Microsoft's open source guru leaves company for Web 2.0 startup Microsoft's open source guru, Sam Ramji, announced on Wednesday that he would be leaving Microsoft to join Sonoa Systems, a start-up with ambitions to become the Google Analytics of online APIs. Blogger Mitchell Ashley offers a podcast interview with Ramji. Star Trek communicator lives! A Finnish company this week demonstrated high-tech clothing that can send and receive messages via satellite. Oracle throws a party, taxpayers pick up tab Aerosmith, Roger Daltrey and -- get this -- Three Dog Night were all signed on to entertain 22,000 of Oracle's best customers Oct. 14 in a former airplane hangar even older than the singers on San Francisco's Treasure Island ... only up crops a problem. Barrelfish OS will speed up future multicore systems Speed improvements that typically came from faster processors with more transistors have come close to their limit, where if the chips run any faster, they will overheat. Because of that, researchers at Microsoft and ETH Zürich are designing a new OS that would allow programs to run much faster on multicore computers. ICANN freed from US gov't oversight ICANN has reached a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the nonprofit greater independence, while giving more countries oversight of the organization. Wi-Fi group launches full 11n certification The Wi-Fi Alliance is launching a certification program based on the completed IEEE 802.11n standard and looking toward a future peer-to-peer specification it is developing on its own. IT jobs may get left behind in recovery Once IT spending begins again, companies in need of tech workers will likely turn first to consultants and outsourcing companies before they take on full-time staff. Broadband will connect 20% of households this year Research firm Gartner is projecting that 20% of households worldwide will be connected to the Internet through a broadband connection by the end of this year. HP rolls out new SMB storage HP this week announced enhancements to its small and midsize business storage that include a new specification for IT implementation and two new storage arrays. 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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