Virtualized reality gets physical; New mobile security threats emerge

Voices of Networking This newsletter is sponsored by ShoreTel eBook: IP Telephony from A to Z Get the book on VoIP, from vendor evaluation and selection to ensuring reliability and security. Whether you're considering a rollout or you've already deployed, you'll quickly get up to speed on the most important IP telephony issues and factors. Voices of Networking, 06/18/07 By Jeff Caruso Johnson: Virtualized reality gets physical, 06/13/07 Unless you’ve pulled a Rip Van Winkle under the router racks, you’ve probably noticed that “virtualization” is one of the biggest buzzwords around these days. Brodsky: New mobile security threats emerge, 06/12/07 Mobile phone capabilities are growing by leaps and bounds — and so are mobile security threats. Editorial: Climate Savers step in right direction, 06/15/07 Google, Intel and the other backers of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative announced this week are to be commended for their efforts to address an issue that is on the minds of corporate buyers but not well understood. The IDC Enterprise Panel: Join IDC's panel of IT influencers and decision-makers. Your contributions will be compiled and distributed to technology and telecommunications vendors all over the world. As a thank you for joining, you will receive select free IDC research, and discounted IDC conference passes. Click here to learn more Dr. Internet: Supporting multiple remote desktop clients, 06/14/07 I need to support Apple Remote Desktop and Virtual Network Computing connections on an Apple XServe running OS X, but both services listen on the same network port. I also want to tunnel the VNC connections through Secure Shell for added security. Gearhead: OoVoo, cameras and the end of cool, 06/14/07 In my Network World Web Applications newsletter last week, you will find a review of a free video-calling and -conferencing system called ooVoo. Here's more. Cool Tools: Cooler for your laptop, 06/14/07 Notebook Cooler S by Antec helps your notebook keep a cool head. Wireless Security: Limiting wireless clients to secured access points, 06/12/07 I am attempting to enable all my wireless users to ONLY connect to WEP or WAP enabled WLAN's. I do not even want them to be able to see unsecured ones if possible, but would like them only to connect to secured ones. Schwartau: Beware of tera theft, 06/12/07 We now cling to our USB thumb drives — or as I have always called them — dip sticks (or something more colorful from time to time.) Bradner: Will Apple’s iPhone walk on water?, 06/12/07 I just did a Google news search for “iPhone" and got a very impressive 5,800 hits. The same Google search on the Web (not limited to news sites) results in a ridiculous 71 million hits. Nutter's Help Desk: Extending a wireless network to a second building, 06/11/07 Moving to a remote property in Alabama. No Cable/DSL. Father lives on property. Building a house about 500-1000 yds in Line of Site from his house. He has satellite access (HughesNet).

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