Facebook Lite Gallery: Check Out the New Look Facebook now offers a "lite" version for those with slow Internet access or who are simply tired of the clutter. Google Groups hosts first-of-its kind Trojan Symantec has discovered a new Trojan that is making use of Google Groups to to distribute commands. Symantec is calling this malware Trojan.Grups. While Trojan writers routinely use newsgroups to infect machines, this is the first time that Syamntec has ever seen them use Google Groups for "command and control" malware. 10G EPON standardized The IEEE last week ratified a standard for 10 Gbps Ethernet Passive Optical Networks, or 10G EPON. The 802.3av standard builds on 802.3ah to deliver fiber-to-the-home networks. OpenDNS: Beyond free. We want paying customers Free isn't all it's cracked up to be. At least according to free DNS service provider OpenDNS, which is unveiling on Monday a suite of paid services targeted at enterprise customers. Number 1 Thing To Make Windows 7 Installs Easy I'd hate to think exactly how many times I've installed some version of Windows 7 since its debut back at Microsoft PDC 2008. There was the Windows 7 pre-public beta (that didn't have the new UI and menu bar), the Windows 7 public beta, the Windows 7 RC and the Windows 7 RTM. On my daily use laptop alone I've installed each of these Windows 7 versions, some more than twice. Report: T-Mobile May Buy Sprint to Create Market Giant T-Mobile plans to acquire wireless carrier Sprint to better compete with giants AT&T and Verizon in the U.S, according to a report on Monday from the U.K.'s Telegraph. How registrars tackle domain name abuse Some rogue registrars are happy to turn a blind eye to domain-name abuse; others are fighting back. Start-up releases uber-fast, efficient enterprise-class SSDs Three-year-old start-up Pliant Technology announced today it will be coming to market this month with its first enterprise-class solid state disk drive, which it says has twice the performance of competing products and an unlimited number of daily write cycles. Open source dude, Sam Ramji, departs Microsoft (sort of) Last week, Sam Ramji announced that he would be heading up the CodePlex Foundation, a new foundation intended to help proprietary software makers work in the brave new open source world. Software helps robots make intelligent decisions In its quest for ever-smarter robots, military researchers this week gave a $850,000 grant robotics and automation vendor TRACLabs to build software that can help robots use their sensor systems more intelligently. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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