourcing . In addition to simply listing 25 areas with high crime or high risk of terrorist attack, the list also broke down the list the risks...

Mafiosi Heart Skype

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 3727368 Web-savvy Italian mafiosi have apparently learned to cover their tracks using VoIP... "Police in Milan have issued a warning that criminals of all kinds have been turning to Internet VoIP calls, rather than mobiles, to make arrangements by...

Linux vs. Windows 7

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 1861766 There's been quite a bit of debate online this week about the arrival of Windows 7 , and what it means for the future of Linux. "Given the advantages of using Windows, particularly if you use open source software to do your office fun...

Introducing the LG-GD910 HSDPA Wrist Phone

LG Electronics this week announced plans to introduce its new LG-GD910 wrist phone at CES 2009 . "The wrist phone is expected to be available first in European and Korean markets, with no word on pricing or an official release date for the device," writes TECH.BLORGE's Emil...

Introducing Fedora 10

The Fedora Project this week announced the release of Fedora 10 . "If you've never given Fedora a try, now is a great time," writes Channel Register's Scott Gilbertson . "The tenth revision [is] slick and stable and it has a rock solid feel to it that, for our mone...

Canonical to Put Ubuntu on ARM Netbooks

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto Canonical has announced plans to build a version of Ubuntu for ARM 's v7 processors. "The ARM version of the Linux-based desktop operating system is expected to be released in April," writes InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves . "AR...

Sun Intros Unified Storage Appliances

Sun Microsystems this week announced a new range of Unified Storage Systems - the Sun Storage 7000 family, also known (rather poetically) as 'Amber Road.' "The Sun Storage 7000 product family includes three systems, the 7110 , 7210 and 7410 , which range in capacity from...

Quantenna Communications Intros High Speed 802.11n Chipsets

Quantenna Communications this week announced a series of integrated 802.11n Quantenna High Speed (QHS) chipsets with 4x4 MIMO and transmit (Tx) beamforming technology which promise twice the speeds of competing solutions. "Quantenna's QHS chipsets promise up to 600 Mbps data throu...

RIM: Storm Coming This Fall

RIM this week announced that the touchscreen BlackBerry Storm will be available later this fall through exclusive deals with Verizon Wireless in the U.S. and Vodafone in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand. "The BlackBerry maker has been under pressure to come up with somet...

And you thought you had pilfering problems

It's a fair bet that whatever issues you may have with employees taking home the odd stick of RAM or spare mouse, it hasn't added up to this saga at the naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC: a single system administrator, over a ten year period, walked off with almost twen...

Google's Enterprise ambitions

I think the recent release of Google's Chrome browser has opened a lot of eyes to Google's ambitions to break into the enterprise software market... an ambition that has been questioned on grounds of both wisdom and probability. A recent article from CIO Magazine introduces anothe...

Sprint Announces Location-Based Services for XOHM WiMax

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, tobias machhaus Sprint has announced that its XOHM WiMax offering, launching this fall, will include a suite of location-based services thanks to a spate of new partnerships. "Sprint has teamed up with uLocate to use the company's WHERE platfo...

Google Launches FreeTheAirwaves.com

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6185771 Google this week announced the launch of FreeTheAirwaves.com , an effort to rally the public behind the company's efforts to get FCC approval for use of the "white spaces" of spectrum between TV channels. "Google and sever...

Spammers Now Paying For Help Evading Filters

...rew Dernie Spammers targeting blogs have come up with a new technique. According to an article on NetworkWorld.com , they are now paying people to post for them. The apparent theory is that comment ...

Meru Networks' RF Barrier Blocks Parking Lot Attacks

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6614787 Meru Networks today introduced RF Barrier, an 802.11-based solution for protecting wireless networks from access by so-called "parking lot attackers" who try to get onto a corporate network from outside the perimeter of the building. ...

Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows

• Top Ten Worst Uses for Windows • 安吉丽娜-朱莉 顺利产下双胞胎 • 刘嘉玲婚前敞开心扉 • Vinivino: Wine Enthusiasts Community Vinivino is a wine lover community that provides easy and efficient ways to review the wines you taste, to share them among your friends and other members and to search within your reviews a...

Stephouse Networks Announces Muni Wi-Fi in Portland, Oregon

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, zack schnepf Wireless ISP Stephouse Networks today announced that it had blanketed seven squares miles of Portland, Oregon with wireless broadband coverage using Proxim Wireless equipment. The announcement follows the recent closure of MetroFi...

Spammer Faces 25 Years In Prison

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, jesse Karjalainen Notorious spammer Robert Alan Soloway is facing 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count each of mail fraud, email fraud, and tax evasion. He also faces nearly $300,000 in fines. He was originally indicted on over 40 criminal charg...

Vista failed on compatibility issues?

That seems to be the implication in Senior VP Bill Veghte's letter to Microsoft customers announcing the ship date for windows 7 (around about January 2010... all those 2009 rumors needed to be gunned down, apparently) excerpted here in Network World. Of course, he doesn't say &quo...

MySpace Wins Again

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderas MySpace has won yet another lawsuit against a spammer. This time it was an affiliate network called Media Breakaway and it's CEO, Scott Richter. His company was accused of sending over 100 million spam messages a day to MySpace memb...

Starbucks and T-Mobile Kiss and Make Up

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 6178186 It's so cute when big corporations fight in public, isn't it? Following the recent announcement that T-Mobile was suing Starbucks over the coffee company's new free Wi-Fi offering , Starbucks spokesperson Stacey Krum today announ...

AT&T to Subsidize (Generously) the $199 iPhone 3G

The wonderfully low prices for the sexy new iPhone 3G ($199 for the 8GB model, and $299 for the 16GB) come thanks to generous subsidies by carrier AT&T - which will hurt the wireless operator's bottom line significantly, at least for the near term. "AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph...

Oklahoma City Launches Citywide Wi-Fi Network

...e from Unstrung ... more here from Computerworld ... more here from the AP ... more here from NetworkWorld ... more here from AHN ... and the press release is here . ...

Motorola Intros 802.11n Products for Indoor Wireless Mesh

...t access, one to radio-frequency security scanning, and one to wireless mesh backhaul," notes NetworkWorld's John Cox . More here from ChannelWeb ... more here from Computerworld ... a...

Introducing Bluetooth Over Wi-Fi

Ultrawideband has apparently been taking too long: the bluetooth Special Interest Group ( Bluetooth SIG ) this week announced plans to support Bluetooth over Wi-Fi within a year or so. The SIG is still working on Bluetooth over UWB , but says it wanted to support a more popular technology ...

AT&T's HSUPA Announcement: 3G iPhone Coming Soon?

AT&T this week announced plans to deploy 3G wireless broadband service in more than 80 additional U.S. cities by the end of the year, bringing AT&T 3G services to a total of just under 350 U.S. markets by the end of the 2008. According to the company, the deployment will add 1,500...

Linux Apache Servers Under Attack

A large scale attack is occurring against Linux Apache web servers. According to Don Jackson, a senior researcher at SecureWorks, the attack has been successful because it uses an automated password and installation process. He says the attack has hit at least 10,000 servers. "The Web serve...

Wired's Bruce Schneier: 'Go Ahead, Steal My Wi-Fi!'

Much buzz online today about comments by Wired's Bruce Schneier suggesting that it's perfectly acceptable - in fact, it's just "basic politeness" - to run an open wireless network. Chances are, Schneier says, nobody will use your open network to commit a crime - and mo...

New Apple Xserves on the way

apple announced today the next version of their Xserve server platform, a 1U, $3000 unit which nearly doubles the speed of the previous version. The Leopard version of OS X Server provided a much needed bump in the enterprise capabilities of the operating system and this speed boost shoul...

Blog Roll - Friday, December 14, 2007

Trolling the blogs this week, I found what I think are some fun, interesting blogs worthy of your time. Here are a few favorites: Craig Mathias' blog : Part of the ever-growing blog-dom over at Network World, Craig brings a sensible outlook to your data world. Don't miss his ROI post. ...

Successful Spammers To Get More Time in the Slammer

A federal judge's recent decision may mean more jail time for spammers who profit greatly from their crimes. The case tackled the matter of determining the actual financial harm done to an ISP by a spammer. The CAN-SPAM act allows a spammer's profits to be considered in sentencing when th...

RFID to unite families in case of natural disasters

natural disasters can bring a lot of trouble along because in the mayhem caused you might lose touch with your loved ones and you may have to spend a lot of anxious moments searching for their whereabouts but all this is expected to change with RFID. The state of Texas has come up with the T...

Virtualization: Great or Ghastly?

...irtualization, and he thinks vendor hype is creating a potentially scary situation. An article on NetworkWorld's web site details McIsaac's concerns. ...

Attacks on the Inside

Oy and vey. You know that LAN switch security you're so content with? What if someone told you it could be compromised with little or no effort? That's what experts are saying about your behind-the-firewall secure feeling. Over at Network World , in an exclusive interview with Christoph...

"Your World" no longer home-delivered

At least not if you are an AT&T employee, according to a recent Network World article. The communications giant, recently merged with other communications giant SBC, is apparently reversing formerly liberal policies regarding working remotely from home, and is bringing drones back into the...

AT&T Launches Mobile Banking Application

AT&T today announced the launch of its mobile banking platform, designed to allow customers to view their account balance and history, transfer funds and pay bills from their mobile phones. The offering is currently limited to customers of Wachovia, suntrust , Bancorp South, FirstBank...

Boston Wifi Won't Be Built in 2008

To no one's surprise another municipal wifi project is on the back burner . Really we must ask, having seen yet another and another project on the back burner, do cities value Internet access just as much as water or electricity ? It would seem not. Well Boston wifi was such a good id...

Simple corporate sabotage

I don't want to get on too much of a kick writing about security related topics here, lest people think I am paranoid, but prompted by a recent story on Slashdot I found myself thinking about how much easier technology may be making it to sabotage corporate information systems. The discussi...

Wi-LAN Sues the World

Wi-LAN Inc. today announced that it has initiated lawsuits against 22 major companies regarding Wi-LAN patents related to Wi-Fi and DSL. The companies are: Acer Inc., Apple Inc., Atheros Communications Inc., Belkin International Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Broadcom Corporation, Buffalo ...

Decline of IT Growth Due to Outsourcing

Outsourcing was identified as the culprit which hinders the IT growth in countries which opt for outsourcing. The research study done by Gartner revealed that half of the more than 150 CIOs surveyed indicated their companies were going to outsource IT. These outsourcing plans could hinder the...

Leopard shows its spots

I'd have to search through the archives to be sure, but I doubt that Apple has ever been discussed much in this blog... there's always a faint whiff of amateurism in "professional" corporate IT circles when Macs are brought up. Oh, the marketing department may have a few of the...

Agito Networks Announces RoamAnywhere Mobility Router for FMC

Agito Networks this week announced the upcoming launch of its RoamAnywhere Mobility Router , which uses RF-based, location-aware tech to ensure that in-building calls are switched efficiently from cellular networks to Wi-Fi. The company says the solution can decrease corporate cell pho...

Cisco Wants WiMax

...uot; More here from Telephony Online ... more here from Computerworld ... and more here from NetworkWorld . ...

IT Pay unsatisfactory to most

Network World has published their 2007 IT salary survey and revealed that most of us aren't really happy with what we are making on the job these days. I am a bit curious as to whether or not this is really news at all-after all, it seems that people generally think they should be making ...

Open Source ist unmgänglich

"Open Source ist unumgänglich", so die Quintessenz eines Vortrags von Mark driver , Vize-Präsident von Gartner Research anlässlich des Gartner Open Source Summits . "Man kann versuchen Open Source zu vermeiden, aber es ist vermutlich leichter, komplett aus dem IT-Geschäft a...

Does 802.11n Spell the End for Ethernet?

With the production of routers capable of using the new faster 802.11n protocol mean that in office settings we will no longer need to connect to the local network tethered to a wire ethernet system? According to Network World under the article title of " Does 802.11n spell the 'en...

RFID for Customs?

At what price security? That's the question raised by the federal government's plan to use long-range RFID technology in border patrol . Talk of implanting the chips in driver's licenses to make it easier for border patrols to scan quickly the personal ID of the card holder. Ho...

Waiting to be Served

...soft claims the software needs more testing. According to an article written by John Fontana for NetworkWorld , the delays may be a sign that Microsoft is becoming more cautious given the past prob...

Linux flying the friendly skies

Singapore Airlines is the first fleet to provide full Linux computers to every passenger in its flights. Unlike other airlines that provide Linux-based in-flight entertainment only, Singapore Airlines adds full desktop computing experience using red hat linux , e.g., office productivity ...

Ocean City, New Jersey: RFID on the Beach

...would instantly be sent to her cellphone." More here from Engadget ... and more here from NetworkWorld . ...

杜克大学思科无线网络瘫痪：iPhone并非罪魁祸首

...瘫痪 的消息。来自 networkworld 最新的报道称，杜克大学校园网已恢复正常，Cisco思科公司在其一份声明中表示，杜克大学的情况只是一次轻微的，短暂的网络中断，只有在"特殊条件"下才会出现这样的问题。但至于这个特殊的条件是什么，我们并没有看到思科公司的任何回应，因此故障的真正原因目前也不明朗，包括思科设备或iPhone也依旧在被怀疑"凶手"之列。 ...

Online Technology Degrees are Hot, Hot, Hot

According to industry professionals, the workforce is entering a technology skills shortage. More employers are looking for new hires that have technological know-how. Demand is causing job numbers and salaries to increase. Technology is one subject that works especially well with online learnin...

Duke University Decimated by iPhones

... NetworkWorld's John Cox reports that the popularity of the Apple iPhone appears to be overwhelming the public Wi-Fi network at Duke University . "The built-in 802.11b/g adapters on ...

Cell Phone Security

Cell phones can't be hacked into, say the experts. But try telling that to a Tacoma, Washington family, whose lives have been filled with torment thanks to cyber stalkers who have taken over the family's cell phone account. Harassing messages, endless phone calls and descriptions of what...

Verizon Announces Mobile Payments via Partnership with Obopay

Network World's Jim Duffy reports that Verizon Wireless has announced an agreement with mobile payment service Obopay to allow Verizon customers to "receive, send and spend money via their mobile phones." "We used to say you needed three things when you leave your house...

Inmates to be tamed in Minnesota prison using RFID

crime rate is on the rise around the globe and so is number of inmates in the prison. One needs to take care of the fact that prisons are not increasing at the same rate as the increase in the number of criminals which results in more prisoners that a particular prison can handle. As a re...

Microsoft und 'Die glorreichen Sieben'

Der Posse zweiter Teil . Das Patentabkommen sei kein Schuldeingeständnis ließ Andreas Typaldos in der networld verlauten. Nichts was mich wirklich verwundert. Oder etwa doch? Die ganze Ich-kooperiere-mit-Dir-Geschichte hat für mich einen richtig faden Beigeschmack. Vor dem vorgeblichen Hint...

How NOT to Cheat on an Exam

... hall 12,000 yuan ($1,500) for the service. More here from RealTechNews ... and more here from NetworkWorld . ...

Build Your Own Wi-Fi Robot

The Register's Lewis Page reports today (with tongue firmly in cheek) on a looming threat to world peace. "Academics funded by a sinister triumvirate of global corporations intend to see Wi-Fi-controlled robots in every home, school, and office across the free world," Page wri...

Beware the Evil Twin!

...hile browsing the Internet via the cafe's Wi-Fi, beware of the 'evil twin,'" warns NetworkWorld's Jeremy Kirk. "That's the term for a Wi-Fi access point that appears to b...