10 sports technologies to love and 5 to hate Technology is changing the way fans watch and interact with sporting events. In some cases it's changing the sports themselves. DNS 'blacklist' unveiled Nominum plans to announce on Tuesday a novel DNS security capability that functions like a spam blacklist, providing automated, real-time checking of DNS queries against a list of Web sites that are known to be malicious. Account Password Reset Procedures a Joke When I logged into one of my online accounts today it said it was locked out and I needed to call to get it reset. You won't believe what happened next. Palm Pre readies app store e-commerce beta test Palm is about to launch a beta test of an online system for selling and buying webOS applications. That means the "end of free" for Palm Pre users. Qwest Wireless customers have two months to switch to Verizon Qwest Wireless customers were told Tuesday that they have two months to switch their service to Verizon before their own service ends. Ericsson President and CEO has no fear of competing with mighty Cisco Totally unflustered by the probing questions asked in regard to Cisco competing against Ericsson during the following video interview, Ericsson President and CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg makes some revealing statements about Cisco's lack of prowess in the carrier space. Motorola boosts wireless network security Motorola Tuesday said it is adding vulnerability assessment to its wireless intrusion-prevention system (IPS) device so that organizations can scan for security holes in Wi-Fi and wireline networks. John Gruber: How Android can (finally) beat iPhone John Gruber has stuck his neck out again at his Daring Fireball blog, this time with a post offering advice to Google and especially to Android device makers on how challenge successfully the iPhone. Start-up DroidSecurity tackles Google Android security Start-up DroidSecurity is developing consumer and enterprise security software for the Google Android operating system, with its first offering a consumer-oriented antivirus and phone-tracking suite for Android smartphones. FTC's electronic health record breach rule sparks debate Trying to get a handle on what most certainly will be an explosion of digitization of medical records the Federal Trade Commission today issued the final rules requiring "certain Web-based businesses to notify consumers" when the security of their electronic health information is breached. Juniper's enterprise attack is making progress Juniper today trumpeted the fact that its EX Series Ethernet Switches have posted four consecutive quarters of revenue growth through 2Q09. Its EX series has surpassed one million ports shipped, according to the most recent Dell'Oro Ethernet Switching Market Report. The day the blogging stopped On Tuesday, 1,370 Japanese stopped blogging and Twittering. There's perhaps nothing unusual about that; after all, hundreds give up social media efforts every day. But for these people the halt to their online activities has been brought on by the law. August Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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