Friday, December 11, 2009

Amazon's data center outage reads like a thriller; End-of-decade tech quiz; Top quotes of 2009

End-of-the-decade technology quiz; Top Quotes of 2009
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Amazon's data center outage reads like a thriller

When an Amazon Web Services data center lost power early Wednesday, the details about the event trickled out over Amazon's operations status board. Performance monitoring firms offer services designed to get ahead of such problems. Read full story

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End-of-the-decade technology quiz
Test yourself on the biggest, best, wackiest tech events since the turn of the century.

Top Quotes of 2009
Who said, "Even if I had money, I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the final dust from the burning"? This and more from the year's top quotes.

10GE and Network Oversubscription Ratios
Lately I have seen many data center designs that contain 10 Gigabit Ethernet links at the access, distribution and the core hierarchy layers. Historically, networks were like trees. The access network "leaves" are smaller, the distribution network "branches" are a little bigger, and the core network "trunk" is thick. However...

Rather than patch, Microsoft blocks buggy code
Microsoft this week disclosed that it disable buggy code in older versions of Windows rather than issue a fix, an unusual move for the firm.

Microsoft buys Opalis to strengthen cloud management capabilities
Moving to strengthen its management tools related to virtual environments, Microsoft Friday said that it had purchased IT process automation vendor Opalis for an undisclosed sum.

Battle over voice on LTE heats up
Backers of two competing specifications for delivering voice over LTE mobile data networks have heralded demonstrations in the past two days, while mobile giant Ericsson apparently dropped its support for one of the systems.

Lawmakers seek to stop reposting of TSA security document
Several lawmakers are asking DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to examine if any legal remedies are available to stop Web sites from reposting a recently leaked TSA security manual.

Internet Society invests in W3C
The Internet Society announced Friday that it was making a $2.5 million donation over the next three years to the World Wide Web Consortium, the premier standards-setting body for the Web.

FCC Gets Mixed Messages on Wireless Oversight
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was chastised this week in a Government Accounting Office (GAO) report highlighting problems in the wireless industry and criticizing the FCC for failing to provide sufficient oversight. As the net neutrality battle simmers in the background, the GAO report sends mixed signals to the FCC.

Cisco survey: Cybercriminals becoming more business savvy
Cybercriminals are becoming more business savvy in their efforts to profit by worming into business networks to steal passwords and other sensitive data, according to a recent security survey from Cisco.

Apple relaxing App Store rejections in certain cases?
Last week, Apple approved its first live video-streaming app, Knocking Live Video; this week, Ustream Live Broadcaster followed closely on its heels. On Thursday, an update to a development application called iSimulate entered the store. All three of these apps have one thing in common: they use private APIs, a violation of the iPhone developer agreement. And yet, they've all been approved.

Macworld Editors' Choice Awards: Hardware
Of all the new hardware products we saw over the past year, these 10 were our favorites.

Macworld Editors' Choice Awards: Software
Of the hundreds of Mac apps we saw in the past year, these 13 were our favorites.

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