Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Wikipedia girds for explosion in digital media; Wireless power energizes CES; Obama picks FCC chair

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Wikipedia gears up for explosion in digital media
By Jon Brodkin
Wikipedia is gearing up for an explosion in digital content with new servers and storage designed to handle larger photo and video uploads. Read full story

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Novell Monday released Version 3.1 of its Access Manager, which supports the WS-Federation protocol prominent in Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services and forthcoming Geneva identity platform for the cloud. Infoblox and Cisco announced jointly Monday that they are teaming to offer DNS, DHCP, IP-address management and other core network services via Infoblox’ vNIOS Virtual Appliance. (5:56)

Wireless power energizes CES
There's something futuristic about wireless power that has grabbed people's attention at the recent Consumer Electronics Show, and 2009 could be a big year for the technology. Take a peek in our slideshow.

Obama taps Genachowski as FCC chair
President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly chosen Julius Genachowski, a former campaign technology advisor and transition team member, to head the Federal Communications Commission.

Browser bug could allow phishing without e-mail
A bug found in all major browsers could make it easier for criminals to steal online banking credentials using a new type of attack called "in-session phishing," according to researchers at security vendor Trusteer.

U.S. group calls for cell-driving bans nationwide
The nonprofit National Safety Council on Monday called on all U.S. states to ban the use of cell phones while driving.

Why Cisco Continues to Lead in WLANs
Mathias: Cisco's been leading a very crowded and very competitive wireless-LAN arena for many years now. Here's a firm that could rest on its laurels, hire a bunch of order-takers, do awareness marketing only, and continue to do quite well for the foreseeable future, with much better margins than they currently see and consequently a far higher stock price than they have today. R&D spending and good marketing people are expensive. And yet Cisco continues to invest heavily in these, dominating WLANs but also innovating in a bid to keep things that way.

Don't Hoard Performance Data
Sevcik and Wetzel: If you're a Lord of the Rings fan you know where hoarding led Gollum - right into the fires of Mount Doom. Keeping performance data to yourself, like hoarding other "precious" things can lead you down an unfortunate path, although hopefully not as dreadful as that. As an IT professional, you have much to gain and little to lose by sharing performance information - in fact we assure you it will be good for you as well as your employer.

U.S. export controls: Ensuring obsolescence and declining economic competitiveness
The United States places a thicket of controls on the export of high-tech knowledge and products, and numerous restrictions on non-U.S. researchers in U.S. research centers. In recognition of the stupidity of these ...

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Palm Pre first real Android competition; Google offers open blog conversion tool; Google snags Delicious founder; Google Blogoscoped gets invited to Google’s Inaugural Ball; and Mark Murphy is skeptical about the Palm Pre’s success in the smartphone arena.


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01/13/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Why Windows 7 will crush Linux
  2. Outlook '09
  3. Top 25 software screw-ups
  4. Sources: 'Major' layoffs at Oracle, more on the way
  5. Windows 7 beta: Complete resource center to the OS
  6. Palm Pre vs. Apple iPhone: How they stack up
  7. Apple in the enterprise: Inevitable, still not easy
  8. EMC takes the gloves off with VMware
  9. Cisco's ASR 1000 router built for 10-year tenure
  10. Windows 7 beta shows off task bar, UI goodies


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1 comment:

Sujit On web said...

Digital is no longer the "under dog" of the marketing world, campaigns and strategies are now built around digital media with digital media becoming the centre piece of any activity,
so a digital agency really needs to work at that strategic level with their clients.