Motorola Droid: A Visual Tour At long last, the much-anticipated Motorola Droid is storming Verizon stores across the nation. Before you go out and buy one, check out the good and the bad about this exciting smartphone. Droid launch draws tech-savvy crowd to Verizon store More than 20 people waited in line for the 7 a.m. opening of a Boston-area Verizon Wireless store to buy the new Motorola Droid smartphone. Verizon Droid buzz muted in Boston The around-the-block lines we're used to seeing during major smartphone launches were absent from the Boylston Street Verizon Wireless store in Boston Friday morning, as only around 20 people were standing outside waiting to get a first glimpse of Verizon's first-ever Android-based smartphone. AT&T profiles specific cities in bid for coverage AT&T has created different mobile calling models for every major city in America as it tries to improve a network that has come under fire for poor performance as the data-friendly iPhone has proliferated, an executive said Thursday. News podcast: Network World 360 ScanSafe researchers are seeing renewed activity regarding Gumblar, a multifunctional piece of malware that spreads by attacking PCs visiting hacked Web pages. Also, security-appliance vendor Blue Coat Systems is laying off of close to 20 percent of its staff and restructuring its business in a drive to increase profitability. (6:01) FTC expected to take antitrust action against Intel With New York's Attorney General filing antitrust charges against Intel Corp. this week, industry watchers say the Federal Trade Commission will join the fray against the chip maker, maybe even before the end of the year. The search market created Microsoft's worst enemy Throughout its history, Microsoft has earned a reputation for tenacity when entering markets created, and initially dominated, by innovative startups. Cloud computing, virtualization proponents getting antsy While many organizations have only begun down the cloud computing and virtualization roads in the past few years, some in the industry can't wait to take these technologies to the next level. Cisco shutters Cerent HQ in Petaluma, CA Cisco has closed the old Cerent headquarters in Petaluma, CA, effectively ceasing operations in that area. Cisco paid $6.9 billion for Cerent in 1999 -- Cisco's largest acquisition ever at the time -- to obtain its multiservice SONET/SDH optical transport platform, which Cisco calls the ONS 15454. Observe IPv6 Traffic Encapsulated Within IPv4 Packets In the past few weeks several organizations have asked me about these "funny" packets they see leaving their networks destined for the Internet. These packets turned out to be IPv6 packets encapsulated within an IPv4 header (IP protocol 41). IPv6 packets that are encapsulated in IPv4 packets may be created unintentionally or they may be malicious activity that is trying to avoid detection. Microsoft Is Perfect Example Why Executive Pay Is Broken Text message this morning from CNN: Unemployment hit 10.2% in October. Microsoft announced earlier this week another 800 employee layoffs to the 5,000 previously announced employee layoffs. If you look at Microsoft's financials you see why, a 14% revenue and 18% net income drop for the last reported quarter, on top of disappointing prior quarters. November giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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