Monday, October 08, 2007

Cisco aims to sway FCC on digital TV regulations; The best and worst vendor blogs

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Cisco aims to sway FCC on digital TV regulations
Concerned that wireless devices might interfere with its cable TV set-top boxes Cisco asked the FCC today to consider all possible alternatives before it decided how to regulate the use of such devices operating in television white spaces.

The best and worst vendor blogs
Web logs provide a new avenue for network vendors to communicate with their customers. After all, blogs are immediate, informal, personal and interactive, and they can be fun and intellectually stimulating at the same time. What better way to break down the walls between corporation and customer? We decided to take a look at blogs of 15 top networking companies and analyze them based on criteria we developed.

Enterasys introducing intrusion-detection system
Enterasys Networks next week is expected to roll out a 10Gbps intrusion detection and prevention system for its Dragon switches.

Executive Guide: Stay ahead of the data growth curve

Get real-world advice on how to best deal with the explosion of data across nearly every enterprise today. This informative executive guide offers IT professionals detailed information on new technologies such as ILM and FANs, specific pitfalls to avoid when deploying ILM, as well as solid case studies.

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IBM packages Tivoli, Rational wares for SMBs
IBM offers SMB customers scaled-down versions of its Tivoli network management software and Rational software development and delivery product.

IT managers get help with server efficiency
The British Computer Society (BCS) said it's developing a model that's designed to help IT managers select the most efficient servers, and so deliver a greener IT infrastructure.

Analysts closer to improved antivirus software test
Antivirus vendors are closer to agreeing on a new way to test their software after widespread agreement that older antivirus tests can be misleading.

Four 'Net companies sued over transaction system patent
For the second time in five weeks, four major Internet companies are being sued for patent infringement lawsuit.

Web 2.0 threats catch enterprises unprepared: survey
Web 2.0 technologies are sucking up corporate bandwidth and presenting a host of security challenges enterprises are simply unprepared for, a new survey has found.

LIVE CHAT

Got career questions?
National IT recruiter Matt Colarusso will be available for a live text chat Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m. Eastern. Matt will discuss the IT job market and you. Got questions about the IT job market in the months to come? What should you do to manage your own career? How hard will it be for your department to fill vacancies? Certifications vs. degrees; hot job skills and weak ones - Matt, a prominent national IT recruiting expert that manages the Sapphire National Recruiting & Strategic Accounts Team will answer these questions for you and more. No registration necessary. Just go to the Network World Chat page at the appointed time and log in.

PODCAST

Webcasting to the masses
Video conferencing technology was suppose make it easier to stay at the office for meetings and reduce the need for costly business travel. While that hasn't been the case for videoconferencing, it is a reality for Webcasting technology. Network World Multimedia Editor Jason Meserve talks about the Webcasting market today with Sharat Sharan, CEO of On24. (14:21)

BLOGS

Buzzblog: It's not just censorship keeping North Koreans in the dark
Do you remember the photo from space showing South Korea and North Korea at night? It's worth noting again after North Korean President Kim Jong Il -- a newly self-professed "Internet expert" -- cited an unspecified "problem" that would need to be overcome before his country could have ubiquitous 'Net access.

Today on Layer 8 there is no truth to the rumor we are starting up Layer8apedia:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers are working on an emergency sensor system that would give first responders information about radiation, chemical and biological agent events across the country in near real time. SensorPedia, a writeable Web site adopts the underlying technology of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia collaboratively written by readers, as a model to gather information from multiple diverse sites. That’s cool because while scores of sensors are being deployed around the nation, these sensor networks are not designed to be interoperable.

MOST-READ STORIES:

1. Two schools flunk Cisco switches
2. Top 10 reasons Web sites get hacked
3. Salary survey: IT pay falls short
4. Feds pull plug on ca.gov
5. Fed 'fix' knocks ca.gov for a loop
6. Science stumbles on with Ig Nobel awards
7. DHS e-mail server turns into spam cannon
8. Ig Nobel: Honoring weird science at Harvard
9. This year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries
10. NAC alternatives hit the mark

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