Acer to acquire Gateway in $710 million deal; Defunct SunRocket sues Vonage

Daily News: AM This newsletter is sponsored by Sterling Commerce SOA and the Business of Change Changes such as mergers, acquisitions and dealing with a competitive landscape are the ever fluid business and technical environment we all exist in today. With best IT practices and SOA strategy you can prepare for success through IT/business alignment, proper organizational change management and critical skills training. Download this webcast and listen to an IDC analyst take you through this critical subject. Network World Daily News: AM, 08/27/07 Acer to acquire Gateway in $710 million deal Acer plans to acquire Gateway in a deal worth $710 million that Acer says will make it the world's third-largest PC vendor. Defunct SunRocket sues Vonage over subscriber list Defunct VoIP service provider SunRocket is suing Vonage, claiming its rival used its subscriber list without paying for it. The virtues of putting virtualization on a chip As second-tier server-virtualization vendors embrace hardware assists from Intel and AMD, enterprise customers find good VMware alternatives. New Executive Guide Network World has recently published an executive guide entitled "Virtualization Meets Reality". Find out the 8 key challenges of virtualizing your data center. Download it now! New Yahoo Mail exits beta, rolls out improvements Yahoo will close an almost two-year public test for its new version of Yahoo Mail on Monday with several new enhancements, as the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet giant boosts this Webmail service that is key to both its usage and advertising growth. Hot IT jobs: Systems administrator Job description: Systems administrators install, upgrade, monitor and maintain software and hardware to keep IT operations running smoothly. They often do data backup and recovery. In small IT departments, they are jacks-of-all-trades. Intel improves desktop security with vPro upgrade Intel released an upgrade to its vPro bundle of automated PC management features on Monday, saying the new package delivers better IT security than the original product launched last year. Google's Blogger fixes bug, adds video uploading Google's Blogger team this week solved a technical problem with the blog publishing and hosting service and introduced a new feature that gives publishers the ability to upload videos to their sites. Mobile workforce leaves networks vulnerable, survey says Security configuration management tools don't always protect the network from malware on infected mobile machines, according to survey of 450 IT leaders. Live Chat tomorrow The truth about NAC: Security expert Joel Snyder separates NAC fact from fiction. Live, Tuesday Aug. 28 at 2 p.m. Submit your questions now. Blogs Today at Cisco Subnet Cisco's new CFO has a tough act to follow. IP routing expert Jeff Doyle explains how to protect your network edge with reverse path forwarding. Channelguy says despite the promises of Chambers and Ballmer to play nice it's likely that their sales reps will still sling FUD. Blogger Michael Morris asks if two diverse LAN ports to every cube is more trouble than it's worth. Plus: Brocade says it's not worried about Cisco anymore. Today on Microsoft Subnet Microsoft’s bid to get OOXML approved as an ISO standard got a kick in the shin. The Brazilian Technical Standards Organization voted no. The Microsoft and Mitsubishi research departments are creating a way cool, double-sided touch screen, LucidTouch. Stay in touch with Microsoft Subnet editor Julie Bort on Twitter - @microsoftsubnet Today on Layer 8, where we'd like take more than a few of these scammers out behind the woodshed: It is the way of the world - as soon as some disaster strikes or people are in a bad situation, there’s always some online scam artist there to relieve them of their money. The current mortgage money crisis is no different. The Better Business Bureau is warning U.S. homeowners that it has heard complaints from victims of foreclosure rescue schemes in almost all 50 states.

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