King Kong Sprint drops customers, 07/20/07: An interesting thing just happened: Sprint Nextel “fired” some 1,000 customers. That’s right – Sprint sent them letters and told them they needed to find another cell phone carrier because it didn’t want their business! Why didn’t Sprint want their …
Dr. Internet: Apple iPhones in the network, 07/25/07: The first Apple iPhones are showing up in our network. They seem to find the wireless network and acquire a DHCP address pretty easily. Some people are already using them with our e-mail system. It is only a matter of time before questions start …
Nutter’s Help Desk: The best way to block employee access to Web sites, 07/23/07: We are beginning to have more and more of a problem with ‘improper’ use of the Internet. Although we expect some personal use – periodic checking of personal e-mail for example but sometimes there is less business use of the Internet happening and …
Cool Tools: USB device uses image analysis to scan for inappropriate images, 07/25/07: The USB device includes detection software that uses image-analysis algorithms to scan a notebook or desktop for potentially inappropriate images or Web pages.
Johnson: Spectrum allocation: The action heats up, 07/25/07: Forget “Live Free or Die Hard.” This summer’s major action adventure is the debate over the FCC’s planned 700MHz spectrum auction, scheduled for January.
Bradner: FCC may be told to tell truth, 07/24/07: Congress may tell FCC to produce useful statistics on broadband deployment.
Musthaler: The iPhone: Just say no, 07/24/07: At long last, the Apple iPhone has shipped, and more than a half-million of the hybrid phone/entertainment devices are in the wild after a sell-out first weekend of sales. More are on the way, as the invasion has begun. The question is, how long until …
Backspin: IT: red in tooth and claw, 07/24/07: Most of us have a list of things that we’d like to do before we shuffle off this mortal coil. Some people’s lists include such things as base jumping naked off the Empire State Building or hiking across the Hindu Kush in the dead of winter in nothing …
Dr. Internet: A cure for traffic transfer troubles, 07/23/07: I’m trying to speed up TCP/IP based file transfers on one of our network segments. I replaced the 100MB Ethernet switch with a Gigabit switch and the connection lights show that all the workstations are connected at full speed. The problem is that …
Gearhead: Virtual CD Drives, TIFFs and PDFs, 07/25/07: Following up on the recent Gearhead column on Virtual CD, reader Dale Wisler wrote that he needed the software “only occasionally to convert some copyright-protected Windows Media files to MP3. [Windows Media Player] allows me to burn to CD or to MP3 …
