Feds dole out $450 million for U.S. jobs lost to outsourcing The U.S. Department of Labor releases more than $450 million to states for career training, employment and case management services to workers who lose their jobs due to outsourcing and foreign trade. VMware's Drummonds apologizes to Microsoft for Hyper-V video Let's post this in the stupid-idea-leads-to-embarrassment file. In a guest post in the VMTN blog, VMware's Scott Drummonds publicly apologized for anonymously posting a YouTube video that mislead viewers on the reliability of Hyper-V. New source of federal revenue: tax private use of work cell phones The IRS has discovered its own way to help close the ballooning federal deficit: arbitrarily classify as personal 25% of an employee's use of a company-issued cellphone, and therefore subject to tax as a fringe benefit. Cisco's CSO speaks out on ideas to secure the nation President Obama recently announced the results and his perspective of the 60-day cyber security review he requested earlier this year. This makes him the first president to ever put their name with such a report. Following the results of the 60 day cyber security review, the Obama administration has made clear the urgent need to upgrade our nation's information technology infrastructure with a particular focus on securing those systems. Planning on Test Driving OCS 2007 R2...make sure you have 64 (bits that is) This product is completely 64 bit, so if you saved a few bucks in outfitting your test systems with 32-bit Vista, you'll quickly find you are lacking in bits. Mobile broadband users get less than 1Mbps Mobile broadband users on average receive speeds of less than 1Mbps, says Epitiro. Array debuts 10Gbps acceleration gear Array Networks this week unveiled a new high-end application delivery controller that's built on a retooled architecture. Private clouds a fit for test and development, IBM cloud chief says IBM's cloud chief Kristof Kloecker discusses cloud trends, IBM's plans. iPhone surcharge protest highlight carriers' loss of control Ask smartphone users anywhere in the U.S. what they think of their wireless carriers, and you will get an earful. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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