| Happy Fourth
This DailyNews newsletter will take a break tomorrow in observance of the Fourth of July. Have a happy and safe holiday, and in the meantime check nww.com for more IT news. Laptops With Epic Battery Life Keep You Working
These laptops and netbooks lasted at least 6.5 hours in PC World battery-life tests, making them ideal for the business traveler. Tactics to sell IE8: free Nickelback track and vomit
Are Microsoft's latest tactics to get folks to download Internet Explorer 8 funny, disgusting, obnoxious or effective? On the one hand, you have the rather pleasant idea that if you download a copy of IE8 you get a never-before released track from rocker band Nickelback. On the other, you have an ad campaign that displays a woman throwing up (multiple times). Not pleasant. [UPDATE: Microsoft has since pulled the ad.] Security guard charged with hacking hospital systems
The grainy video shows a bleary-eyed young man in a hoodie inside the Carrell Clinic in Dallas, Texas. As he hits the elevator button, the theme music from Mission Impossible plays in the background. "You're on a mission with me: Infiltration," he tells the camera. Ex-Bay Networks CEO: Nortel's enterprise group could do well on its own
Former Bay Networks CEO Dave House says he likes the idea of Nortel's enterprise data division -- built around Bay technology -- breaking free and picking up its old name. Cisco gives broadband stimulus rules a thumbs up
Cisco gave a thumbs up to the broadband stimulus funds and rules unveiled this week by the US government. The feds are releasing over $4 billion of the $7.2 billion total broadband funding to pay for the first round of broadband projects mandated by the economic stimulus package passed earlier this year, colleague Brad Reed reports. The notification chain when a breach is suspected
A few weeks ago, we provided best practice tips on preserving log data for a forensic investigation. Now that you've got the data set aside for your investigation, who else needs to get involved? Let's discuss the notification chain and how other experts support the investigation and its fallout. Bad guys learn a lesson about disaster recovery
It didn't take long for spammers to learn their lesson. About seven months after the McColo shutdown took out their command-and-control operations, a similar shutdown last month was anticipated and routed around. No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam
The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. 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 | 
For better or worse, Nortel as we know it is coming to an end. Here's how the telecom giant got to this point.
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