Tough Tech: Rugged Gear That Can Survive Almost Any Calamity Worried about dropping your cell phone in the pool? Getting caught in the rain with your laptop? Pushing your camera off of a ledge? These sturdy gadgets can survive all that and more. 7 Reasons Websites Are No Longer Safe Conventional wisdom is that Web wanderers are safe as long as they avoid sites that serve up pornography, stock tips, games and the like. But according to recently gathered research from Boston-based IT security and control firm Sophos, sites we take for granted are not as secure as they appear. Recession leads to sluggish global broadband growth Broadband growth is still reeling from the economic downturn, but there are also tentative signs of a recovery, according to market research company Point Topic. Making IPSec VPNs Enterprise Class The last newsletter highlighted the fact that the improvements that we have seen over the last twenty-five years in the price/performance ratio of wide area networking is nothing close to the price/performance improvements that we have seen for other areas of IT such as storage or processing. This newsletter will discuss a technique to turn low cost consumer-grade IPSec VPNs into an enterprise-class IPSec VPN. FCC report: Agency can improve disaster response The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is generally ready for emergencies such as cyberattacks and pandemic flu outbreaks, but it can do more to guard against disasters, according to a report released Tuesday. My, What a Long Tail You Have Recently, Androlib.com has made available statistics they have culled from the Android Market. Their data highlights how the Android Market is not that dissimilar from other markets, and so Android developers can use lessons learned elsewhere to help them understand how the Android Market behaves. Apple refreshes iPod line-up, cuts prices, retools iTunes Apple CEO Steve Jobs today took the stage at a company event for the first time in almost a year to introduce new iPhone software, a revamped iTunes, reduced iPod Touch prices and a video camera slipped into the iPod Nano. 'Wiretapping' charges may be the silliest ever recorded Chi Quang Truong, 46, is being charged by police in Natick, Massachusetts with "unlawful wiretapping and possessing a device for wiretapping," according to this story in The MetroWest Daily News. If you're thinking foreign spy or industrial espionage, think again. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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