| Cisco's new 11n gear boosts legacy Wi-Fi performance with beamforming
Cisco is positioning its Aironet 1140 access point, with its beamforming technology to improve Wi-Fi performance, as the best way to shift to 802.11n without sacrificing legacy 11g and 11a clients.
Plus: Mathias: Why Cisco continues to lead in WLANs Podcast: Cisco aims to ease 11n deployment with Aironet 1140 AP
Ken Presti talks to Chris Kozup, manager for mobility marketing at Cisco, about the limitations of deploying 11n and how the Aironet 1140 eases the process. They also discuss what types of applications benefit from 11n. Solving Obama's BlackBerry dilemma
Monash: If a Blackberry and ESPN SportsCenter are what Obama needs to stay grounded, I think they absolutely should remain part of his life. It's worth whatever fuss is needed to make it happen. Obama's likely FCC choice has a heart for startups
Julius Genachowski, who is expected to be President-elect Barack Obama 's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission, has a Washington insider's resume and a Silicon Valley attitude. World's first flying car readying for take off
While it may seem like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, the flying car might soon become a reality. Dude, You're Getting a Dell Smart Phone!
Okay, we're a bit premature here. But that might happen if one analyst's prognostications are true. According to an Electronista report, Shaw Wu of Kaufman Bros. is predicting that Dell is getting closer to launching ... Researchers have hope of cheap, distributed zero-day worm defense
Shutting down zero-day computer attacks could be carried out inexpensively by peer-to-peer software that shares information about anomalous behavior, say researchers at the University of California at Davis. Taxpayer data at IRS remains vulnerable, GAO warns
Less than three months after the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that there were major security vulnerabilities in two crucial Internal Revenue Service systems, the IRS's security practices ... Sprint adds GPS information to Nextel's push tool
Sprint Nextel is extending the push-to-talk capability of its Nextel handsets so subscribers can send voicemail messages to e-mail addresses along with detailed information about their locations. Paybacks: Telescammers to fork over $50 million in restitution
The Federal Trade Commission said a group of telescammers will pay out nearly $50 million to settle charges they deceived over 1 million people in a bank information fraud scheme. As is unfortunately the situation in many of these case, the $50 million restitution is substantial, but it pales in comparison to the almost $172 million the FTC says Suntasia Marketing bilked out of its victims. From XP to Windows 7: expect end user frustration
While the new OS might be earning raves from reviewers, XP users will have a steep learning curve with Windows 7, warns Converging on Microsoft blogger Mitchell Ashley. Buzzblog: Twitter limits searches on its site...What's up with that?
Here's the only thing about Twitter that might be more frustrating than encountering the Internet darling's limit on the number of searches one can conduct on the site: Trying to get an explanation from the company as to why it finds this annoyance necessary. Today on Layer 8 we wonder if you are still riding that three-speed shift, stingray bicycle with the banana seat?
If you have moved on from that you might appreciate the fact that researchers are looking to bolster the bicycle experience by designing a computer that tells you when to change gears to optimize power and efficiency. Today on Cisco Subnet
Cisco, Infoblox tie-up enables third-parties to load their software into ISR; Cisco, Microsoft, Intel join to modernize school assessments; If your boss is asking what is the CCDE ...; Cisco Subnet blogger Jeff Doyle to lead Synergy Research's IP infrastructure practice; QoS markings: DSCP class selectors. Today on Microsoft Subnet
Microsoft downplayed the seriousness of its Patch Tuesday update that fixes holes in Windows Server Message Block, but security researchers are worried; Plus, Ford and Microsoft update Sync with no-cost, hands-free services; Microsoft launches Songsmith, its GarageBand killer, with a very lame ad; and we announce the Global Knowledge training, and Microsoft library giveaway winners. 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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