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Network World Daily News: AM, 07/20/07 Google's chief legal officer slapped with SEC fines Google's chief legal officer was fined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday over accounting issues arising from when he was CFO at a former company. IBM's India lab develops disaster management tool IBM's India Research Laboratory has developed the Resiliency Maturity Index (RMI), a framework that quantitatively assesses the ability of an organization to recover from a variety of disasters such as floods, power outages, software glitches, epidemics, and terrorist attacks. IEEE 802.20 changes rules to prevent steamrolling The working group for the emerging IEEE 802.20 mobile broadband standard, which was suspended last year after a fight over members' real company affiliations, has changed its voting rules. New Executive Guide Network World has recently published an executive guide entitled "Virtualization Meets Reality". Find out the 8 key challenges of virtualizing your data center. Download it now! | | Verizon-Broadcom deal allows continued imports Broadcom and Verizon Wireless have reached a deal that will allow Verizon to continue importing and selling mobile handsets that are at the center of an ongoing legal battle between Broadcom and Qualcomm. Dell to acquire managed services provider Dell could enhance its services division with the SilverBack acquisition by incorporating the managed services provider's technology for remote monitoring of servers, storage, security networks, desktops and laptops. SOA’s 6 burning questions SOA – service-oriented architecture – is one of the most talked about and least understood topics in IT today. From ROI to security, from network performance to Microsoft, this article examines six burning questions IT organizations face. Ask.com to let users scrub search records Search portal Ask.com plans to make it easier for Web searchers to cover their tracks. Microsoft reports $51B fiscal 2007 revenue, takes financial hit from Xbox Microsoft Thursday reported that its rode the back of its two flagship products in booking increases in both its fourth-quarter revenue and its fiscal year 2007 revenue, which topped $51 billion. Podcast Hype Wars: iPhone vs. Harry Potter Jason and Keith discuss the return of ransomware, whether Harry gets hyped more than the iPhone, and the demise of a VoIP provider not called Vonage. Live Chat Live chat with Cool Tools columnist, Keith Shaw You love his blog, his Twisted Pair podcast show, and his Cool Tools videos. Talk with Keith live about today’s best techno-toys. 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 17. Blogs On Layer 8 today we wonder: Are smart phone users developing the manners of weasels? Are smart phones and other intelligent devices eliminating whatever is left of our sense of what is right and wrong? It’s probably not that drastic, but a new study of senior management behavior indicates they sure are teaching us or reinforcing some already exiting bad habits. For example, nearly half of senior company officials refuse to take videoconferencing calls because they are inappropriately dressed. The survey of 2,200 managers across the U.S., U.K. and Australia by Avaya showed that chief executives working remotely or on the road are likely functioning in a bathrobe, and smart phone users on the whole had the most bad conference call habits – 17% of senior vice presidents will sleep during conference calls compared with 5% of more junior staff. Today at Cisco Subnet Welcome new Cisco Subnet blogger Michael Morris, a technical team lead and network architect at a $3B high-tech firm. Today, Michael delves into network design templates. Blogger Brad Reese details the difference between Cisco WebVPN and Cisco SSL VPN Client 1.0. In convergence news, Cisco tackles unified communications in small businesses with Cbeyond. From the Microsoft Subnet blog Angry players file second class action suit over Xbox; Microsoft promises to play nice with its partners; Petition to block OpenXML claims 20K supporters. Should Salesforce.com be worried? Yes, says Microsoft Subnet blogger John Obeto, now that Redmond has set it sights on low-cost, hosted CRM. |
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