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. News podcast: Network World 360 A new survey shows that many businesses are concerned about the management and privacy of data that they entrust to cloud computing service providers, but not many are doing anything about it. Another vendor is taking aim at Cisco's recently announced Unified Computing System. This time, it's HP, which has rolled out BladeSystem Matrix, a converged software, server, storage and network platform. (5:28) Google News Timeline: A Glorious, Intriguing Time Sink Got a deadline anytime in the next 24 hours? Then don't, for your own good, check out Google News Timeline. This new Google Labs feature, which organizes news stories and other information by date, looks to be the biggest, funnest time waster since we all spent hours exploring the globe with Google Earth. Also: History, according to Google News Cisco bolsters security family Cisco today announced the Cisco IPS Sensor v. 7.0, adding what it calls "reputation analysis" to augment the signature-based defense of the intrusion-prevention system. AT&T doubling 3G capacity AT&T is doubling the capacity of its 3G high-speed packet access network to reach peak speeds of 3.6Mbps. The FBI as an ethical hacker? More details are emerging about how the FBI engages in hacking and the planting of spyware. EMC, Symantec kick-off security barrage at RSA With the RSA Conference cranking up, EMC’s security division RSA and Symantec rolled out security product releases today. Microsoft could be a winner in Sun-Oracle deal Microsoft has had few critics more vocal than Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy. With their companies set to merge in a blockbuster $7.4 billion deal announced Monday, is it time for Microsoft to worry? Net security, Windows 7 and Conficker under scrutiny Cross-domain security on the Internet, Windows 7 vulnerabilities and the Conficker worm will be among the topics under scrutiny at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) held in Dubai this week. Pentagon bombs $400M Lockheed outsourcing contractThe Pentagon this week said it was taking back the veterans pay and administration service work in had outsourced to Lockheed Martin in what some say is also a blow the former President Bush administration’s government work privatization efforts. The return of the veteran’s contract to government employees will save up to $25 million over the next 10 years according to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) that will run the program. Are Instant Messaging Emoticons the New Age's Hieroglyphics? In his Microsoft Voice and UC blog, Joe Schurman talked with his brother's best friends and mentor about the affect that text messaging has had on the English language, which eventually led to how emoticons or images are now used. Have we as a society, now repeated history by leveraging images versus text to converse? 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. |
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