The wireless carnival comes to town; The summer of spam

Daily News: PM This newsletter is sponsored by Credant Technologies Majority Say iPods are a Security Risk In a recent survey hundreds of IT executives were asked how they view and use portable storage and media devices. And they were also asked how they protect their corporate data from these potentially troubling devices. While 67% of respondents say they believe iPods are a threat today only 12% are taking security measures to stop data leakage. Click here to get the full survey report. Network World Daily News: PM, 08/17/07 The wireless carnival comes to town Today the sprawling California State Fair opens in Sacramento and Bil Lowry will be watching a key part of it – the carnival midway operation -- through a set of computer screens monitoring a Wi-Fi mesh network. IBM reportedly eyes Wind River deal IBM could establish a strong presence in the market for embedded operating systems with the acquisition of financially ailing Wind River Systems, a deal that is reportedly in the works. Skype problems may continue throughout the day Skype is still trying to restore service to millions of its customers almost 24 hours after they began to experience problems logging in to the VoIP service. New Executive Guide Network World has recently published an executive guide entitled "Virtualization Meets Reality". Find out the 8 key challenges of virtualizing your data center. Download it now! Skype outage appears to be over A log-in problem that shut many users out of Skype's popular VoIP service for nearly 14 hours appears to be over. The summer of spam: record growth, record irritation There is 17% more spam heading for in-boxes today than there was yesterday, and spam watchers say it could get even worse before the summer is over. Sprint details WiMAX plans Sprint Nextel's planned WiMAX service, now dubbed Xohm, will launch in the Chicago and Washington/Baltimore markets by year-end, then reach 100 million users nationwide by the end of 2008, company officials said Thursday. Microsoft patches Patchguard, miss Purple Pill Microsoft has updated its 64-bit kernel protection for Windows Vista, which most of us know as PatchGuard, but which Microsoft calls Kernel Patch Protection. Dell to restate results after finding manipulation Dell will restate its earnings for fiscal years 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after an internal audit found that certain employees had changed corporate account balances in order to meet quarterly financial targets, the company said Thursday. Beijing Olympic weather predictions use IBM supercomputer Weather forecasts for the Beijing Olympic Games will be performed using an IBM supercomputer that can provide hourly forecasts for each square kilometer, making it easier to plan for disruptions to specific events. Poll Does the Citrix/XenSource union raise the virtualization ante? Take the poll and tell us your thoughts. Blogs Today at Cisco Subnet Aruba put itself in a better position to give Cisco a run for its money in the WLAN space when it went public in March and already it has grabbed some Cisco accounts. Channelguy ponders managed services and the Cisco channel. Why is the Cisco/Motorola lawsuit pivotal in the Enron case? Today on Layer 8: Where we have never edited any of our entries on Wikipedia...we promise Can this really be a surprise? People using CIA and FBI computers as well as the Vatican, voting machine supplier Diebold have been editing entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia according to a new tracing program. The recently posted Wikipedia Scanner, is an application recently invented by graduate student Virgil Griffiths, outed the editors.

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