Friday, June 15, 2007

Microsoft claims mystery trio thwarts disk pirates; South Carolina courts run on Juniper enterprise

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Microsoft claims mystery trio thwarts disk pirates
Microsoft has clarified the identity of the mysterious trio on the installation disks for the business version of Windows Vista.
Also see: Who are the 3 faces of Vista?

South Carolina courts run on Juniper enterprise gear
The state of South Carolina’s court system became a big purchaser of Juniper enterprise products via a predictable route: it was a satisfied customer of NetScreen firewalls, then Juniper bought NetScreen.

Palm hit with layoffs
Struggling handheld device maker Palm has been hit with layoffs.

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Goggle Apps to get presentation application by year-end
Google will add a presentation application to its Google Apps lineup by year-end, and possibly could add other applications to that suite.

Sprint Nextel considers how it will fund WiMAX rollout
Sprint Nextel may be exploring new funding options for its multibillion WiMAX network and service buildout, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal Thursday.

Larry Ellison-backed data vendor tackles problem of wasted storage
Pillar Data Systems, the storage vendor funded by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, is getting ready to bolster its line of features with technology that helps businesses avoid wasting storage space known as thin provisioning.

After hacker dissection, Safari beta is patched
Three days after releasing Safari 3.0, Apple has issued its first patch of the beta software.

SonicWall, Aventail combo could bolster customer NAC options
The marriage of SonicWall and Aventail could result in a new network access control vendor after the companies have the chance to assess and integrate their respective technologies.

U.S. may require European visitors to register online
Europeans who visit the U.S. will be required to fill out an online questionnaire two days before they enter the country under a proposal being studied by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Azul turbocharges its 'computing appliance'
Azul Systems is doubling the capacity of its "computing appliance," a device that uses multiple multicore processors and is a departure from the typical server-based approach to large-scale computing.

Podcast

We're not camping for our iPhone
Jason and Keith talk about the FBI's crackdown on botnets, whether Google can complain about Microsoft being a monopoly, and why they won't be camping out in front of an Apple Store on June 29. Plus: They honor Bob Barker's final show on The Price is Right with a special audio contest.

Blogs

Buzzblog: Two mysteries solved and another arises
We've got an answer on why there's a microscopic picture of 3 guys on some Windows Vista DVD covers. ... And we know why Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz was blogging about Linus Torvalds at 12:14 a.m. ... But we're still stumped as to why Amazon can't prevent jockstrap ads from appearing on a Disney-related Web site that really, really doesn't want jockstrap ads.

Today on layer 8 where all grievances against us have been purged, far as you know:
Not sure this is good news: The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) this week reported that it had logged its 1 millionth consumer complaint about alleged online fraud or cybercrime. The actual millionth complaint hit the IC3 system on June 11, the center said in a statement. Since it opened shop in 2000, IC3 has referred 461,096 criminal complaints to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies around the country for further consideration. The vast majority of cases were concerning fraud and involved financial loss on the part of the complaintant. The total dollar loss from all referred cases of fraud was estimated to be $647.1 million with a median dollar loss of $270 per complaint.

Today at Cisco Subnet
Cisco reckons it's a media company now, delivering content not just through press releases, but also through blogs, podcasts, Webcasts, and social networking sites, among other new media mechanisms. But why would customers go to a vendor site for content that is skewered to the vendor's point of view? Also: Brad Reese on Cisco blog says Airbus is the recipient of Cisco's 12 millionith unified IP phone shipped to date; and new blogger Line Echo says iSCSI wins over Fibre Channel - but only just.

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