Novell: Linux needs work to move to next level; Pop-up ads coming to a cell phone near you?

Daily News: AM This newsletter is sponsored by Confio Software Performance Management has a New Best Practice Wait-Time analysis is a new approach to application and database performance improvement. It allows you to make tuning decisions based on optimal service impact, aligning your efforts with customer service levels. Using Wait-Time analysis allows IT to always find the root cause of the most important problem impacting customers, and always identify which critical resource will resolve it. Read this whitepaper and learn this new approach to performance management. Network World Daily News: AM, 08/09/07 Novell CEO: Linux needs work to move to next level In order for Linux to prosper it needs to develop a broader base of applications, avoid fragmentation, address data center needs and expand its market, according to Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian. Pop-up ads: Coming to a mobile phone near you? Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and other online giants have all said they hope to take advantage of what they see as great potential in mobile advertising. But some startups say that those companies are looking at delivering the ads the wrong way. Cisco blames site outage on accident Cisco blamed an outage that affected part of its Web site Wednesday on an accident during maintenance of a San Jose data center. Application Acceleration More companies today are taxed with supporting global business processes in real-time. Download this Webcast, Application Acceleration: Merits of Managed Services to learn how managed Web acceleration services might best support this goal. Click here to check it out! Fibre Channel getting faster Fibre Channel for storage-area networks is getting faster, with Emulex and QLogic Wednesday airing plans to support the 8Gbps Channel standard. Motorola sees Linux as its mobile mainstay Motorola is betting big on Linux for its mobile phones, planning to install the OS on 60 percent of its handsets within two years. Oracle opens up latest Linux enhancements Oracle is busy at LinuxWorld, Wednesday opening up its latest work with the Linux community to improve the enterprise capabilities of the open-source operating system. Linux group adds open-source attorneys to team The Linux Foundation Wednesday revealed that two attorneys well-known in the open-source community will make up the legal team for the group, which is aimed at protecting the interests of Linux in the community. IDC: PDA shipments drop 43% in Q2 Sales of PDAs continued a steep decline in the second quarter, as struggling vendors shipped 719,000 units worldwide, down from 1.26 million last year, according to a market research report released Wednesday. Podcast Why Hackers Love Your Apps Custom-made applications are riddled with holes that hackers are discovering with glee. IT departments are spending too much time patching operating systems and not enough time looking for threats in their applications. Jack Danahy from Ounce Labs talks to Jason Meserve about who's responsible and what can be done to shore up custom-code from a hacker attack. Blogs Buzzblog: One-upped on my FiOS complaints ... ... plus another blogger reveals the truth behind "true QAM." Today at Cisco Subnet As of late last night, some areas of Cisco.com were still inaccessible, hours after a data center issue caused the site to black out. Blogger Michael Morris discovers telcos' true tag lines, such as XO's "What are we selling this week?" Plus: Cisco CFO retires on a $64M nest egg. Today at Microsoft Subnet Is Microsoft sincere about Linux interoperability? Linspire CEO quits. Bill Gates no longer the richest guy. Commerce Server roadmap revealed.

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