Number 1 Thing To Make Windows 7 Installs Easy I'd hate to think exactly how many times I've installed some version of Windows 7 since its debut back at Microsoft PDC 2008. Surveilled to death Gibbs ponders how much we're tracked and how much we give away and wonders what the long-term outcome will be; a society of closed lips and constrained behavior, a society economical with the truth, or will it just stay business a usual? Cisco Steps Up to Solve a Problem If you have read my blogs recently you might say I've been a little tough on Cisco. So, to be honest and fair, I have to give Cisco their due this week. Stop Designing Data Centers from the Bottom Up Anyone who's ever had the pleasure of swinging a hammer for a living or to pay for a semester of school knows this fundamental truth: build a solid foundation or whatever you place on top of it stands a pretty good chance of toppling over at some point in the future. This truth is perpetuated everywhere, in the Bible, in the story of the Three Little Pigs...it's as old as time. T-Mobile backs off plan to charge $1.50 for paper bill Under the threat of a class-action lawsuit and battered by a barrage of negative publicity -- not the least of which occurred here at Buzzblog -- T-Mobile has decided that its threat to gouge customers an additional $1.50 per month to continue getting a paper bill wasn't worth the pixels it was written on. What can be done to ensure online privacy? The Federal Trade Commission later this year is holding public roundtables to look at the privacy challenges posed by the vast array of technology and business practices including social networking, cloud computing, online behavioral advertising, mobile marketing, and the collection and use of information by retailers, data brokers, third-party applications. Can the mainframe really grow? Some industry observers still like to kick dents in the mainframe saying it's not the corporate platform of the future but the Big Iron seemingly takes the licks and keeps on ticking. Avaya Buys Nortel. What's that mean for Microsoft? After much hullabaloo, the actual Nortel auction was anti-climactic. Avaya was bid up by a bunch of other smaller players and ended up paying $900 million for Nortel's Enterprise assets. Did they overpay? Maybe... But eBay-style, sometimes it's hard to let something go once you've made up your mind. Do Internet micropayments emit enough of a siren song? Google is offering a new micropayment scheme that purportedly will help newspapers. But will it really? I Have Not Been Consistent on Dual Vendors Don't you just love it (or hate it depending on your point of view) when a politician says one thing and then (within about 30 minutes these days) a YouTube video pops up showing them saying something completely opposite. Oops! Hate (love) that. Why does Google hate America? Fox News took note that Google on Friday did nothing special on its home page to note the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against the United States. Transformative technologies for the 21st century Innovations seem to have a natural economic life cycle: an obscure invention (say, electricity, or the internal combustion engine) sparks an entire constellation of industries, which grow exponentially for a while, then settle into a stagnant maturity. 10 in IPv6 Does Not Equal 10 in IPv4 I encountered a funny situation this past week while deploying IPv6 on a tunnel interface. WAN Optimization Buyers Want Integrated Measurement Today's WAN optimization customers want performance measurement integrated into their WAN optimization platform rather than buying it as a standalone solution. In NetForecast's recent survey on the future of application delivery systems, 69 percent of respondents told us they want performance measurement integrated into their WAN optimization platform. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and 15 copies of Windows Server 2008 How-To. Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers (watch for giveaway information soon.) Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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