Cisco attempts to explain (and explain) its strategy. In a word: video "Market adjacencies." That's the business-speak term for video that John Chambers loves in this YouTube interview posted late last week.. He is using that term to explain a strategy around the company's collection of offbeat, acquired products that range from set-top boxes to a handheld consumer video recorder. The tech industry's most baffling buzzwords: A brief guide A handy guide to the tech industry's most impenetrable buzzwords, slogans and catch phrases. Programmer steals Wall Street trading code, FBI alleges A high-level developer for a big Wall Street firm was arrested Friday by the FBI and charged with stealing computer code that automates high-volume trading on stock and commodities markets, according to court documents. Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack found in the wild Microsoft today issued a warning about an attack that is occurring in the wild against its Video ActiveX Control in Internet Explorer running on XP and Windows Server 2003. Report: DOJ reviewing US telecom deals with handset makers The U.S. Department of Justice has begun to look into the way that large operators form exclusivity agreements for popular handsets over concerns that the practice is anticompetitive. Survey: IT pros are optimistic about bigger budgets next year While most IT network professionals report modest cutbacks in spending this year vs. last year, they seem optimistic that will change for the better next year, according to an early look at an ongoing study from The Info Pro consultancy. The death of battery life Most people believe battery life for their laptop and mobile devices is always and every time just plain less than what they want, or that they deserve. Symantec desktop security software boasts reputation analysis Symantec is readying the 2010 editions of Norton Internet Security and Norton AntiVirus, adding to its flagship consumer software a type of malware defense based on what's called reputation analysis. Why mobile phone users should pay ringtone royalties This splendid idea inexplicably managed to raise a ruckus right before everyone fled for the holiday weekend: Every time a musical ringtone plays in public -- suggests the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) -- carriers should pay a royalty for the "performance," a cost that would unfortunately need to be passed along to wireless phone users. 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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