IPhones flooding wireless LAN at Duke University
The iPhone’s wireless LAN interface is creating a problem for Duke University’s WLAN. Administrators want to solve the problem before even more of the popular iPhones show up when students return in late August.
India’s Reliance acquires Yipes for $300M
Reliance Communications, one of India’s largest telecommunications companies, has announced plans to purchase U.S. Ethernet service provider Yipes for $300 million. The deal was completed Sunday.
Security firm: Don’t use iPhone Web dialer
Security researchers at SPI Labs are warning iPhone users not to use a special feature that lets them dial telephone numbers over the Web using the iPhone’s Safari browser.
Verizon Business launches new optical service
Large businesses in the United States looking for high-bandwidth networks that can handle several technologies have a new option available to them with the launch of a dedicated optical network service from Verizon Communications’ business unit.
Vodafone denies plan to buy Verizon
Vodafone Group has denied a Monday report by the Financial Times that it was considering buying Verizon Communications in a huge $160 billion deal.
Outsourcing contracts slow in 2007
Outsourcing vendors saw a drop of 25% in the number of new contracts awarded as customers turn to offshoring as a quicker, less complicated fix for their staffing issues.
Microsoft researchers show off wireless projects
Microsoft Research workers showed off some of their projects, including several that find new uses for mobile phones, on Monday at a summit in Redmond, Wash.
Network-management vendor lands $13.6M
Apparent Networks on Monday announced it had raised $13.6 million in a second round of funding that the network-management vendor plans to use to expand sales, marketing, and R&D initiatives.
Podcast
Performing Well in a Web 2.0 WorldWeb 2.0 is more than a buzzword for those charged with tracking application performance when apps get flung around the globe through a Web browser with data coming from multiple sources. Network World’s Jason Meserve talks with Imad Mouline, chief technology officer at Gomez, about the challenge of measuring Web 2.0 application performance. (15:54)
Blogs
Buzzblog: Diggers dig nothing more than Digg
The men and women (and boys and girls) who have propelled social-bookmarking sites into the role of content king-makers on the ‘Net certainly know what they like. … And they also like what they know. As an example, we learn that fully 20% of Digg’s Top 100 stories – the items most Dugg by Digg users – over the past 365 days were about … Digg.
Today at Cisco Subnetup and up. Blogger Brad Reese reports on Cisco’s move to protect its partners from rogue dealers. Blogger Doug Alger indulges in a bit of silliness with “The Top 10 Reasons It Took 6 Days to Create the Earth and 18 Months to Design and Build a Data Center.” Blogger Mark Kadrich asks, why was a TPMkit presentation at Black Hat USA 2007 canceled?
Cisco’s H-1B application numbers go
Today on Layer 8, where you couldn’t really pay us enough to run for government office:
You can just ignore all of the political pundits and media experts who say the next presidential election will be decided by bloggers and Web sites. Forget the hype about MySpace, YouTube, and Internet campaigning. Few people use them, and even fewer trust them, according to a survey. Nucleus Research says traditional print media is far more trusted than any other source – no matter how shortsighted that may be.
