3Com co-founder Metcalfe's quick take on HP-3Com buyout Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe co-founded 3Com in 1979 with three others, and now that company is about to be acquired 30 years later by HP. 3Com: one of the longest running shows in networking Now consumed by HP in a $2.7 billion deal announced Wednesday, 3Com has a long and varied history, summarized here. Inside the Posh Pads of Tech's Elite Super-wired, super-plush and, of course, super-expensive: Check out the homes of Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff and their tech titan peers. Hackers will exploit Windows kernel bug, researchers say Hackers will quickly jump on one of the 15 vulnerabilities Microsoft patched Tuesday to build attack code that infects Internet Explorer users, security researchers agreed today. Vista users are jumping fast to Windows 7, but XP users aren't InfoWorld's tracking service shows that Windows 7 uptake is surging, and Vista switchers account for the lion's share. Motorola Droid shows fast boost in US mobile browser traffic After just a week on sale, and something like 100,000+ units sold, the Motorola Droid smartphone on Verizon now accounts for almost 25% of U.S. mobile browser traffic for Android-based devices.That's the estimate by Web analytics site, Clicky, based on their analysis of mobile traffic on 150,000 Websites. Microsoft Missed Perfect Chance To Contribute GPL Code Using open source software in your product. Doesn't Microsoft know that bloggers, techno-dudes and everyone else is watch them like a hawk waiting for Microsoft to make a GPL license misstep? Friday blogger Rafael Rivera called Microsoft on the carpet accusing Redmond of lifting code from the ImageMaster project for use in a Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (WUDT) for netbooks. Researchers exploring how to get wireless carriers to shoulder responsibility for smartphone security Georgia Tech researchers have received a $450,000 NSF grant to boost security of iPhones, BlackBerries and other smartphones and the wireless networks on which they run. And it's those networks where the researchers are really zeroing in. Apple reportedly set to release iPhone on Verizon's network in 2010 Well here's a rumor that should get all you Verizon subscribers excited. Apple is supposedly planning to release a worldmode version of the iPhone in the third quarter of 2010, which would subsequently enable it to run on Verizon's CDMA network. The current iPhone, of course, is GSM only. Damn the torpedoes: NASA, European Space agency want to go to Mars NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are aiming to cooperate on all manner of robotic orbiters, landers and exploration devices for a future trip to Mars. 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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