iPhone gets VoIP tryout; Chat with Amazon's CTO; Who will be the next Geek King?

Daily News: AM This newsletter is sponsored by Blue Coat Get the latest on Web Acceleration Tools Discover how to significantly improve document delivery times for users that are physically away from your centralized data center. A document that takes 80 minutes to delivery to a user across the globe could be delivered in three minutes with Web acceleration. Learn how your IT organization can benefit from this technology. Listen to this Webcast now. Network World Daily News: AM, 10/01/07 IPHONE GETS VOIP TRYOUT In a demonstration at this year’s DEMOfall07 convention, British VoIP provider Truphone showed conventioneers how to use the iPhone’s built-in WiFi capability to make calls over Truphone’s VoIP network. WHO WILL BE THE NEXT GEEK KING (OR QUEEN)? In July 2008 Bill Gates, arguably the greatest Geek King there ever was, will step down as leader of Microsoft. Surely we will continue to hear from him, but his departure from the software world leaves a great void in Geek culture. Who will replace him? Who has his stature? Who has his utter geekiness? Should the geeks be ruled by committee? Should geeks even be ruled? 13 FREE TOOLS EASE IT MANAGEMENT Finding the perfect tool to relieve a pain point or fill a gap can be invaluable to network managers. When the tool is free? Even better. Straight Talk from Security Experts Leading security experts share their advice, secrets and real-world experiences in Network World's latest Executive Guide, "The Security Treadmill." Learn how to get inside users' heads, fight for a bigger security budget and much more. Click here to download this Executive Guide. 3COM CUSTOMERS SHOULD ‘STAND PAT,’ ANALYSTS SAY Customers should feel little impact from this week’s acquisition of 3Com by Huawei and Bain Capital, analysts say. INTERNET TAX MORATORIUM BILL STALLS A U.S. Senate committee has postponed action on a bill that would extend an Internet tax moratorium after it expires Nov. 1. WEB 2.0 START-UP TARGETS ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS A start-up called 360Hubs is tackling the Web 2.0 market with a set of collaboration, social networking, knowledge management and Web content ... USERS PRY XP REPRIEVE FROM MICROSOFT Microsoft, clearly getting an earful from corporate users over the rapid demise of XP to make way for Vista, has responded by committing to extend the availability of XP for another five months. AVAYA SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE $8.2 BILLION PRIVATE EQUITY BUYOUT Avaya stockholders last week approved the company’s $8.2 billion acquisition by two private equity firms. LIVE CHAT CHAT WITH AMAZON.COM’S CTO LIVE If ever there were a man that knew how to eke out capacity and secure a data center, it would be Werner Vogels, vice president & CTO of Amazon.com. Join him for a live chat TODAY from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EDT. No registration is required. BLOG BUZZBLOG: WAS T-SHIRT SUSPENSION STORY A TEXAS TALL TALE? It was all over the ‘Net last week: Digg, Reddit, DailyKos, etc. A Texas kid was suspended just for wearing a “John Edwards for President” T-shirt to school, or so we were told. However, the mainstream press has completely ignored the juicy story…presuming there was a real story there to ignore. As for the Edwards campaign, it didn’t reply to my inquiry about the tale, which started on a blog on the campaign’s Web site. The campaign did, however, use my newly harvested e-mail address to send me spam asking for a contribution.

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