| Four tech spats that could be settled over a beer with Obama
If sitting down with the President of the United States and quaffing a few brewskis can really help tamp down controversy over a highly-charged race issue then perhaps the President could pull up a bar stool and settle some far less vital disagreements plaguing the tech industry. Why I built a Ubuntu PC out of an Old Carpet Cleaner
PC cases come in many form factors, but they're all basically boxes that lack personality. This doesn't have to be the case (pun intended), as my Carpet Cleaner PC very well proves. Yes, this is a working Ubuntu PC built out of an old Bissell Carpet Machine. Microsoft, Yahoo search deal will change cloud app landscape
After a year and a half of negotiating, Microsoft and Yahoo finally announced a search deal partnership. Redmond's new search engine, Bing, will become Yahoo's search platform. Yahoo's sales force will be in charge of handling both companies' search advertisers. Microhoo allows economies of scale? Ho-hum
By now, we've all heard: nearly a year and a half to the day Microsoft first tried to take Yahoo to bed, the pair have finally completed their prenup negotiations and gotten hitched. Fixed Wireless vs. Wire: And the Winner is...
We recently did a study of the cost-effectiveness of wide-area ("outdoor") wireless access vs. wire. The FCC has a full court: What's next?
With the recent swearing-in of the FCC's chair, Democratic Commissioner Julius Genachowski last month, and the Senate approval of the nominations of Democrat Mignon Clyburn and Republican Meredith Attwell Baker as commissioners last week, the FCC is back to its full strength of five commissioners. Video rental records are afforded more privacy protections than your online data.
Today at Defcon 17 I attended an interesting talk given by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) where they talked about some of the case law that is shaping our countries IT related laws. One of the interesting tidbits that I picked up was that current laws seem to protect your personal video rental and sales records (i.e. what you rented from the video store) from disclosure in a more effective... Targeted spam makes you feel important and knowledgeable. Not that you aren't
One of the editors here recently started receiving spam that doesn't really look like spam. It looks like a simple request for information, and there's no link to click. CCIE Recertification – Not Again!
This week I passed a CCIE written/recertification exam for the 8th time in my life. In September I will achieve 10 years of maintaining my CCIE certification. However, this isn't the last time I will have to recertify. Cisco's policies state that a CCIE must continue to take a recertification exam every 2 years forever, and ever, and ever. DRM's Slow Death. Sorta
Mark Gibbs ponders the slow death spiral of digital rights management as the RIAA almost admits that DRM is obsolete, as Amazon violates its terms of service and apologizes, as lawyers attempt to redefine what it means to buy digital content, and how the Associated Press has just discovered DRM. 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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