The Web at 40: Online world stills surprises 'Net pioneer Can you remember a time when you didn't watch videos of silly cats on YouTube, or didn't buy everything from books to car parts to clothes online? What about mail? You know, the stuff that came in paper envelopes with little postage stamps? BBN, Raytheon and a fresh JFK conspiracy theory In response to a blog post about Raytheon acquiring BBN Technologies, one reader claims knowledge of a cover-up related to BBN's role in the investigation of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Researchers find a new way to attack the cloud Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products may introduce new security problems that have yet to be fully explored, according to researchers at MIT and the University of California, San Diego. NASA teams to build pod-like transport system It looks a little like the Jetson's flying car, but it travels on magnetically levitated highways. That's one vision of a future commuter system that could be developed by a marriage of NASA robot-control software and car-like pods from Unimodal Systems. Cisco-built VMworld labs suffer glitches Just a day after Cisco presented a glowing testimonial of its Unified Computing System and associated technologies at customer Tutor Perini, the platform suffered a high profile hiccup at this week's VMworld conference. Apple patches critical Java bugs, but leaves Leopard users vulnerable Apple patched 15 vulnerabilities in three versions of Java used by Mac OS X 10.5, or Leopard, bringing the operating system up to par with fixes that Sun issued a month ago. But the update doesn't include the very latest Java fixes, which Sun delivered Aug. 11. Sprint readies its first Android smartphone Sprint will release its first-ever handset featuring the Google-developed open-source Android operating system next month. UN document details $300 million ERP mega-project An early-stage planning document for the United Nations' ongoing global ERP project calls for a budget north of $300 million and provides a detailed look at the challenges the effort must overcome. More smartphones than desktop PCs by 2011 Smartphone sales will surpass worldwide PC sales by the end of 2011, according to one report. 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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