News podcast: Network World 360 A report in today's Boston Globe says Verizon is planning to test its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Boston and Seattle later this year as a dry run for its big commercial launch in 2010. Also, the entity in charge of the Internet's addressing system is declaring victory over an abusive trend in registering domain names. (6:35) ICANN says new policy has killed 'domain tasting' The entity in charge of the Internet's addressing system is declaring victory over an abusive trend in registering domain names. Verizon trialing LTE in Boston, Seattle this year Verizon is planning to test its Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Boston and Seattle later this year as a dry run for its big commercial launch in 2010. IT and baseball: Behind the scenes with the Cleveland Indians The Cleveland Indians' network manager discusses how IT and baseball are interconnected. Top 10 must-have iPhone apps for gamers Don't get stuck with a dud iPhone game that you'll regret having bought. To save you some sweat, we've assembled a list of the ten best strategy, action, and puzzler games for the iPhone. Why the Microsoft-Nokia Office Deal Won't Hurt RIM Microsoft has recently announced a partnership with mobile phone giant Nokia to integrate Microsoft Office apps into Nokia phones. Some see the move as an admission on Microsoft's part that its own mobile platform is underperforming. Why, then, does Nokia think it can use Mobile Office to lure BlackBerry customers away from RIM? Typhoon Morakot severs three undersea Internet cables Deep sea landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot severed at least three undersea fiber-optic telecommunications cables and disrupted three others, causing Internet service disruptions in parts of Asia. Suspicious activities and my grandmother Mark Gibbs is suspicious about a lot of acronyms, to wit, ISE's NSIS that collects SARs that, at least in L.A., includes pictures or video footage "with no apparent esthetic value". His grandmother's words are brought to mind. The pogo stick meets robotics We've written about Carnegie Mellon researchers raising Charles Darwin from the dead, building a robo-tank and developing a gigapixel camera for the masses. Employees Leak Data More Than Ever Data leaks from employees continue to grow due to economic conditions and the growing use of social networks, blogs, multimedia sharing and even text messaging. Proofpoint's Keith Crosley discusses the results of its sixth annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention with Keith Shaw. Microsoft pleads: don't block IE6 Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch made an impassioned plea yesterday on the IEBlog asking large-scale web sites to continue to support Internet Explorer 6 until, well, forever. Hachamovitch's post came in response to a post from the Digg Blog in July in which the folks at Digg publicly pondered the idea of blocking IE6. August Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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