News podcast: Network World 360 Cisco this week is extending its branch routers and LAN switches in an effort to improve the collaboration capabilities of enterprise customers.Also, HP today announced a new mobile thin client, and software enhancements to improve the security and manageability of its desktop-based thin clients. (5:40) AT&T says faster wireless coming by year's end AT&T Inc. plans to upgrade to High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2 wireless networking technology later this year, offering faster network speeds to new compatible laptop cards and smartphones due to be released at the same time, the company said in a statement today. HP upgrades mobile and desktop thin clients HP Wednesday announced a new mobile thin client, upgraded desktop offerings and said it will continue to enhance virtual desktop software. Expert chides Google, others on cloud security Even as they become responsible for handling and storing more user and enterprise data, today's cloud vendors continue to fail to provide adequate security for all that data. Or so says cloud expert Chris Soghoian, a student fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Twitter gets targeted again by worm-like phishing attack Twitter users have been tricked into divulging their login and password details to a Web site that then spammed their contacts. The business impact of Mi-Fi In the previous newsletter we sketched out some of the fundamentals of the new personal WiFi service, called MiFi, that's being offered by Verizon and Sprint. Today we want to look at some of the implications of this service in the corporate network. Ballmer gets his new car delivered by Ford CEO Perhaps its telling that Ford is selling so few cars these days, its CEO can personally deliver vehicles to high-tech big-shots like Microsoft's Steve Ballmer. Or maybe both CEOs just wanted an opportunity for a non-news photo op. VMware invests $20 million in cloud partner Terremark VMware investment in Terremark enhances cloud computing partnership. Study: US IT wages held steady in early '09 A new survey by the Philadelphia IT outsourcing firm Yoh finds that U.S. tech wages remained fairly steady during the first quarter of this year, indicating some level of stability in hiring patterns even as the global economic recession continues. New site to explain IPv6 European Internet registry agency RIPE NCC has launched a new website aimed at dispelling some of the myths surrounding IPv6 and providing information on the current state of play on the new technology. |
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