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Network World Daily News: AM, 05/04/07 Court rejects Vonage request for retrial
A U.S. federal appeals court has rejected Vonage's request that it order a lower court to retry a patent-infringement case against the company, Vonage confirmed Thursday. SLAs are just 'marketing fodder,' says provider exec
Service-level agreements, as currently defined, are of little use to enterprises, a service provider said at a conference here this week. Microsoft weaving security, management into single platform
Evident of a larger industry trend, Microsoft on Wednesday began to lay out a strategy to integrate security and management tools into its Forefront and System Center brands of products. | Network World Security Buyer's Guide
Find the right security products for your enterprise - fast. From anti-spam to wireless LAN security, our Buyer's Guides have detailed information on hundreds of products in more than 20 categories. With the side-by-side comparison tool you can evaluate product features to make the best decision for your enterprise. Click here to go to the Security Buyer's Guide now. | | Management heavies get poor grades in Gartner survey
Management software heavyweights BMC, CA, HP and IBM are barely making the grade with their customers, earning C and D averages and driving IT buyers to look elsewhere for their operations management needs, according to a recent Gartner poll. T-Mobile offering free Windows Mobile upgrade
T-Mobile is reportedly offering T-Mobile Dash customers a free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6. SaaS adopters in for big challenges
Use of software-as-a-service has more than doubled since the beginning of 2006 and will double again by the end of the decade, creating challenges for customers and vendors as they attempt to integrate hosted offerings with on-premise software, according to research released this week by Saugatuck Technology, a business and market strategy consulting firm focused on emerging IT markets. Google opens Singapore office, eyes Southeast Asia
Google formally opened an office in Singapore on Thursday, a long anticipated move that signals the company has its eyes on Southeast Asia. Microsoft buys mobile advertising company ScreenTonic
Microsoft Thursday said it will buy ScreenTonic, a company that specializes in delivering localation-based ads to mobile devices. Podcast Striking a Microsoft nerve
Jason and Keith share listener reaction to Keith's "I am never buying another Microsoft operating system" rant hits a chord with listeners, why spam won't go away, whether IT managers should be fired if their company has a major security breach, and guess how much money Spider-Man 3 will make this weekend. (39:09) Blogs Buzzblog: "Do we really need a security industry?"
That's the headline atop a Bruce Schneier column on Wired's Web site. It's a trick question, too. Schneier doesn't argue that we don't need a security industry, but does contend we wouldn't if only his "utopian vision" of a larger IT industry dominated by services would become a reality. … Actually, he doesn't even go that far by the end of the column. Today on Layer 8 where everything we say is at least colorful:
In the pantheon of controversial Microsoft comments CEO Steve Ballmer's quote this week about the Apple iPod: "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item," ranks right up there. But Between Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates that comment would be hard pressed to crack the Top 15 all-time most controversial or even colorful things the two of them have uttered in the past oh, 20 years or so. These are my favorite quotes, there are many like them but these are mine... Buzzblog: Some schools dropping laptop programs
Dropping them like a bad habit, which is exactly what critics say they are: “After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” one school official tells the New York Times. From John Obeto on Microsoft Blog: Microsoft security - no longer an oxymoron:
Yesterday, I was at the Microsoft Forefront and System Center launch event in Beverly Hills, Calif., where Microsoft demoed both products to an impressed audience ... From Cisco Press Author Expert Blog: Jeff Doyle: Managing your network's biggest risk
The greatest risk to your network is the human being legitimately logged in to a router or server, making authorized changes. Now and then, I get someone who disagrees and a little questioning usually reveals one of two circumstances ... | 
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