Latest videos & podcasts from Network World.
Highlight of the week:
Cool Tools video: Dis-Advantage
HTC’s Advantage 7501 promises lots of bells, whistles and mobile office features. But can it stand up to the glare of the iPhone spotlight?
More videos and podcasts:
Twisted Pair podcast: Sleepless in the ‘Twisted Lair’
Jason and Keith talk about Vista finally getting its first service pack, whether a 17-year-old deserves a new car for hacking the iPhone, and explore the reasons why Keith isn’t getting a lot of sleep these days. (39:32)
Voices from IT Roadmap podcast: Panasonic speeds up trans-Pacific file transfers
With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (17:36)
Panorama podcast: SOX at 5: Benefits and HeadachesThe Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 turned five on July 31. Compliance with this federal law, designed to regulate the accounting and reporting practices of public companies, has become a top concern for executives, legal teams and the IT departments that support them. While the law has helped companies run tighter ships and secure themselves against threats, compliance has cost companies significant time, money and headaches. Many are wondering whether all the work is worth it. James Sayles, chief compliance advisor at Ecora Software and an expert in security, risk management and auditing, discusses the pros and cons of SOX with Cara Garretson. Network World 360 podcast: Site auctions vulnerabilities, SunRocket sues Vonage, and more
Web site auctions software vulnerabilities to highest bidder; Defunct SunRocket sues Vonage over subscriber list; Storm worm spam spoofs YouTube; U.S. troops swap combat ideas on new Web site. (6:38)
LinuxWorld podcast: Wikis for business applications: Peter Thoeny
Many business “applications” start off as spreadsheets, or in desktop databases such as Microsoft Access. When it’s time to make them multi-user, is there anything to fill in the gap between the desktop and a full-scale IT Project? Peter Thoeny describes how a “structured Wiki” can combine the functionality of a form-based database application with the editability of a wiki. And, with more people exposed to wikis through Wikipedia, is it now easier to sell companies on the Wiki Way?
