Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Cisco offices raided, executives arrested in Brazil; Dell to offer Nortel network products

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Cisco offices raided, executives arrested in Brazil: reports
Senior executives of Cisco were reportedly arrested in Brazil this week in a tax fraud investigation of the company.

Dell to offer Nortel network products
Nortel Tuesday said Dell will offer its North American customers all of Nortel's enterprise products and services, including those developed under an alliance with Microsoft.

Symantec to snap up Vontu?
Rumors are swirling that Symantec may acquire start-up Vontu in a deal that hardly would come as a surprise, as large security giants scramble to add ...

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Smart photo tagging created at Penn State
Penn State researchers have developed software they say tags images upon uploading to Yahoo’s Flickr or other photo systems but also ...

Microsoft, Siemens, IBM and Intel lead tech R&D spenders
Microsoft is getting more serious about investing in R&D, according to Booz Allen Hamilton’s annual study of the world’s largest corporate R&D ...

Managing Windows DNS/DHCP servers with BlueCat
BlueCat updates its Proteus platform to integrate with Windows DNS and DHCP services to enable centralized management of IP addresses and DNS/ ...

Microsoft launches unified communications system
Microsoft described wide industry support during the formal announcement of Office Communications Server in San Francisco on Tuesday.

OSI approves two Microsoft shared-source licenses
The board of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has approved two Microsoft licenses that allow proprietary source code to be ...

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Today on Cisco Subnet
Cisco tax fraud arrests: Cisco appears not so wholesome after all. Scrutinizer's tool allows you to place Cisco routers/switches on a Google Map. Cisco Press author Wendell Odom goes through some NAT terms and a sample ICND1/CCENT question. Global Knowledge trainer Raj Tolani has a way of making life easier when working with Cisco routers. Microsoft vs. Cisco for unified communications: Who wins? (take our poll). Russ White, a member of Cisco's Routing Protocol Design and Architecture Team weighs in on Cisco Subnet's CCDE written beta test discussion thread.

Today on Microsoft Subnet
How OCS fits into the whole unified communications scene; The October winner of the New Horizons Training giveaway; Relevant IT Talent: Let’s graduate kids with immediately marketable skills!.

Buzzblog: Here's what the PC store paid for losing customer's data
It was about a month ago now when we first brought you the tale of a computer store that tossed a customer's old hard drive instead of transferring the data from it to the new machine he had bought. Opinions have been all over the map as to what, if anything, the store owes the customer given that the customer committed the sin not not backing up his irreplaceable data. Well, we have a resolution.

Buzzblog: Why texting and driving don't mix
Well, for one thing there is the fact that the freight train always wins.

Today on Layer 8, where we wonder what your neighborhood would look like if Cisco wired it up:
What would your neighborhood look like if Cisco wired it from scratch? If you want to get an idea, take a look at Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, and you might find out.

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