Verizon users to get Skype; FCC plans for 100Mbps to 100 million households

	FCC plans for 100M bps to 100 million households | U.S. broadband adoption sees significant spike
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	Verizon users to get Skype in late March Verizon Wireless has joined forces with Skype, and its subscribers will be able to start making calls using Skype on nine selected smartphones in late March, the operator said on Tuesday. Read More WHITE PAPER: MainSoft Drive SharePoint Adoption in Lotus Notes Shops This whitepaper explores the opportunity to promote SharePoint adoption, without demanding a wholesale change in users' behavior, by integrating SharePoint with your email client. Read More In this Issue FCC plans for 100M bps to 100 million households U.S. broadband adoption sees significant spike What kind of tech etiquette offender are you? Computer hacking charge leveled against disgraced Tour de France cyclist Haiti Wi-Fi network links relief centers Report: Cisco to kill blade partnership with Dell PCI Security Standards Council readying new payment-card security standard A Successful Windows Phone 7 Would Help Bing Google Buzz attracting spammers already Gates calls for 'energy miracles' Easy Role-based Access on Cisco Routers–CLI Views WHITE PAPER: SUN Accelerating Databases With The SUN Storage The Sun™ Storage F5100 Flash Array is an innovation in storage technology, delivering the low latency and high I/O bandwidth characteristic of flash media to meet the storage requirements of modern databases. Learn how storing indexes on flash storage can improve performance. Learn More FCC plans for 100M bps to 100 million households The FCC's chairman in a speech Tuesday offered some hints at the agency's National Broadband Plan. Read More U.S. broadband adoption sees significant spike Broadband usage has increased significantly over the past two years, as 63.5% of U.S. households now report having broadband connections. Read More What kind of tech etiquette offender are you? Cell phones and other gadgets may make your life easier, they may even make you more productive, but they don't make you nicer. Read More WHITE PAPER: Tripwire FISMA Prescriptive Guide Learn how Tripwire helps federal agencies, as well as the organizations and contractors that store, process or transmit federal information. The FISMA Prescriptive Guide contains case studies from three fictional federal agencies, each capturing the perspective of a key stakeholder in the FISMA compliance process. Click here. Computer hacking charge leveled against disgraced Tour de France cyclist Cyclist Floyd Landis, stripped out his 2006 Tour de France title after a positive drug test, is now being labeled a computer hacker by France, which has issued a warrant for his arrest. Read More Haiti Wi-Fi network links relief centers The exploratory trip last month by San Francisco-based nonprofit Inveneo might have been fairly routine -- or at least as routine as things can be for a group that brings information technology to poor countries all over the world. Read More Report: Cisco to kill blade partnership with Dell Cisco is pulling out of its blade partnership plans with Dell, according to CRN UK. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP WAN Design – Don't Buy More than You Need This Gartner research note examines the methodology organizations should employ when designing a WAN. It offers advice on how to ensure that important applications are networked with sufficient performance and that there is not an "overspend" on less important applications and provides guidance on meeting unique network needs. Read Now. PCI Security Standards Council readying new payment-card security standard The Payment Card Industry data security standards, which influence design of networks where sensitive payment-card account data is stored, are expected to be further revised by the PCI Security Standards Council over the next few months. Read More A Successful Windows Phone 7 Would Help Bing Windows Phone 7, a dramatic upgrade of Microsoft's mobile operating system, looks fairly impressive out of the gate. In addition to a stylish user interface that's strongly influenced by the underappreciated Zune HD media player, Windows Phone 7 is tightly integrated with Redmond's Bing search engine. Read More Google Buzz attracting spammers already Despite being launched this week, spammers have already hit Google Buzz - the search engine's social network, says Websense. Read More Gates calls for 'energy miracles' Last year, Bill Gates released mosquitoes into the audience at the TED conference while he talked about fighting malaria. This year, he held up a jar of fireflies to emphasize his point that the world needs sources of energy that produce no carbon. Read More Easy Role-based Access on Cisco Routers–CLI Views Cisco routers are doing so many more things today other than routing that I frequently get asked how can I give such and such group limited, specific access to my router? Read More
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