Thursday, June 21, 2007

Microsoft, IBM feel heat from Google Apps; Lawmakers question DHS ability to protect its networks

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Microsoft, IBM feel heat from Google Apps
Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted to feeling heat from Google now that the Web search giant is trying to make inroads into the enterprise market with its hosted suite of communication and collaboration tools.

Lawmakers question DHS ability to protect its networks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's CIO was on the hot seat Wednesday on Capitol Hill after an independent audit found that a database that screens U.S. visitors lacked security controls.

Google played antitrust card to ensure fairness in search fight with Microsoft
Between the lines of Microsoft’s decision to tweak Vista and Google’s complaint to the DOJ lies the seeds for a battle to supply corporate users with search technology.

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Verizon nears convergence goal
Verizon Business will announce vendors it has selected for its converged core router architecture and its next-generation multiservice access edge in the third quarter, according to officials interviewed at the NXTcomm conference.

A push to standards for network forensics
Digital forensics is still a young science. That newness, coupled with the fast-changing world of computer technology, has resulted in a taxonomy and methodology for digital forensics that are poorly defined and confusing to computer security experts and law enforcement.

Spam outbreak hits 5 billion messages
IronPort says a spam outbreak today pumping a German stock is one of this year’s largest blasts.

McAfee: Attacks coming for infrastructure, digital home
Online criminals looking for new areas to attack in the next few years will find green fields in the Internet infrastructure and the digital home, researchers with McAfee's AVERT labs said Tuesday.

United planes downed by computer glitch
United Air Lines was forced to scrap 24 domestic flights Wednesday when the computers it uses to dispatch flights failed.

Dell replaces displays on nine notebook models
Dell is offering free replacements of the displays on nine popular notebook PC models, responding to customers who created a Web site to complain that some LCD screens developed a one pixel-wide vertical line.

National security concerns prompt French BlackBerry ban
French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones, for national security reasons.

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Podcast

Controlling video downloads in the workplace
With video sites proliferating on the 'Net and big names like the Department of Defense banning access to such sites as YouTube, companies are starting to wonder what, if anything, they should do to protect their bandwidth assets from users clamoring to watch that funny clip online during lunch. Lawrence Imeish, Principal Consultant for Dimension Data's Converged Communications Group, talks with Network World's Jason Meserve about what companies can do to curb the bandwidth drain while still allowing access to work-appropriate media. (12:20)

Blogs

Buzzblog: On Verizon vs. the iPhone and skyscrapers vs. airplanes
Is Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg whistling past the iPhone? Sure seems that way. ... And new 3-D computer models from Purdue University suggest that buildings might be constructed to withstand a 9/11-type attack: wise or wasteful?

Today on Cisco Subnet
We have a sneak peek of a chapter from IP Telephony Using CallManager Express Lab Portfolio. Watford F.C. soccer club says its new 1Gbps converged Cisco network is the fastest of all European teams. Jeff Doyle on IP Routing asks if your BGP is up to snuff. Cisco takes networking on the road in India.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. Linux version of Microsoft browser plug-in
2. California gets Microsoft to change Vista
3. Lawyers show how to side-step immigration law
4. 'Italian job' Web attack hits 10K sites
5. Linux Foundation: Microsoft won't sue
6. The case of the 500-mile e-mail
7. Microsoft flaw opened door to scammers
8. Cisco's Chambers: Telecom entering 'Phase II'
9. Vista over the WAN: good but not great
10. Gartner to IT: Avoid Apple's iPhone

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