Wednesday, October 10, 2007

10G Ethernet tests show promise for data centers; Ballmer claims Red Hat violates Microsoft IP

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10G Ethernet tests show promise for data centers
Makers of 10G Ethernet products came away from a recent University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab plug fest with results they think will boost acceptance of the technology in corporate networks.

Ballmer claims Red Hat violates Microsoft IP
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at a company event in London Oct. 4 that Red Hat Linux users should pay Microsoft for their use of Microsoft intellectual property in Red Hat’s products.

Phishers won’t stop as long as users continue to click
Carnegie Mellon University is learning just how hard it is to get e-mail users to recognize fraud. Until users take some responsibility, attacks will continue.

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Gateway plans to buy Packard Bell
Gateway Monday announced plans to acquire PC vendor Packard Bell for an undisclosed amount, a move funded by Acer as part of its planned acquisition of gateway.

AT&T buys high-speed wireless spectrum
AT&T has agreed to buy 12MHz of high-speed wireless spectrum from Aloha Partners LP for US$2.5 billion, the company announced Tuesday.

Google buys Finnish social-networking company
Google continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of Jaiku Ltd., a Finnish company that offers a social-networking service similar to Twitter.

IE, Outlook, Word get critical bug fixes
Microsoft has released six security updates for its products, fixing critical flaws in Word, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer and the Kodak image viewer that ships with Windows.

BitTorrent hopes to speed commercial content streaming
In a move that it hopes will change the way video is distributed online, BitTorrent is taking its method for downloading large files and applying it to multimedia streaming.

What’ll be hot in 2008? Virtualization, high-speed server fabrics and unified communications
Every year at its annual Garter Symposium/ITXPO, analysts from the company impart some interesting and useful information. One of the highlights is Gartner’s take on what’ll be hot for the coming year. The list for 2008 includes more unified communications and server virtualization technology. High-speed server communications will also be on tap along with a bunch of new Web applications and social networking software.

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BLOGS

Buzzblog: AT&T caves in terms-of-use 'censorship' dispute
Having taken a royal beating in the press over terms-of-use language that appears to give the company freedom to pull the plug on critics, AT&T now says it will amend that language to assure everyone that it respects the First Amendment.

Today on Layer 8, where it's nice to see the government be a little proactive:
The Federal Trade Commission teamed with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois to quash an illegal operation that sold lists of consumers’ credit card account numbers and security codes.

Today at Cisco Subnet
Extreme's new branch switch sees Cisco, ProCurve as targets; From the Field blogger Michael Morris asks: Do you open the firewall and let the traffic flow in? 

Today on Microsoft Subnet
Top open source guy becomes top Windows marketing guy; A checklist for an upgrade from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007; Secure your wireless networks people!

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