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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Juniper feels growing pains; Google, Microsoft rivalry heats up

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Juniper feels growing pains
Juniper is at a crossroads. The 11-year-old company, formed to challenge Cisco in service provider core routing, is facing slowing growth in that market (The company is announcing a new core router Monday that it hopes will boost sales.)

Google, Microsoft serious about software, services, litigation
The rivalry between Microsoft and Google is getting fired up over software and services and has become so hot that it is spilling into the legal and regulatory realm, according to some observers.

Microsoft and Google sniping: What’s it all about?
Microsoft and Google have been nipping at each other for quite some time but as the search and online advertising market has picked up so has the competition. Now Google has chosen to go the antitrust route, according to a story by the Wall Street Journal.

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Microsoft vs. Google: Which to root for?
With Google crying antitrust, bloggers and readers have squared off on which company to boo or hiss. Read up and take our poll.

ChoicePoint details data breach lessons
Few companies know as well as ChoicePoint the consequences of failing to secure the personal information of consumers.

Hackers access personal info on varsity faculty members
About 6,000 current and former University of Virginia (UVa) faculty members are being notified that their names, Social Security numbers and birth dates may have been stolen by computer hackers between May 2005 and April 19 of this year.

EBay releases beta of desktop application for buyers
EBay on Monday opened a beta program for a desktop application that makes shopping on the auction Web site easier, with new types of alerts and a browsing history feature.

Diligent offers midsize virtual tape storage packages
Diligent Technologies, which has over the past two years focused selling to enterprise-sized businesses, rolled out the ProtecTIER Mid-range Entry Package and the Mid-range Standard Package, two hardware- software-based appliances that let customers perform disk-to-disk backup and deduplication of redundant data.

Patent fracas blurs Nokia, Qualcomm management focus
Ongoing legal disputes over mobile phone patents between Nokia and Qualcomm are consuming much executive management time, generating substantial lawyer fees and, if they escalate, could affect handset development and prices, experts warn.

Video

Mainframes are alive and well at Hewitt Assoc.
Hewitt Associates keeps it mainframe systems humming by offloading processing to a cluster of Linux servers. Dan Kaberon, director of computer resource management at Hewitt, explains how and why on this week's Voices from IT Roadmap.

Blogs

Buzzblog: Of cricket, Wal-Mart and poker-playing Word authors
ESPN buys the world's biggest Web site devoted to cricket because, well, who among us can get enough news about cricket? Wal-Mart's branching out: First Skype prepaids, then Dell PCs and now the MoneyCard, a service only a banker could love.
And, finally, weep no more for that poker-playing Word author.

Today on Layer8 where we've heard of spam wars but this is just silly:
Call it a different kind of Spam war of a different color. While most of us in the high-tech industry concern ourselves with the unwanted e-mail scourge that is Spam, the rest of the world is enjoying eating the edible ham product known as Spam. And in Hawaii anyway, Spam means war – well more of a food fight between McDonalds and Burger King. You see recently Burger King started featuring Spam for breakfast in Hawaii where the food is a delicacy — an item McDonald's has offered for a number of years.

Winners of May's Cisco Press book giveaway
The sheer number of entries to win both volumes of Jeff Doyle's must-read, Routing TCP/IP was phenomenal, but alas we only had 15 copies each of both volumes to give away. The winners have been notified ...

Cisco WebEx marketing is over the top
Kris Tuttle, founder of software research firm Research 2.0, is fed up with Cisco's unrelenting marketing of WebEx.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

1. Wireless networks: The burning questions
2. Marriott's converged network 'horror story'
3. Beware of fake Microsoft security alerts
4. Vista not playing well with IPv6
5. Word author banned for being lucky
6. Cisco finally releases Linksys One
7. Top 15 USB geek gadgets
8. 10 free virtualization tools worth noting
9. Bill Gates' Harvard commencement speech
10. Pre-vacation checklist for IT professionals

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