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Security problems still plague retailers' wireless LANs; Digital Gear: A new dimension to 3D

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Security problems still plague retailers' wireless LANs

John Cox By John Cox
A large-scale scan by Motorola's AirDefense group has found that wireless LAN vulnerabilities in retailer networks though much improved over last year, are still all too common, despite repeated, widely-publicized wireless security breaches. Read full story

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Sans the cheap plastic spectacles, 3D has come a long way since its introduction in movies decades ago. Sharper images and deeper resolutions have made 3D TVs colorful, accompanied by sleek and expensive 3D glasses. 3D technology has also made its way to webcams, binoculars and video games, and attempts are under way to get rid of those dreaded glasses.

Mommas don't let their babies grow up to be engineers
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How Obama should really use John Doerr and Chuck Phillips -- and Mitt Romney as well
Monash: One of President Obama's many economic advice councils will include John Doerr, the legendary venture capitalist from Kleiner Perkins, and Charles Phillips, president of Oracle, who before Oracle was the top stock analyst cover the software industry.* That's great. (And even greater is the Obama/Pelosi emphasis on science.) But Obama should use guys like Doerr and Phillips for a lot more than generalized advice.

Buzzblog: Wikileaks releases 6,780 Congressional reports
With no indication, per usual, as to how it obtained the documents, the whistleblower-enabling organization Wikileaks has posted to its Web site 6,780 taxpayer-funded Congressional Research Service reports that generally see the light of day only when sponsoring officials judge their contents politically beneficial.

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Buy a router: save the world? John Chambers's advice to fix the economy … keep investing in Internet technologies; Plus, Brad Reese charts 16 years of Cisco's quarterly earnings and then asks, is Cisco management doing a good job?; and Cisco Tweeps on Twitter, the official list.

February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
Up for grabs: One American Express gift card worth $250 from Global Knowledge; One Microsoft training course worth $2,995 from Global Knowledge; 15 copies each of the hot book titles Voice over IP Security, and CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide and 15 copies of Exchange Server 2007 How-To: Real Solutions for Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Administrators. Get all the entry details here.


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02/09/09

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  2. Violent video games can help with fire safety
  3. Microsoft rounds out voice assault
  4. MySQL co-founder quits Sun
  5. Porn site feud spawns new DNS attack
  6. Up to 2,000 jobs to be cut at Cisco?
  7. Nortel still signing up customers
  8. Sprint's 4G guy: Todd Rowley on the need for speed
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