Patriots get online names from StubHub, set off privacy battle
The New England Patriots football team has won a court case to get the name of 13,000 people who have bought or sold Pats tickets through the ticket-selling Web site StubHub. The club says it wants to use the names to crack down on what it calls illegal ticket sales. At least one group sees the Patriots victory as a loss of privacy for the fans.
Sunoco streamlines help desk operations, PC environment
Supporting 7,000 PCs at 130 sites is never easy, but the job becomes a huge headache when it seems like each one is running a different operating system and set of applications.
Cisco says it did not ‘act inappropriately’ in Brazil
Cisco says it did not “act inappropriately” after four of its employees were included in the 44 arrests made this week by federal authorities in Brazil as part of a tax-evasion investigation.
Windows update glitch stumps Microsoft sleuths
Microsoft is still scratching its head over a mystery that has some users reporting that settings within Windows Vista’s Automatic Updates feature are changing on their own.
One of the ‘Net’s most powerful women lands a new role
One of the Internet’s most powerful women has a new job. Leslie Daigle is the first chief Internet technology officer at the Internet Society.
Burning NAC questions – Part 2here.
In second part of our look at important network-access control issues, we take a look at important questions surrounding Cisco, NAC implementation and NAC policies. Review part 1
Microsoft shows shaved-down kernel for next Windows OS
The core code for Microsoft’s Windows OS is undergoing a rewrite to make it slimmer for use in a wide range of future products, including Windows 7, the OS that will succeed Vista.
Social networking to taper off in five years
Growth in social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook will taper off; few willing to pay for it, survey shows.
Taiwan to sign WiMAX pact with Intel, NEC, others
The Taiwan government will sign a memorandum of understanding next week to work on WiMAX technology and product development with multinationals including Intel, NEC, Nortel and German WiMax tester Rohde & Schwarz (R&S).
Aruba countersues Symbol over Wi-Fi patent fight
Aruba countersued two divisions of Motorola Wednesday, adding a new twist to a wireless LAN patent-infringement case that affects some of the biggest vendors in the business.
Scientists come up with self-encrypting document
The boffins at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) have demonstrated a way to encrypt sections of a document so that sensitive information can be shielded from unauthorized readers.
