Cisco aims to sway FCC on digital TV regulations
Concerned that wireless devices might interfere with its cable TV set-top boxes Cisco asked the FCC today to consider all possible alternatives before it decided how to regulate the use of such devices operating in television white spaces.
The best and worst vendor blogs
Web logs provide a new avenue for network vendors to communicate with their customers. After all, blogs are immediate, informal, personal and interactive, and they can be fun and intellectually stimulating at the same time. What better way to break down the walls between corporation and customer? We decided to take a look at blogs of 15 top networking companies and analyze them based on criteria we developed.
Enterasys introducing intrusion-detection system
Enterasys Networks next week is expected to roll out a 10Gbps intrusion detection and prevention system for its Dragon switches.
IBM packages Tivoli, Rational wares for SMBs
IBM offers SMB customers scaled-down versions of its Tivoli network management software and Rational software development and delivery product.
IT managers get help with server efficiency
The British Computer Society (BCS) said it’s developing a model that’s designed to help IT managers select the most efficient servers, and so deliver a greener IT infrastructure.
Analysts closer to improved antivirus software test
Antivirus vendors are closer to agreeing on a new way to test their software after widespread agreement that older antivirus tests can be misleading.
Four ‘Net companies sued over transaction system patent
For the second time in five weeks, four major Internet companies are being sued for patent infringement lawsuit.
Web 2.0 threats catch enterprises unprepared: survey
Web 2.0 technologies are sucking up corporate bandwidth and presenting a host of security challenges enterprises are simply unprepared for, a new survey has found.
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Webcasting to the masses
Video conferencing technology was suppose make it easier to stay at the office for meetings and reduce the need for costly business travel. While that hasn’t been the case for videoconferencing, it is a reality for Webcasting technology. Network World Multimedia Editor Jason Meserve talks about the Webcasting market today with Sharat Sharan, CEO of On24. (14:21)
BLOGS
Buzzblog: It’s not just censorship keeping North Koreans in the dark
Do you remember the photo from space showing South Korea and North Korea at night? It’s worth noting again after North Korean President Kim Jong Il — a newly self-professed “Internet expert” — cited an unspecified “problem” that would need to be overcome before his country could have ubiquitous ‘Net access.
Today on Layer 8 there is no truth to the rumor we are starting up Layer8apedia:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers are working on an emergency sensor system that would give first responders information about radiation, chemical and biological agent events across the country in near real time. SensorPedia, a writeable Web site adopts the underlying technology of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia collaboratively written by readers, as a model to gather information from multiple diverse sites. That’s cool because while scores of sensors are being deployed around the nation, these sensor networks are not designed to be interoperable.
