Your must-have telecom budget for 2010 It's autumn again. Wood smoke in the air, leaves crunching underfoot
and budgets weighing down the desktop. Pwning Humans for Fun and Profit If you want to hack a corporation fast, Social Engineering (SE) techniques work every time and more often that not it works the first time. I'm talking about in your face, Mano-a-mano, live in the flesh social engineering techniques. Securing the information that is in the human mind is a monumental, colossal, epic task compared with securing digital data! Three days with the Motorola Droid Computerworld freelancer David Haskin puts aside his antique Motorola Q phone, takes up the new Motorola Droid, and on a three-day roadtrip falls in love, geekwise. Apple as an obsessive-compulsive case study Apple's take-it-like-we-serve-it attitude hits close to home for columnist Scott Bradner in light of a friend's medical product research. Father of SIP bolts Cisco for Skype Mike Volpi kept his word to his Skype investment group, he got the Father of SIP - Jonathan Rosenberg, to jump ship. What caused "The Great Twitter Spike of Oct. 27, 2009"? The Web site performance monitoring company Pingdom tracked Twitter traffic for three weeks and in addition to accumulating a bunch of interesting data left us with the question in the headline. Right now I wish they hadn't. Gartner seeing huge adoption of software-as-a-service Customer interest in cloud-based software applications is soaring, with software-as-a-service revenues set to reach $7.5 billion in 2009 an increase of nearly 18% over last year, according to new research from Gartner. Will open source search server Solr 1.4 spell doom for Google Search Appliance? Earlier this week, at the ApacheCon conference in Oakland, Calif., the newest version of Apache's enterprise search server hit the streets, named Solr 1.4. A year in the making since the previous release, Solr is a Java-based and of course, open source. Its makers say that it is every bit as good, and possibly better, than commercial enterprise search options like the Google Search Appliance. And it comes with that delightful open source price, free. Commercial support for Solr is available from a company called Lucid Imagination. Google Subnet blogger Julie Bort met with Erik Hatcher, a leading Solr developer to discuss Solr 1.4. The two also discussed why Erik thinks open source has the edge over proprietary search technologies such as Google. Visit the Google Subnet blog for Julie's take on Solr 1.4 and its chances against Google. (15:22) CCIE R/S Versus CCNA/CCNP Troubleshooting It's a long story, but I started out planning to blog about a book I used to prep for the CCIE R/S lab troubleshooting section. However, I think there's a broader topic that grows out of what I experienced in the lab. The Craziness Pandemic, Part II Last week I began documenting the pandemic of craziness that is sweeping the globe. This week, our attention turns to the United States where the net neutrality furor continues unabated with a huge outbreak of craziness being added to the mix. 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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