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Epic fail: 11 infamous software bugs

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Epic fail: 11 infamous software bugs
Mark your calendars! Sept. 9 is hereby declared Debugging Day. It's been associated with removing bugs for more than 50 years now but is rarely formally celebrated. So let's start the tradition this year. Here is a highly selective -- and therefore incomplete -- collection of infamous software bugs. Read More


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NSF: Time for an Internet do-over
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has doled out grants worth up to $32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking everything about the Internet from from its core routing system to its security architecture and addressing the emergence of cloud computing and an increasingly mobile society. Read More

After Google incident, Wi-Fi data collection goes on
Four months ago, amidst a backlash from government regulators and privacy advocates, Google stopped collecting Wi-Fi data with its Street View cars. But that doesn't mean Google has stopped collecting wireless data altogether, and neither have other companies such as Apple. Read More

Tale of an accidental cloud leader
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Security vendor demonstrates insider attack on VMware ESX
VMware's shift in virtualization architecture could prevent some attacks demonstrated by security vendor BeyondTrust Read More

AT&T boasts of billions spent on network improvements
A letter sent to AT&T customers and a news release issued today about wireless network improvements are stoking speculation that the carrier is near the end of its exclusive deal for the Apple iPhone in the U.S. Read More

News podcast: Network World 360
Arm Holdings has taken the wraps off its next major chip design, the Cortex-A15 MPCore, promising a five-fold increase in performance that the company hopes will take it beyond smartphones and into new types of equipment such as high-performance routers and servers. Also, announced on Wednesday, Google Instant presents and adjusts search results and their accompanying ads on the fly as users enter search terms in the search engine's box. (2:15) Read More


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A Practical approach to Wireless 2.0
Creating "Wi-Fi that works" is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types, the speed and complexity of 802.11n, high-density environments, etc., controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. Read now!

Buzzblog: The futility (and risks) of flogging Craigslist
Robert Cringely shows his BS detector to be finely tuned in a column calling law enforcement's obsession with Craigslist exactly what it is: political posturing aimed not at not curbing crime but currying favor with voters. Read More

Newest Rumor: Windows Phone 7 launch set for October 11
Microsoft will formally launch its Windows Phone 7 mobile OS on October 11, according to a British mobile news Website, citing "multiple [but anonymous] sources familiar with the matter." The writer, Stuart Miles, said of his sources that "all are senior figures within the industry that [sic] we know and trust." Read More

New Arm chip to stretch from smartphones to servers
Arm Holdings has taken the wraps off its next major chip design, promising a five-fold increase in performance that the company hopes will take it beyond smartphones and into new types of equipment such as high-performance routers and servers. Read More

IT asset tracking system combines RFID, infrared for rack-level identification
RF Code uses a combination of radio frequency identification (RFID) and infrared technology to keep tabs on the location of individual IT assets, right down to the rack level. Read More

HP targets small business with phones, Wi-Fi
HP expanded its IP phone and wireless LAN offerings for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) on Wednesday as part of a broad set of product introductions for those customers. Read More



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