TechWeb Networking Update - Friday, Aug 7, 2009
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*Comcast Profits Up Sharply
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*Global CIO: Welcome To The CIO Revolution: A New IT Manifesto
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*Cisco Profits Down, But IT Spending May Be Improving
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*Report Finds HUD's IT Systems Severely Lacking
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*Sprint Unveils 4G Mobile Hotspot Devices
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( Today's Top Story)
Comcast Profits Up Sharply
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The nation's biggest cable TV provider cited its "all-digital" strategy, wideband deployment, and launch of a wireless service as factors.
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(Today's Most Popular Stories)
Twitter Downed By Denial Of Service Attack
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Following an denial of service attack on Thursday morning, Twitter is back online.
Apple Releases Mac OS X Leopard Update
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The update, version 10.5.8, enhances stability and security and includes many other improvements.
Windows 7 Revealed: 24 Screen Shots Of Microsoft's Next Operating System
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Here's a first visual look at the Vista successor, as previewed at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
Sony E-Book Readers Have Kindle In Crosshairs
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Sony's latest e-book readers won't steal much market share from the Amazon Kindle, but Sony has more to come, say analysts.
(Editor's Picks)
Silver Lake’s Hutchins Touts the Cloud, Social Networking as Mega-Trends
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Private equity veteran predicts slow recovery but urges financial industry to invest in technology and innovation at SunGard City Day event.
BAI Retail Delivery News: HP Sees Infrastructure as Key to Branch Transformation
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HP launches Banking Innovation Center to show potential impact of emerging technologies.
UBS Joins DTCC Managed Accounts Service
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The centralized platform is designed to automate and standardize communications among sponsors, investment managers and service providers.
(Networking News of the Week)
Global CIO: Welcome To The CIO Revolution: A New IT Manifesto
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CIOs are rebelling against career stereotypes, technology paradigms, and in-bred risk-aversion to become aggressive drivers of innovation, growth, and market engagement.
Cisco Profits Down, But IT Spending May Be Improving
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Profits were down 46%, but CEO and Chairman John Chambers said sequential quarter-to-quarter ordering trends show signs of improvement.
Report Finds HUD's IT Systems Severely Lacking
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Outdated, redundant IT systems and paper-based processes are among the problems identified by the Government Accountability Office.
Sprint Unveils 4G Mobile Hotspot Devices
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One is a pocketable personal wireless broadband router, the other is made for enterprise Wi-Fi users.
Ethernet Booming Despite Economic Slump
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Many carriers have been embracing Ethernet as IP next-generation networks are being moved from TDM to packet-based networks.
EMRs In The Absence Of Broadband
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Sharing electronic medical records isn't easy for rural North Carolina healthcare provider since high-speed Internet access isn't available at all its medical centers.
Clearwire Outlines WiMax Rollout Plans
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The firm wants to cover 120 million people by the end of 2010, but it's facing increased competition from companies rolling out networks based on Long Term Evolution.
Two Tribes, One Future: Bringing Mainframes Into the IT Mainstream
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Too many enterprises are running parallel IT operations, with big iron and distributed groups barely crossing paths, let alone sharing hard-earned expertise. CIOs need to get this schism under control lest businesses end up the ultimate casualties of high-tech turf warfare.
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(Breaking News)
Twitter Downed By Denial Of Service Attack
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NASA's Kepler Spots Atmosphere On Distant Planet
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The Kepler space telescope provides the closest look yet at the HAT-P-7 exoplanet as it searches for Earth-like planets in other solar systems.
Presidential Diaries Resurface As Tweets
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A historical association is turning 200-year-old handwritten texts into digital tweets for John Quincy Adams.
Intel Facebook App Taps Idle PCs For Research
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The Progress Through Processors app lets users donate idle PC hours to help work on cures for diseases, climate prediction, and malaria control.
Fannie Mae Draws on U.S. Support After $14.8 Bln Loss
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Fannie Mae, the largest provider of U.S. home mortgage funding, Thursday reported a $14.8 billion quarterly net loss that it said would force it to go to the U.S. Treasury trough a third time for money to stay
in business.
(Featured Jobs)
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* Boeing seeking R/T Embedded Software Engr in Anaheim, CA
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* Mitsubishi Electric Power Products seeking Marketing Manager in Warrendale, PA
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