Thursday, January 08, 2009

2009's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries; Cisco: Consumer business to be $10B in 5 years; More from CES

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2009's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries
By Paul McNamara
From the Mac's legendary Super Bowl debut to less flamboyant births of Cisco, Dell, RIM and the future founder of Facebook, 1984 provided a bounty of technological achievement and geeky infamy. There was the divestiture of AT&T, the advent of genetic fingerprinting, quantum cryptography, the book that popularized "cyberspace," and, let's not forget that Bernie Goetz was a hardcore geek before going medieval on that New York subway. NASA even crashed a jetliner... on purpose. The media will revisit all of them one by one over the next 12 months, but here they are today, neatly alphabetized. View slideshow

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Cisco: Consumer business to be worth $10 billion in 5 years
Cisco wants you to think of its brand when you think consumer electronics. Going against big guns like Apple and Sonos it has been busy pre-briefing journalists about its push into the consumer electronics space, which Cisco CEO John Chambers, said would be worth $10 billion to Cisco in 5 years.

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8 Microsoft Research projects that could make you say wow
The auto-updating Digital Postcard, the sign language Shake2Talk phone are two, says Microsoft Subnet blogger Ron Barrett.

Three candidates pass Cisco's network design beta exam
With the pass rate for the CCDE lab beta being 7.7% (lower than the 26% pass rate that has been reported for the CCIE lab), does this signify that the exam was too hard, or is Cisco happy to maintain the high bar for its expert level certification? Plus:
Holy crap: I passed the CCDE!

FBI/DOJ warns of economic cybergeddon
A couple of speeches this week by FBI and Department of Justice executives are warning that if law enforcement and others connected with keeping the Internet a secure and safe place to do business and socialize the world could be headed toward a cyber-based economic meltdown -- cybergeddon.

Data breaches rose sharply in 2008, says study
More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

Consortium tackles cloud computing standards
The Open Cloud Consortium is a newly formed group of universities that is both trying to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically...

Researchers applying P2P to traffic control
University of California, Irvine researchers are applying lessons learned from music and video peer-to-peer file transfer networks to a system for reducing traffic jams on...

Windows 7 and enterprise IT: a love match
IT will want it, XP users will want it and even many Linux users will want it, says Microsoft Subnet blogger Ron Barrett.

Today on Microsoft Subnet
Microsoft gains a coup over Google with a Verizon mobile search deal expected to be announced at CES; Plus, videos, podcasts, contests, bloggers and more.

Today on Cisco Subnet
China CCIE count grows 11 times more than the U.S.; Cisco changes its docs to reflect that it does support 3rd party VPNs; Who's a firm believer of FCoE now?; Blogger Dennis Hartmann explains the RFC Type of Service field and how it's used.

January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
Up for grabs: Two Cisco training courses from Skyline-ATS worth up to $6,990, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500, 15 copies each of the hot book titles Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, IPv6 Security and Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks. Get all the entry details here.


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