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AT&T says it has successfully demonstrated the ability to recover from a major backbone outage by routing 40 Gigabit-per-second traffic using mobile trailers equipped with gigabit-speed routers. Also, with the aim to reclaim desk space, Dell on Thursday announced its first all-in-one PC for small-and-medium businesses. (5:25) Alcatel to push 100G to carrier edge
Alcatel-Lucent plans to ship a router module next year that supports the emerging 100Gb per second Ethernet standard at the edge of carrier networks, where services are delivered to subscribers. BlackBerry maker settles patent dispute for $268M
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has again surrendered in a patent dispute lawsuit, this time agreeing to pay Visto over a quarter of a billion dollars to settle the case. A new way to get iPhones under control
TrustDigital has released an updated version of its mobile device management software, with improved support for the Apple iPhone, including the new 3GS model, and iPod Touch. Analysts see alarming development in mobile malware
The first worm that spreads between mobile devices by spamming text messages has developed a new communications capability that one security vendor says signals the arrival of mobile botnets. Bowlingual dog-emotion translator is back
The Bowlingual, a gadget that analyzes a dog's bark to detect its emotion, is being relaunched. Palm confirms that iTunes update kills Pre sync
Palm confirmed late today that Pre owners can no longer use Apple's iTunes to sync their smartphones to Macs or PCs. Hacker break-in of Twitter e-mail yields secret docs
A hacker made off with confidential Twitter documents after breaking into an employee's e-mail account, the company's co-founder confirmed yesterday. Guessable SSNs -- but is that the real problem?
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report that they can sometimes guess a person's Social Security number and the press goes nuts. This is actually a good thing (the press going nuts that is). Military wants programmable bombs that can blow up only particular things
Ok, this one sounds a little ambitious. The US Navy today will offer a $10 million, five-year contract for researchers to build bomb technology that would let pilots in particular select a damage radius that a weapon would generate, or possibly even the type of effect the explosive would have on a specific target. Keeping customs out of your laptop
Security guru Bruce Schneier has a fascinating essay this week about his scheme for ensuring that customers officials -- either here in the U.S. or abroad -- are unable to have their way with the contents of your laptop. July Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
The number of botnets has grown from about 1,500 two years ago to 3,500 today.
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