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Verizon fires shot across iPhone's bow with Droid; Do you know where your employees are working? Win7 patched

Do you know where your employees are working?; Microsoft issues first Windows 7 patches
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Verizon fires shots across iPhone's bow with Droid smartphone

Verizon has issued a direct challenge to the iPhone with the launch of its advertising campaign for the Motorola Droid, the carrier's first smartphone based on Google's open source Android platform. Read full story

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New IPv6 Features in Cisco IOS 15.0
You may have heard that Cisco has released IOS version 15.0. This new IOS version has many new advancements. However, it only has a few new IPv6 features for multicast and OSPFv3. Based on the IPv6 features that have come out in IOS 12.4T we should expect many new IPv6 features in IOS 15.0M and IOS 15.0T in the coming years.

Enterasys revamps high-end Ethernet switch line
Enterasys this week is introducing a major upgrade to its Ethernet switch line in an effort to better serve converged networks, including those that are heavily virtualized.

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Enterasys this week is introducing a major upgrade to its Ethernet switch line in an effort to better serve converged networks, including those that are heavily virtualized. Fake security software "SpywareGuard" and "AntiVirus" are said to be the top two scareware programs out of about 250 fake security programs detected, according to a Symantec report. (5:44)

Budget cuts could increase server failures, warns Gartner
Gartner Inc. analysts say that delays in replacing computer equipment due to budget cuts will probably cause increasing IT equipment failures worldwide.

Web company CEOs call for net neutrality rules
Twenty-four top executives at e-commerce, social-networking and other Web companies have asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to move forward with its plan to create formal net neutrality rules, despite opposition voiced by several U.S. lawmakers, minority groups and telecom-related companies.

Baited and duped on Facebook
When CIO Will Weider encouraged employees at Ministry Health Care and Affinity Health System in Wisconsin to use Facebook to spread the word about new programs and successful projects, he was surprised at the result: Few did so.

Hoax of the day: U.S. Chamber backs "strong" climate bill (not)
Last week it was "spider guy" admitting that he was the arsonist behind an Internet-fueled wildfire alleging that McDonald's short-sacked Aussie customers on purpose. And, oh, you may have heard about "balloon boy."

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October 19, 2009

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  1. Verizon fires shots across iPhone's bow with Droid smartphone
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  4. Ethernet everywhere!
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  6. The 'Net's most heinous hoaxes
  7. Missing dot drops Sweden off the Internet
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  10. The Internet has shifted under our feet

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