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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: A security policy conundrum

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

* A security policy conundrum
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Sprint stalls on promised feature

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A SECURITY POLICY CONUNDRUM

Security: A particularly sticky dilemma facing enterprises is what stance
to take on personal e-mail accounts and whether to shut down access to
all Web e-mail interfaces to non-company mail accounts. As Bob Lewis
writes in today's Advice Line, "Failing to enforce the [access shutdown]
policy subjects the company and its customers to liabilities. But
enforcing it is terribly difficult because the system is so difficult to
use." For the full discussion, see here. In the news: Intel claims an
optics breakthrough that could enable chips with speeds up to 40Gbps.
The new laser modulator technology could be capable of... ...

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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST

Intel claims an optics breakthrough that could enable chips with speeds
of 40Gbps, raids in China close down a huge piracy syndicate, an
explosion causes power outages in San Francisco, forensics software is
vulnerable to hacking, and more LISTEN!... ...

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SPRINT STALLS ON PROMISED FEATURE

Best of the blogs: Readers are understandably frustrated about advertised
features that are missing in action on the actual products. In today's
Gripe Line, Ed Foster reveals a long-promised feature from Sprint that
has yet to materialize: A reader complains of plunking down $350 for
what he was told was an EVDO-capable smartphone, only to have two years
go by (and his phone contract lapse) with nary a sign of Sprint enabling
EVDO capability in its 6600 phone. Get the full story here. In the news:
Intel unleashes another round of cuts in its price battles with AMD. The
tit-for-tat... ...

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