News podcast: Network World 360 Analyst firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas says the U.S. technology sector suffered 84,217 job cuts in the first quarter, a 27% increase over the previous quarter and the largest total since the end of 2002. Also, Microsoft will restrict Windows 7 "upgrade rights" for Vista and XP users to 25 machines at any single street address, meaning that larger companies will have to go through volume licensing for their migration plans, according to a Web site chronicling the rollout of the forthcoming operating system. (6:04) Internet-wide problem to be revealed at conference Organizers of next week's Black Hat Europe conference are promising a security presentation that could impact anyone who uses the Internet, but no details have been released yet. Chinese information warfare capabilities As world economic conditions continue to worsen, I expect to see growing use of industrial espionage techniques by current actors and by new ones. Threats against proprietary information and perhaps even risks from sabotage may well increase over the next months and perhaps years. Despite the reflex tendency for retrenchment as revenues fall, now is not the time to be reducing the information security workforce. Australia to spend $31 billion on national broadband net The Australian Government will establish a new public company to build the next-generation National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia. SNIA embraces Ethernet for storage networking The Storage Networking Industry Association this week made a change that really brings home just how much Ethernet is making itself felt in storage networking. The consequences of inadequate cloud security The phenomenon of services in the cloud is well established. Some say it will become the dominant model for network infrastructure as issues of reliability and security are convincingly addressed. Baseball season opens with Web video problems Major League Baseball's fee-based MLB.TV game video-streaming service is having technical problems that are affecting the quality of the Web broadcasts. Femtocell standard is finalized The first femtocell standard has been published by the 3GPP, the Femto Forum, an industry organization involved in the standardization process, announced on Tuesday. Who In the World Wants an Android Netbook? Gee, I can buy a Windows netbook or a Linux netbook. The price is the same. Which will I choose? Windows, of course. What do you think I am, stupid? Today on Google Subnet You can go home again; AP threatens aggregators like Google; Twitter and Google? Just an ad deal; Google and survival of the fittest; and Google Blogoscoped gets some unintended results from personalized search. |
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