Latest videos & podcasts from Network World.
Highlight of the week:
Twisted Pair podcast: Hype Wars: iPhone vs. Harry Potter
Jason and Keith discuss the return of ransomware, whether Harry gets hyped more than the iPhone, and the demise of a VoIP provider not called Vonage. (34:45)
More videos and podcasts:
Panorama podcast: Defending against botnets
Botnets are being manned by mobsters, so new methods of defense are needed to stop them. Ben Kaplan (pictured), senior product manager for security applications at EarthLink, and Vlad Gorelick, CTO at Sana Security, discuss behavioral analysis, warez, the federal smackdown and the ISP’s role in stopping bots with Julie Bort. (11:35) Network World 360 podcast: Duke has iPhone issues, Yipes is snapped up and more
IPhones flooding wireless LAN at Duke University; India’s Reliance acquires Yipes for $300M; Dual-mode deployments expected to spur VoIP on wireless LANs; New botnet targets iPhone buyers. (6:22)
Cool Tools video: Phraze-It eases mobile data entryPrevalent Devices’ Phraze-It soft keyboard is designed to make typing on a mobile device such as a Dell Axim easier and help reduce repetitive stress injuries. Keith tests out the input format against tried and true systems. Voices from IT Roadmap podcast: Dealing with the unexpected costs of power
When DVDPlay, a DVD rental service, built out its network, the cost of electricity began to exceed the cost of bandwidth. On this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap, Jens Horstmann, vice resident and CTO at DVDPlay, explains how the company is dealing with the costs and using computing resources more efficiently to ease the electrical burden. (11:59)
Panorama podcast: How Web 2.0 affects enterprise IT
How are blogs, podcasts, social networking, mashups, RSS feeds, wikis and other Web 2.0 tools affecting the enterprise IT infrastructure? Anant Jhingran, CTO of IBM’s Information management division, discusses the future of information management with Network World’s Julie Bort. (11:02) LinuxWorld podcast: Making it easier to test new kernel releases: Dave Jones
Linux kernel developers have half of one percent of the diverse hardware available to Linux users. Now you can help QA the next kernel release without switching the entire system to “bleeding edge” software. (7:51)
Video: Testing out Seoul’s WiMAX networkThe IDG News Service’s Martyn Williams tests out Seoul’s WiMAX network on the one-year anniversary of its launch. Could this be the future of U.S. wireless broadband?
