http://www.networkworld.com This is it: The uber-feed. Every last blessed article published in Network World or posted on NetworkWorld.com. Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2009 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/stor/2009/070609stor1.html Jason Bane, vice president of infrastructure operations at the Virginia Credit Unit, deployed a variety of NetApp filers to deduplicate his data and to replicate it from a Midlothian-based data center to headquarters in Richmond, VA., ten miles away. Bane deployed two FAS 6070 arrays with 90TB of total capacity in Midlothian and two FAS 3020 arrays (with 50TB total capacity) in Richmond to replace an EMC Symmetrix that didn’t perform well and was expensive. (The Symmetrix remains in the Midlothian data center to support mainframe-tier applications.) Deni Connor 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/frame/2009/070609wan1.html Webtorials’ Editorial/Analyst Division is in the midst of a mid-year update to the data gathered for the “2009 Network Plans and Priorities State-of-the-Market Report.” Jim Metzler and Steve Taylor 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-metropolitan-police-inks-identity-management.html The Metropolitan Police Authority has signed a five-year deal with BT for identity and access management. Leo King 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-apple-releases-minor-mobileme-web.html It may not be MobileMe 2.0, but Apple has applied another shot of elbow grease to its suite of Web services. Continuing MobileMe's slow and steady trend this year, minor new features and fixes have been applied to almost every aspect of the service's Web apps. David Chartier 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-sharapova-serena-williams-used-to.html Hackers are praying on surfers searching the web for news about how top tennis players are performing at Wimbeldon, in a bid to spread malware to steal sensitive personel data, says McAfee. Carrie-ann Skinner 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-michael-jackson-x-file-scam-steals.html Security vendors have been reporting a wave of Michael Jackson spam emails designed to disseminate a Zbot banking password variant. Megan Burger 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-one-in-10-mps-uses.html One in 10 MPs are now using micro-blogging service Twitter, says Tweetminster. Carrie-ann Skinner 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-prosecutors-search-offices-at-acers.html Taiwanese investigators searched the offices at Acer's new smartphone subsidiary to collect evidence of insider stock trading by a former executive at the company. Dan Nystedt 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-ddr3-dram-demand-spikes-for.html Demand for the next generation DRAM chip, DDR3 (double data rate, third generation), has spiked recently as systems makers turn to it for increased power efficiency and performance. Dan Nystedt 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-india-plans-spending-more-on.html India plans to spend 9 billion Indian rupees (US$189 million) on education programs using information and communications technology in the fiscal year to March 31, 2010, the country's finance minister said on Monday. John Ribeiro 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-iphone-users-harangue-apple-over.html Reports that Apple's iPhones are draining their batteries so fast that some users can't make it through the day without recharging likely point to a problem in the iPhone OS 3.0 software, an Apple hardware repair expert said. Gregg Keizer 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-qa-the-man-who-helped.html Roger Schmidt discusses with Computerworld new temperature parameters, as well as other issues involved in cooling and reducing power usage in data centers. Patrick Thibodeau 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-deathmatch-palm-pre-versus.html There’s been one promised iPhone killer after another -- the Google Android-based G1, the RIM BlackBerry Storm, the yet-to-ship, years-delayed Windows Mobile 7 -- but none has given it worthwhile competition to date. Now Palm has its Pre, a device that looks to be a serious contender for the best next-gen mobile device crown. Galen Gruman 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-bt-opts-not-to-deploy.html BT will not deploy a controversial behavioral advertising system from Phorm, but said it is still interested in the technology, the company said Monday. Jeremy Kirk 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-internet-twitter-blocked-in-china.html China appeared to block Twitter across the country and Internet access in a western province on Monday, after ethnic riots killed at least 140 people in the remote region. Owen Fletcher and Dan Nystedt 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-dells-online-price-error-troubles.html Dell was hit by another online pricing snafu in Taiwan on Sunday, prompting a strong reprimand from the island's Consumer Protection Commission. Dan Nystedt 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-report-nokia-to-unveil-google.html In an attempt to arrest its declining market share, Nokia will use September's Nokia World conference to unveil its first touchscreen Google Android mobile phone. Megan Burger 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-reports-nokia-says-no-android.html Nokia has denied today reports that the Finnish company is working on a mobile phone running on Google's Android mobile operating system. Daniel Ionescu 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-emc-raises-bid-for-data.html EMC on Monday increased its offer to acquire storage vendor Data Domain from US$1.8 billion to $2.1 billion in its latest effort to shove aside original bidder NetApp. Chris Kanaracus 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-microsoft-google-may-manage-patient.html NHS patient records may be held by Microsoft or Google instead of on the current central 'Spine', if the Conservative Party wins the next general election. Leo King 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-bt-chills-relationship-with.html BT has reportedly halted plans to deploy the hugely controversial Webwise ad tracking system from UK outfit Phorm. John E. Dunn 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2009/070609nsm1.html Forrester Research survey shows that one-fifth of IT decision-makers polled actively look to re-invest in technology to give their businesses an advantage when the recession ends. Denise Dubie 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-cloud-interoperability.html Vendors and industry groups are paying lip service to cloud interoperability. Will it lead to real results? Jon Brodkin 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-microsoft-extends-government-licence.html Microsoft has extended PSA09, a public sector licence deal, until December to give organisations the chance to procure under preferential terms. Leo King 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-broadband-tax-not-enough-to.html BT has confirmed that the proposed tax on all of the Britain's telephone lines will not be enough to fund a complete national rollout of fibre, as the carrier began pilots of fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) in London and Wales. Tom Jowitt 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-malware-authors-hit-by-recession.html The recession might be having at least one positive effect - it has started cutting the volume of malware. John E. Dunn 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-most-public-sector-it-managers.html Sixty percent of public sector IT managers are not aware of the government's Greening ICT Strategy and the targets they need to reach, according to a survey. Siobhan Chapman 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-daily-mail-picks-fight-with.html The Daily Mail has stated its support for NASA hacker Gary McKinnon, vowing to fight his extradition. Leo King 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-mophie-cures-iphone-battery.html A couple weeks ago, I wrote a critical post about, among other things, of the iPhone's battery life. Since then, reports have poured in of new iPhone users who are displeased with the device's longevity, indicating that the new 3GS does little to alleviate the problem. Michael Scalisi 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-july-4-celebrations-hijacked-by.html The Waledac spam/botnet may be dwindling, but that didn't stop its disseminators utilising this weekend's 4th of July celebrations to spread malicious executables, according to Symantec. Megan Burger 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/070609-spamsieve.html If you're looking for the best Mac-based anti-spam solution, look no further than C-Command's SpamSieve 2.7.4. The program's filtering is highly accurate, it's relatively simple to install, and it's amazingly easy to use, particularly with Apple Mail. Rob Griffiths 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-crunchtime-for-crunchpad-prototype-tablets.html TechCrunch blog founder Michael Arrington says his Crunchpad web tablet is getting closer to becoming a reality, with prototypes due by month's end. Arrington also told the San Francisco Business Times that he has formed a Singapore company, Crunchpad, Inc., to manufacture the device. David Coursey 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-twitter-travails-pranks-and-deleted.html Twitter's "Trending Topics" is a popular feature that allows you to see what are the most popular subjects being discussed on Twitter in real time. Yesterday, amid popular tweets about Wimbledon, Steve McNair, and Harry Potter, one thing seemed to be on everybody's mind: gorilla penis. (Click on the screen cap below to enlarge the image.) Highlighting another crack in Twitter security, hackers flooded onto Twitter yesterday to create fake accounts and drive global discussions toward primate anatomy. Ian Paul 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-australia-behind-in-high-speed.html The former chief of domain name regulator, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), says that while the NBN will put Australia on par with the world's Internet leaders, the country is still years behind. Kathryn Edwards 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-save-money-with-per-minute-cloud-computing.html If you're tapped into cloud networks to offload--and scale--some of your computing needs, you probably think that you're paying for only what you use. But just like your cell phone plan and attorney's rate might charge you for a full increment of time when you roll over the billing period, you might save money by nibbling at cloud services on an hourly basis. Zack Stern 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/070609-fast--furious-for.html Fast & Furious is a high-speed racing game for the iPhone and iPod touch released by I-play that hit the App Store around the time the movie of the same name hit the big screen. The game follows the movie pretty closely with several of the missions essentially being reenactments of the movie's key scenes. Tim Mercer 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-netapp-data-domain.html NetApp has cleared a regulatory hurdle in its attempt to acquire storage vendor Data Domain, but rival EMC is still pursuing an acquisition of the same company with a new offer of $2.1 billion. Jon Brodkin 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-be-everywhere-at-once-with.html IT management can be a single, big expense for medium- and small-businesses; it's an easy target to try to save money. Whether you have in-house IT help, you use offsite contractors, or even if you have a savvy employee who doubles as a help desk, just getting to an afflicted PC can be your biggest cost. Techinline Remote Desktop gives access through a browser and quick download so that even if you're manning a backyard barbeque on this holiday weekend with one hand, you can instantly help someone in the office with the other. Zack Stern 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-solitaire-3d-adds-new-dimension.html What's the biggest PC time-waster of all time? It might be solitaire; countless hours have been whiled away while people play solitaire on their PC. The next time you're on an airplane, or in a meeting for that matter, and see someone engrossed in their PC, snatch a peek at their screen. Don't be surprised if solitaire, not spreadsheets, is what's on the screen. It may even be Solitaire 3D, a three-dimensional variant of the classic--and a freebie to boot. Preston Gralla 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/070609-sync-your-ipod-to-your.html IPodRobot is a utility that's designed to get around one of Apple's most annoying limitations. When you plug an iPod or iPhone into a computer that has iTunes, you're able to sync the PC's playlist onto the device--but you can't go the other way. You can't copy what's already on the device to the PC. (Photos are an exception, as newer iPods and iPhones store these separately and they are accessible as if the device were an external drive.) Hence the need for a utility like iPodRobot ($20, 7-day feature-limited demo), which lets you copy everything on an iPod or iPhone to a PC. Steve Horton 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2009/070609-wheel-of-fortune-for.html "PRETT- G--D" Lex Friedman 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-reports-windows-7-heads-to.html Microsoft will finish Windows 7 a week from today and declare the operating system ready for "release to manufacturing," several Web sites have reported. Gregg Keizer 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-macally-intros-wireless-input.html Accessory vendor Macally on Wednesday announced a number of new products for the Mac, including several wireless input devices and two "eco-conscious" laptop stands. Dan Frakes 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-spotify-offers-first.html Swedish music streaming service Spotify is offering an audiobook for the first time. Carrie-ann Skinner 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-att-says-iphone-3gs-is.html The iPhone 3GS is hot according to AT&T. No, I'm not talking about the overheating issues, but a alleged leaked memo from the iPhone's exclusive U.S. carrier. In the memo, AT&T reports the iPhone 3GS launch day on June 6 was the best-ever sales day for AT&T retail stores, according to MacDaily News. June 6 was also the second largest traffic day for AT&T stores, and the most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day were performed during the iPhone 3GS launch day. The 3GS debut was so huge, for AT&T retail stores anyway, that sales for the device surpassed launch day sales for the iPhone 3G by noon Central Time. Ian Paul 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-google-apps-schools.html The freebie that Google is offering to educational institutions for its Google Apps service is sending some school systems into the cloud for e-mail and archiving. Ellen Messmer 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-web-browser-wars-michael-jackson.html Like the fluid and swirling currents in the world's vast oceans, the global usage statistics for Web browsers are constantly on the move. Todd R. Weiss 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-sharp-decline-in-new-it.html Airline investment in IT is set to reach a new low this year as aircraft operators cope with unprecedented financial losses. Zafar Anjum 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-singapore-no-2-black-hat.html Singapore has been highlighted as one of the world's leading targets for black hat Web security attacks, in a new research by network security provider Fortinet. Ross O. Storey 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/070609-opera-ceo-defends-unite-against.html Opera Software's CEO defended the Unite feature of the forthcoming Opera 10 browser against charges that it will increase the risk that hackers can break into people's PCs. Elizabeth Montalbano 2009-07-06T12:00:00-04:00