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Network World Daily News: AM, 11/14/07 AT&T brings online banking to cell phones AT&T Tuesday unveiled a mobile banking platform that could allow users to carry out banking transactions from their cell phones. IBM: Most Symphony users are Microsoft customers IBM Tuesday released the second beta of its Symphony rival suite to Microsoft Office, claiming that 88% of its users are Microsoft customers. Google Android gets positive early reviews While Google’s Android announcement generated a lot of hype last week, developers had to wait until yesterday to see whether the company had actually developed a good platform. Improve App Performance with Web Acceleration Find out how to improve the delivery of Web applications to geographically dispersed users with Web acceleration tools. Learn, in this webcast, how to shop for these products and the best and worst applications to accelerate. View this Webcast now.
| | Taking business and IT alignment to the next level You’ve heard that IT must align itself with business goals, but that’s just the beginning: IT and business users must in some cases merge operations and become experts in each other’s fields, technology executives and analysts said Tuesday. Foreign Office breached Data Protection Act The Foreign Office has been slammed for breaching the Data Protection Act after a probe by the Information Commissioner into a security flaw on a website used by people applying for U.K. visas. Microsoft fixes URL problem in Windows Microsoft has released its November security updates, fixing a critical Windows bug that has been exploited by online criminals. Pharmacy software vendors embrace e-prescribing Thirteen U.S. pharmacy software vendors have expressed support for electronic prescribing efforts, each committing to a formal campaign to educate pharmacists on the benefits of e-prescribing, an operator of an electronic network announced Tuesday. Back up e-mail, judge tells White House The White House must preserve e-mail and maintain copies of millions of backup e-mail messages that were allegedly deleted improperly from servers, according to a temporary restraining order issued Monday by a U.S. judge. Consumer groups oppose telecom-deregulation requests Eight public-interest and consumer groups have asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject requests by two large telecommunication providers to close off their copper voice and data networks to competitors in 10 U.S. cities. New broadband data: The U.S. is still behind Japan's average broadband speed is more than 10 times that of the U.S., while its subscription prices are only about 50% higher, according to new data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). PODCAST Stuffing 10 pounds of data in 5-pound pipe How did First Command Financial Planning Services manage to pack 70 megabytes of data through a 22 megabyte pipe to speed disaster-recovery systems? Kevin Dunn, director of network operations, First Command Financial Planning, explains on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (9:08) VIDEO New Zunes out from Microsoft Microsoft is releasing three new Zune portable media players this week along with tighter integration with Windows and a new Zune Marketplace. BLOGS Today on Cisco Subnet Cisco's latest NAC service lets end users set up guest access to the corporate network - is it good to give end users such control? Wendell Odom asks if you need certs for a job inside your company - and outside. Cisco working on open source database connectivity protocol. Today on Microsoft Subnet What's the biggest problem with virtualization? Overpopulation, says blogger Mitchell Ashley. Plus, a mild Patch Tuesday, the lowdown on revisions to the MCSE program. And Bill Gates donates $50 million to fight AIDS in China. Buzzblog: 10 reasons you shouldn't believe in UFOs Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington and his band of others are out beating the drums so loudly about UFOs that they might be heard on another planet. Do you believe in alien visitors? Here are 10 reasons why you shouldn't. Today on Layer 8, where we wonder if the South Koreans ever saw Westworld: Call it Westworld Lives! South Korea officials said they hope to build two robot theme parks for $1.6 billion by 2013. Up for grabs: Free copies of MPLS VPN Security book; Free Cisco training course worth up to $3,495 Enter to win a free copy of MPLS VPN Security by Michael Behringer and Monique Morrow, published by Cisco Press. Also, you can enter to win a free Cisco training course of your choosing, worth up to $3,495, courtesy of Cisco learning partner Skyline-ATS. |
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