Wednesday, August 29, 2007

iPhone unlocking video hits Web; Is the bloom off municipal Wi-Fi?

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iPhone unlocking video hits Web
A video showing the founder of a Belfast, Northern Ireland, company unlocking the iPhone hit the Web early Wednesday U.K. time as proof that software exists that can unlock Apple's device for use with carriers other than AT&T.

Is the bloom off municipal Wi-Fi? Chicago scraps public wireless network
Chicago flew in the face of the public wireless broadband movement today and killed off an $18.5 million Internet access system. And there are signs the rush to municipal Wi-Fi maybe be slowing. Chicago cited rising costs, spotty demand and uncooperative carriers as the main reasons for the cancellation of the rollout that would have covered the city’s 228 miles.

Motorola units slap Aruba with WLAN patent suit
The rancorous world of wireless is heating up yet again, with two subsidiaries of Motorola suing Aruba.

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WGA meltdown raises doubts about Microsoft reliability
The 19-hour blackout of the Microsoft servers that identify copies of Windows XP and Vista as legitimate or counterfeit shows that serious flaws exist in the process and raises questions about the reliability of Microsoft's services, analysts said Monday. Also: read what the Microsoft Subnet bloggers have to say.

Symantec CEO: Microsoft causing security price pressure
Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson blamed Microsoft Tuesday for the current pricing competition his company faces in the consumer security market, suggesting Microsoft's pricing scheme for its first entry into the space is "monopolistic."

Google CFO heads for retirement
Google is losing its CFO, George Reyes, who has decided to retire, the Mountain View, Calif. company said Tuesday.

HP telepresence upgrades include a less expensive version
HP unveiled improvements to its telepresence technology that makes high-quality IP videoconferencing more affordable for business customers.

Web monitoring software resized
Web monitoring product split into three packages to better suit organizations’ needs.

Podcasts

News podcast: Network World 360
Web site auctions software vulnerabilities to highest bidder; Defunct SunRocket sues Vonage over subscriber list; Storm worm spam spoofs YouTube; U.S. troops swap combat ideas on new Web site. (6:38)

Panasonic speeds up trans-Pacific file transfers
With development teams in the U.S. and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic R&D, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (17:36)

Blogs

Today at Cisco Subnet
Cisco's marketing juggernaut is helping raise awareness of telepresence, and that's helping its competitors, according to HP, which launched a cheaper setup. There are a number of tools to help secure your network edge, but many involve a peformance tradeoff, says IP routing expert Jeff Doyle. Plus: Cable Digital News has a lively analysis of Cisco's The Human Network campaign, noting that the program has a few elements that don't sit well together, or have unfortunate associations.

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.

Today on Layer 8, where we usually avoid anything having to do with the IRS:
The Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers of a new phishing scam where e-mail purporting to come from the IRS advises taxpayers they can receive $80 by filling out an online customer satisfaction survey. The IRS urges taxpayers to ignore this solicitation and not provide any requested information.

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