Pandora and the future of online music

Surveilled to death; Improving Excel and Yahoo Pipes All Things Gibbs NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Sybase Next-Generation Mobility Platforms, IDC white paper For enterprises today, mobility is no longer a "nice to have" feature; rather, it is considered a strategic component of their business. This White Paper analyzes why mobility is important to enterprise customers; discusses key past obstacles across technology, supplier deployment, and customer adoption; and identifies vital criteria for choosing a next-generation platform. Read More Spotlight Story Pandora and the future of online music You can't have watched the wild ride that the music industry has had since the rise of the Internet without being amazed that the business end of the music world has tried to resist the inevitable for so long. It is a foregone conclusion that the music industry as it was in, say, the nineties is merely history. Read full story Related News: Surveilled to death Gibbs ponders how much we're tracked and how much we give away and wonders what the long-term outcome will be; a society of closed lips and constrained behavior, a society economical with the truth, or will it just stay business a usual? Improving Excel and Yahoo Pipes You know how Excel is mostly really good but weirdly weak in a few areas? Mark Gibbs has found a fix for one issue: String concatenation. And while he's on the subject of data manipulation he begins taking a look at a remarkable Web service, Yahoo Pipes. 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 The history of steganography There is a wealth of methods for creating encrypted messages you can't even tell are there. Top 10 cool satellite projects Satellites are, by their very definition, cool. Managed Security for a Not-So-Secure World Today's risky data environment, which has seen 213 data breaches in the first five months of 2009, is colliding with an IT landscape of shrinking resources. This paper explains how an IT and security service provider can provide a practical, manageable and reliable solution. Read More Virtualization Executive Guide The Editors of Network World present this Executive Guide: Taking Virtualization Up a Notch. Read it and find out what you need to know about virtualization as it creeps into every corner of your data center. Learn more   September 22, 2009 MOST-READ STORIES Dell buying Perot Systems for $3.9 billion WiMAX in 2010: Too little, too late? 10G Ethernet shakes net design to the core Apple decision on Google Voice was made by senior execs Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation has credibility issues already Are netbooks ready for the enterprise? An amazing laptop recovery story Cisco also backs flattening of data center networks 10 NASA space technologies that may never see the cosmos Facebook will shut down Beacon to settle lawsuit NetScaler VPX: Harness the Power of Virtualized Web App Delivery Technical Whitepaper – "NetScaler VPX: Harness the Power of Virtualized Web App Delivery" – shows you how the NetScaler VPX virtual appliance offers maximum physical, functional, and operational flexibility for delivering web apps. Learn how virtual application delivery controllers can unleash the power of a virtualized dynamic data center! Compliments of Citrix. Read Now 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