Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Juniper scales down service router; U.S. seeks 7 years for Qwest CEO

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Juniper scales down service router
Juniper lowers entry point into service provider service routing.

U.S. seeks 7 years in prison for Qwest's CEO
Prosecutors are recommending that former Qwest Communications International Chief Joseph Nacchio serve more than seven years in prison for insider trading during the telecommunications boom.

MSN streams Live Earth to 8 million people
Microsoft says it set a record for streaming an online event to the most customers after offering the Live Earth concerts on MSN over the weekend.

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EMC's VMware announces IPO
VMware, a subsidiary of EMC, is going public, and it hopes to raise as much as $740 million, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Google Earth captures China's new ballistic-missile sub
Google is offering a rare public glimpse of China's new ballistic-missile submarine, according to a researcher at the Federation of American Scientists.

Beijing aims to get its 3G act together for 2008 Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics is going to be China's coming-out party, a chance for the country to show its modern face to the world.

Microsoft customers sour on Software Assurance
IT procurement managers are finding that Microsoft's Software Assurance maintenance program may not save them money as hoped, according to a survey by Forrester Research.

Verizon to merge Cybertrust into managed security services group
With its acquisition of security vendor Cybertrust officially completed today, Verizon began discussing how it intends to merge Cybertrust with Verizon’s Business Managed Security Services group.

Google goes for the enterprise with Postini bid
Google plans to acquire messaging security vendor Postini in a bid to add security to its on-demand applications to entice enterprises, and at the same time adds another behemoth to the once scrappy antispam and e-mail security market.

Blogs

Buzzblog: The emoticon is turning 25
Known better to some as "smileys," the emoticon will turn 25 years old on Sept. 19, the exact date on which a quarter-century prior the first :-) and :-( were typed by Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Scott Fahlman. In an interview, Fahlman discusses his quirky claim to fame, his personal emoticonish likes and dislikes, Penn Jillette's venom, and his meeting with author Neal Stephenson, once an emoticon critic but now a convert.

Today at Cisco Subnet
U.K. Cisco resellers are having a tough time competing with Avaya's and Mitel's "aggressive" price cuts. Blogger Doug Alger wants to know how much you think data center downtime is caused by human error. Blogger Mark Kadrich explains how identity theft has led to some personal bankruptcies and why it's up to network security folks to help stop the problem.

Today on Layer 8, where our inner cartoonist thinks only in black and white:
Looking to unleash your inner cartoonist? DC Comics - home of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, among others - announced Zudacomics.com, a Web site that starting in October will let 10 unknown comics each month submit their work and invite the cyberworld to vote for their favorite.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. 6 ways to fight back against botnets
2. Six burning VoIP questions
3. Novell: Don't worry about Microsoft’s GPLv3 stand
4. Google to buy Postini for $625M
5. The 7 Wonders of the Internet
6. The mainframe lives!
7. Cisco co-founder launches optical network start-up
8. DoD offers $1M for wearable power supply
9. The $2.3M home lab of Quadruple CCIE
10. Attack of the killer bots

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