All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by ShoreTel eBook: IP Telephony from A to Z Get the book on VoIP, from vendor evaluation and selection to ensuring reliability and security. Whether you're considering a rollout or you've already deployed, you'll quickly get up to speed on the most important IP telephony issues and factors. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 06/19/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: OoVoo, cameras and the end of cool In my Network World Web Applications newsletter last week, you will find a review of a free video-calling and -conferencing system called ooVoo. The word “cool” is incredibly overused on this page (both Keith and I are guilty of the careless, callous abuse of it, and I am unrepentant), but ooVoo definitely qualifies for this adjective. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Sign up for Network Worlds e-dition Youll receive all the news, testing and expert analysis included in the magazine, but with the added benefits of simple navigation via a live Table of Contents; keyword searches to quickly get find the information you need; direct links to additional online information and resources; and much more.. Click here to subscribe. Backspin: What my parents don't know Hey Dude! What up? I'm jus' chilln', ya know? You got my message and you want in? No problemo ... To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days What Good Are Product Managers? I use a Motorola RAZR v3 and rather than forking out the exorbitant price for their Phone Tools Software (originally $90 as I remember) I got a deal on eBay for real, licensed software for $8. Very cool. Wipro: ICT in European Schools You can read the whole study HERE. Satisfaction with Microsoft® products is higher among students and schools, when compared with similar open source software (OSS) solutions, according to a new report by Wipro Technologies. Microsoft, who commissioned the study, released the results today.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. The case of the 500-mile e-mail 2. The case for client-side security 3. Microsoft: Mystery trio thwarts disk pirates 4. 10 reasons why it’s good and bad to be HP 5. Juniper feels growing pains 6. FBI finds over 1M botnet victims 7. Why sites rarely agree on top results 8. Top 15 USB geek gadgets 9. The dos and don’ts of data breaches 10. Wireless networks: The burning questions MOST E-MAILED STORY: Bill Gates' Harvard commencement speech

Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here. Archives of the Network World Web Applications newsletter can be found here. This newsletter is sponsored by ShoreTel eBook: IP Telephony from A to Z Get the book on VoIP, from vendor evaluation and selection to ensuring reliability and security. Whether you're considering a rollout or you've already deployed, you'll quickly get up to speed on the most important IP telephony issues and factors. BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007