News podcast: Network World 360 T-Mobile confirmed on Tuesday that internal information posted on the Internet by hackers was stolen from its systems, but said it does not appear customer data is in jeopardy. Also, at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, the computer maker announced a host of new products before an audience of developers and media. Among other announcements, the company has updated its MacBook Pro product line, launched a new version of its Safari Web browser, offered a preview of its upcoming Snow Leopard operating system, and readied iPhone 3.0 for market. (4:32) World's most outrageous PC cases Without a doubt, the desktop PC is falling out of favor as the world gravitates to equally powerful laptops and ultraportables. But some people out there will never turn in their towers of power: case modders. Members of this PC subculture are all about breaking away from boring black (or beige) boxes and building creations that better suit their individual personalities. Take a peek at some of the better ones. iPhone 3GS offers speed boost, video At Monday's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple announced a host of products including hardware and software updates for the iPhone. Inside the iPhone 3G S's pricing The news that Apple would be selling its fancy new iPhone 3G S for the same prices as the iPhone 3G was greeted by applause at Monday morning's WWDC keynote. The new, faster iPhone will cost $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model; the 8GB iPhone 3G price, meanwhile, will be reduced to $99. Cisco updates Visual Networking Index Cisco has released an update to their Visual Networking Index with some interesting projections on IP traffic over the next several years. The study is based on Cisco's analysis and modeling of multiple analysts' forecasts and it predicts that global IP traffic will increase fivefold by 2013 to two-thirds of a zettabyte. (A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes.) Much of the growth will come from interactive media and video content delivered across multiple devices. FCoE standard approved in record time: Cisco Still obviously irked by assertions the FCoE standards and market are not fully baked, Cisco forwarded an FCoE fact sheet today in a snippy e-mail from a PR agent, claiming a "record time" for standards approval last week by the T11 working group of INCITS/ANSI. Cisco claims much credit for pushing the standard through, according to the e-mail: Apple's Snow Leopard beats Windows 7 on price, ship date Apple executives took potshots at Microsoft's Windows 7 on Monday as they trumpeted the September release of their company's own Snow Leopard operating system and its $29 upgrade price. The Borg lives: BBN gets $30 million for artificial intelligence wizard Developing a an artificial intelligence system that can read, learn and develop knowledge about all manner of digital material in a quick, cost effective way sounds like a bit of a pipe dream. But those are some of the lofty items that are now on BBN Technology's plate as the firm this week got $29.7 million from the Air Force to develop a prototype Google engineer shows home-built PC At this year's Maker Faire, a Google Android engineer discusses the computer he built from scratch. 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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