It's the Internet, stupid Response to FCC Notice of Inquiry: Spending government money on broadband is not all that good unless broadband's synonymous for "Internet". The Twitpocalypse Tragedy Twitter could fail, this time big time, for technical reasons. Mark Gibbs has written a play, to be exact, a tragedy, about this. He probably won't win a Tony. Facebook launches "usernames". Yawn. Last Saturday, June 13, Facebook began a new program that allows users to have "vanity" URLs for their Facebook profiles instead of the user-friendly-as-a-cornered-rat URLs that were previously the only option. This means that your profile page URL might have looked like this: Investigating a (Wireless) Haunted House I am always interested in claims of electrosensitivity, which is defined as a negative effect on human health (or at least well-being) from electromagnetic fields. While I've yet to read a definitive study correlating a negative health impact of any form in humans from a consumer-grade electromagnetic field, again, of any form, I'm also always up for a little field work. Too few fighting the good fight on privacy I'm constantly amazed by the brazenness of certain large companies and governments when it comes to abuse of privacy. The most egregious recent example: The Chinese government announced that starting July 1, it will require the installation of rootkit software on all PCs sold in China ostensibly to prevent its citizens from visiting "objectionable" sites on the Web. (If you believe that, I have a Great Wall to sell you.) Defining Your 5 Year Strategy Almost every technology that is present in the modern enterprise requires constant attention and re-evaluation. Your collaboration and communication solutions are no exception to this rule. 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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