All things old are new again; AT&T lashes out at Fake Steve Jobs

AT&T lashes out at Fake Steve Jobs' network knock-out threat; ISP-level filter trial vendor happy with results Wide Area Networking Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by McAfee Secure in 15 - Start with Daily Practices Get the Secure in 15 toolkit starting with the "15 Minutes Month-at-a-Glance" calendar. McAfee will send you additional tools and tricks to stay protected around the clock. Click here to learn more. Spotlight Story All things old are new again In the last newsletter we pointed out that some people dismiss cloud computing as being a bunch of rehashed ideas. We also pointed out that it is rare to come across a fundamentally new concept in IT and that most concepts recycle over time. For example, sometimes it makes sense to deploy IT resources in a centralized fashion and sometimes it makes sense to deploy those resources in a decentralized fashion. In this newsletter will we continue the discussion of both key IT concepts and cloud computing. Read full story Related News: AT&T lashes out at Fake Steve Jobs' network knock-out threat Fake Steve Jobs is taking heat from AT&T over his protest campaign to shut down the carrier's 3G network this Friday. ISP-level filter trial vendor happy with results The vendor that provided filtering products to six of the nine ISPs participating in the Federal Government's controversial ISP-level content filtering trial says the results show the technology works. Household broadband connections rise 18 per cent The number of households with access to broadband internet shot up 18 per cent to 5 million in the 2008-09 financial year according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Adtran extends Carrier Ethernet line Adtran this week added three routers to its Carrier Ethernet portfolio. 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