Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Before iPhone: The most-hyped tech products ever; Researchers map the Internet

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Before iPhone: The most-hyped tech products of all time
The iPhone isn’t the first tech product to generate a deafening amount of buzz before its availability in stores. Here’s our list of the most-hyped tech products of all time.

More iPhone news:
AT&T details iPhone service plans, iTunes activation
Will wait for beer: iPhone spawns gray market
New Yorkers camp out for iPhone despite summer heat
IPhone may struggle out of the gate
Apple rivals dread iPhone

Israeli researchers map the Internet
Israeli researchers have created a topographical map of the Internet by enlisting volunteers across 97 countries who agreed to download a program that tracks how Internet nodes interact.

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Cisco introduces entry-level networking certification
Networking pros question its worth.

T-Mobile to launch nationwide converged Wi-Fi, cell service
T-Mobile USA Inc. planned to launch its converged Wi-Fi and cellular service nationwide Wednesday, following the introduction of the service late last year in Seattle.

Microsoft launches Windows Live file sharing beta
Microsoft Corp. Wednesday started limited beta offerings of Windows Live file and photo sharing services.

BlackBerry banned (sort of) in France
French spy chiefs, claiming that RIM’s BlackBerry device is a security threat because U.S. and Britain can snoop on French wireless e-mails, urge officials to scrap their handhelds.

Microsoft security group makes 'worst jobs' list
What do whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center have in common? They all made Popular Science magazine's 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science.

Vendors show how to read RFID tags onboard trucks
The latest wireless security problem for RFID is laid bare in a demonstration where researchers scanned RFID-tagged boxes loaded on a truck.

Microsoft releases Windows Server 2008 beta
Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 gets IIS update as it moves toward year-end release.

Blogs

Buzzblog: $18 an hour to wait in an iPhone line?
Sounds like easy money... but you have to factor in the public humiliation.

Today's Cisco Subnet
Is Cisco looking to launch an architect-level cert? Cisco closes the enterprise communications gap with Avaya. More than 50 school districts across the country have adopted the SchoolMessenger-Cisco integrated parental notification service. Jeff Doyle says a business case for IPv6 is mobility.

Today on Microsoft Subnet
Windows 2008 beta with IIS 7.0 beta is now available. Microsoft re-releases an “important” rated patch for Windows 2000, 2003 and XP servers. Google loses a round regarding Microsoft search complaint. Microsoft Vista six-month security analysis. All of the Web’s top Microsoft news on Microsoft Subnet.

Today on Layer 8 we look right through the latest nanotechnology - get it?
Transparent transistors and circuits that could be used in a wide range of applications from e-paper and flexible color screens for electronics gear to smart cards and "heads-up" displays in auto windshields is on tap from researchers at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. Parallel system 100X faster than PCs
2. Can cell phones be hacked?
3. How MySpace is hurting your network
4. R U there? Feds want presence systems
5. Lawyers show how to side-step immigration law
6. The case of the 500-mile e-mail
7. Is Microsoft OCS your next IP PBX?
8. Gartner to IT: Avoid Apple's iPhone
9. 10 automation companies to watch
10. Cisco devices gain reputation services

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