'Net Insider:  Is ignorance of the law a design goal?
Carl Malumad is pushing for more U.S. laws and standards to be Internet accessible.
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EMA on Management:  End-to-end application management - the network perspective
What if your executive team needed to develop a true "end-to-end" application management strategy? What would it look like?
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Industry Commentary:  Cloud computing: End of the corporate WAN?
When vendors and marketers get their hands on an IT concept, it doesn't take long for that concept to morph into a totally new business opportunity and possibly a new market segment. Such is the story of cloud computing.
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Small Business Tech:  Word of mouth sales goes electronic
Word of mouth makes the best salesperson, according to all the sales manuals. Are you ready to take advantage of electronic word of mouth? That's what I believe social media has become, at least for smart businesses. True, most of the "blogosphere" and Twitter-verse may be electronic gossip, but some companies have made huge advances taking word of mouth to the Web.
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Backspin:  Palin and politics: lots to talk about
Gibbs discusses reader feedback to last week's column about the break-in of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's e-mail account and the heady intersection of IT and politics.
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Gearhead:  A better portable video tool
Gibbs looks at the Kodak Zi6, a direct competitor to the Flip Mino video camera he reviewed a few weeks ago, and discusses improving Windows audio.
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Eye on the Carriers:  How IPv6 is like the U.S. financial crisis
Not long ago, the powers-that-be detected an impending crisis. To resolve it, they rushed into action crafting a proposal that represented an unprecedented upheaval of existing infrastructure. On the grounds that "something needed to be done" to avert the crisis, they brushed aside objections that the upheaval was too convulsive and might nonetheless fail to address the underlying issues that had created the crisis in the first place. The financial bailout proposed by the Treasury Department? No. I'm talking about the creation of IPv6.
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'Net Buzz:  Airport 'X-ray art' courts TSA trouble
Techno-artist/open-source developer Evan Roth has a message for the Transportation Safety Administration -- several messages, actually -- about what he considers excessive airport security "theater." He also has chosen an intentionally provocative method of delivering those messages: the TSA's own X-ray screening machines.
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