Thursday, October 04, 2012

Network World after Dark: Recalling Apple's Jobs; What if Ethernet failed?

  Steve Jobs and his gadgets … in LEGO | Breast enhancement courtesy of Cisco
 
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What if Ethernet failed?
Can you imagine a world where carriers offered Metro FDDI services? Or the IEEE defined a standard for Token Bus in the First Mile? Read More



Steve Jobs and his gadgets … in LEGO
From the man in mini-figure to the iPad, iPhone, Mac and more Read More

Breast enhancement courtesy of Cisco
A former Verizon Wireless employee who sold Cisco parts to fund his girlfriend's cosmetic surgery is going to jail. Michael Baxter of Ball Ground, GA., was sentenced to four years in federal prison for ordering nearly $2.8 million in Cisco gear for Verizon Wireless and then selling it out of his home to buy cars, jewelry and "multiple" cosmetic surgeries for his girlfriend, according to the Atlanta... Read More

FTC: $1M fine to Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Selena Gomez fan site operator that unlawfully collected kid info
Not the kind of activity young entertainment stars Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Demi Lovato, and Selena Gomez want to be associated with but the company that ran their websites apparently didn't have a problem with it. News: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories of 2012 (so far!) Read More

Will your next iPhone be built by robots?
They build cars, assemble TV panels and vacuum floors. But can robots build an iPhone? Read More

Mark Zuckerberg touts over 1 billion active Facebook users every month.
In the wake of the social networking revolution, a number of once proud and popular companies such as MySpace and Friendster have fallen by the wayside. Today, there's only one name of note in the social networking space and that's Facebook. Despite proclomations that Facebook has peaked and that users would inevitably leave en masse on account of privacy considerations, the opposite has in fact happened.... Read More

Top mobile apps at DEMO Fall 2012
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Watch a 500-pound server rack tossed off an 18-story building
I'm OK with marketing stunts as long as they're entertaining. And tossing a 500-pound server rack off the roof of an 18-story building is nothing if not entertaining. If that's all you want to see, you can stop watching after the first 15 seconds of the video. If you want to know how they pulled it off without risking the rack turning into a wrecking ball, a guy from 32TEN Studios explains beginning... Read More

Twitter becomes new debate spin room
In the 2012 presidential campaign, Twitter has become the new spin room. Read More

Man-in-the-Browser malware scam goes universal
The Man-in-the-Browser has had a makeover: He is now available as the Universal Man-in-the-Browser (uMitB). Read More

 
 
 

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