IG NOBEL: HONORING WEIRD SCIENCE AT HARVARDSee past winners
Skip the Grammys. The Oscars are boring. It’s time to talk about the only award in the history of the Earth that has been presented both to ducks that practice homosexual necrophilia and Dan Quayle. That’s right, it’s time for the Ig Nobel Prizes. Plus:
TELCOS SPAR OVER SERVICE PRICING
Representatives from both local and national telecom companies fought over the future of telecom service pricing during a House Energy Subcommittee hearing Tuesday.
THERE IS MORE THAN ONE CISCO IN THIS WORLD
Cisco says it wants to become a household name in the consumer market but there are other Ciscos (along with various spellings of the word) already in the public’s consciousness. Here are some of the world’s other Ciscos for your education so you can tell your friends and family that no, it’s not that Cisco but this Cisco that you work with.
ITIL HAVING HARD TIME LIVING UP TO HYPE
ITIL IT service-management best-practice framework in use in a majority of IT shops worldwide, but not necessarily the panacea adopters expected.
SERVICE THAT BROADCASTS FROM MILITARY DRONE AIRCRAFT GOES COMMERCIAL
Satellite provider Marshall Communications’ secure service that distributes video gathered by military drone planes …
HACKERS POST TECHNIQUES FOR REVERSING IPHONE UPGRADE
Owners of hacked iPhones have begun posting instructions on how to roll back a recent Apple firmware upgrade that rendered their …
CHAT TRANSCRIPT: AMAZON.COM CTO WERNER VOGELS
Vogels discusses infinite capacity, FaceBook applications and DRM-free music with the Network World audience.
COMMON AJAX PLATFORM SEEN FOR DEVICES, DESKTOPS
Anticipating one Web emerging for both mobile and desktop access, dignitaries at a mobile AJAX workshop last Friday also saw a common AJAX platform …
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LONGTIME VOIP IMPLEMENTATION STILL PAYING DIVIDENDS
Having a 7-year-old VoIP system makes Hitachi Consulting of Dallas a bit of an innovator. Michael Shisko, director of information technology at Hitachi Consulting, explains how the company was able to easily roll out VoIP easily and how it still pays dividends today in unexpected ways. (10:42)
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BUZZBLOG: BELIEVE AT&T ON THIS ONE
Replying to a firestorm over language in its terms of use contract that appears to give the company license to silence critics, AT&T responds: “AT&T respects its subscribers’ rights to voice their opinions and concerns over any matter.” The company says the language is needed to deal with child porn and those who advocate violence. Skeptics scoff, but AT&T seems in the right on this one.
TODAY ON LAYER 8, WHERE WE WONDER IF A SATELLITE SYSTEM WOULD HELP THE FAA FIND LOST LUGGAGE:
The Federal Aviation Administration proposed all aircraft flying in the nation’s busiest airspace have to have satellite-based avionics by 2020, letting air traffic controllers track aircraft by satellites using a system known as Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B), which is 10 times more accurate than today’s radar technology.
TODAY AT CISCO SUBNETthe winners of September’s free training and free CCNA Exam Guide competitions. Details of October’s free training and book competitions here. Welcome new blogger and Global Knowledge trainer Dheeraj Tolani who goes back to basics with Routing & Switching Essentials. Plixer insists that Cisco’s Activating NetFlow is the simplest way to learn who, what, when and where traffic was created on the network. IP routing expert Jeff Doyle’s book recommendations for IPv6 software coders. From the Field blogger Michael Morris examines the pros and cons of VPLS. Cisco trainer Wendell Odom is sticking with us permanently – what would you like him to discuss?
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TODAY ON MICROSOFT SUBNETbetter examine Google/Doubleclick merger; Microsoft announces VoIP phone pricing for SMBs; Microsoft offers amnesty for users of pirated XP; What is so Good About Training?
Senator wants regulators to
