Networking World: August 2007

Friday, August 31, 2007

Monster Data Theft; EarthLink Sticking With Wi-Fi And Helio

TechWeb Networking Update - Friday, Aug 31, 2007

(Table of Contents)

*Monster Data Theft Also Hit U.S. Government Job Site
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*More Enterasys Execs Get Prison Terms As Government Winds Up Case
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*ITT Wins FAA Contract For Air Traffic Control
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*NIST Researchers Tackle Wireless Interference Problem
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*HP And Tandberg Team Up To Improve Telepresence Offerings
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*CompTIA Adds German Language Convergence Exams
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( Today's Top Story)

Monster Data Theft Also Hit U.S. Government Job Site
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Users of the USAjobs.gov Web site were among job seekers whose
contact data was stolen by hackers, a U.S. government spokesman
said Thursday.

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(Today's Most Popular Stories)

The Future Of Mobile Tech: Next Year's Notebooks Will Be Worth
Waiting For
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The pace of hardware innovation is due to speed up in 2008, as
notebooks get bigger, smaller, and a lot more useful.

New Apple iPods Expected Sept. 5
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Other rumors say the iPods would be powered by a derivative of
the Mac operating system and that Apple would offer the
long-awaited Beatles music catalog on iTunes.

Microsoft Delays Windows Server Until Early 2008
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Windows Server 2008 is now in Beta 3 and feature complete, but
Microsoft is delaying it because "it needs a little more time to
bake," the company said.

Sony Unveils Video Walkman, Drops Connect Music Store
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The media players will support a wide variety of file formats for
downloading and playing music and video.

The future of mobile tech: Next year's notebooks will be worth the wait
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The pace of hardware innovation is due to speed up in 2008, as
notebooks get bigger, smaller, and a lot more useful.

(Editor's Picks)

Microsoft Settles Web Patent Dispute With Eolas
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Shareholders of the closely held company will receive a per-share
dividend of between $60 and $72 as a result of the deal with
Microsoft, although terms of the settlement are confidential.

IBM's Computing Breakthrough Promises Chips The Size Of Dust
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IBM's new techniques may well lead to the use of atoms for
digital storage, which could store the entire contents of YouTube
-- about 1,000 trillion bits of data.

Dell Profits Helped By Higher Prices, Lower Component Costs
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Besides the impact of its restructuring, Dell's business may also
be affected by an ongoing investigation by the Securities and
Exchange Commission into the computer maker's past accounting practices.

(Networking News of the Week)

More Enterasys Execs Get Prison Terms As Government Winds Up Case
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Three executives got sentences that range from a year and a day
to several years in prison.

ITT Wins FAA Contract For Air Traffic Control
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The Federal Aviation Administration selected ITT Corp on Thursday
to build the centerpiece of a new satellite-based air traffic
control system, the agency said.

NIST Researchers Tackle Wireless Interference Problem
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The federal agency hopes to help companies improve factory
designs and avoid blocking transmissions that make it difficult
to take advantage of wireless networks.

HP And Tandberg Team Up To Improve Telepresence Offerings
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Users are able to collaborate by linking HP Halo Collaboration
Studios to Tandberg's conference room and desktop-based systems.

CompTIA Adds German Language Convergence Exams
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The certification supports voice over Internet Protocol
deployments as adoption of VoIP in Europe has increased.

Nokia's Ovi Opens Door To Music, Internet Services
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The platform is a rebundling of Nokia services such as its N-Gage
games and its Nokia Music store that sync up with existing social
networks, communities, and content.

EarthLink CEO Devoted To Muni Wi-Fi And Helio
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Despite cutbacks in staff and future investments, Rolla Huff said
the company is "not exiting" its marquee wireless pursuits.

Broadcom Unveils Gigabit Ethernet Switches For Unified Communications
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The StrataXGS devices will give developers an effective tool to
deploy secure unified communications infrastructures, Broadcom said.

Motorola Slaps Surging Aruba With Patent Lawsuit
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Two of the patents use 3-D representations for wireless LAN
design and management, the other two relate to WLAN switching
architecture technology.

WebEx Links iPhone To Outlook, Remote PCs
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An upgrade to WebEx PCNow 3.0 remote access software will let
iPhone users check their Microsoft Outlook e-mail and view the
files stored on their remote Windows computers.

Diebold Gets Patents For Mobile ATM Technology
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Diebold says it has received patents for technologies that let
mobile phone owners do things like find ATMs, order cash
withdrawals remotely, generate electronic checks, and transmit
wireless payments.

EarthLink To Restructure, Close Offices, Lay Off 900
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Faced with declining revenue from its core Internet-access
business, EarthLink has made several attempts to diversify
without much success.

TeliaSonera Launches Mobile Broadband For Dell Laptops
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The fast wireless connection is provided via the ubiquitous SIM
card that is universally used by cell phone service providers
using the GSM standard.

Extricom's Uni-Fi Alliance A Challenge To Wi-Fi Group
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Scrambling for WLAN market share, the company aligns itself as a
standards body to certify interoperability of multi-application
wireless LANs, devices, PBXs, and the like.

KACE Launches Appliance For Managing Virtual, Physical Servers
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The company's technology includes software for agentless
deployment of physical and virtual machines from a centralized
deployment library, as well as VM management support.

Hanzlik Out As Wi-Fi Alliance Chief
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No replacement has been named; Hanzlik's post has been filled on
a temporary basis by Andrew Myles, manager of wireless standards
at Cisco.

Unified Communications Can Cause Network Traffic Jams
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Nearly four of 10 companies surveyed have suffered application
performance problems due to the convergence of communications
apps, the survey says.

IBM In $17 Million Outsourcing Deal With Danish Government
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The pact extends an existing contract that IBM inked with the
Danish government in 2003 to support its Agricultural Advisory
Service.

Federal Security Officers Say Telecommuting Is Safe, But Want
Better Mobile Security
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A study reports that 83% of federal CISOs have strong interest in
mobile endpoint certification for compliance with the Federal
Information Security Management Act.

Google's Single-Number Service Hits A Couple Of Speed Bumps
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Some 434 GrandCentral users were affected when a small regional
carrier partner decided to exit certain local markets.

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(Breaking News)

DRC introduces DM Assistant
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DRC adds an automated underwriting solution to its DecisionMaker suite.

PostgreSQL 8.3 Features To Be Available After Labor Day
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Full text search and other features will become available for
free download in beta code after Labor Day; with the final
release to follow by 8-10 weeks.

U.S. Moves To Fine Wireless Carriers Over 911 Service
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U.S. regulators said Thursday they had proposed penalizing three
wireless carriers which the government says failed to meet new
stricter standards for being able to locate cellular telephone
callers in an emergency.

Apple Store 'Humiliates' The Disabled, Lawsuit Claims
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The lawsuit charges that the San Francisco Apple Store's
"entrance, path of travel, teaching theater seating, elevator,
and restroom facilities" are not wheelchair accessible.

States, Justice Department Differ On Microsoft Monopoly
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A group of state attorneys general claim the landmark antitrust
case against Microsoft has failed to reduce the company's monopoly.

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* U.S. Sentencing Commission seeking Information Technology
Manager in Washington, DC
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* Monsanto seeking Application DBA in St. Louis, MO
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* Union Telephone/Union Wireless seeking Network Administration
Specialist in Mountain View, WY
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* ITT Corporation seeking Project Manager - Enterprise
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Cisco plans to blend two NAC schemes; UTM firewalls ready for the enterprise

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Cisco plans to blend two NAC schemes
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UTM firewalls: Ready for the enterprise
IT managers at small and midsize businesses like unified threat management appliances - firewalls that layer on antimalware protection, content filtering, antispam and intrusion prevention - because deploying a single, multi-function device reduces costs and simplifies configuration. But with dramatic differences between SMB and enterprise requirements, is there a place for enterprise UTM firewalls? The answer is definitely "yes," for these three reasons: reduced complexity, simplified management and increased flexibility.

Office Open XML standardization to drag into next year
Microsoft-inspired Office Open XML proposal to be voted on this weekend by ISO members, but standardization effort will stretch into next year.

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Outsourcing can save companies big bucks, report says
Outsourcing noncore infrastructure management and application services can save companies between 12% and 17% on average, a Forrester Research ...

Acer masters the PC market share
Acer executed a master stroke in the global war for PC market share with its US$710 million purchase of Gateway Inc., but it may take a while for ...

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Blogger Michael Morris came across a device that had been up for 1,166 days. How about you?

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3. MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war
4. Psst... Wanna buy a data center?
5. Hacks hit embassy, government e-mail worldwide
6. Secrets of vendors' pricing plans
7. Bank of India site hacked
8. ISPs to rural U.S.: Live with dial-up
9. Notes from OPNETWORK 2007
10. How close is World War 3.0?

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MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war; Why does a NAC appliance cost $25,000, anyway?

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MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war
The IETF and ITU standards bodies are sparring over a set of MPLS specifications that some say could lead to massive interoperability issues for service providers if left unchanged.

Why does a NAC appliance cost $25,000, anyway?
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Hacks hit embassy, government e-mail accounts worldwide
Usernames and passwords for more than 100 e-mail accounts at embassies and governments worldwide have been posted online. Using the information, anyone can access the accounts that have been compromised.

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Linux will be on a third of smartphones in 2012
By 2012, Linux will be running on nearly 31% of all smart devices, thanks to a growth rate faster than Windows Mobile and Symbian.

Internet pipes can’t keep up in YouTube age
The Internet needs a massive investment to keep up with the demands of YouTube fans, billions of e-mails and wireless access, a university study states.

Microsoft sics lawyers on popular AutoPatcher utility
Microsoft puts kibosh on a four-year-old “offline Windows Update” tool popular with administrators and consumers, saying it fears the utility could be avenue for malicious software.

Contest challenges SysAdmins to sing
SysAdmin of the Year contest spins out singing and song-writing contest for systems administrators as part of annual SysAdmin appreciation day.

Lockheed Martin begins to deploy IPv6
U.S. government contractor Lockheed Martin has begun to move part of its network to IPv6 as a way of showing customers how to make the transition.

Former Juniper lawyer faces backdating charge
The SEC has filed fraud charges against the former legal counsel for Juniper Networks and KLA-Tencor over violating rules on accounting for the backdating of employee stock options.

NIST to set noise standards for manufacturing-based wireless networksThe National Institute of Standards and Technology said it is looking to establish a set of standards aimed at pre-qualifying wireless devices for use in industrial environments.

Blogs

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Cisco CallManager, Unified Communications Manager vulnerable to attacks. Cisco's efforts to eradicate unauthorized sales stops shy of working with UNEDA. Cisco, Trend Micro collaborate on security in routers. Cisco's MARS attack: Is Cisco about to make it big in the security management space? Plus: Do you understand how much bandwidth 1 Gbps is?

Today on Microsoft Subnet
Free Vista application compatibility training via video available for the downloading. Produced by the Microsoft’s Windows Application Experience SWAT Team, this 8-hour seminar covers most common application compatibility issues found with Windows Vista, and Microsoft cutover tools. John Obeto writes: "Microsoft is revealing the official existence of Windows Vista SP1… While all this information is appreciated, Windows Vista, as currently ships, works… Windows Vista will work in any environment, surpassing Windows XP in security every time." Plus, Will Microsoft buy RIM? Rumors are flying.

Today on Layer 8, where we've never bought anything on eBay for more than, like, $20:
So what do you do with 250 servers and thousands of terabytes of data storage when nobody else wants it? Auction it online, what else? High-tech online asset liquidator Rasmus Auctioneers is prepping $15 million worth of brand new - still in the box - data center gear that was dumped in its lap from a Department of the Interior lease cancellation.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. Microsoft blames human error for glitch
2. Airline puts Linux PC in every seat
3. Vista SP1 beta on the way
4. PDF spam levels plummet
5. iPhone unlocking video hits Web
6. Windows Server 2008 delayed again
7. The metal-whisker menace
8. iPhone unlocker trades phone for 'sweet' car
9. How close is World War 3.0?
10. Deja vu: Sony uses rootkits, F-Secure says

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MPLS proposal spawns turf war; OOXML standardization battle drags on

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Network World's Standards and Regulations News Alert, 08/31/07

MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war, 08/30/07: The IETF and ITU standards bodies are sparring over a set of MPLS specifications that some say could lead to massive interoperability issues for service providers if left unchanged.

Office Open XML standardization to drag into next year, 08/30/07: The long and contentious battle to standardize Office Open XML won’t end this weekend when ISO member countries cast votes, but is likely headed for a special meeting where specific questions regarding the 6,000-page specification will need to be resolved.

Microsoft employee offered incentives for OOXML support, 08/30/07: Microsoft admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.

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Microsoft firm on OOXML standardization, 08/29/07: Following criticism from the Open Source Industry Association (OSIA) over its ambition to have the Office Open XML (Open XML or OOXML) format accepted as an international (ISO) standard, Microsoft's group product manager for Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, spoke with Computerworld about why the world needs two standard document formats.

Podcast: SOX at 5: Benefits and Headaches, 08/29/07: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 turned five on July 31. Compliance with this federal law, designed to regulate the accounting and reporting practices of public companies, has become a top concern for executives, legal teams and the IT departments that support them. While the law has helped companies run tighter ships and secure themselves against threats, compliance has cost companies significant time, money and headaches. Many are wondering whether all the work is worth it. James Sayles, chief compliance advisor at Ecora Software and an expert in security, risk management and auditing, discusses the pros and cons of SOX with Cara Garretson.

The Blogosphere rages over OOXML standards vote: As the deadline approaches for the ISO vote on acceptance/rejection of Open Office XML as a standard, anyone and everyone involved in the process is blogging about it. Opinions range from gloating to indignation at the process, the spec and Microsoft’s controversial role.

Design e-mail archives beyond legal discovery, 08/24/07: Corporations are racing against time to create archives that allow retrieval of e-mails in response to increasingly common civil suit discovery motions.

Patent reform opponents find support from unions, 08/24/07: Opponents of legislation that would overhaul the U.S. patent system have enlisted new allies who may cause majority Democrats in Congress to rethink their support of the proposals.

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ISPs to rural U.S.: Live with dial-up; MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war

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WAN News Alert, 08/31/07

ISPs to rural U.S.: Live with dial-up, 08/27/07: You can't get there from here. That old New England saw is an apt metaphor for the state of high-speed rural broadband. While many telecommunications carriers are posting record profits this year, millions of U.S. homes and businesses still have no access to broadband -- and that's no coincidence.

Notes from OPNETWORK 2007: Cisco Subnet blogger Jeff Doyle writes: "OPNET has a new IPv6 planning and analysis module for their network modeling platform, and invited me to their OPNETWORK technology conference to get some hands-on time with it."

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Current EarthLink deal with SF looks dead, 08/29/07: EarthLink's current contract to build a municipal Wi-Fi network in San Francisco appears to be dead following a restructuring of the struggling ISP.

Former Juniper lawyer faces backdating charge, 08/29/07: Juniper Networks has been caught up in the stock options backdating scandal as a former general counsel for the network equipment company is charged with violating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accounting rules.

Indian software outsourcers focus on reuse, 08/29/07: Up against competition for markets and for hiring staff, Indian software outsourcers are focusing on building reusable software that automates specific business processes. These software components can in turn be used across a number of clients, saving costs and time.

The schism between the applications team and the rest of IT, 08/28/07: The last newsletter mentioned the forthcoming IT Roadmap conference that Network World is producing at the Adams's Mark hotel in Dallas on Sept. 6. That newsletter also discussed some of the topics that we’ve talked about in recent newsletter and that Jim will cover in his two keynotes at the ITR conference.

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Airline puts Linux PC in every seat

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Cisco's efforts to eradicate unauthorized sales stops shy of working with UNEDA

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Network World's Cisco News Alert, 08/31/07

Welcome to the Friday edition of Network World's Cisco News Alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your gateway to Cisco news, blogs, discussion forums, security alerts, giveaways and more. Enjoy!

* TOP PICK OF THE WEEK:

Cisco's efforts to eradicate unauthorized sales stops shy of working with UNEDA
Cisco hopes to eliminate unauthorized sales of its gear on eBay by signing up for the auctioneer's Verified Rights Owner Program (VeRO). Curiously though, Cisco has remained silent on whether it would work with the United Network Equipment Dealer Association to eradicate counterfeit equipment in the wider market. Why is Cisco seemingly hesitant to take up UNEDA's offer to work together in this effort? Let us know.

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How Cisco NAC fares against the competition

Cisco CallManager, Unified Communications Manager vulnerable to attacks

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Brad Reese on Cisco: CCAI - Cisco cert teaching future Cisco pros
Received a Cisco Resume this week from of all places Kathmandu, Nepal. Obviously, it was quite a thrill to receive a resume from that mythical, exotic paradise Bob Seger made famous in his hit song Katmandu ...

Jeff Doyle on IP Routing: Protecting your network edge: Now for the bad news
Over a number of previous posts I’ve written about securing the edge of your network, protecting both you and your external peering neighbors from malicious attack and from damaging configuration errors; I’ve written about everything from basic best practices to bogon filtering to source filtering to spiffy tools like uRPF and TTL hacks. It seems like there’s always a “But…”, so here’s the big But in the room: Many of the tools and configurations I’ve discussed can involve a performance tradeoff, and some can introduce security vulnerabilities.

Author Expert Jamey Heary: Highlighting 5 NEW lesser known PIX/ASA Firewall features
The 8.0.2 software release for the PIX and ASA platforms was a big one! My guess is you haven’t had the time, or the inspiration, to read through the release notes and drill into the configuration guide to find all of the new features you now get with the 8.0.2 code release. Fret not, I am here to help!

ChannelSurfing with Ken Presti: The Cisco-Microsoft lovefest: Tough choices ahead for the channel?
Collaboration and friendly co-opetition were clearly the main themes of the August 20th moderated discussion between John Chambers and Microsoft’s Steve Balmer. And if there are two guys in the modern business world with more reasons to get all brotherly, I don’t know who they might be. People with the most success are also the ones with most to lose. So I actually think there was more happening than basic PR. This was as much of a message to people within Cisco and Microsoft as it was a message to people outside of both companies. Play nice.

Michael Morris' Notes from the Field: Do you understand how much bandwidth 1Gbps is?
That's the question I often find myself asking users. At our largest sites we have deployed Gigabit to the desktop - not because users need it, but because the price difference between 10/100/1000 and 10/100 cards in Cisco 6500s is small. Plus, there are better features in the 10/100/1000 blades than in the older 10/100 cards. So, might as well get the Gig blades.

HOT DISCUSSIONS AMONG CISCO SUBNET READERS:

Unlocking Linksys IP devices: Can it be done?
Linksys IP devices may be unlockable, reports the Voice over IP blog. The blog is responding to VoIP provider Nuvio's July open letter to Cisco, asking its Linksys division to unlock its devices to help rescue customers of the defunct SunRocket VoIP provider. Cisco Subnet readers think it is possible and have the scars to prove it.

ProCurve is breathing down Cisco's neck
ProCurve Networking is closing in on Cisco in the Ethernet switch market, according to Infonetics Research. Is the gap getting smaller because customers are disatisfied with Cisco or because ProCurve is a better alternative?

FREEBIES, GIVEAWAYS AND OTHER NOTABLES:

* Enter to Win one of 15 copies of Jamey Heary's book "Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access." Details here (competition closes at the end of today!) Get a sneak peek of a chapter here.

* Read a free chapter of "Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT) (Authorized Self-Study), 2nd Edition" by Jeremy D. Cioara. Free excerpt: Chapter 11: Cisco Unified CallManager Advanced Route Plans.

* Check out Cisco Subnet's library for more free chapters from Cisco Press books.

* Watch this space for the start of a new blog in September by respected Cisco trainer and author, Wendell Odom. Plus, we'll be giving away his latest Cisco exams book. Do you have a question for Wendell?

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Airline puts Linux PC in every seat

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Linux will be on a third of smartphones in 2012

Linux & Open Source News Alert

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LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 08/31/07

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More Linux news

Linux will be on a third of smartphones in 2012, Linuxworld, 08/20/07
By 2012, Linux will be running on nearly 31% of all smart devices, thanks to a growth rate faster than Windows Mobile and Symbian, according to predictions from a research firm.

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Linux products help Novell boost revenue in third quarter, LinuxWorld, 08/30/07
Linux products helped Novell boost revenue in its fiscal 2007 third quarter to $243 million, compared to $234 million a year ago. Novell reported a net loss of $3.4 million.

Microsoft employee offered incentives for OOXML support, LinuxWorld, 08/30/07
Microsoft admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.

Open source court ruling impacts debated, LinuxWorld, 08/29/07
A recent federal court ruling pertaining to open-source software in model railroads could derail enforcement of open-source licenses altogether, according to Mark Radcliffe, general counsel for the Open Source Initiative.

PowerFile launches Blu-ray-based archiving, LinuxWorld, 08/29/07
Here's a rare event: Blu-ray in a business archiving system. U.S. archive product supplier PowerFile has upgraded its Active Archive Appliance to the A3 Enterprise Edition, using 50GB Blu-ray disks instead of DVDs as before.

Microsoft firm on OOXML standardization, LinuxWorld, 08/29/07
Following criticism from the Open Source Industry Association (OSIA) over its ambition to have the Office Open XML (Open XML or OOXML) format accepted as an international (ISO) standard, Microsoft's group product manager for Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, spoke with Computerworld about why the world needs two standard document formats.

Kenbushi Pro media center software now free, 08/29/07
Lava Software has released Kenbushi Pro 7.1, an update to its media entertainment software for Mac OS X, Windows and soon, Linux. The software is now free for personal users, schools and charity organizations. For commercial users it costs $24.95 per user.

LinuxWorld Community

LinuxWorld Community, 08/28/07: LWN discusses the release of Adobe Flash 9 for Linux. This will probably be the last release that people have to worry about, since Gnash is getting really close. No YouTube videos yet, but Gnash is consistently getting enough Flash ads that I'm going to have to put FlashBlock on my all-Free Debian boxes, not just the bastardized machine I use for work.

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Each Friday, we present a short list of the hottest whitepapers, webcasts and research available. Information you can use to solve problems that crept up during the week, and to prepare for the challenges you'll face in the days ahead. We also provide links to news stories you might have missed, plus facts, quotes and other forms of brain-candy. (Hint: The fun stuff is near the bottom, so don't forget to scroll.) Have a great weekend!

VMware: Guide to Virtual Infrastructure Implementation
Care to see an ROI within the first two quarters?

EMC: Bridging the Gap between Storage and Security
The info you've got stored is worth millions. Are you willing to bet that much that it's safe?

Borland: Managing Change for Competitive Advantage
According to Darwin, survival isn't based on strength or intelligence, but being responsive to change.

Hubspan: Integration as a Service
Are you connected?

Informatica: Enterprise Data Blueprint for Sustained Growth
You shouldn't be scared to say the F-word around the office. (Assuming you're talking about "fragmentation.")

Cisco Systems: Privacy vs. Customer Intimacy-Strike the Balance
When is getting to know your customers going too far?

The Security Standard: September 10-11, 2007 - Chicago, Illinois
Down to the last two weeks, complimentary attendance may still be available. But you have to qualify to attend.

Visit the IDG Connect Library Site
Resource Centers will walk you through a research curriculum.

The Simpsons vs Star Trek
Two popular theme songs blended by an interesting, creative individual (who really needs to spend more time outdoors).

On this day in 1998, North Korea reportedly launched Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite. In 1965, the Aero Spacelines Super Guppy Aircraft made its first flight. In 1943, the USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for an African-American, was commissioned. In 1920, the first news radio program was broadcast in Detroit, Michigan. And in 1897, Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. Happy Birthday Chris Tucker (1972), Deborah Gibson (1970), Richard Gere (1949), Van Morrison (1945), Frank Robinson (1935), James Coburn (1928), Buddy Hackett (1924) and Sir Bernard Lovell (1913). RIP Diana, Princess of Wales (1997), John Ford (1973) and Rocky Marciano (1969).

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