16 Breakthrough Notebooks: A Look Back From the first prototype portable computer in 1968 to the OLPC XO (an inspiration for netbooks) to the CrunchPad Web tablet of the near future, these 16 notebooks mark important stages in the progress of laptops. Apple: Jailbreaking could knock out transmission towers Apple has told the U.S. Copyright Office that modifying the iPhone's operating system could crash a mobile phone network's transmission towers or allow people to avoid paying for phone calls. Adobe confirms Flash contains Microsoft dev code bug Adobe says it's the first major third-party vendor to have used Microsoft's flawed development code in its products. It patched Shockwave on Tuesday and promises a fix for Flash on Thursday. Clampi Trojan revealed as financial-plundering botnet monster A close look at the Clampi Trojan, an elusive piece of malware that uses encryption to help hide its nefarious data-stealing deeds, reveals it to be a botnet-controlled monster that can swipe a victim's sensitive data associated with more than 4,500 different sites, according to one researcher. IBM, long the patent king, may put official at top of U.S. patent office Big Blue may put one of its own officials at the top of the government office that oversees patents in America. Recession no reason to neglect IT workforce, Gartner says Gartner survey shows companies continue to put hiring and staff development on hold, despite specific skills being in demand. Dr. BlackBerry: Eight Apps Making Medicine More Mobile Physicians may not have been the first professionals to embrace BlackBerry devices and smartphones, in general. But they sure aren't wasting any time nowadays. Heck, Dr. John Halamka, CIO of both Beth Israel Deaconness and Harvard Medical School is regarded as a mobile guru, even appearing in his ownBlackBerry ad campaign. Government departments guided on Tweeting The government has launched a policy document to explain how to use Twitter. BBN grabs cash, turns up heat on language translation technology When it comes to translating languages in real time, BBN must speak the tongue as it netted a $14 million check from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week to continue developing its speech and text technology. 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 |
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