Internet pioneer touts 'Fast Flow Routing'; Mozilla: 10-day patch guarantee 'not our policy'

Daily News: AM This newsletter is sponsored by Akamai Technologies Perk up apps with Web acceleration Discover why one enterprise made the decision to go with a managed Web application service provider to improve application performance. This IT shop decided that a distributed datacenter was too costly and is now reaping the benefits of outsourcing. Its once sluggish application is now chugging along. Network World Daily News: AM, 08/07/07 Internet pioneer Roberts touts 'Fast Flow Routing' A start-up led by one of the “fathers” of the Internet debuted this week along with the company's first product. Mozilla: 10 day patch guarantee 'not our policy' Mozilla does not set security policy at late-night pajama parties. The open source browser maker was forced to issue a statement Monday, retracting a pledge attributed to the company's director of ecosystem development, Mike Schaver, to fix any critical security bugs in the browser within "Ten ****ing Days." Bush lets Qualcomm ban stand Qualcomm will appeal a ban on imports of mobile devices that use some of its chips, the company said Monday after the George Bush administration declined to reverse the ban. Application Acceleration More companies today are taxed with supporting global business processes in real-time. Download this Webcast, Application Acceleration: Merits of Managed Services to learn how managed Web acceleration services might best support this goal. Click here to check it out! The rise of the sensitive spammer This piece of spam I got was so amusing I had to write about it – spam gets personal as spammers plead for their lives. Judge reverses Microsoft patent award A federal judge Monday effectively reversed a $1.5 billion patent-infringement award against Microsoft in a case involving MP3 technology. Is IPv6 ready for the office? Network engineers completed their first-ever test of common enterprise applications over the world’s largest IPv6 network this summer - and the results announced today were mixed. VMware offers Fusion for running Windows on Macs VMware gave start-up Parallels some competition Monday by releasing the first version of its software that lets Windows applications run on Apple's Macintosh computers. VC investments continue to rally during second quarter Venture capital funding during the second quarter continued at the healthy rate set during the first quarter, nearly matching the amount that was invested in that quarter and possibly putting 2007 on track to be a record year. Middleware for server grids goes green Grid middleware vendor Appistry Monday launched a software module that automatically powers down servers when they are not needed by applications, thus saving on energy consumption. Windows logon-scripting tool going open source Script Start will provide the source code for its desktop-automation tool. Blogs Buzzblog: What would you do with 66,000 business cards? If your first thought was Menger Sponge, well, take a seat up here at the front of the class and have a gold star on us. Today at Cisco Subnet Security blogger Jamey Heary details the top 9 things that any NAC system must do, and asks your suggestion for the 10th. When setting network policies and practices, don't make promises the system cannot keep, says blogger Jeff Doyle.

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