Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Top 10 must-have iPhone business apps; Patches put heavy load on IT; Who says the router can't be sexy?

Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla patches put heavy load on IT; Who says the router can't be sexy?
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Top 10 must-have iPhone business apps

After consulting with mobile business experts, we collected the best business apps that the iPhone has to offer. Who knows -- maybe on your next business trip you'll be able to leave that hulking ultraportable laptop behind. Read full story

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Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla patches put heavy load on IT
Windows took it on the chin Tuesday as Microsoft released nine patches, five labeled critical, as part of its Patch Tuesday monthly release cycle.

Who says the router can't be sexy?
Technology vendors have often been on the cutting-edge of technology innovation, but the same can't always be said of their design. Manufacturers have more often been concerned about what's inside the box, devoting less time and resources to the look and feel of the box itself.

Another denial-of-service attack fells Twitter
Victimized last Thursday by a denial-of-service attack that left the site dark for more than three hours, Twitter this afternoon experienced another 27 minutes of downtime that the company blamed on an attack of unknown origin.

Patch Tuesday: What the experts are saying
Nine bulletins released on Patch Tuesday address 19 vulnerabilities, of which 15 are critical. Here's what experts are saying about the flood of Microsoft patches.

RFID to help keep the world's mail on time
One of the world's newest communications technologies soon will be used to track one of the oldest.

VMware's next move may be middleware buy
VMware will gain a substantial footprint in enterprise Java application development with its pending acquisition of SpringSource, which was announced Monday. But the virtualization giant may follow up that move -- made in support of a new PaaS (platform as a service) cloud-computing strategy -- by investing in distributed caching technology, a class of middleware that boosts application performance and scalability.

Connecting Google Voice directly via a SIP phone
An interesting discussion on the Broadband forum of DSLReports.com documents how to reach a Goolge Voice number via a SIP phone. "this is a direct connection, without going through Gizmo or any other SIP provider," the user claims.

Cisco prominent in 'G.I. Joe'
Well, it worked. Otherwise, we wouldn't be writing about it here -- and CNBC wouldn't have written about it here.Cisco plays a prominent role in the past weekend's box office smash, 'G.I. Joe.' Jim Goldman of CNBC reports that Soldier Boy's headquarters is decked out with Cisco TelePresence.

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.

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