ORCA, S-Commerce, mobile commerce, and u-payments

Cybersecurity: Curiouser and curiouser; The Sentimeter, Part 1 All Things Gibbs NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by IBM NWW Data in Action: Effective data management for smarter outcomes Date: August 19, 2009 Exhibit Zone 8:00 am PDT / 11:00 am EDT to 12:00 pm PDT / 3:00pm EDT Join us for a special, complimentary Virtual Conference, offering valuable information for lowering IT costs through industry-leading performance, enhanced storage compression and improved automation. Spotlight Story ORCA, S-Commerce, mobile commerce, and u-payments My focus for today, ORCA, which stands for "Optimized Real-Time Currency Application", claims to be "the world's first social-commerce (S-Commerce) transaction processing system with an open API architecture designed for social media communities". Read full story Related News: Cybersecurity: Curiouser and curiouser Gibbs is an aficionado of Carrol's Alice and finds a curious parallel between the administration's cybersecurity office and believing six impossible things. The Sentimeter, Part 1 Mark Gibbs looks at a service that provides a remarkable insight into analyzing the sentiment of text content and discusses how it might be applied to social media. August Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are Black Hat's best How well you remember the Black Hat conference's most notorious incidents? Wireless burning questions How much longer are you going to hang onto that Ethernet cable? And other questions. 5 Ways to Cut Energy Costs Considering the current economy, it's imperative to consider the obvious and not so obvious ways to minimize IT energy bills. Review these steps to a more energy efficient Data Center 5 Ways to Cut Energy Costs Lower Costs with IT Automation Tools Eliminate the hassle of managing IT across a number of locations. Ron Rup, Director of Technology at Cabot Cheese will share his success story during this Live Webcast on Tuesday, August, 18. Get real-world tips you can put to work within your organization. Register for this live event now.   August 11, 2009 TOP STORIES | MOST DUGG STORIES 10 worst video game systems of all time Do HP, 3Com value claims trump Cisco? Cyber attackers empty business accounts in minutes Review: Cisco IPS 7.0 raises the bar Storage start-ups rethink data access Cisco's Chambers under fire Five ways to get affordable certification skills Nortel CEO Zafirovski steps down Patch Tuesday has a beating waiting for Windows IBM gets $16M to bolster brain-on-a-chip tech Choosing the Best WLA Vendor for your Environment Which vendor is leading the job scheduling pack? Learn which company has the best vision for today and tomorrow and which vendor displays the strongest ability to execute on that vision. Get critical tips on finding the best workload automation platform for your organization. Read More Compare products, get advice, and check out tests and reviews from the experts at Network World. Over 70 categories. Visit now   This email was sent to networking.world@gmail.com Complimentary Subscriptions Available for newsletter subscribers. Receive 50 issues of Network World Magazines, in print or electronic format, free of charge. Apply here. Terms of Service/Privacy   Subscription Services Update your profile To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. Unsubscribe Network World, Inc., 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2009 www.networkworld.com