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Google stops sniffing Wi-Fi data after privacy gaffe
Google has decided to stop its Street View cars from sniffing wireless networking data after an embarrassing privacy gaffe. Read More


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20 Crazy Concept Phones
From snake phones to handsets that look like hockey pucks, these hopelessly impractical devices are the coolest-looking phones you'll never want to own. Read More

Nortel patent play?
A published report says Nortel is shopping around its remaining patent portfolio, but the company won't confirm the rumor, saying only that it is trying to "maximize the potential" of them. Read More

WiMAX in Boston? Blogger says so
Popular gadget blog Boy Genius Report found Friday that it could access Sprint's WiMAX network in Boston through a Sprint Overdrive 4G mobile hotspot. Read More

Will 4G Fix Wireless Voice Quality?
"Can you hear me now?" As much marketing hype as 3G wireless networks have received, the fact remains that customers of all the major wireless providers are frequently frustrated with their service's poor voice quality and dropped calls. With 4G looming on the horizon, can we look forward to better voice quality? Read More

My Experence with Cisco Clean Air
My first thought on how Clean Air worked was that they must have embedded a DSP into the core ASIC to handle the base level spectrum analysis operations since that would choke off a MIPS processor. Well... that's not what they did at all. Not even close. Read More


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This comprehensive 94 page guide is a how-to resource handbook for network engineers. Learn the fundamentals of how applications work, how they flow, where applications fail and best practices and methodologies for troubleshooting network and application problems. Click here!

Gizmodo to Apple's Jobs: You can trust us, Steve, honestly
In the latest episode of Apple vs. Gizmodo we learn that Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam sent Steve Jobs an e-mail in response to the latter's phone call seeking return of a wayward iPhone prototype that the gadget site had bought for $5,000. What I found particularly interesting was the introductory line of Lam's e-mail. Read More

When Gizmodo editor Brian Lam emailed Steve Jobs about the missing iPhone 4G
Earlier this afternoon, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Clifford V. Cretan ordered the affidavit used to trigger the search warrant on Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen's home to be unsealed. The motion was initially filed last week by a number of media organizations including the Los Angeles Times and the AP. Read More

Cisco reseller lists top five lead time replacements
Cisco has been plagued by long product lead times for the past few quarters. Some products took several months to deliver. Read More

7 More Things Not to Do on Facebook
There's a Yahoo Finance link that's going around the social-o-sphere called "7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook", with good advice like not posting your birthday, mentioning that you're going to be away from your house or using a weak password. Good, solid stuff, that we should all be doing anyway. But that's just the start. There's so much more. Read More

Google to shutter Nexus One e-store
Google will stop selling its Nexus One online because the Android phone's store hasn't caught on with potential buyers, the company said Friday. Read More


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Let IBM(R) walk you through its portfolio of Business Process Management (BPM) solutions. See how your business can transform its processes and turn insights into action. This interactive brochure also shows real-world examples of how businesses in various industries can find success with BPM. Read More

Skype to focus on iPad, iPhone, Android, not Windows Phone 7
Skype, one of the go-to apps for any mobile platform these days, is taking a wait-and-see approach to Microsoft's latest mobile platform while it focuses on iPhone, iPad, Android, and others. Read More

Nexus 5000 Only Supports 16 EtherChannels
An interesting, and most likely uncritical, factoid popped up this week while our operations team was configuring a set of Nexus 5000 switches for 10GbE connections to blade servers in our DC. Read More

Ukrainian arrested in India on TJX data-theft charges
A Ukrainian national has been arrested in India in connection with the most notorious hacking incident in U.S. history. Read More

Crypto guru Whit Diffie takes ICANN security job
Six months after leaving his job at Sun Microsystems noted cryptographer Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie has landed a new gig, this time as a security adviser to the corporation that manages the Internet. Read More

Security guard pleads guilty to hacking his employer
A former security guard has pleaded guilty to charges that he broke into his employer's computers while working the night shift at a Dallas hospital. Read More



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