IPhone patent lawsuit filed by doctor convicted of fraud; Are you anywhere near Philadelphia?

Daily News: PM This newsletter is sponsored by Confio Software Reduce IT Investment with Proper Oracle Performance Tools What do you do when your network faces high wait times, dropped sessions, and application lock-ups? Typically the reaction is to spend on expanded server hardware capacity, additional Oracle licenses, installation and project management costs. Utilizing Ignite for Oracle from Confio has demonstrated the ability to cut Oracle wait times by 30-90%. Read this white paper to learn how using Ignite, a typical organization can achieve a 35% performance improvement, generating ROI of 965% first year, based solely on reduced server investment. Network World Daily News: PM, 08/07/07 IPhone patent lawsuit filed by doctor convicted of fraud A doctor who is headed to prison for defrauding government health insurance programs claims he patented the touchscreen keyboard used by the iPhone and is suing Apple in federal court. Are you anywhere near Philadelphia? If so, we need your help. We want to know just how well the city's brand-new citywide Wi-Fi is working out. How strong is the signal from different parts of the city? We'll use your info to build out this map. IPhone owners: "We like it, but..." The honeymoon isn't over. A little more than a month after the Apple iPhone went on sale, nearly 90 percent of iPhone owners who answered a PC World survey said that they love their almost-new toy. But they also had a few complaints -- most notably regarding the iPhone's voice and data networks -- and lots of suggestions. Application Acceleration More companies today are taxed with supporting global business processes in real-time. Download this Webcast, Application Acceleration: Merits of Managed Services to learn how managed Web acceleration services might best support this goal. Click here to check it out! 7 golden rules for implementing IPv6 IPv6 is not a “maybe” that could be 10 or 20 years out in the future; it is a hard reality that you are going to encounter, possibly before the end of this decade, says Jeff Doyle, noted IP routing expert and author of Routing IP, published by Cisco Press. In his blog for Cisco Subnet, Doyle details his top 7 considerations for rolling out IPv6. IBM merges server and software to create data-virtualization offering IBM is merging its server blade and data-integration software technologies to create a data-virtualization offering that is supposed to consolidate and move massive amounts of data and make it easier for users to find, the company said Monday. Mobile Linux group gets wider support A nonprofit organization formed by six of the biggest names in the cell phone business to promote the use of Linux of handsets has gotten ... Consumer play: Dell buys Zing, launches Ubuntu In what could be a new assault on the market for handheld gadgets, Dell Inc. has agreed to acquire Zing Systems Inc., a company that makes ... Lenovo, Acer vie for Packard Bell Lenovo Group Ltd. on Tuesday announced plans to acquire European electronics maker Packard Bell BV. If it goes through, the deal would be a ... Lenovo and Dell sneak Linux on to new PCs Open source software has made further inroads into Microsoft's heartland this week as both Lenovo and Dell announced Linux-based PCs. Proofpoint jumps into security services fray Messaging security vendor Proofpoint adds a hosted service to its portfolio of appliance, virtual appliance and software offerings. Qualcomm can't enforce patents, judge rules Qualcomm Inc. can't enforce two patents involved in the H.264 video compression standard because it hid them from the standards body that ...

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