Gadgets of Christmas Past: 10 Years of Cool Yule Tools Holiday gift ideas from the digital decade. InfiniBand rockets up Top 500 supercomputer list InfiniBand-based clusters account for 182 of the top 500 supercomputers and half of the top 10. Former DHS cybersecurity chief points finger at Congress Part of the blame for continued cybersecurity problems in the U.S. government and beyond lies with Congress and its "scattershot" approach to dealing with the issue, a former assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday. News podcast: Network World 360 The U.S. Defense Department is expanding its exclusive arrangement with McAfee, whose security software is at the heart of the military's cybersecurity efforts. Also, Robert Half Technology this week released findings of a survey of 1,400 CIOs that showed 43% said retaining existing workers will be their top staffing priority in 2010. (5:26) FAA: Unmanned and commercial aircraft don't mix -- yet On a day when the FAA is dealing with yet another computer glitch fouling up national operations, it is taking aim at a rapidly approaching issue: letting unmanned aircraft have unrestricted access to regular civilian airspace. 3 Basic Steps to Avoid Joining a Botnet It's getting more difficult to keep employees stay safe and free from malicious activity online. But Team Cymru's Steve Santorelli presents a combination of techniques that can make their chances of infection much lower. Rocky Mountain HPC center brings supercomputing to the people In the small city of Butte, Mont., a new high-performance computing center has been built with a lofty goal: to give the power of supercomputing to anyone who needs it. AOL looks to slash staff by a third AOL, which will be spun off from parent company Time Warner next month, wants to cut its staff by about a third, and is giving employees a chance to volunteer to join the ranks of the unemployed. Does 4x4 MIMO Make Sense? Yes x Yes! As I mentioned before, I'm at Interop New York all this week, where I once again have the privilege of Chairing the Mobile Business element of the event. The best part about attending a conference often isn't the conference sessions or even all the cool new products on the exhibits floor. It's the discussions with attendees and speakers that (most often) occur in the hallways. Outlook 2010 to become Facebook for the enterprise Microsoft today announced a plugin for Office 2010 that let's users access third-party social networks through Outlook.The tool is dubbed Outlook Social Connector. While it's a great concept to turn e-mail into a social network, it may suffer the fate of many cool ideas from Microsoft: iffy execution. 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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