Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7 Neither Windows 7 or Snow Leopard try to reinvent the wheel, but both pack notable new features, large and small. EBay to sell majority stake in Skype for $1.9 billion EBay has reached an agreement to sell a 65 percent stake in its Skype Internet telephony, video conferencing and instant messaging unit for $1.9 billion in cash to an investor group led by Silver Lake. VMware publishes virtualization security, compliance guidelines VMware today published security and compliance recommendations for its virtualization products. The vendor's guidelines focus primarily on optimizing use of management and security tools available from VMware parent company EMC and EMC's RSA security division. U.S. government seeks $5M in H-1B fraud case The U.S. government filed a new, expanded indictment last week against a New Jersey IT services firm it alleges fraudulently used H-1B visas through a scheme that delivered it millions of dollars in gains. Time to make Wi-Fi deterministic Wi-Fi start-up Aerohive Networks says it has upgraded its AP operating system and management software to establish, monitor and deliver SLAs for throughput on a per-client basis. IBM puts virtual desktops in the cloud IBM is rolling out a subscription service that aims to make it easier for large companies to use desktop virtualization, a technology that has been slow to take off but which some say has big potential. Dell expands Brocade reseller deal Dell expanded its reseller relationship with networking vendor Brocade Communications Systems to better serve customers building large data centers, the company said Tuesday. Tech Companies Drowning in 'Underwater' Stock Options Stock Options: The extravagant bait that lures many a tech exec from one company to another. The financial object that signifies power and exalted status. The type of monetary cushion that can make for a smooth retirement or impulsive purchase of a beach house on the Pacific. Report: SEC investigating Apple-related insider trading Where there's smoke there's fire, and where there's remarkably convenient stock transactions, there's insider trading--or so the SEC reportedly says. According to a piece at the Huffington Post, the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating potential cases of insider trading related to Apple's stock. Military set to lay out $42M to develop advanced network prioritization, security technology BBN, which was bought by defense giant Raytheon today, got almost $11 million to help build self-configuring network technology that would identify traffic, let the network infrastructure prioritize it down to the end user, reallocate bandwidth between users or classes of users, and automatically make quality of service decisions. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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