Technology for the People by the Money; FCC ignores more than 100 years of wisdom

Voices of Networking This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Solving the Distributed Data Protection Problem Hackers, disgruntled and careless employees, equipment failure, broken pipes, fires, and natural disasters all pose threats to your data. Savvy IT and business managers have recognized that in order to deal with these challenges, they need to deploy a company-wide data protection infrastructure. Click here to read this whitepaper today! Voices of Networking, 07/16/07 By Jeff Caruso Backspin: Technology for the People by the Money, 07/10/07: When it comes to government technology policy making what does it mean to be “American”? You might, like an innocent child, assume it means the government supporting open competition and letting the marketplace identify and select the best solutions ... Bradner: FCC ignores more than 100 years of wisdom, 07/09/07: The FCC has just decided that obscurity is better than security when it comes to software radios, ignoring more than 100 years of better know-how in the process. Specifically it said "manufacturers should not intentionally make the distinctive ... Johnson: Here's why you need a mobility strategy, 07/11/07: In this case it’s the fact that fewer than 40% of the companies I work with have such a mobility strategy. That’s a problem, because (as I noted last week), mobility is an expensive budget line item - and it’s about to get even more so. Network World Buyers Guides Find the right products for your enterprise - fast. With seven categories - security, storage, convergence and VoIP, network infrastructure, network applications, wireless and LAN/WAN management - you can quickly pinpoint the hardware or software you need. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features and make the best purchase decisions for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Buyers Guides now. Cool Tools: Speaker system lets you stream wirelessly from iPod, 07/10/07: The Soundmaster Wireless Speaker System lets you stream music from an iPod wirelessly. 'Net Buzz: Emoticon turning 25: Thank this guy :-) … or not :-(, 07/10/07: When the emoticon — known by some as the “smiley face” — turns 25 years old on Sept. 19, the man recognized as having typed the first one intends to mark the occasion with a cookie. Nutter's Help Desk: Setting up a wireless network without an Internet connection, 07/09/07: He has Microsoft 2003 Server and all of the networking has been set up. He has about 6 PCs connected to the server and several NetGear routers with a Linksys port switch. He wants to go wireless. How or where would the wireless router plug into since ... Insider Threat: Incorporating data-breach issues in employee training, 07/09/07: I manage an employee training program and wondered how often we should have refresher courses on company policy about data protection and confidential company information. What are your recommendations? Backspin: Forget Big Brother -- Watch out for Big Entertainment, 07/09/07: For a start the RIAA’s campaign to prosecute people they believe to be infringing on member’s copyrights will escalate because it can demand that the ISPs inform them of infringements they discover. The cash flow from the extortion will ensure enough ... Dr. Internet: Easing the FTP process, 07/11/07: We provide an FTP site for clients to upload files to for us to work on. New customers often have trouble with FTP transfers. We would like to add the ability for new customers to upload files using HTTP through their Web browsers and have these files ... Gearhead: CD fingerprints, 07/11/07: Following my discussion a few weeks ago about a suite of CD/DVD tools called Virtual CD reader, Tim Cary, who hails “from out in the beautiful western part of [Massachusetts] ... Easthampton,” wrote: “I was particularly intrigued by the fact that ...

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Contact the author: Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World. He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing, and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. Contact him at jcaruso@nww.com This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Solving the Distributed Data Protection Problem Hackers, disgruntled and careless employees, equipment failure, broken pipes, fires, and natural disasters all pose threats to your data. Savvy IT and business managers have recognized that in order to deal with these challenges, they need to deploy a company-wide data protection infrastructure. Click here to read this whitepaper today! BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007