| Obama's cybersecurity chief to be a 'coordinator' not 'czar'
In a speech at the White House today, President Obama put forward his vision for protecting the nation’s critical IT infrastructure from attack, and announced the new office of Cyber Security Coordinator. Star Trek gear for serious Trekkies
Transform your iPhone into an authentic-looking Tricorder. Set your computer mouse to stun. Own a replica of Captain Kirk's original chair. Check out all these and much more in this slideshow. Racism, hate, militancy sites proliferating via social networking
Rascism, hate, and militancy sites have tripled in number over the past year on the Web and within corners of social-networking sites like Facebook, YouTube, Google and Yahoo, according to one vendor tracking them. Windows 7 Speeds Browser Performance
It's a bit of a surprise but BetaNews.com is reporting their testing shows Windows 7 RC speeds up browser performance. IE specifically picks up the pace by about 12%. Why is this happening? I don't think we know those details. I wonder if Microsoft might have revamped the TCP stack, and if so we should see a speed up in other network applications. MIT Siftables: The Coolest Thing You'll See Today
Check out this video on the MIT Siftables project, which is getting closer to commercialization. Each tiny block is an interactive computer with an OLED screen that can display graphics, sense movement and interact wirelessly with a computer and other Siftables. 25 Gigs of Someone Else's Data
Twisted Pair podcast: Keith and guest co-host Matt Hamblen from Computerworld talk about Microsoft's Bing, how they circumvent e-mail capping limits and why texting while driving is a really bad idea. (46:41) “The Larry Awards” Interop Las Vegas Awards for Best Presentation
Chaffin: I decided to have a little fun and send some emails to friends who attended Interop to get their opinions on who had the best presentations from any technology. The name of the awards came from a few people who thought my name should be the award (sounds good to me). The votes were very different from what I thought and we had many discussions, but we do have our winner for this year listed below. Also I have added some comments that came back about what they did not like. Maybe this will help vendors do better next year. Light traffic, modest Cisco presence mark Vegas Interop
A big theme at this year's Interop conference in Las Vegas was cloud computing, the concept of turning physical data center assets and resources into a virtualized service infrastructure. But while cloud computing may be the silver lining around a dour IT economy, the clouds are gray and dreary around Interop, the networking industry's biggest trade show. Interop 2009: Wireless Highlights from the Show Floor
While I work primarily on the Mobile Business Conference at Interop, there are always a few interesting items to be found at the Expo, aka the show floor. The event appeared quite well-attended, and at times even crowded, a bit surprising given the downbeat economy. And, being an omnibus networking event, one had to dig a little to get to the wireless stuff - but I found a few interesting items, as follows:
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From 3Mbps over shared coax to 40/100Gbps over fiber…and beyond.
iPhone enthusiasts from around the Web offer their visions for the next-gen iPhone.
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