| Bloggers give Obama marching orders for the IT industry In a roundtable discussion, bloggers from Network World and Computerworld expressed their wishes for the new administration including the new federal CTO, net neutrality, use of the BlackBerry and technology education. Obama includes broadband, smart grid in stimulus package U.S. President-elect Barack Obama laid out his plan for a huge economic stimulus package, with broadband rollout, an Internet-based smart energy grid and computers for schools as part of the plan. Obama, at Google, calls for national CTO Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he would appoint a national CTO to ensure that every government agency is meeting 21st century standards. Slideshow: Big-name techies who could influence Obama A look at the tech experts and executives who could shape Obama's technology policies. Cisco CTO could be tapped by Obama Cisco's CTO Padmasree Warrior is one of the top two candidates for the first U.S. CTO, expected to be named any day now, according to published reports.
Also: What would Cisco CTO Warrior bring to the fed CTO job?
Warrior as U.S. CTO: Huge win for Cisco, total disaster for America. Unfortunate timing for Cisco flight safety ads It's not Cisco's fault but some CNN viewers were shown the company's TelePresence commercials that features various people reciting flight safety instructions yesterday as the news channel reported on US Airways Flight 1549, which crash-landed in the Hudson River. Podcast: Can Nortel come back from the brink? Network World blogger Matthew Nickasch, an IT executive and network industry watcher, discusses the dire straights that Nortel faces on the heels of the news the company filed for bankruptcy protection. (9:17) Nortel employee severance payments frozen by bankruptcy Nortel has confirmed that severance payments still owed to the 1,300 workers laid off last November have been frozen by the Nortel bankruptcy filing, and will be applied against Nortel's debts. Cisco IronPort flaw could expose contents of secure e-mails Cisco released two security advisories: one announcing two vulnerabilities in its IronPort PXE Encryption product that could expose contents of secure e-maill messages, and the other referring to a TCP vulnerability affecting its ONS 15xxx edge optical platforms. Why are you going for the CCIE? (poll) What is motivating you to pursue Cisco's highest certification - is it for the money, a pat on the back, something else? Take our poll and see what others are saying. Nortel employee severance payments frozen by bankruptcy Nortel has confirmed that severance payments still owed to the 1,300 workers laid off last November have been frozen by the Nortel bankruptcy filing, and will be applied against Nortel's debts. Is Your Software Multi Core Ready? The Multicore Association is proposing a common way to communicate with a multicore processor regardless of the CPU vendors own intercore API. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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