When a cell phone goes in the washer; Another reason not to use WEP

Voices of Networking This newsletter is sponsored by Akamai Perk up apps with Web acceleration Find out how Nike made the decision to go with a managed Web application service provider to improve performance on one of its key retail applications. After deciding a distributed datacenter was too costly, Nike went with Akamai. Its once sluggish app is now chugging along. Voices of Networking, 07/23/07 By Jeff Caruso 'Net Buzz: When a cell phone goes through the washer, 07/19/07: Cell phones go through washing machines more often than your might think. Here's a tale of two such phones and how they fared. Wireless Security: You know you shouldn't still be using WEP - Here's another reason, 07/16/07: I heard about a new WEP cracking technique. Can you explain it? Bradner: What is the right price for technology? 07/18/07: I will admit to being totally baffled by many of the pricing decisions corporations make these days. Clearly, some of the prices are enabled by constrained markets, but in many cases it is hard to determine just what thought process was followed to ... Optimize Your WAN: Network World Shows You How In this Executive Guide learn how optimization can supercharge your WAN. Click Here Cool Tools: BlackBerry throws a slick Curve, 07/18/07: The Curve is the "smallest and lightest" full QWERTY-keyboard BlackBerry smart phone available. Dzubeck: Desperately awaiting the wireless revolution! 07/17/07: The buzz for the past month in the wireless mobile marketplace was focused on the iPhone from Apple. It was only after its first day of product release that the first glaring weakness became evident – the AT&T EDGE network. Even though AT&T beefed up ... Johnson: Security services: the high cost of skills and staffing, 07/17/07: More enterprises considering managed IT security services from carriers because skilled security workers are in short supply and command high salaries. Tolly: App Accel and Microsoft’s stack attack, 07/17/07: “Niche killer” has been an oft-encountered modus operandi of Microsoft over the years. Whether it is disk defragmentation, disk compression, firewall or antispyware, Microsoft has eventually decided to play the game and, in the process, change the ... Network Guardians: How to limit what contractors can do on the network, 07/16/07: We have contractors perform a number of critical services, such as managing our IBM blade servers. These staff have to be on the LAN, and they're long-time contractors, so trust levels run pretty high, but I know they shouldn't be able to go ... Antonopoulos: Virtual servers: More or less secure? 07/16/07: Virtualization is quickly being adopted in many different industries. As virtual machines move from testing and development roles into production, security becomes ever more important. Virtual servers are no less secure than regular servers, and may ... Nutter's Help Desk: Blocking spam on a Unix system, 07/16/07: We have a Solaris Sparc machine configured with sendmail. Currently a lot of spam is coming to our server. Can you please suggest me how to control spam. Gearhead: Identifying any CD, 07/18/07: Last week in Gearhead I discussed how CD identification services such as Gracenote and freedb, in conjunction with applications like WinAmp, figure out which CD you have just loaded. The data from these services allows the application to accurately ...

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