Thursday, June 14, 2007

IBM, Cisco ready co-developed management software; Top 5 indoor summer vacation ideas

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IBM, Cisco ready co-developed management software
IBM and Cisco plan to release a jointly developed product in July as part of an expansion of their existing alliance around telecommunications network management and service assurance, the companies said Thursday.

New type of image spam hides in e-mail wallpaper
A new type of image spam found this week is able to bypass many filters by presenting a message as wallpaper within an e-mail, according to the vendor Secure Computing.

Linspire signs Linux patent deal with Microsoft
Linspire has signed an intellectual-property agreement with Microsoft that shields the Linux company's customers from patent claims.

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EBay pulls ads from Google's U.S. ad network
EBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google's AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.

Fortinet boosts security platforms
New Fortinet gear speeds its multifunction security platforms with the help of a custom network processor.

Nortel joins with IBM System i series servers for VoIP
Nortel Tuesday announced plans to help small and midsize businesses move to VoIP and unified communications by combining Nortel applications with IBM System i servers.

Symantec enhances backup software
Symantec has added disk-backup capability to its NetBackup software.

Consumers just say no to drugs online
A majority of prescription drug takers don't purchase their medications online, opting instead for the instant gratification of the local pharmacy, according to a Forrester Research survey.

Hawthorn Medical turns to biometrics for network security
The doctors at Hawthorn Medical Associates wanted something simpler than multiple passwords to get to their online patient records.

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Top 5 indoor summer vacation ideas
Stuck inside on vacation? Or do you choose to be? Keith counts down five cool and fun things to do during your indoor summer vacation.

Blogs

Today on Layer 8 where we have always preferred to work in the office, unless something cool was going on at home:
Anecdotally you know telecommuting is growing but many days when you get out on the road, it looks like that notion is bunk. And some of it just might be if you give a new study from the U.S. Census Bureau much weight: despite rising fuel costs, 77% of commuters continue to drive their cars – alone—most of the time. The kicker is that the survey looks at 2005 figures – the latest it has - from U.S. Census Bureau American Community Service analysis. As for telecommuting, the bureau says approximately 4% of us worked from home in 2005. Large cities with high rates of home-based workers included Austin, Texas (5%); Colorado Springs, Colo. (5%); Portland, Ore. (5.3%); San Francisco (6.3% ); and Seattle, a little over 5%.

Today at Cisco Subnet
We ask whether Cisco is wise to keep its NAC protocols proprietary - unlike Microsoft; while Author Expert blogger Denise Donohue and her convergence colleagues ponder on what could be the killer app for VoIP. Also, get a sneak peek of a free chapter from the book "Authorized Self-Study Guide: Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI), Third Edition", published by Cisco Press; and enter to win a free download of "CCNP Quick Reference Sheets Bundle."

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. Who are the 3 faces of Vista?
2. FBI: Operation Bot Roast finds over 1M botnet victims
3. Juniper feels growing pains
4. Wireless networks: The burning questions
5. Xen: Moving beyond VMware
6. How DOE lab secured campus with wireless
7. Top 15 USB geek gadgets
8. Marriott's converged network 'horror story'
9. Bill Gates' Harvard commencement speech
10. Vista not playing well with IPv6

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