The wireless carnival comes to town
Today the sprawling California State Fair opens in Sacramento and Bil Lowry will be watching a key part of it – the carnival midway operation — through a set of computer screens monitoring a Wi-Fi mesh network.
IBM reportedly eyes Wind River deal
IBM could establish a strong presence in the market for embedded operating systems with the acquisition of financially ailing Wind River Systems, a deal that is reportedly in the works.
Skype problems may continue throughout the day
Skype is still trying to restore service to millions of its customers almost 24 hours after they began to experience problems logging in to the VoIP service.
Skype outage appears to be over
A log-in problem that shut many users out of Skype’s popular VoIP service for nearly 14 hours appears to be over.
The summer of spam: record growth, record irritation
There is 17% more spam heading for in-boxes today than there was yesterday, and spam watchers say it could get even worse before the summer is over.
Sprint details WiMAX plans
Sprint Nextel’s planned WiMAX service, now dubbed Xohm, will launch in the Chicago and Washington/Baltimore markets by year-end, then reach 100 million users nationwide by the end of 2008, company officials said Thursday.
Microsoft patches Patchguard, miss Purple Pill
Microsoft has updated its 64-bit kernel protection for Windows Vista, which most of us know as PatchGuard, but which Microsoft calls Kernel Patch Protection.
Dell to restate results after finding manipulation
Dell will restate its earnings for fiscal years 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after an internal audit found that certain employees had changed corporate account balances in order to meet quarterly financial targets, the company said Thursday.
Beijing Olympic weather predictions use IBM supercomputer
Weather forecasts for the Beijing Olympic Games will be performed using an IBM supercomputer that can provide hourly forecasts for each square kilometer, making it easier to plan for disruptions to specific events.
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Blogs
Today at Cisco Subnetalready it has grabbed some Cisco accounts. Channelguy ponders managed services and the Cisco channel. Why is the Cisco/Motorola lawsuit pivotal in the Enron case?
Aruba put itself in a better position to give Cisco a run for its money in the WLAN space when it went public in March and
Today on Layer 8: Where we have never edited any of our entries on Wikipedia…we promise
Can this really be a surprise? People using CIA and FBI computers as well as the Vatican, voting machine supplier Diebold have been editing entries in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia according to a new tracing program. The recently posted Wikipedia Scanner, is an application recently invented by graduate student Virgil Griffiths, outed the editors.
