Cisco delivers security, storage and unified communications for small business Cisco this week unveiled products specifically for small companies as part of its recently announced $100 million commitment to that business market. 10 Tips for Creating Your Own Small Hackers Group Purser: For the folks interested in forming a Small Hackers Group in your area, here are the guidelines we used to form ours. Obama's broadband stimulus: throwing money at wrong target? Bradner: President Obama is not happy that the United States is ranked 15th in the world in broadband adoption and wants to fix things as part of his big economic stimulus package. But it's not at all clear that the type of approach in the current draft bill will help improve the U.S. ranking all that much. Part of the problem is that the ranking is misleading. Getting to the bottom of a broadband slowdown Ron Nutter helps a user diagnose and fix and snail's-pace cable-modem connection. See if you agree with his answer; post your own suggestions. Apple and IBM settle legal dispute over hiring of Mark Papermaster Heisler: The legal battle between IBM and Apple over the hiring of Mark Papermaster has come to an end, as Papermaster has been cleared to begin work at Apple starting on April 24, 2009. FTC slaps Do Not Call violators with $1.2 Million in penalties A federal court spanked two telemarketers with some $1.2 million in civil penalties for violating the Federal Trade Commission’s Do Not Call (DNC) Rule. According to the FTC, Westgate and All In One Vacation Club called consumers whose phone numbers were on the Do Not Call Registry without having obtained their express written agreement or having an “established business relationship” with them. How to Improve Effective Throughput Sevcik and Wetzel: It may surprise you to learn that more bandwidth does not necessarily mean higher effective WAN throughput. If you transfer a lot of data over a high-capacity WAN, we bet you are not getting the effective throughput you think you are - and upgrading bandwidth won't help because technical and physical constraints stack the cards against you. Buzzblog: Online privacy tips for teens...that adults continue to ignore Bet you didn't know that today is international Data Privacy Day 2009. As part of the event, Intel has posted a list of online privacy tips for teenagers, which, if you're watching the news at all these days, you know are being completely ignored by many adults. Dell, Cisco: Frenemies? Cisco and Dell have extended their global Solution Technology Integrator agreement to include Cisco's Nexus 5020 data center switching systems with Dell server and storage products. How will this relationship proceed once Cisco launches its blade servers? Cisco invests in video indexing company Cisco has invested an undisclosed amount in Digitalsmiths, a video indexing, analysis and publishing technology provider. Microsoft releases new beta of its Windows Server Update Service If ever a technology caused a love/hate relationship with IT pros, WSUS is it. So here's your chance to test its next iteration. Today on Microsoft Subnet Blackberry Storm is a huge disappointment to Mitchell Ashley who is eating crow over how the Storm lags behind the iPhone; Replay DSM: Easy e-mail recovery that can ease your mind; It's a global world, so stop with the regional lockout of products/services. Today on Cisco Subnet Cisco EnergyWise to measure energy consumption of IP devices and building systems; Book review: Did I successfully teach myself TCP/IP in 24 hours?; Cisco to release February 2009 edition of its product quick reference guide. Today on Google Subnet Monetizing ‘Droids: Four flavors of free; Googlebombers don't get Obama's change memo; Google sees spam rebounding from McColo shutdown; Change in the VP guard apparent in Google Maps; Google Blogoscoped: Google Shows Hi-Res Prado Paintings; and John Brandon says quantity, not quality, rules the Web. January giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet Up for grabs: Two Cisco training courses from Skyline-ATS worth up to $6,990, a Microsoft training course from New Horizons worth up to $2,500, 15 copies each of the hot book titles Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration, IPv6 Security and Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks. Get all the entry details here. |
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