News podcast: Network World 360 The White House has confirmed that President Barack Obama will have the use of a security-enhanced BlackBerry. South Korea's Samsung Electronics recorded a net loss for the last three months of 2008, while its net profit for the entire year fell 26 percent. (5:30) The microblogging apocalypse is here Monash: Everybody knows that most of what you find on the Internet is junk, often junk that's been contrived to grab your attention for no legitimate reason. Some is pure or almost-pure spam; other is more borderline. That's bad enough. But what triggered today's rant is something superficially more innocuous -- Plinky. The idea of Plinky is to help people create "inspired content," by which they mean -- Plinky provides the inspiration. Can he get rid of Spanning Tree? On IT Asked and Answered, a user who's redesigning his building's network wonders if he can get rid of Spanning Tree and not implement VLANs. Ron Nutter takes a look at his setup, gives his advice. Add yours - or post a question of your own. IBM out of the online services gate with mixed reviews Seeking to break out from behind the firewall, IBM/Lotus is cloning its collaboration family for the cloud and embarking on a direction that could define the future of its applications. 'Vista Capable' case could cost Microsoft $8.5B Microsoft would have to come up with as much as $8.5 billion to settle accounts with the customers affected by its 2006 "Vista Capable" marketing program, according to documents unsealed by a federal court. Obama plan says cyber infrastructure is 'strategic' The Obama administration has published a high-level plan to protect U.S. computer networks, saying it considers cyber infrastructure "a strategic asset" and will appoint a cyber adviser who will report directly to the president. WiMAX Forum looks toward roaming The WiMAX Forum kicked off an initiative on Thursday that someday may be critical for making WiMAX a true rival to cellular networks. Sour Apple: Tim Cook warns iPhone rivals "don't rip off" our patents Cox: Apple's COO Tim Cook issued a veiled warning to the company's iPhone rivals this week, especially Palm with its well-recieved but not-yet-released Palm Pre smartphone. Top Reasons You Need To Add a Sitemap Rognerud: Sitemaps have been around for a very long time. They provide an easy way to help you organize your site for users and search engines. Using targeted keywords in the link anchor text that results in a matching landing page is good practice. The real impact of social media: almost zero Brandon: I think Facebook and other social nets wield a lot of power. However, I don't think they actually have enough power to get someone elected. Twitter says purported White House account was a fake For more than a year, an @TheWhiteHouse account on Twitter Inc. 's microblogging site was used to dutifully send out more than 1,500 alerts about speeches, press briefings and other Bush administration news. The Twitter account's claim that it was officially sanctioned by the White House appeared believable, if only because it was so earnest - and boring. ROI Case Studies Don ’t Capture Application Performance Value Sevcik and Wetzel: We are often asked to research and document case studies showing the return on investment for an application performance management (APM) technology that improves performance and leads to financial benefits. This is classic ROI thinking. You spend money to gain money. The benefits exist, but classic ROI case studies for APM technologies simply cannot capture them. Let us explain why. Today on Google Subnet Employees win in Google stock option swap; Google Blogoscoped: Google China stopped censoring the BBC; and Search-Wise’s Jon Rognerud explains the top reasons you need to add a site map. |
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