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'IPv6 brokenness' problem appears fixed

HBGary Federal legal threats, not Anonymous chase Aaron Barr out of Defcon security conference | Universities launch ultra-high-speed broadband initiative

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'IPv6 brokenness' problem appears fixed
The Internet's biggest content providers -- including Yahoo, Facebook and Google -- are reporting a significant decline in their measurements of "IPv6 brokenness," a term that describes end users with misconfigured systems that can't access websites supporting the next-generation Internet protocol called IPv6. Read More


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HBGary Federal legal threats, not Anonymous chase Aaron Barr out of Defcon security conference
Aaron Barr, the tech executive who bailed out of a talk at the Security B-Sides conference after the hacker collective Anonymous attacked the company he worked for, is bailing out of yet another conference, this time chased away by his former boss. Read More

Universities launch ultra-high-speed broadband initiative
A group of 29 U.S. universities will seek ideas on how to improve broadband speeds at their campuses and surrounding communities. Read More

iPads in the enterprise: 5 price negotiation tactics
Did you know you can gain up to a margin point of additional discount when buying at least 1,000 iPads from an Apple reseller? Before you jump on the iPad bandwagon there are five things you need to know to ensure you get the best deal. Read More


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Dear DMV: I am LMAOATU
What's more laughable about this story? Would it be that a department of motor vehicles has yanked the vanity plate LMAOATU, ruling it "vulgar" because, as most of you know, the A in the familiar texting and email acro LMAO stands for the body part upon which we sit? Or would it be the fact that the DMV in question operates in the state of Nevada, home to Sin City, legal prostitution and a commercial reverence for the A in LMAO that stands rivaled only by the T in T & A? Read More

Google explains its data correlation privacy settings
In response to my blog post about how Google seems to be gathering pubic data about people and correlating it with their Google user names, Google has offered some explanations. A company spokesperson told me that the search giant is not looking at public phone directories to match phone numbers with user names. But it is looking through social media sites to correlate those accounts to your Google user name and profile. Read More

Apple Store fakes discovered in China
Imagine you're an American living abroad in China for a year where you find yourself taking up residence in a small quaint city called Kumming. One day, you just happen to be walking around and, lo and behold, you stumble into an Apple retail store. Read More


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GE pushes ahead with 500GB holographic disc storage
GE is about to begin distribution of holographic optical disc technology and plans to license it to manufacturing partners in the next few months. But a rival company, InPhase, says its own holographic technology is better. Read More

Google service rewrites Web pages for speed
Google has developed a hosted service that analyzes Web pages, rewrites their code to make them perform better and serves them up from Google servers. Read More

Cloud security fears exaggerated, says federal CIO
Outgoing federal CIO Vivek Kundra believes that cloud security issues ave been used to discourage cloud adoption. That's not stopping the Department of Homeland Security. Read More

Alcatel-Lucent returns to profit on small rise in revenue
Alcatel-Lucent reported a smaller increase in revenue than analysts had expected, but returned to profit in the second quarter. For the full year, the company expects to grow faster than the market as a whole and to improve its operating margin. Read More



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