Friday, July 02, 2010

Verizon Completes Landline Spinoff To Frontier

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Friday, July 2, 2010

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LATEST NETWORKING NEWS
- Verizon Completes Landline Spinoff To Frontier
- Dell Buys Maker of Virtualization Management Software
- Google Buys Travel Software Company ITA
- Congress Seeks More Efficient Public Safety Network
- Google Dashboard Now Showing Security Warnings
- Jobs Dismisses iPhone Complaints, Angers Users
- Google News Redesign Likened To 'New Coke' Flop
- Google News Gets Personal
- YouTube Stumbles Into Flash Gaming

ANALYTIC REPORTS
- A New Plan For Unix

WHITEPAPERS
- Virtualization and Trends for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
- Windows 8 Details Leaked On Internet
- iPhone 4 Antenna Glitch Sparks Lawsuit
- Verizon, Nokia Poke Fun At iPhone Antenna Issue
- Android 3.0 'Gingerbread' Elements Leaked
- Microsoft Kills Kin Phone

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TODAY'S TOP STORY

- Verizon Completes Landline Spinoff To Frontier
The transfer of Verizon assets in 14 states to Frontier will create the largest rural telecommunications company in the U.S.
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- Dell Buys Maker of Virtualization Management Software
Scalent's software, already distributed by Dell, aims to make data center provisioning easier.
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- Google Buys Travel Software Company ITA
CEO Eric Schmidt believes Google and ITA together can solve the 'air travel problem.'
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- Congress Seeks More Efficient Public Safety Network
FCC chairman Genachowski has been asked by members of the Commerce Committee to clarify options for developing a nationwide public safety network.
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- Google Dashboard Now Showing Security Warnings
Hoping to make its cloud services more secure, Google is extending a Gmail security mechanism to other services.
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- Jobs Dismisses iPhone Complaints, Angers Users
Refusing to acknowledge a flaw in the iPhone 4 design, Apple CEO Steve Jobs' dismissive email exchanges with angry customers have drawn criticism.
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- Google News Redesign Likened To 'New Coke' Flop
Readers at <i>InformationWeek</i> and other news sites vote thumbs down on the changes to Google News.
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- Google News Gets Personal
A redesign of Google's news aggregation site emphasizes personalization, discovery, and sharing.

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- YouTube Stumbles Into Flash Gaming
Amid the flowering of Google's strategic relationship with Adobe, a Flash-based game has appeared and disappeared on YouTube.
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- A New Plan For Unix
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- Ready To Outsmart PCI?
The PCI Data Security Standard is costly, complex, and rigged against the retailers, merchants, and processors that must comply with it. But those very attributes may be the most potent catalyst to bring about meaningful protection of credit card data--not because of the PCI requirements themselves, but because PCI will drive merchants toward end-to-end encryption and tokenization.
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TODAY'S MOST POPULAR STORIES @ TECHWEB.COM
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- Windows 8 Details Leaked On Internet
Italian bloggers claim to have gotten hold of documents that reveal plans for Microsoft's next OS.
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- iPhone 4 Antenna Glitch Sparks Lawsuit
Plaintiffs are asking court to bar Apple from selling any more iPhone 4 units until the problem is solved.
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- Verizon, Nokia Poke Fun At iPhone Antenna Issue
Verizon Wireless loves to make fun of rival AT&amp;T and its iPhone whenever it can. Verizon is turning up the snark with its latest ad.
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- Android 3.0 'Gingerbread' Elements Leaked
The first details about Android 3.0 -- codenamed &quot;Gingerbread&quot; -- have been revealed. Android 3.0 will set the Android bar higher.
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- Microsoft Kills Kin Phone
Engineers working on the handset will transfer to the Windows Phone 7 development team.
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