Lesson from Iran: Controlling Internet Use Is a Slippery Slope There was an ominous juxtaposition of two articles about controlling Internet use in the June 17th issue of Wall Street Journal. One article described how the Iranian government is using deep packet inspection to spy on and limit its citizens' Internet use--and the other described how the UK is about to mandate the use of deep packet inspection to identify and crack down on piracy. Events in Iran prove Bradbury wrong Here's one of the more ironic juxtaposition of events in recent memory: Last week, famed science-fiction author (and anti-censorship advocate) Ray Bradbury came out against the Internet just as the 'Net's ability to evade censorship played a crucial role in advancing the cause of democracy in Iran. Great balls of customer service Gibbs replays the experience of an unhappy cell phone customer and scans the news. Will Groupware (oops, I mean Collaboration) Drive Mobility? I worry that too much data and too little real information, as we've seen with Facebook and Twitter, will lower productivity, impact ROI, damage competitiveness, and trash the bottom line. End=Lean IT; Means=Service Assurance let's be frank even in the best of times, IT is forever under pressure to cover an expanding ecosystem of IT infrastructure and application components without expanding the cost of operations. So how do we handle this? Will your enterprise cut spending for mobile voice and data? A new Strategy Analystics survey finds that almost half of American households would drop mobile data services completely to save money. But what about enterprise IT? The iPhone continues to attract customers away from BlackBerry devices Typically, the conversation surrounding smartphones centers on which new device is best positioned to challenge Apple's growing influence and success in the market. Palm Pre: The official Cool Tools review The scoop: Palm Pre, by Palm (on Sprint network), about $200 (after rebates, plus data and voice service plans). 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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