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Mobile deathmatch: Motorola Droid vs. iPhone, side by side; Pwning Humans for Fun and Profit Daily News PM Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by IBM Effective Asset Management in an Uncertain Economy Get this white paper to learn 10 ways senior executives can more effectively manage their assets in an uncertain economy. David Berger, a Partner at Western Management Consultants, outlines strategies that help to avoid any damage, as well as improve productivity and profitability. Download Now. Spotlight Story The rise and fall of Cisco MARS For better or worse, I've been following Cisco MARS for a long time. During that timeframe, Cisco promoted MARS as an essential component of its security strategy and then quietly backed away from these statements over time. Read full story Related News: Mobile deathmatch: Motorola Droid vs. iPhone, side by side The latest contender for mobile champ has the power of Google's Android OS behind it. See how they stack up. Pwning Humans for Fun and Profit If you want to hack a corporation fast, Social Engineering (SE) techniques work every time and more often that not it works the first time. I'm talking about in your face, mano-a-mano, live-in-the-flesh social engineering techniques. Securing the information that is in the human mind is a monumental, colossal, epic task compared with securing digital data! Microsoft sells Windows 7 desktop to advertisers Microsoft today announced that it would sell Windows 7 desktop real estate to advertisers and launched a pilot program that includes Coke, Infiniti and Porsche. Microsoft to reveal details of tool, code-named Velocity, that speeds app performance Next week, Microsoft will be revealing details of a new development tool, code-named Velocity, that speeds the performance of enterprise and Web applications. A session at the Professional Developer's Conference, held in Los Angeles next week, will be dedicated to the new tool. News podcast: Network World 360 Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe's Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google's Gmail, then launch silent attacks on visitors to those sites, security researchers said this week. Also, sales of smartphones running the Window Mobile operating system declined 20% in the third quarter at the same time that total smartphone sales surged 13%, according to an analysis of newly released sales data from Gartner Inc. (7:49) Dell bringing smartphone to China, Brazil Not wanting to be left behind in the smartphone wars, Dell announced Friday that it was bringing its first-ever smartphone to China Mobile. Apple patent filing reignites tablet device rumors A recent Apple patent filing reveals an invention for hand-writing recognition for pen-based computers. The news sparked a new wave of speculation about Apple's possible mobile tablet plans. Meanwhile, Microsoft may be getting new respect as details leak about Courier, a small, folding tablet that blends pen and gestures. YouTube Goes High Definition with 1080p Videos YouTube says it will start supporting 1080p high-definition video in full resolution starting next week. The Google-owned video-sharing site will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p resolutions, depending on the resolution of the original source. Google, Amazon, Microsoft beef up cloud services Three of the cloud industry's biggest players made some interesting competitive moves this month, with Microsoft and Google slashing prices for certain cloud-based applications, and Amazon announcing an expansion into Asia. Cisco raised a big stink over losing a longtime customer's $3.5M network upgrade deal to HP Last summer I blogged about why HP ProCurve was dismantling Cisco's market share on a deal-by-deal basis. Interestingly enough, The Arizona Republic is reporting this week that Cisco raised a big stink over losing its longtime Arizona customer - Gilbert Public School's $3.5 million network upgrade to HP. NASA finds "lots of water" from moon crash tests The NASA spacecraft that plowed into the moon last month have discovered what the space agency calls "significant amounts of water" on the lunar surface.   November giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Ethernet everywhere! Inside planes, trains, cars and spaceships, Ethernet is a morph master. 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