News podcast: Network World 360 The latest wireless network threats were outlined by Krishan Sabnani, vice president of networking research at Bell Labs, in a talk in New York at last week's Cyber Infrastructure Protection Conference at City College of New York. Infiniband vendor Voltaire took a big leap into the Ethernet data center switching arena with a core switch optimized for virtual environments and Layer 2 efficiency. (5:11) T-Mobile net reportedly hit by hacker/extortion attack T-mobile customers are awakening this morning to reports that hacker/extortionists have victimized the cellular carrier through a massive network breach resulting in the theft of untold amounts of corporate and customer data, which they're threatening to sell to the highest bidder. T-Mobile says it is investigating. There is also speculation among observers online that the incident, which became public Saturday, could be a hoax. Juniper claims first with 100G Ethernet Juniper this week is expected to unveil what it claims is the first 100 Gigabit Ethernet router interface in the industry. Sprint offering $40 monthly mobile business data plan Sprint is offering business users a mobile data program that gives them 500MB of monthly data for $39.99 a month 20 Years Ago Today: Birth of the Dot-Com Era It doesn't seem like it, but 20 years ago today, the dot-com era was born. On June 8, 1989, Brad Templeton, started Clarinet.com, an online newspaper business that many consider to be the company that started it all. Ethernet data center switch to take on Cisco Nexus Infiniband vendor Voltaire took a big leap into the Ethernet data center switching arena with a core switch optimized for virtual environments and Layer 2 efficiency. University picks 3Com switches over Cisco Quinnipiac University has embarked on a network upgrade covering three campuses, using H3C core and edge switches from 3Com Corp., to replace and expand upon existing Cisco Systems Inc. gear. Two years on, netbooks on verge of big shake-up Asustek kicked off an entirely new category in the mobile computing space when it presented a prototype of its Eee PC at Taiwan's Computex trade show two years ago. Since then, many users have embraced netbook PCs for their small size, light weight and low cost. Their popularity pushed Microsoft to extend the life of Windows XP and they've turned out to be one of the bright spots in the PC industry over the last few months. VoIP Growth Slowing in 2009? A recent report just published by the Dell'Oro Group indicates that Voice Over IP adoption in the enterprise marketplace will begin to slow for the first time ever. While this specific metric measures "IP lines for the PBX market", the study does specify that the overall "penetration of VoIP technologies" will also slow as well compared to previous years. Four in 10 CIOs slashed budgets in first quarter, Gartner reports The economy took a steep toll on IT budgets in the first quarter, CIOs tell Gartner. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. |
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