| 5 cool cloud computing research projects
Next week's HotCloud conference on cloud computing in San Diego will boast a slew of fresh research into this hottest of IT topics. Here's a glimpse at the work to be showcased at the event (PDFs of some research papers will not be available until the week of June 15 at the HotCloud site ): Nebulas HP designs new server for 'extreme' scale-out computing
Hewlett-Packard has come up with a new x86 server design for companies that operate very large compute farms, where shaving a few dollars off the power or shipping costs for each system can add up to valuable savings. Chinese developer surprised by backlash to porn filter
A Chinese developer of pornography filtering software protested reports linking the program to China's broader Internet censorship on Wednesday, after the government ordered that his software be distributed with all PCs sold in the country. LTE devices must support IPv6, says Verizon
Any manufacturers that want their devices to work on Verizon's upcoming LTE network will have to give them the ability to support IPv6. ISPs report success in fighting malware-infected PCs
Computers infected with malicious software remain a big headache for ISPs, but two companies have designed systems that have made the problem much more manageable. Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 31 fixes, 18 critical and a new record
Microsoft set a record on Tuesday for the number of patches included in this month's Patch Tuesday. 10 updates fix 31 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Excel, Word, Windows Search and other programs, including 18 bugs marked "critical." Six of the patches fix some part of Windows, three are aimed at Office and one at IE. 11 patches were tagged as "important," and two were judged "moderate." Faster, better, cheaper -- pick one
It's an old engineering adage that you can't have it all. As the saying goes: "Faster, better, cheaper — pick two." The idea is that any system can optimize at most two parameters, to the detriment of the third. A demo of Google's Apps Sync: links Outlook to Gmail
Google yesterday launched a product called "Apps Sync" that will allow enterprises to scrap Exchange on the back end, in favor of Gmail and Google apps, while allowing users to continue to use the Outlook client. The app is dubbed Google App Sync for Microsoft Outlook. It is only available to users of Google Apps Premier, the company's $50-per-user corporate offering, and those using the Education (Edu) version. Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update
Adobe issued its first regularly-scheduled security updates on Tuesday, fixing at least 13 critical flaws reported by outside researchers and secretly patching an unspecified number of bugs found by its own team. Four Reasons Why iPhone Owners Hate AT&T
With the iPhone 3G S news now in the wild, the discussion digressed from the announcement of the 3G S itself to AT&T, the iPhone's exclusive carrier in the U.S. (at the moment). Without a doubt, this relationship is where Apple's weaknesses lie. DOJ investigates Google's deal with book publishers
The Department of Justice is poking around a deal between Google and at least two book publishers that may have antitrust implications, reports The Wall Street Journal. The DOJ antitrust division has reportedly contacted some publishers seeking information on a deal reached with Google to create its so called Book Rights Registry and to implement Google's plans to scan millions of copyrighted books online, allowing searchers to browse passages and purchase copies. US protectionism could lead to trade war, says Nasscom
U.S. protectionism targeting Indian outsourcers may be met by retaliatory measures such as blocking access to Indian markets, India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) said on Tuesday. The Future of the Enterprise Help Desk
The rise of user mobility, consumerization of IT and security/compliance regulations are causing mayhem for the standard enterprise help desk. Is a new attitude required? Are new tools needed that can help users any time, any place? Joel Bomgar, CEO and founder of Bomgar Corp., discusses the future of the help desk with Keith Shaw. (16:19) 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. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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