Android Market: Tear Down This Wall! Perhaps the weakest link in the Android chain is the Android Market. Frankly, it is uninspiring: limited searching, limited descriptions, limited dialogue between developers and customers, limited customer service to developers from the Market managers. Moreover, since it is proprietary and closed up tight as a clamshell, there is no effective way for the community to help make the Market better. Beyond WiMax: Intel shows prototypes Intel displayed prototypes for the next generation of wireless standards that will come after WiMax. Layoffs are increasing demand for tech freelancers Analysts say the fast growing demand for contract technology workers doesn't indicate that the economy is turning around -- yet. 10Gbit Ethernet heats up You might ask what 10G Ethernet has to do with storage. There's an obvious connection now with storage vendor QLogic getting into the game. Ubiquisys adds speedier femtocell Ubiquisys said Monday that it is aiming for a fourth quarter release of consumer and business versions of its next-generation femtocell, the G3, designed to offer mobile broadband download speeds up to 21.6M bps (bits per second). Heartland Commended for Breach Response Heartland Payment Systems CEO Robert Carr has made several moves to address security following the massive data breach at his payment processing company earlier this year. Convergence Comes to the BlackBerry Agito Networks today announced that they've ported their mobile/mobile unified communications (convergence) client to the BlackBerry. This is a quite an achievement - the various editions of the BlackBerry constitute for many the very definition of a mobile enterprise communicator, and it will remain an important platform for the foreseeable future. Intel works on smarter traffic lights Intel is doing its part to enrich the driving experience, developing in-car embedded PCs based on its Atom processor. But the company's doing something even more interesting with traffic lights. Quick-Cloning a Hard Drive I recently had occasion to upgrade a system drive on a simple server box (no fancy RAID arrays) to a new drive with much higher capacity, lower power consumption, and lower noise. Disaster Planning: Before, During and After Disaster preparation isn't just about coming up with a plan beforehand (although that helps a lot). It's the preparation and action that takes place during and after an event as well. Keith Shaw talks with Roland Etcheverry, VP and CIO of Champion Technologies, about the key steps of disaster preparation for IT groups. (18:27) 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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