Apple fans flock for iPhone 3GS; Google grabs 1M phone numbers Apple still has iPhone magic. Crowds turned out to see -- and buy -- Apple's iPhone 3GS early Friday morning as it launched around the world. Also, Google last month reserved 1 million phone numbers with Level 3, signaling that it may finally be ready to roll out its long-anticipated Google Voice service. (5:50) 10 unsung fathers of technology In the tech world, the inventor, originator or driving force behind a new product or technology is typically dubbed "father of the _______". As in Tim Berners-Lee, father of the Web. As in Vint Cerf, father of the Internet. As in Bob Metcalfe, father of Ethernet. Here, in honor of fathers everywhere, are some industry "fathers" you may not have heard of. Internet2 names CTO Internet2 has named Randy Frank as CTO, a job in which he'll help oversee the overall technology direction for the advanced networking consortium. iPhone, Android and Storm hurt RIM's subscriber growth BlackBerry maker, RIM, just reported it's first drop in subscriber growth since 2006 back when they were in patent litigation. How to dramatically cut costs on network performance monitoring The economic downturn and reduced IT budgets are forcing many network managers to look for alternative (read that as "cheaper") products and solutions for managing their networks. New Apple iPhone 3G S will kill the Cisco Flip video camera Before Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior was hired by Cisco, she was the CTO of Motorola and dismissed in her blog the introduction of the Apple iPhone. However within 9 months of the Apple iPhone introduction, Motorola sales had collapsed by more than $4 billion. DRAM's inventor, 76, still going strong at IBM Dennard's Law? It doesn't have quite the ring of Moore's Law, mostly because IBM researcher Robert H. Dennard remains unknown to the general public. But the research community knows the name behind DRAM. Thomas Jefferson would be awful at Twitter Keith and guest co-host Matt Hamblen talk about Twitter's role in Iranian unrest, whether the Palm Pre can disguise itself as an iPod, and why most of us are still behaving badly with our cell phones. (50:49) June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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