Editor's note: We will be changing how we send out Network World newsletters over the next few weeks. To ensure future delivery of your newsletters, please add nww_newsletters@newsletters.networkworld.com to your e-mail address book or 66.186.127.216 to your white-list file. Thank you. Broadcom makes bid to buy Emulex for $764 million Following a rejection of efforts to purchase the company in January, Broadcom on Tuesday made an unsolicited bid to purchase Emulex for $764 million. Mozilla patches 12 Firefox bugs, a third of them critical Mozilla Tuesday patched 12 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3, just days before it hopes to roll out the newest beta of its next open-source browser, Firefox 3.5. The Polite Way to Take a Break, Ignore, Unfollow on Twitter The more people you follow on Twitter, the more you realize the truth: Sometimes, you want a short break from certain people. Sometimes, you even need to break up. Topping the list of annoyances, there's the too much information (TMI) tweets, followed closely by the criminally self-promotional and the disgustingly self-indulgent. These tweets can trickle into your Twitter stream with great regularity, rendering the service at times useless. BlackBerry Tips: Delete Carrier Crapware, Icons Every so often, wireless carriers take it upon themselves to push out their own branded, or at least sanctioned, applications and services to BlackBerry users in the form of "service book" updates--regardless of whether or not said users actually want them. AT&T seems to be particularly fond of the practice, and this weekend it not only pushed out a dozen or so new link-icons to its BlackBerry customers' devices, but also delivered a new version of its own "app store," Media Mall 2.0. Can you cut information security in hard times and survive Although some analysts actually expect security spending to rise this year -- at least as a percentage of total IT spending -- some CIOs are giving serious thought to the once-unthinkable idea of trimming security budgets as businesses look to cut costs during this global recession. Oracle's Sun Is Blinding In Microsoft's Eyes Mitchell Ashley says in his Microsoft Subnet blog that the industry now knows what Sun wants to be when it grows up: Oracle. Ashley gives his view on the deal. AT&T launches content distribution service AT&T is offering a content distribution service that lets companies stream video and other multimedia across their networks from behind their own firewalls. Day One RSA: Scouting Mission Cisco Subnet blogger Jimmy Ray Purser takes you through a first-hand visual tour of RSA 2009 in San Francisco. April giveaways galore Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training courses from Global Knowledge, valued at $2,995 and $3,495, and have copies of three hot books up for grabs: CCVP CIPT2 Quick Reference by Anthony Sequeira, Microsoft Voice Unified Communications by Joe Schurman and Microsoft Office 2007 On Demand by Steve Johnson. Deadline for entries April 30. Network World on Twitter Get our tweets and stay plugged in to networking news. |
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