WIRELESS CARRIER ASSOCIATION WARNS AGAINST BUYING INTO WiMAX HYPEBUZZBLOG: THIS YEAR’S ’25 GEEKIEST 25th ANNIVERSARIES’
The GSM Association says that businesses and investors who found themselves dazzled by the recent WiMAX World convention shouldn’t buy into the hype just yet.
Several have already gotten a fair amount of attention, such as the computer virus, the emoticon, the compact disc and companies such as Sun and Adobe. But let’s not forget Space Camp, Bladerunner, the “ballooning” of the Harvard-Yale football game, and, of course, Lawnchair Larry.
POSTAL SERVICE TURNS TO WIRELESS E-MAIL TO IMPROVE OPERATIONS
USPS this year will distribute BlackBerry handsets to 5,400 managers and “key staff” nationwide, running on AT&T’s cellular network.
APPLIANCE DESIGNED TO PROTECT REMOTE OFFICES
Arkeia Wednesday rolled out a data protection appliance for organizations with remote offices that need backing up.
RENEWDATA ROLLS OUT E-DISCOVERY SERVICE
RenewData, a vendor of e-discovery and data migration services, today launched a new service designed to help customers address liability issues associated with the content of backup tapes as well as limit the cost of storing backup tapes.
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS SPIN-OFF TACKLES GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE
Software start-up puts PricewaterhouseCoopers’ knowledge to use in its Brabeion IT Risk & Compliance Manager platform.
MALICIOUS CODE INFECTS CHINESE SECURITY SITE
The Web site of one of China’s Internet security organizations has been laced with malicious code.
WIRELESS SENSORS DUMP BATTERIES IN FAVOR OF ‘ENERGY HARVESTING’
Wireless sensors nets are weighed down by maintaining batteries in thousands of sensor nodes. GreenPeak’s low power hardware and software rely on energy harvesting technologies.
VIDEO
BUILDING A BETTER MOUSE TRAP
Keith brings you two items to make business travel a little easier: The Digital Foci Pocket Album for showing of pictures of the family and the Belkin Mouse trap for carrying your gear and improved “mousing.”
BLOGS
TODAY AT MICROSOFT SUBNETplease stand up? Source code for .Net Framework libraries is opened. A call for Microsoft to simplify its End User License Agreement.
Will the real Microsoft Online initiative
TODAY AT CISCO SUBNETVote in our poll. Cisco spent $680,000 on D.C. lobbyists in the first six months of 2007. Who were the recipients of that cash? Cisco trainer Wendell Odom poses a new exam-like question about Layer 2 forwarding logic on LAN switches. Plus: Cisco seeks a Gartner of the virtual worlds.
Cisco Networking Academy celebrates 10 years. What are your thoughts about the academy?
BUZZBLOG: FEDERAL ‘FIX’ KNOCKS ca.gov FOR A LOOP
A hacker’s diversion of traffic from a California government Web site to a porn purveyor spiraled into IT chaos yesterday after a countermeasure applied from Washington essentially “deleted the ca.gov domain.” To make matters worse, by the time those on the West Coast figured out what was happening, those on the East Coast were home eating dinner.
TODAY ON LAYER 8, WHERE WE’D LOVE TO HAVE A LOBBYIST TO DO OUR BIDDING:
As a percentage of most big high-tech companies earnings, I suppose spending anywhere from $1 million to $10,000 on a lobbyist firm is a drop in the bucket – with the possibility in some cases of a huge return. Still, it is interesting to see how much some of these companies are spending to gain influence in a place – the federal government – where they hold little sway. For example, here’s a small list of what a few big players paid some lobby firms for a voice in Washington, D.C.: Oracle: $1.86 million; Cisco: $680,000; IBM: $260,000; Google $580,000.
