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Misconfigured Cisco gear could lead to Wi-Fi breach
Users of a popular Cisco Systems wireless access point may be setting themselves up for trouble if they leave a WPA wireless migration feature enabled, according to researchers at Core Security Technologies. Read More


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Major advances in understanding emotions conveyed by voice
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The iPhone 4 antenna flap: an FAQ
Some iPhone 4 users are reporting reception problems, and a range of technical opinions are surfacing to explain what's happening, and what it all means. Read More

Q&A: SIP pioneer/Cisco Fellow jumps ship to Skype
Jonathan Rosenberg, co-author of the Session Initiation Protocol, joined Skype in November 2009 as chief technology strategist to apply what he's learned about disruptive IP technologies. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix caught up with Rosenberg over a Skype voice connection to see what the Skype lure was for him. Read More

Overclocking for Newbies
Overclocking refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. The initial pitch is seductive: Buy a slower, lower-cost CPU; juice up the clock speed; and presto! You have a cheap, high-end processor. Read More

Cisco, MobileAccess offer in-building cellular boost over copper cable
Cisco Systems and MobileAccess today announced a system designed to improve in-building cellular signals that uses copper cable integrated into corporate LANs and works alongside Cisco Wi-Fi networks. Read More


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Yankee Group on Cloud Considerations
Cloud computing's perceived challenges of security, visibility and management may give the upper hand to private clouds. Join Yankee Group for this Webcast that discusses how to ensure you deploy a cloud that meets your organization's security and compliance needs. View Now

White House backs FCC plan to nearly double wireless bandwidth over next 10 years
The FCC has been under intense political and industry pressure ever since Congress directed the agency to come up with a National Broadband Plan to guide the modernization and expansion of broadband Internet access in the United States. The White House is stepping in, though, to support the FCC plan and proceed with freeing up unused frequency spectrum for use in expanding wireless broadband. Read More

Supreme Court strikes down one part of Sarbanes-Oxley
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down one part of the controversial Sarbanes-Oxley Act, ruling Monday that Congress overstepped its authority when establishing the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), an investigatory panel focused on enforcing the eight-year-old law. Read More

Extreme CRM Makeover, Open Source Edition - Episode 1
This will be the first in a series of articles called "Extreme CRM Makeover - Open Source Edition". Just like the TV show, we are going to do a total makeover. Except instead of a house, it is of a company's CRM solution. We will follow this process from initial matching of requirements through to implementation. But it won't end there. Read More

Google stops redirecting Chinese search traffic to .hk site
Google has stopped automatically redirecting some search traffic from China to its Hong Kong search engine in a bid to placate angry Chinese officials, the company said Tuesday. Read More


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Another Apple iPhone 4 Flaw: A Glitchy Proximity Sensor
It happened to me on my first phone call with the new Apple iPhone 4: The display screen flashed on during the call, and I managed to inadvertently put the call onto speaker. Twice. Read More

Podcast: Linux guru offers advice on Android tablets, Linux security and virtualization
In this episode, Julie Bort, Open Source Subnet Editor and author of the Source Seeker blog, catches up with Jonathan Corbet, executive editor of LWN.net. Corbet is co-author of Linux Device Drivers and a Linux kernel contributor. (19:18) Read More

Microsoft was against software patents before it was for them
The U.S. Supreme Court today basically put off for another day the issue of whether software applications are patentable. In Bilski et al v. Kappos, the court ruled 5-4 that Bernard Bilski and his partner, Rand Warsaw, were not entitled to a patent for their software that helps commodities traders in the energy market hedge against the risk of price changes. Read More

AT&T completes 3G coverage upgrades in New York
AT&T customers in New York City are no strangers to complaining about the quality of the carrier's 3G service. Wireless coverage has been particularly problematic in several metropolitan areas across the United States, thanks to a deadly combination of data-hungry smartphones like the iPhone, high population density, and tall buildings, which can be detrimental to the high frequencies used by 3G communications. Read More



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