Monday, April 06, 2009

IBM, Sun unable to reach a deal; Afraid of losing your job to a younger, cheaper IT worker?

Comcast e-mail outage sparks Twitter updates galore; Conficker copycat prowls for victims
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IBM, Sun unable to reach a deal, report says

James Niccolai By James Niccolai
IBM and Sun have been unable to reach agreement on the terms of an acquisition, with the talks nearing collapse on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Read full story

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Comcast e-mail outage sparks Twitter updates galore
Comcast.net e-mail went down for potentially millions of subscribers the better part of the day Saturday as users and observers got running commentary on the service provider's efforts to manage the situation via Twitter updates from Frank Eliason, the company's director of Digital Care.

Conficker copycat prowls for victims, says Microsoft
An old, but little-known worm has copied some of the infection strategies of Conficker, the worm that raised a ruckus last week, Microsoft security researchers said late...

Humans prove weak link in Japanese warning network
If there's one thing the Japanese government learned on Saturday -- the first of a five-day launch period for a North Korean rocket -- it's that the government's emergency information network works.

Websense unveils its first Web security appliance
The V10000 Web Gateway Appliance will run the vendor’s Secure Web Gateway Software including anti-malware filtering, SSL traffic inspection, application controls, and threat protections for Web surfing.

Netscape alums tackle cloud storage
Cloud storage start-up Zetta promises enterprise-class file system.

5 Tactics Microsoft Is Using To Battle Linux for Cloud Dominance
Mitchell Ashley commentates the fight between Microsoft and Linux to see who will come out of the cloud on top. In his Microsoft Subnet blog he examines five strategies Microsoft has done to be the victorious vendor.

Cisco.com domain name about to expire soon
Reese: The Cisco.com domain name is about to expire soon on May 15. Yours truly finds this of interest because of my firsthand knowledge regarding the Holiday Inn domain name fiasco.

April giveaways galore
Cisco Subnet
and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30.


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04/06/09

Today's most-read stories:

  1. Bill would give Obama power to shut down Internet
  2. Microsoft says phones are bad
  3. Five best router and switch features you never use
  4. How to cut costs and get more from your gear
  5. Mobile Skype: The end of cellular as we know it
  6. From free to fee: Seven services adding new charges
  7. Analyst: Apple readies two iPhone models
  8. RIM unveils BlackBerry application store
  9. Top 10 technology skills
  10. Conficker worm: Not finished yet
  11. Students learn through robot battles


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