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Breaking News RSS FeedsErrant e-mail to me will cost you - Ignorance of the law doesn't work with speeding tickets and it doesn't work with technology. Both can cost you. ...Feed Source: www.networkworld.com Telecom planning in a time of turmoil - It's gotten pretty hard to miss the financial news lately: September was the worst month for stocks in years, and October looks to surpass it. Despite the U.S. government's massive $800-billion bailout, the U.S. economy is still roiling, and Europe's is doing even worse.... Verizon exposes the wrong 1,200 e-mail addresses - A Net Buzz reader on Verizon: "In a period of three hours I received 14 e-mails promoting Verizon's 'Secure the Information. Secure the Infrastructure' webinar series, and three e-mails promoting their '2008 Data Breach Investigations Report Road Show.' Considering their content [about data-breach seminars], I thought it very humorous that the TO: field of the e-mails contained over 1,200 e-mail addresses: 17 e-mails times 1,200 addresses equals more than 20,000 chances for leaks."
... The ROI of influence - How does one become a leading social media expert? "I decided to leave the real IT world to run off and join the circus," said Chris Brogan.... Accessing HD content from anywhere - Sling Media's Slingbox Pro-HD is a small appliance that connects to your TV and home network to let you stream TV content across the LAN or the Internet.... Backup DVDs that find your photos - Verbatim has a neat idea: Backup software embedded into recordable DVDs. Gibbs likes the concept but thinks it could do with a little polishing. Oh, and he revisits his old DPC problem. Yet again.... Will Apple be forced to make more money? - Apple-AT&T iPhone agreement has gotten the court?s attention.... End-to-end application management - the network perspective - What if your executive team needed to develop a true "end-to-end" application management strategy? What would it look like?
... Palin and politics: lots to talk about - Gibbs discusses reader feedback to last week's column about the break-in of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account and the heady intersection of IT and politics. ... Airport 'X-ray art' courts TSA trouble - Techno-artist/open-source developer Evan Roth has a message for the Transportation Safety Administration -- several messages, actually -- about what he considers excessive airport security "theater." He also has chosen an intentionally provocative method of delivering those messages: the TSA's own X-ray screening machines.... Word of mouth sales goes electronic - Word of mouth makes the best salesperson, according to all the sales manuals. Are you ready to take advantage of electronic word of mouth? That's what I believe social media has become, at least for smart businesses. True, most of the "blogosphere" and Twitter-verse may be electronic gossip, but some companies have made huge advances taking word of mouth to the Web.... How IPv6 is like the U.S. financial crisis - Not long ago, the powers-that-be detected an impending crisis. To resolve it, they rushed into action crafting a proposal that represented an unprecedented upheaval of existing infrastructure. On the grounds that "something needed to be done" to avert the crisis, they brushed aside objections that the upheaval was too convulsive and might nonetheless fail to address the underlying issues that had created the crisis in the first place. The financial bailout proposed by the Treasury Department? No. I'm talking about the creation of IPv6.... Cloud computing: End of the corporate WAN? - When vendors and marketers get their hands on an IT concept, it doesn't take long for that concept to morph into a totally new business opportunity and possibly a new market segment. Such is the story of cloud computing.
... Is ignorance of the law a design goal? - Carl Malumad is pushing for more U.S. laws and standards to be Internet accessible.... A better portable video tool - Gibbs looks at the Kodak Zi6, a direct competitor to the Flip Mino video camera he reviewed a few weeks ago, and discusses improving Windows audio.... RealDVD: Get it while you can - RealNetworks' RealDVD software lets users save their DVDs onto their computer's hard drive. ... Can you keep users from importing their own applications? - Shadow IT is all the IT that was neither planned nor approved by anyone but gets chosen, deployed and used by end users. Some see this as grass-roots deployment of cool technologies; some see it as weeds growing from any crack in the IT plan. If you don't build it, they will go find it elsewhere. And even if you build it, if it isn't adequate, comprehensive, flexible and easy to use, they will go find it elsewhere.... Can we really stop malicious insiders? - In terms of malicious insiders committing fraud, can anything "really" be done?
... Google has gone and redefined 'beta' - The question of why so many Google products are classified "beta" -- and classified thusly for so long -- has knocked around the tech press for some time. However, no one really seemed to know the answer, at least no one outside of Google.... Palin's e-mail and expert mistakes - Experts aren't infallible. Whether they are mushroom collectors, e-mail providers, political candidates or IT professionals, they can get things wrong. If we're talking mushrooms, the results can be fatal.... More Chrome details, Less Firefox housekeeping - Following last week's discussion of Google's Chrome browser Gibbs discusses what makes Chrome special and then discusses a user's observation that Firefox 3 is up to something but what? ... Two new support options for SMBs - When the IT business gets slow at huge companies, vendors "discover" the small business market. Whether that's the reason in full or part, now seems to be a golden time for small businesses that need IT support, because the line of vendors ready to help keeps getting longer.... Calculating the cost of communicating - At a recent trade show, I happened to mention that some of my more forward-looking clients have created "communications calculators? that enable them to predict -- with a high degree of accuracy -- what the communications costs will be for moving or adding employees. Let's say a business unit owner wants to shift 5,000 employees from site A to site B -- how will that affect communications costs?
... Sonos, Logitech offer great network music options - Sonos debuts its Multi-Room Music System. Logitech's Squeezebox Boom Network Music System is an all-in-one system that can access lots of music over a home network. ... This is not a Mac vs. PC column - Microsoft has sold a lot of copies of Vista; in May it reported it had sold 140 million. This statistic, along with the data points that 2007 was a record year for Microsoft and that 2007 Windows revenue was about $17 billion, should be seen as rather good news. Yet the press hardly ever has a good word to say about Vista and its adoption.... Markets surge after crisis talks - European and Asian stock markets rally in response to efforts by world leaders to stem the financial turmoil.... Mbeki seeks to save Zimbabwe deal - Ex-South African President Thabo Mbeki is due in Harare to try and salvage the power-sharing deal he brokered last month.... Krugman wins Nobel for economics - American Paul Krugman has won this year's Nobel economics prize for his work on trade patterns, it has been announced.... Clintons rally behind Obama - Bill and Hillary Clinton make their first joint appearance in support of Barack Obama's presidential bid.... EU to let Belarus leader travel - The European Union is to lift its travel ban on President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, to encourage democratic reform.... Darfur militia leader in custody - A Sudanese militia leader wanted by the International Criminal Court over war crimes in Darfur is in custody, a minister confirms.... World 'to fail' on nature target - The world's governments will fail to meet their agreed target of curbing biodiversity loss by 2010, conservationists tell the BBC.... Beijing reintroduces car rules - Traffic restrictions are re-introduced in Beijing, to try to bring back the clear skies seen during the Olympics. ... Brain boost drugs 'growing trend' - Increasing numbers of people are using prescription drugs to boost alertness and brain power, raising safety and ethical concerns, say experts.... Plant-eating Japanese predator could control UK superweed - A plant-eating predator from Japan could be used to control a superweed spreading throughout the UK, scientists believe.... Ringo will not sign memorabilia and will throw away all fan mail - Former Beatle Ringo Starr will no longer sign memorabilia and will throw away all fan mail he receives, he says.... World of golf backs legend Seve - Stars of golf offer support to Seve Ballesteros, who has been diagnosed with a brain tumour.... Live text - India v Australia - Bad light stops play for the second time with India on 165-4 on the fifth day of the first Test against Australia in Bangalore.... Feeling the heat - Immigrants caught in a European ethnic dispute... Stench of success - Rapid growth puts strain on Dubai sewage system... Sudden deaths - Undiagnosed heart problems take toll on the young... Alive and kicking - Why US football means more than just David Beckham... Surrogate boom - UK couples head to India to solve fertility problems... Rebel's return - What role now for Hasan di Tiro in Indonesia's Aceh?... Ethiopian need 'under-estimated' - Aid agencies dispute the Ethiopian government's estimates of those suffering in the country's drought.... US banking rules 'outdated' - US banking regulators need a "dramatic overhaul", according to Harvey Pitt who used to run one of them.... Markets rally after crisis talks - East Asian stock markets react positively after efforts by world leaders to end the financial turmoil.... Iceland stock market to stay shut - Iceland's stock exchange says trading will remain suspended on Monday because of continuing "unusual market conditions". ... British troops 'should go home' - The Iraqi prime minister has said British troops should leave Iraq because they are no longer needed to maintain security.... India stocks up after assurance - Shares recover on the Bombay Stock Exchange after reassuring comments from India's finance minister.... UK banks' £37bn bail-out unveiled - The UK government says it is to inject a total of up to £37bn into Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and HBOS.
... Fed clears Wachovia bank takeover - US Federal Reserve approves a $12bn takeover of troubled bank Wachovia and it subsidiaries by Wells Fargo.... Gene scan to predict hair loss - Genes that may increase by seven-fold the risk of early baldness amongst men have been uncovered by researchers.... US tourist set for space station - US space tourist Richard Garriott follows in the footsteps of his astronaut father as he blasts off into space.... Tenors reunite for Pavarotti gala - Singers including Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo celebrate the life of late tenor Luciano Pavarotti at a concert in Jordan.... Music fans back legal downloads - Nearly three quarters of online music pirates would be be put off by warnings from their internet provider, suggests a survey.... Send your video, pictures and story ideas - Have you got a good story? BBC News wants to hear from you.... |