Networking World: August 2007

Friday, August 31, 2007

Monster Data Theft; EarthLink Sticking With Wi-Fi And Helio

TechWeb Networking Update - Friday, Aug 31, 2007

(Table of Contents)

*Monster Data Theft Also Hit U.S. Government Job Site
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*More Enterasys Execs Get Prison Terms As Government Winds Up Case
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*ITT Wins FAA Contract For Air Traffic Control
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*NIST Researchers Tackle Wireless Interference Problem
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*HP And Tandberg Team Up To Improve Telepresence Offerings
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*CompTIA Adds German Language Convergence Exams
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( Today's Top Story)

Monster Data Theft Also Hit U.S. Government Job Site
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Users of the USAjobs.gov Web site were among job seekers whose
contact data was stolen by hackers, a U.S. government spokesman
said Thursday.

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The Future Of Mobile Tech: Next Year's Notebooks Will Be Worth
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The pace of hardware innovation is due to speed up in 2008, as
notebooks get bigger, smaller, and a lot more useful.

New Apple iPods Expected Sept. 5
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Other rumors say the iPods would be powered by a derivative of
the Mac operating system and that Apple would offer the
long-awaited Beatles music catalog on iTunes.

Microsoft Delays Windows Server Until Early 2008
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Windows Server 2008 is now in Beta 3 and feature complete, but
Microsoft is delaying it because "it needs a little more time to
bake," the company said.

Sony Unveils Video Walkman, Drops Connect Music Store
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The media players will support a wide variety of file formats for
downloading and playing music and video.

The future of mobile tech: Next year's notebooks will be worth the wait
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The pace of hardware innovation is due to speed up in 2008, as
notebooks get bigger, smaller, and a lot more useful.

(Editor's Picks)

Microsoft Settles Web Patent Dispute With Eolas
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Shareholders of the closely held company will receive a per-share
dividend of between $60 and $72 as a result of the deal with
Microsoft, although terms of the settlement are confidential.

IBM's Computing Breakthrough Promises Chips The Size Of Dust
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IBM's new techniques may well lead to the use of atoms for
digital storage, which could store the entire contents of YouTube
-- about 1,000 trillion bits of data.

Dell Profits Helped By Higher Prices, Lower Component Costs
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Besides the impact of its restructuring, Dell's business may also
be affected by an ongoing investigation by the Securities and
Exchange Commission into the computer maker's past accounting practices.

(Networking News of the Week)

More Enterasys Execs Get Prison Terms As Government Winds Up Case
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Three executives got sentences that range from a year and a day
to several years in prison.

ITT Wins FAA Contract For Air Traffic Control
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The Federal Aviation Administration selected ITT Corp on Thursday
to build the centerpiece of a new satellite-based air traffic
control system, the agency said.

NIST Researchers Tackle Wireless Interference Problem
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The federal agency hopes to help companies improve factory
designs and avoid blocking transmissions that make it difficult
to take advantage of wireless networks.

HP And Tandberg Team Up To Improve Telepresence Offerings
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Users are able to collaborate by linking HP Halo Collaboration
Studios to Tandberg's conference room and desktop-based systems.

CompTIA Adds German Language Convergence Exams
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The certification supports voice over Internet Protocol
deployments as adoption of VoIP in Europe has increased.

Nokia's Ovi Opens Door To Music, Internet Services
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The platform is a rebundling of Nokia services such as its N-Gage
games and its Nokia Music store that sync up with existing social
networks, communities, and content.

EarthLink CEO Devoted To Muni Wi-Fi And Helio
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Despite cutbacks in staff and future investments, Rolla Huff said
the company is "not exiting" its marquee wireless pursuits.

Broadcom Unveils Gigabit Ethernet Switches For Unified Communications
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The StrataXGS devices will give developers an effective tool to
deploy secure unified communications infrastructures, Broadcom said.

Motorola Slaps Surging Aruba With Patent Lawsuit
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Two of the patents use 3-D representations for wireless LAN
design and management, the other two relate to WLAN switching
architecture technology.

WebEx Links iPhone To Outlook, Remote PCs
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An upgrade to WebEx PCNow 3.0 remote access software will let
iPhone users check their Microsoft Outlook e-mail and view the
files stored on their remote Windows computers.

Diebold Gets Patents For Mobile ATM Technology
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Diebold says it has received patents for technologies that let
mobile phone owners do things like find ATMs, order cash
withdrawals remotely, generate electronic checks, and transmit
wireless payments.

EarthLink To Restructure, Close Offices, Lay Off 900
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Faced with declining revenue from its core Internet-access
business, EarthLink has made several attempts to diversify
without much success.

TeliaSonera Launches Mobile Broadband For Dell Laptops
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The fast wireless connection is provided via the ubiquitous SIM
card that is universally used by cell phone service providers
using the GSM standard.

Extricom's Uni-Fi Alliance A Challenge To Wi-Fi Group
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Scrambling for WLAN market share, the company aligns itself as a
standards body to certify interoperability of multi-application
wireless LANs, devices, PBXs, and the like.

KACE Launches Appliance For Managing Virtual, Physical Servers
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The company's technology includes software for agentless
deployment of physical and virtual machines from a centralized
deployment library, as well as VM management support.

Hanzlik Out As Wi-Fi Alliance Chief
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No replacement has been named; Hanzlik's post has been filled on
a temporary basis by Andrew Myles, manager of wireless standards
at Cisco.

Unified Communications Can Cause Network Traffic Jams
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Nearly four of 10 companies surveyed have suffered application
performance problems due to the convergence of communications
apps, the survey says.

IBM In $17 Million Outsourcing Deal With Danish Government
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The pact extends an existing contract that IBM inked with the
Danish government in 2003 to support its Agricultural Advisory
Service.

Federal Security Officers Say Telecommuting Is Safe, But Want
Better Mobile Security
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A study reports that 83% of federal CISOs have strong interest in
mobile endpoint certification for compliance with the Federal
Information Security Management Act.

Google's Single-Number Service Hits A Couple Of Speed Bumps
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Some 434 GrandCentral users were affected when a small regional
carrier partner decided to exit certain local markets.

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DRC introduces DM Assistant
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DRC adds an automated underwriting solution to its DecisionMaker suite.

PostgreSQL 8.3 Features To Be Available After Labor Day
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Full text search and other features will become available for
free download in beta code after Labor Day; with the final
release to follow by 8-10 weeks.

U.S. Moves To Fine Wireless Carriers Over 911 Service
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U.S. regulators said Thursday they had proposed penalizing three
wireless carriers which the government says failed to meet new
stricter standards for being able to locate cellular telephone
callers in an emergency.

Apple Store 'Humiliates' The Disabled, Lawsuit Claims
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The lawsuit charges that the San Francisco Apple Store's
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and restroom facilities" are not wheelchair accessible.

States, Justice Department Differ On Microsoft Monopoly
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A group of state attorneys general claim the landmark antitrust
case against Microsoft has failed to reduce the company's monopoly.

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# posted by Aamir Memon : 12:55 PM 0 comments

Cisco plans to blend two NAC schemes; UTM firewalls ready for the enterprise

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Cisco plans to blend two NAC schemes
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UTM firewalls: Ready for the enterprise
IT managers at small and midsize businesses like unified threat management appliances - firewalls that layer on antimalware protection, content filtering, antispam and intrusion prevention - because deploying a single, multi-function device reduces costs and simplifies configuration. But with dramatic differences between SMB and enterprise requirements, is there a place for enterprise UTM firewalls? The answer is definitely "yes," for these three reasons: reduced complexity, simplified management and increased flexibility.

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Acer masters the PC market share
Acer executed a master stroke in the global war for PC market share with its US$710 million purchase of Gateway Inc., but it may take a while for ...

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5. Hacks hit embassy, government e-mail worldwide
6. Secrets of vendors' pricing plans
7. Bank of India site hacked
8. ISPs to rural U.S.: Live with dial-up
9. Notes from OPNETWORK 2007
10. How close is World War 3.0?

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MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war; Why does a NAC appliance cost $25,000, anyway?

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MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war
The IETF and ITU standards bodies are sparring over a set of MPLS specifications that some say could lead to massive interoperability issues for service providers if left unchanged.

Why does a NAC appliance cost $25,000, anyway?
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Hacks hit embassy, government e-mail accounts worldwide
Usernames and passwords for more than 100 e-mail accounts at embassies and governments worldwide have been posted online. Using the information, anyone can access the accounts that have been compromised.

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Linux will be on a third of smartphones in 2012
By 2012, Linux will be running on nearly 31% of all smart devices, thanks to a growth rate faster than Windows Mobile and Symbian.

Internet pipes can’t keep up in YouTube age
The Internet needs a massive investment to keep up with the demands of YouTube fans, billions of e-mails and wireless access, a university study states.

Microsoft sics lawyers on popular AutoPatcher utility
Microsoft puts kibosh on a four-year-old “offline Windows Update” tool popular with administrators and consumers, saying it fears the utility could be avenue for malicious software.

Contest challenges SysAdmins to sing
SysAdmin of the Year contest spins out singing and song-writing contest for systems administrators as part of annual SysAdmin appreciation day.

Lockheed Martin begins to deploy IPv6
U.S. government contractor Lockheed Martin has begun to move part of its network to IPv6 as a way of showing customers how to make the transition.

Former Juniper lawyer faces backdating charge
The SEC has filed fraud charges against the former legal counsel for Juniper Networks and KLA-Tencor over violating rules on accounting for the backdating of employee stock options.

NIST to set noise standards for manufacturing-based wireless networksThe National Institute of Standards and Technology said it is looking to establish a set of standards aimed at pre-qualifying wireless devices for use in industrial environments.

Blogs

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Today on Layer 8, where we've never bought anything on eBay for more than, like, $20:
So what do you do with 250 servers and thousands of terabytes of data storage when nobody else wants it? Auction it online, what else? High-tech online asset liquidator Rasmus Auctioneers is prepping $15 million worth of brand new - still in the box - data center gear that was dumped in its lap from a Department of the Interior lease cancellation.

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2. Airline puts Linux PC in every seat
3. Vista SP1 beta on the way
4. PDF spam levels plummet
5. iPhone unlocking video hits Web
6. Windows Server 2008 delayed again
7. The metal-whisker menace
8. iPhone unlocker trades phone for 'sweet' car
9. How close is World War 3.0?
10. Deja vu: Sony uses rootkits, F-Secure says

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# posted by Aamir Memon : 7:11 AM 0 comments

MPLS proposal spawns turf war; OOXML standardization battle drags on

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Network World's Standards and Regulations News Alert, 08/31/07

MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war, 08/30/07: The IETF and ITU standards bodies are sparring over a set of MPLS specifications that some say could lead to massive interoperability issues for service providers if left unchanged.

Office Open XML standardization to drag into next year, 08/30/07: The long and contentious battle to standardize Office Open XML won’t end this weekend when ISO member countries cast votes, but is likely headed for a special meeting where specific questions regarding the 6,000-page specification will need to be resolved.

Microsoft employee offered incentives for OOXML support, 08/30/07: Microsoft admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.

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Microsoft firm on OOXML standardization, 08/29/07: Following criticism from the Open Source Industry Association (OSIA) over its ambition to have the Office Open XML (Open XML or OOXML) format accepted as an international (ISO) standard, Microsoft's group product manager for Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, spoke with Computerworld about why the world needs two standard document formats.

Podcast: SOX at 5: Benefits and Headaches, 08/29/07: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 turned five on July 31. Compliance with this federal law, designed to regulate the accounting and reporting practices of public companies, has become a top concern for executives, legal teams and the IT departments that support them. While the law has helped companies run tighter ships and secure themselves against threats, compliance has cost companies significant time, money and headaches. Many are wondering whether all the work is worth it. James Sayles, chief compliance advisor at Ecora Software and an expert in security, risk management and auditing, discusses the pros and cons of SOX with Cara Garretson.

The Blogosphere rages over OOXML standards vote: As the deadline approaches for the ISO vote on acceptance/rejection of Open Office XML as a standard, anyone and everyone involved in the process is blogging about it. Opinions range from gloating to indignation at the process, the spec and Microsoft’s controversial role.

Design e-mail archives beyond legal discovery, 08/24/07: Corporations are racing against time to create archives that allow retrieval of e-mails in response to increasingly common civil suit discovery motions.

Patent reform opponents find support from unions, 08/24/07: Opponents of legislation that would overhaul the U.S. patent system have enlisted new allies who may cause majority Democrats in Congress to rethink their support of the proposals.

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# posted by Aamir Memon : 6:59 AM 0 comments

ISPs to rural U.S.: Live with dial-up; MPLS proposal spawns IETF, ITU turf war

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WAN News Alert, 08/31/07

ISPs to rural U.S.: Live with dial-up, 08/27/07: You can't get there from here. That old New England saw is an apt metaphor for the state of high-speed rural broadband. While many telecommunications carriers are posting record profits this year, millions of U.S. homes and businesses still have no access to broadband -- and that's no coincidence.

Notes from OPNETWORK 2007: Cisco Subnet blogger Jeff Doyle writes: "OPNET has a new IPv6 planning and analysis module for their network modeling platform, and invited me to their OPNETWORK technology conference to get some hands-on time with it."

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Current EarthLink deal with SF looks dead, 08/29/07: EarthLink's current contract to build a municipal Wi-Fi network in San Francisco appears to be dead following a restructuring of the struggling ISP.

Former Juniper lawyer faces backdating charge, 08/29/07: Juniper Networks has been caught up in the stock options backdating scandal as a former general counsel for the network equipment company is charged with violating the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accounting rules.

Indian software outsourcers focus on reuse, 08/29/07: Up against competition for markets and for hiring staff, Indian software outsourcers are focusing on building reusable software that automates specific business processes. These software components can in turn be used across a number of clients, saving costs and time.

The schism between the applications team and the rest of IT, 08/28/07: The last newsletter mentioned the forthcoming IT Roadmap conference that Network World is producing at the Adams's Mark hotel in Dallas on Sept. 6. That newsletter also discussed some of the topics that we’ve talked about in recent newsletter and that Jim will cover in his two keynotes at the ITR conference.

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Cisco's efforts to eradicate unauthorized sales stops shy of working with UNEDA

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Network World's Cisco News Alert, 08/31/07

Welcome to the Friday edition of Network World's Cisco News Alert in which we focus on the top items from Cisco Subnet, your gateway to Cisco news, blogs, discussion forums, security alerts, giveaways and more. Enjoy!

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Cisco's efforts to eradicate unauthorized sales stops shy of working with UNEDA
Cisco hopes to eliminate unauthorized sales of its gear on eBay by signing up for the auctioneer's Verified Rights Owner Program (VeRO). Curiously though, Cisco has remained silent on whether it would work with the United Network Equipment Dealer Association to eradicate counterfeit equipment in the wider market. Why is Cisco seemingly hesitant to take up UNEDA's offer to work together in this effort? Let us know.

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Brad Reese on Cisco: CCAI - Cisco cert teaching future Cisco pros
Received a Cisco Resume this week from of all places Kathmandu, Nepal. Obviously, it was quite a thrill to receive a resume from that mythical, exotic paradise Bob Seger made famous in his hit song Katmandu ...

Jeff Doyle on IP Routing: Protecting your network edge: Now for the bad news
Over a number of previous posts I’ve written about securing the edge of your network, protecting both you and your external peering neighbors from malicious attack and from damaging configuration errors; I’ve written about everything from basic best practices to bogon filtering to source filtering to spiffy tools like uRPF and TTL hacks. It seems like there’s always a “But…”, so here’s the big But in the room: Many of the tools and configurations I’ve discussed can involve a performance tradeoff, and some can introduce security vulnerabilities.

Author Expert Jamey Heary: Highlighting 5 NEW lesser known PIX/ASA Firewall features
The 8.0.2 software release for the PIX and ASA platforms was a big one! My guess is you haven’t had the time, or the inspiration, to read through the release notes and drill into the configuration guide to find all of the new features you now get with the 8.0.2 code release. Fret not, I am here to help!

ChannelSurfing with Ken Presti: The Cisco-Microsoft lovefest: Tough choices ahead for the channel?
Collaboration and friendly co-opetition were clearly the main themes of the August 20th moderated discussion between John Chambers and Microsoft’s Steve Balmer. And if there are two guys in the modern business world with more reasons to get all brotherly, I don’t know who they might be. People with the most success are also the ones with most to lose. So I actually think there was more happening than basic PR. This was as much of a message to people within Cisco and Microsoft as it was a message to people outside of both companies. Play nice.

Michael Morris' Notes from the Field: Do you understand how much bandwidth 1Gbps is?
That's the question I often find myself asking users. At our largest sites we have deployed Gigabit to the desktop - not because users need it, but because the price difference between 10/100/1000 and 10/100 cards in Cisco 6500s is small. Plus, there are better features in the 10/100/1000 blades than in the older 10/100 cards. So, might as well get the Gig blades.

HOT DISCUSSIONS AMONG CISCO SUBNET READERS:

Unlocking Linksys IP devices: Can it be done?
Linksys IP devices may be unlockable, reports the Voice over IP blog. The blog is responding to VoIP provider Nuvio's July open letter to Cisco, asking its Linksys division to unlock its devices to help rescue customers of the defunct SunRocket VoIP provider. Cisco Subnet readers think it is possible and have the scars to prove it.

ProCurve is breathing down Cisco's neck
ProCurve Networking is closing in on Cisco in the Ethernet switch market, according to Infonetics Research. Is the gap getting smaller because customers are disatisfied with Cisco or because ProCurve is a better alternative?

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* Check out Cisco Subnet's library for more free chapters from Cisco Press books.

* Watch this space for the start of a new blog in September by respected Cisco trainer and author, Wendell Odom. Plus, we'll be giving away his latest Cisco exams book. Do you have a question for Wendell?

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Linux will be on a third of smartphones in 2012

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Videos! We've got videos! Visit the for all the conference keynotes, the kernel update from Andrew Morton, and the "Golden Penguin Bowl" game show.

More Linux news

Linux will be on a third of smartphones in 2012, Linuxworld, 08/20/07
By 2012, Linux will be running on nearly 31% of all smart devices, thanks to a growth rate faster than Windows Mobile and Symbian, according to predictions from a research firm.

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Linux products help Novell boost revenue in third quarter, LinuxWorld, 08/30/07
Linux products helped Novell boost revenue in its fiscal 2007 third quarter to $243 million, compared to $234 million a year ago. Novell reported a net loss of $3.4 million.

Microsoft employee offered incentives for OOXML support, LinuxWorld, 08/30/07
Microsoft admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.

Open source court ruling impacts debated, LinuxWorld, 08/29/07
A recent federal court ruling pertaining to open-source software in model railroads could derail enforcement of open-source licenses altogether, according to Mark Radcliffe, general counsel for the Open Source Initiative.

PowerFile launches Blu-ray-based archiving, LinuxWorld, 08/29/07
Here's a rare event: Blu-ray in a business archiving system. U.S. archive product supplier PowerFile has upgraded its Active Archive Appliance to the A3 Enterprise Edition, using 50GB Blu-ray disks instead of DVDs as before.

Microsoft firm on OOXML standardization, LinuxWorld, 08/29/07
Following criticism from the Open Source Industry Association (OSIA) over its ambition to have the Office Open XML (Open XML or OOXML) format accepted as an international (ISO) standard, Microsoft's group product manager for Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, spoke with Computerworld about why the world needs two standard document formats.

Kenbushi Pro media center software now free, 08/29/07
Lava Software has released Kenbushi Pro 7.1, an update to its media entertainment software for Mac OS X, Windows and soon, Linux. The software is now free for personal users, schools and charity organizations. For commercial users it costs $24.95 per user.

LinuxWorld Community

LinuxWorld Community, 08/28/07: LWN discusses the release of Adobe Flash 9 for Linux. This will probably be the last release that people have to worry about, since Gnash is getting really close. No YouTube videos yet, but Gnash is consistently getting enough Flash ads that I'm going to have to put FlashBlock on my all-Free Debian boxes, not just the bastardized machine I use for work.

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Each Friday, we present a short list of the hottest whitepapers, webcasts and research available. Information you can use to solve problems that crept up during the week, and to prepare for the challenges you'll face in the days ahead. We also provide links to news stories you might have missed, plus facts, quotes and other forms of brain-candy. (Hint: The fun stuff is near the bottom, so don't forget to scroll.) Have a great weekend!

VMware: Guide to Virtual Infrastructure Implementation
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EMC: Bridging the Gap between Storage and Security
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Borland: Managing Change for Competitive Advantage
According to Darwin, survival isn't based on strength or intelligence, but being responsive to change.

Hubspan: Integration as a Service
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Informatica: Enterprise Data Blueprint for Sustained Growth
You shouldn't be scared to say the F-word around the office. (Assuming you're talking about "fragmentation.")

Cisco Systems: Privacy vs. Customer Intimacy-Strike the Balance
When is getting to know your customers going too far?

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The Simpsons vs Star Trek
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DEMOletter Weekly Edition, Aug. 30, 2007

DEMOletter Weekly Edition
Aug. 30, 2007
Volume 12, Number 29

CHRIS SHIPLEY: INNOVATION CONTINUES DOWN UNDER

Again I find myself on a whirlwind tour of the Land of Oz, invited by the ANZA Technology Network to meet about fifty young companies throughout Australia and New Zealand. In the past 10 days, I've seen everything from a signal processing engine that identifies faulty ball bearings in train wheels to data routing middleware for the financial services industry.

Here?s a quick tour around Australia's technology regions:

Read more at:
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KEITH SHAW: IT BETTER START WORRYING ABOUT THE NEXT IPHONE

Better late than never, I finally received my iPhone evaluation unit from Apple (whoo!). After fighting off several co-workers, our summer intern and my 20-month daughter (don't ask) for control of the device, I was able to explore some of the device's features first hand.

My initial thought? IT is going to have some serious problems down the road.

For a lot of enterprise IT managers, it was easy to "just say no" for enterprise deployment of an iPhone - they could point to a general corporate policy (if they had one) about not supporting first-generation devices or equipment. Hey, even Microsoft has to generally wait until it rolls out a service pack or two before most companies start to take the offering seriously (good news for Vista fans - SP1 is set to arrive somewhere between January and March 2008).

Even if the iPhone-ravenous employee was able to get by the first "no" from IT, there is still difficult Exchange e-mail interaction, the slower AT&T EDGE wireless network and other issues that make the first iPhone not as enterprise friendly as most companies would like.

Read more at:
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DEMOTRACKER: The latest from DEMO alumni

* Vivid Sky (DEMO 2006) teams up with Detroit Tigers on its SkyBOX system for on-demand instant replays at the ballpark.

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The week's 25 most-read stories

Daily News: PM

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Are today's enabling technologies for remote device support meeting managed service providers (MSPs) expectations? Are they adopting new enabling technologies to offer true value-added services? Are MSPs demonstrating their ability to provide a full service outsource solution that extends beyond basic remote monitoring, which includes proactive issue discovery as well as rapid response to poor network performance or outages? This whitepaper will review these questions and more.

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The top 25 most-read STORIES and BLOGS this week

1. Airline puts a Linux PC in every seat
2. Network Nerdiness trivia quiz
3. What do metal whiskers look like?
4. Open source companies to watch
5. Deja vu: Sony uses rootkits, F-Secure charges
6. How close is World War 3.0?
7. iPhone unlocker trades phone for 'sweet' car
8. Acer to acquire Gateway in $710 million deal
9. iPhone unlocking video hits Web
10. Virtualization companies to watch

11. Hot IT jobs: Systems administrator
12. U.S. troops swap combat ideas on new Web site
13. The Monster.com mess
14. Vista SP1 beta on the way
15. Storm worm spam spoofs YouTube
16. Guide to online security
17. Microsoft blames human error for WGA glitch
18. Vista equals Edsel?
19. Storm worm's virulence may change tactics
20. WGA meltdown raises doubts about Microsoft reliability

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21. Microsoft says Cisco's CallManager is inferior to its new server
22. The virtues of putting virtualization on a chip
23. WAN acceleration offers huge payoff
24. With NAC, small vendors rule, expert says
25. Networkiest eBay oddities

The most-read REFERENCE PAGES this week

1. Security Research Center
2. VoIP Research Center
3. Cisco Subnet
4. LANs & WANs Research Center
5. Management Research Center

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New chips from Intel support Cisco's flavor of NAC

Security: Network Access Control

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New chips from Intel support Cisco’s flavor of NAC

By Tim Greene

New chips from Intel support Cisco’s NAC. The vPro microprocessors can store certificates for 802.1x authentication, which can be a component of Cisco’s NAC, as well as storing information needed by Cisco’s NAC to determine whether a device complies with security policies.

Specifically, Cisco NAC seeks to know things such as whether a device has an updated operating system or updated virus libraries. It uses this information to determine whether the device is safe enough to let onto the network, with a reasonable degree of assurance that the machine is not infected.

This checking is generally done either with no specialized software on the end machine - which allows rudimentary endpoint checking - or via software or dissolvable software agents.

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The problem with software doing the checks is that the machines are essentially reporting on themselves, a well-known weakness in security architecture. If the end machine is compromised, it might be compromised to the extent that it can lie effectively to the NAC policy engine.

The generally accepted better method is to have the endpoint check done in hardware, which is what the new chips support. Cisco NAC posture can be stored in the chips themselves.

This makes endpoint checks available even if the hardware is powered down or if the operating system is compromised. The chips also can receive updates for software on the host computers, so the chips could become part of remedying shortcomings that a NAC check reveals.

These new features are something that should be kept in mind as businesses update their computers and if they are weighing whether Cisco NAC is the way to go.

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Speech-to-text the answer to voice mail
The Vonage Visual Voicemail transcription service and its voice mail offering automatically transcribes voice mail messages into text, and then delivers the transcribed messages to either an e-mail address or text message to a cell phone (via SMS). Up to five e-mail addresses and five cell phones via text messaging can receive these messages. The transcription service is powered by Simulscribe, which automatically converts the voice message into a text file. In addition to the transcribed text, the service attaches a WAV file, so if you still need or want to listen to the voice message, you can.

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Oven doors can't get ESPN
Jason and Keith discuss the 'perfect storm' scenario that knocked out Skype, how Google wants to rule (or at least categorize) the universe, and how to tell the difference between a flat-screen TV and an oven door.

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SOX at 5: Benefits and Headaches
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 turned five on July 31. Compliance with this federal law, designed to regulate the accounting and reporting practices of public companies, has become a top concern for executives, legal teams and the IT departments that support them. While the law has helped companies run tighter ships and secure themselves against threats, compliance has cost companies significant time, money and headaches. Many are wondering whether all the work is worth it. James Sayles, chief compliance advisor at Ecora Software and an expert in security, risk management and auditing, discusses the pros and cons of SOX with Cara Garretson.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. Airline puts Linux PC in every seat
2. iPhone unlocking video hits Web
3. iPhone unlocker trades phone for 'sweet' car
4. Deja vu: Sony uses rootkits, F-Secure says
5. The metal-whisker menace
6. How close is World War 3.0?
7. Metal whiskers: a visual tour
8. Meltdown raises doubts about Microsoft reliability
9. Is the bloom off municipal Wi-Fi?
10. Motorola slaps Aruba with WLAN lawsuit

MOST E-MAILED ARTICLE:

Airline puts Linux PC in every seat

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Cisco prepares written exams for pilot certifications, 08/29/07: Cisco in September is expected to roll out the beta of its written exams for its latest certifications – the Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE).

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Microsoft blames human error for WGA glitch, 08/29/07: Microsoft blamed human error for a problem that identified legitimate Windows users as pirates last week.

Microsoft acquires enterprise chat provider Parlano, 08/29/07: Microsoft late Wednesday said it has acquired group chat vendor Parlano and will add the company’s MindAlign software to its portfolio of real-time communications wares.

Microsoft Vista SP1 beta on the way, 08/29/07: Microsoft Wednesday finally assigned a shipment date to Vista Service Pack 1 and also said it would release the third service pack for Windows XP next year.

Microsoft offers a year of free software to Louisiana SMBs, 08/27/07: Microsoft is working with state officials in Louisiana to offer Windows and Office software free for a year to small businesses still feeling the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Symantec CEO: Microsoft causing security price pressure, 08/28/07: Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson blamed Microsoft Tuesday for the current pricing competition his company faces in the consumer security market, suggesting Microsoft's pricing scheme for its first entry into the space is "monopolistic."

WGA meltdown raises doubts about Microsoft reliability, 08/27/07: The 19-hour blackout of the Microsoft servers that identify copies of Windows XP and Vista as legitimate or counterfeit shows that serious flaws exist in the process and raises questions about the reliability of Microsoft's services, analysts said Monday. Also: read what the Microsoft Subnet bloggers have to say.

Microsoft sets Nov. ship date for Configuration Manager, 08/27/07: Microsoft Monday said development is complete on its System Center Configuration Manager 2007, a cornerstone in its model for managed IT systems, and that the management tool will ship in November.

Vista equals Edsel?, 08/23/07: This is the situation I believe Microsoft is finding itself in with respect to Windows Vista: if there’s one thing that stands out from what I’ve been reading and from the letters you send me, Vista isn’t cutting it.

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Just how wireless can we get?

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Just how wireless can we get?

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With wireless LANs advancing rapidly, people keep raising the question, could we live without wires in our networks?

We have a whole other newsletter directed at wireless issues, but it is getting increasingly difficult to think of wireless as something outside of the rest of network architecture. Wireless is everywhere, it seems. Wireless is getting faster, with the advent of IEEE 802.11n (still in draft state, admittedly, but that's not stopping products from appearing). Wireless is becoming part of the network infrastructure of our nation's cities (although Chicago just took a step in the other direction).

I just did a search and found that I first touched on the issue of leaving wired networks behind four years ago. Back then the security issues had not been resolved, and that remained a sticking point. Interference and the limited bandwidth that WLANs provided were also cited as problematic.

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Today, it seems, the security issues are still a challenge - and so are the interference issues, in a way. Joanie Wexler recently wrote in the Wireless in the Enterprise newsletter that, in the midst of speculation that some networks could go "all-wireless," we also have to consider the possibility of wireless-specific attacks - namely, jamming. As she points out, jamming your WLAN signal is essentially a denial-of-service attack, and it's certainly possible to do.

The real reason people are asking whether we can go all-wireless, or at least mostly wireless, is the new speeds we are starting to see with 802.11n. But is that enough?

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Are you ready to abandon copper?

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Are you ready to abandon copper?

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It was recently reported in the popular press that in some cases, service providers are removing copper wiring capabilities when homes convert to fiber optic services. In this particular case, the situation involved a person ordering Verizon’s FiOS fiber optic service. In this residential setting, the copper is being retired, and, according to an Associated Press article, future residents of the home may not have the option of going back to copper wiring.

According to the article: “Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, incumbent phone companies like Verizon must lease to rivals their copper network. That's generally not the case for next-generation fiber systems. And so far, Verizon has filed more than 100 notices with the FCC to retire portions of copper throughout its network.

“The FCC allows the retirement of copper as long as public notice is given so the phone companies can work together to ensure the smaller companies' access. But rivals say access at reasonable prices is not guaranteed and it's just a matter of time before they're cut off.”

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Having the FTTH (Fiber to the Home) access enables any local service provider to provide triple-play services. At the same time, it also provides a more reliable network overall, thereby lowering overall network costs.

Again, quoting from the AP article, Verizon says that: “the company will restore copper to homes if the customer insists, but Verizon would rather not reconnect the copper and will try to persuade the customer to agree. At any rate, the phone giant provides ample warning.”

For now, this is primarily a consumer issue but we do see significant implications for businesses in several aspects. First, there’s the issue of supporting mobile workers and attempting to have a unified strategy for all employees. Also, for branch offices, we foresee a day when office complexes may no longer have copper-based telephony access as a viable option.

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Expand Networks this week announced four new products in its portfolio of application acceleration wares. The Accelerator 4830 and 4930 are targeted for small offices and branch offices, and the Accelerator 6830 and 6930 are designed for larger regional offices.

A key feature of the devices is more flexible support for wide-area file services (WAFS), which is aimed at companies that want to cut back on the numbers of servers deployed at branch offices and consolidate them in the data center.

Other newly added features include self-adjusting TCP acceleration and dynamic bandwidth management capabilities. For customers, these features translate into an increase in the number of concurrent optimized TCP sessions supported -- which sit at 64,000 for the 4830 and 4930 devices and up to 128,000 for the 6830 and 6930 devices, according to Expand Networks CTO Efi Gatmor.

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Suited for smaller remote locations, the Accelerator 4830 and 4930 devices offer compression, QoS, protocol optimization, security and encryption features, and they can accelerate IP-based applications including Oracle, SAP, Exchange and Citrix. For companies that are loathe to store data on hard drives for security reasons, the 4830 and 6830 devices do not come with hard drives, Expand Networks says.

The Accelerator 6830 and 6930 offer the same functionality, scaled for larger regional offices.

“We did a lot of market research and polled our customers on their key priorities,” said Gatmor. “The answers that kept coming back were that they required a multipoint solution that has the ability to handle many concurrent TCP sessions and could optimize almost any application and protocol. All four of our new products, which run on the Compass 6.1 Platform, address these requirements.”

In addition, the 6830 and the 6930 include flow-optimized TCP acceleration control, which uses Vegas-style algorithms to monitor the real-time state of each flow of data, according to Expand. The algorithms are designed to tune the acceleration functions to the optimal rate without overloading the infrastructure so that performance is consistent. This results in more predictable flows, fewer re-transmissions and a more efficient use of the infrastructure, Expand says.

Another feature is dynamic bandwidth adjustment, which lets a device scale the bandwidth it sends to the WAN when congestion occurs in the cloud.

Lastly, transparent WAFS capabilities eliminate the need for re-mapping clients in a virtual environment. In a virtual server architecture, Expand’s Compass software platform assumes the name of the branch file server (so that clients effectively map to Compass) and WAFS optimization takes place. With transparent WAFS, clients already mapped to the central enterprise file server also can be optimized by Compass in the branch office without remapping.

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Aptare expands into capacity management

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Aptare last week introduced a new version of its StorageConsole software, which contains for the first time a capacity management component.

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The new StorageConsole Capacity Management application gives storage administrators insight into the variance between allocated and used storage and provides predictive analysis to make future forecasting easier and more reliable. IT can view the relationship of host computers to arrays and identify storage users and abusers. With the software they can also identify underutilized storage. The StorageConsole Capacity Management application also provides alerts and notification of irregular storage utilization and consumption-based charge back reporting.

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Going forward, StorageConsole will support reporting on replication of data.

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Connectivity and its impact on Web 2.0 and unified communications

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Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog has an older but good list of issues that are facing Web 2.0 today. Among the problems that Dion sees for Web 2.0 is ‘Needing a Permaconnection,’ or the need for always-on connectivity in order for Web 2.0 to work.

I’d like to extend that concern not only to Web 2.0, but also to unified communications systems in which e-mail, IP telephony, fax, Web conferencing and other services are integrated and managed more holistically than conventional communication systems. While there are enormous advantages associated with this integration, the vulnerability of this approach goes up, as well. For example, while there is virtually universal connectivity in the workplace, there are times when networks go down, sometimes for days at a time. In the Seattle area last December, a major storm knocked out power and broadband services for hundreds of thousands of people. Some businesses and residences in a heavily populated area just a few miles from Microsoft’s main campus were without these services for nearly two weeks. The result is that when a network fails, e-mail, voice and other services are simultaneously unavailable.

Even when things are operating normally, there are times during which connectivity is unavailable, particularly for mobile employees, making the productivity gains associated with unified communications and Web 2.0 more vulnerable to disruption.

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Vista SP1 beta on the way; Higher education IT spending shifts in wake of campus slayings

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Microsoft Vista SP1 beta on the way
Microsoft Wednesday finally assigned a shipment date to Vista Service Pack 1 and also said it would release the third service pack for Windows XP next year.

Higher education IT spending shifts in wake of campus slayings
Shootings at colleges and universities have shifted IT spending priorities, with institutions investing heavily in upgrading their emergency communications systems, according to a new report from a higher education IT group.

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Data breaches where stores and others confess to losing sensitive customer information because of hackers or just plain carelessness has a strong emotional impact on consumers, but doesn’t always lead them to abandon the company as a customer.

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Design e-mail archives beyond legal discovery; Gear6 offers huge RAM cache for network

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Gear6 offers huge RAM cache for network, 08/28/07: U.S. supplier Gear6 has announced network-attached storage (NAS) boxes featuring a transparent RAM cache.

IBM expands into the SMB storage space, 08/28/07: IBM this week is expanding its small and midsize business (SMB) storage with the addition of an affordable storage array that connects to the network via iSCSI.

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Iomega's inexpensive network storage, 08/27/07: At one time, network storage was an expensive proposition. Iomega is aiming to shatter the preconception with its new line of Home Network Hard Drives. The drives, available in 320GB, 360GB, and 500GB capacities, set new low-water marks for network storage. The 320GB model costs $149, as will the 360GB model when it ships in September. The 500GB model carries a retail price of $199.

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VBrick video app saves WAN bandwidth; Panasonic speeds up trans-Pacific file transfers

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VBrick video appliance saves WAN bandwidth, 08/28/07: VBrick is introducing an appliance that can help businesses drastically reduce use of WAN bandwidth for company video presentations.

Is the bloom off municipal Wi-Fi? Chicago scraps public wireless network, 08/29/07
Chicago flew in the face of the public wireless broadband movement today and killed off an $18.5 million Internet access system. And there are signs the rush to municipal Wi-Fi maybe be slowing. Chicago cited rising costs, spotty demand and uncooperative carriers as the main reasons for the cancellation of the rollout that would have covered the city’s 228 miles.

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iPhone unlocking video hits Web, 08/29/07: A video showing the founder of a Belfast, Northern Ireland, company unlocking the iPhone hit the Web early Wednesday U.K. time as proof that software exists that can unlock Apple's device for use with carriers other than AT&T.

Should you sue your wireless carrier?, 08/23/07: Sick and tired of bad service and bungled bills from your wireless carrier? Amazingly wireless carriers, anticipating discontent, covered their rear ends when you signed up for service. Verizon's contract stipulates: "You agree that, by entering into this Agreement, you and AT&T are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action."

The TTL hack: Cisco Subnet blogger Jeff Doyle explains how to protect your network edge with TTL security.

The 300-page iPhone bill to disappear, 08/23/07: A week after the brouhaha of the 300-page iPhone bill and other customer complaints, AT&T Wireless has announced its new plan for handling iPhone billing.

Buy a mobile phone, 08/24/07: Work doesn't stop just because you've left the office. If anything, you just multitask more. So it's critical to get a mobile phone that can work as hard as you do. Today's business handsets have made a massive evolutionary leap from the simple pocket talkers of yore, offering surprisingly effective solutions for managing your calendar, your contacts, and even your business data, no matter where you are. There is no single greatest handset for all users, but with a little bit of forethought, you can easily choose the best phone and service plan for your own business needs.

Protecting your network edge: Cisco Subnet blogger Jeff Doyle explains how to protect your network edge with reverse path forwarding.

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iPhone unlocking video hits Web
A video showing the founder of a Belfast, Northern Ireland, company unlocking the iPhone hit the Web early Wednesday U.K. time as proof that software exists that can unlock Apple's device for use with carriers other than AT&T.

Is the bloom off municipal Wi-Fi? Chicago scraps public wireless network
Chicago flew in the face of the public wireless broadband movement today and killed off an $18.5 million Internet access system. And there are signs the rush to municipal Wi-Fi maybe be slowing. Chicago cited rising costs, spotty demand and uncooperative carriers as the main reasons for the cancellation of the rollout that would have covered the city’s 228 miles.

Motorola units slap Aruba with WLAN patent suit
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WGA meltdown raises doubts about Microsoft reliability
The 19-hour blackout of the Microsoft servers that identify copies of Windows XP and Vista as legitimate or counterfeit shows that serious flaws exist in the process and raises questions about the reliability of Microsoft's services, analysts said Monday. Also: read what the Microsoft Subnet bloggers have to say.

Symantec CEO: Microsoft causing security price pressure
Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson blamed Microsoft Tuesday for the current pricing competition his company faces in the consumer security market, suggesting Microsoft's pricing scheme for its first entry into the space is "monopolistic."

Google CFO heads for retirement
Google is losing its CFO, George Reyes, who has decided to retire, the Mountain View, Calif. company said Tuesday.

HP telepresence upgrades include a less expensive version
HP unveiled improvements to its telepresence technology that makes high-quality IP videoconferencing more affordable for business customers.

Web monitoring software resized
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The Blogosphere rages over OOXML standards vote
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Cisco certs and tummy tucks; Cisco VoIP network engineers on the hunt for new jobs

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Get a Cisco certification and your tummy tucked at the same time: Koenig Solutions, a New Dehli-based training company, is offering boot camp courses for Cisco and Microsoft certifications in exotic locations, including Goa beach and the Himalayas. The training provider boasts a 90% pass rate for Cisco exams. And if you'd like to bring back (or take away) something more than a vendor certification from your trip, Koenig can provide advice about cosmetic procedures in India.

Cisco VoIP network engineers on the hunt for new jobs, 08/27/07: Eight very sought after CCVP Cisco Certified Voice Professionals are seeking new job challenges.

Today at Cisco Subnet: Cisco's marketing juggernaut is helping raise awareness of telepresence, and that's helping its competitors, according to HP, which launched a cheaper setup. There are a number of tools to help secure your network edge, but many involve a peformance tradeoff, says IP routing expert Jeff Doyle. Plus: Cable Digital News has a lively analysis of Cisco's The Human Network campaign, noting that the program has a few elements that don't sit well together, or have unfortunate associations.

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Forrester: SIM market set to flourish

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Forrester: SIM market set to flourish

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Security information management (SIM) products began to emerge earlier this decade as an alternative to manually dealing with the volume of security alerts generated across various network and security devices.

Sometimes called security event management, SIM products started to pop up from start-ups and some existing management and security vendors. A flurry of start-ups emerged -- such as netForensics, GuardedNet, e-Security and Intellitactics to name just a few -- with technology designed to marry the data collection, normalization and correlation capabilities of management software with the intelligence of security tools.

SIM technology is designed to automate the collection of event log data from security devices and help users make sense of it through a common management console. SIM products use data aggregation and event correlation features similar to those of network-management software and applies them to event logs generated from security devices such as firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion-detection systems and antivirus software. What's more, SIM products can normalize data -- that is, they can translate Cisco and Check Point Software alerts, for example, into a common format so the data can be correlated.

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Bigger vendors picked up on the potential of this technology and started shopping. For instance, Novell acquired e-Security; Micromuse acquired GuardedNet; and IBM later acquired Micromuse. And those vendors were on to something even a few years ago.

According to Forrester Research, the market for SIM technology is growing at a rate of about 50% and will continue to grow like that until 2009 -- reaching close to $1.2 billion by 2011. Due to pressures around meeting regulatory standards, more companies need to perform log management and demonstrate the integrity of their business processes -- "which means they are monitoring applications and the underlying infrastructure for improper behavior," a recent Forrester report states.

Another factor that will drive the growth, Forrester says, is small to midsize businesses taking a look at SIM. As the products become easier to use and more affordable, SMBs will start to invest in the technology. Right now, Forrester estimates, companies with fewer than 1,000 employees account for about 1% of the market, but by 2011 they could make up about 30%. And SIM technology could become a bridge between IT and business operations, the research firm speculates, saying it will foster more collaboration as it flourishes in companies of all sizes.

"SIM will be the primary tool for enabling operations teams and security teams to collaborate on: turning business policy into specific configurations and requirements; assessing the risk of ongoing security issues; and coordinating the response to security incidents," the report reads.

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Debian stays true to its roots

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Debian stays true to its roots - Bdale Garbee for LinuxWorld, 08/27/07: It's a busy time for the members of the Debian Project. Sam Hocevar took over as the new Debian Project leader in April, right around the time the long-awaited Debian 4.0 or 'Etch,' hit the streets. And, in mid-June, hundreds of active Debian developers, contributors and other software visionaries from around the world met, many for the first time, in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the Debian Project's annual developer conference.

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The Debian Project was started in August 1993 by Ian Murdock, and early on he drafted a Debian Manifesto that explained what he hoped to accomplish. The idea of an all-volunteer Linux distribution project quickly attracted a small, passionate group of free software hackers that has evolved into a very large, well-organized community of developers and users. I joined the project about a year after it started, and have remained active ever since. What continues to motivate me to remain involved is that Debian is one of the most impressive examples of distributed software development in the world—and is entirely based on the collaborative work of volunteers.

As it grew, the Debian Project crafted a constitution to designate how key decisions would be made. Unlike many other organizations, only tiny bits of power are given to designated people working on the project, like the elected Debian Project Leader, Secretary and Technical Committee. Most rights remain with individual developers, and thus power within Debian is distributed over the entire developer base. There's a voting mechanism for resolving issues that can't be agreed upon simply among individuals. The social contract, constitution and policy documents provide context, and a measure of stability, to empower Debian community members to remain focused on the work at hand.

The Debian distribution is a fascinating social phenomenon. Imagine a voluntary group of more than 1,000 registered developers who build and distribute software that is equal or superior to any commercial operating system -- and there’s no company backing them. (read more)

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As Sugar 5.0 debuts, SugarCRM looks to developer version - LinuxWorld, 08/27/07: As SugarCRM readies the final version of its Sugar 5.0 commercial and open source customer relationship management software, the vendor is planning a new platform edition of the software for developers.

Warning to check open-source licensing - LinuxWorld, 08/24/07: Business users of open source software should review their open-source licensing agreements, audit their use, and create formal policies for managing source code, especially mixed-source code.

U.S. organization edging to Microsoft's Open XML support - LinuxWorld, 08/24/07: In a reversal, the American representative to the ISO standards body is now tentatively supporting the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format as an open standard this year.

Guide to: Online security - LinuxWorld, 08/24/07: We asked 10 of the most savvy and experienced security experts and industry veterans to fess up about their own online habits.

Microsoft revises anti-Linux campaign with new site - LinuxWorld, 08/24/07: Microsoft has replaced its controversial anti-Linux "Get the Facts" Web site with a kinder, gentler site explaining how its Windows Server operating system compares to open-source Linux as well as other competitive OSes.

What’s become of last year’s open source companies to watch? - LinuxWorld, 08/23/07: Ten open source vendors made Network World’s Companies to Watch list one year ago. Read this story to find out what they’re up to today.

Open source companies to watch - LinuxWorld, 08/23/07: Open source is being increasingly adopted by enterprises as low-cost solutions for a variety of technical needs. This story highlights eight developing open source projects that are worth watching.

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Microsoft has a ways to go with VoIP but competitors should beware

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Microsoft has a ways to go with VoIP but competitors should beware

By Steve Taylor

As we disclosed last time in our VoiceCon 2007 highlights, Microsoft has announced the addition of voice “quality of experience” monitoring to its unified communications and VoIP feature set. The timing of Microsoft’s announcement was somewhat ironic since it came in the same week that Cisco’s CEO John Chambers and Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer held a major press event that discussed how the two companies’ relationship is formed around both cooperation and competition.

Microsoft’s announcement clearly reinforces the notion that it is a formidable competitor to Cisco and to other IP telephony equipment suppliers when it comes to VoIP and unified communications. Microsoft’s Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 Quality of Experience Monitoring (QOEM) Server is designed to monitor voice and video quality and issues, and it features real-time updates, along with alerts and detailed analysis of network performance based on the user’s endpoint.

According to Gurdeep Singh Pall, corporate vice president at Microsoft’s Unified Communications: “A new era of business communication is upon us, defined by software, not hardware — and sound quality will be one of the key product differentiators.”

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Backing up Gurdeep’s claim, Microsoft has released a white paper that touts its superiority over other solutions.

Since the software will only provide QoS monitoring and management to Microsoft-specific deployments, the initial release will be somewhat helpful to enterprises that deploy OCS with their PBX, but IT managers will still need to rely on other management tools for elements that aren’t connected to OCS 2007.

Our analysis: While the addition of voice and video quality management adds another arrow in the Microsoft quiver, we don’t think Microsoft has a complete VoIP solution – at least not yet. But as we’ve said before, traditional suppliers like Nortel, Siemens, Avaya and Cisco need to keep ahead of the feature curve if they don’t want to be entirely displaced by Microsoft.

And on the issue of cooperation vs. competition, we’ll come back to that again next week.

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Efforts afoot to ease building complex Wi-Fi environments

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Efforts afoot to ease building complex Wi-Fi environments

By Joanie Wexler

As enterprises connect more systems to their wireless LANs to support additional applications, an increasingly complex integration job faces them – or, at least, their integrators.

To help ease these configuration challenges, WLAN system maker Extricom this week announced the formation of a group of ecosystem vendors that will work together to smooth out the software configuration discrepancies between their systems. The company’s Uni-Fi Alliance involves, so far, location tag maker Aeroscout, wireless VoIP handset maker Ascom and wireless intrusion detection and prevention supplier AirTight.

The group differs from the Wi-Fi Alliance, which tests and certifies basic 802.11 system component interoperability among vendors. The Wi-Fi-Certified stamp of approval indicates that one vendor’s client can successfully transmit signals to another vendor’s access point. At the application layer, however, there is a dearth of industry-standard APIs for how WLANs should talk to upstream devices such as location appliances and IP PBXs, and downstream devices such as VoIP client handsets.

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As a result, integrators or enterprises need to fiddle with the various software configuration discrepancies themselves to get the disparate systems to interoperate, says Norm Dubroff, CEO at WAV, an Extricom distributor in Aurora, Ill.

The goal of the alliance, intended to expand to include IP PBX makers, fixed-mobile convergence gateway suppliers, and others, is to do some upfront legwork to reduce the necessary fiddling. The joint work will create implementation notes to help installers with the many configuration parameters and variables that must be adjusted for different types of systems to work together, says David Confalonieri, Extricom’s VP of marketing.

Extricom is a start-up whose WLAN system is built on a so-called channel-blanket architecture, rather than a cell-based architecture. The blanket architecture - conceptually similar to Meru Networks’s single-channel architecture but allowing multiple channels to be overlaid on top of one another - makes all access points look like one big AP to Wi-Fi traffic. The architecture promotes seamless mobility with no AP-to-AP handoffs (particularly meaningful to latency-sensitive VoIP), the elimination of RF cell planning and co-channel interference, and the ability to offer a performance guarantee for both connection rate and bandwidth.

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Is it really possible to unlock Linksys IP phones?; Skype woos SMBs

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Is it really possible to unlock Linksys IP phones?: Bloggers and Cisco Subnet readers debate whether it is possible to unlock Linksys IP phones.

Unlocking the iPhone could invite DMCA suit, 08/27/07: Hackers who unlock Apple's iPhone from the AT&T network and share the method with 10 million of their closest Internet friends are inviting a lawsuit from the two companies, several intellectual property lawyers said Monday.

Managing voice, 08/28/07: At Voicecon last week, there was much hoopla around IP telephony management, led by EMC’s announcement to play in the space following a partnership deal inked with Integrated Research. Finally… IT decision-makers are paying at least some attention to how they will manage their voice (and ultimately unified) communication infrastructure.

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Unified communications behind increased network traffic, 08/27/07: When it comes to network traffic, network managers know it's not about how to decrease traffic; it's more about how to ensure bottlenecks are avoided when traffic inevitably continues to grow.

Defunct SunRocket sues Vonage over subscriber list, 08/24/07: Defunct VoIP service provider SunRocket is suing Vonage, claiming its rival used its subscriber list without paying for it.

Skype woos SMBs with new deal, 08/24/07: Skype has launched a package for small businesses that bundles up the company's software with call credits and subscriptions for multiple users.

Cisco vs. Microsoft: More FUD ahead: Cisco Subnet's Channelguy says despite the promises of Cisco CEO John Chambers and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to play nice it's likely that their sales reps will still sling FUD.

Microsoft, Limelight deal revealed: Microsoft has hired Limelight Networks to boost Internet performance. The two have hinted that they will jointly develop broadcast quality video streaming technologies.

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iPhone unlocker trades phone for 'sweet' car; Are all-wireless networks vulnerable to jamming?

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How Consumer Tech Could Cripple IT; MIT researchers invent clutter detector

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Podcast: How Consumer Tech Could Cripple IT: Employees adding Skype to a notebook or buying their own smart phone may seem harmless, but this growth in consumerization will be a nightmare for IT departments. New devices like the iPhone and consumer-based social networking tools can create a recipe for disaster. The old "search and destroy" methods won't work -- IT needs a new Zen-like approach to handling the "rogue end users" who infiltrate a company. Josh Holbrook, program manager for enterprise research at Yankee Group, discusses the issue with Keith Shaw. (18:24)

MIT researchers invent clutter detector, 08/27/07: Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have come up with a way to measure visual clutter, a breakthrough that could help everyone from fighter pilots to Web site designers.

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Could deploying Google Apps be a career-limiting move?, 08/22/07: Deploying Google Apps could be a “career-limiting move for enterprise architects” if they expect too much from the software-as-a-service collaboration suite and its “rudimentary” feature set, the Burton Group research and consulting firm says in a new report.

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