Latest videos & podcasts from Network World.
Highlight of the week:
Cool Tools video: Elvis Lives! But he’s a bit robotic
Keith finds out that Wowee’s Alive Elvis is more than just a singing robot: It can do tech support and help with a quick trip through the HOV lane.
More videos and podcasts:
Twisted Pair podcast: Oven doors can’t get ESPN
Jason and Keith discuss the ‘perfect storm’ scenario that knocked out Skype, how Google wants to rule (or at least categorize) the universe, and how to tell the difference between a flat-screen TV and an oven door. (39:05)
Panorama podcast: How Consumer Tech Could Cripple IT
Employees adding Skype to a notebook or buying their own smart phone may seem harmless, but this growth in consumerization will be a nightmare for IT departments. New devices like the iPhone and consumer-based social networking tools can create a recipe for disaster. The old “search and destroy” methods won’t work — IT needs a new Zen-like approach to handling the “rogue end users” who infiltrate a company. Josh Holbrook, program manager for enterprise research at Yankee Group, discusses the issue with Keith Shaw. (18:24)
Panorama podcast: SOA vs. Web 2.0 — Which is best for the enterprise?While both rely on XML, a cultural clash has developed. The pro-SOA side tends to dismiss Web 2.0 technologies as light-weight “toys” not suitable for the “real” work needed by enterprises. The Web 2.0 side often considers SOA to be full of “bloated” standards and pretty architectural drawings but is skeptical about how much “real” work SOAs will ever do. John Michelsen, founder and chief architect for iTKO, a company that makes testing software for SOAs, discusses which one is best for the enterprise and how to get both of them to work together. (15:01) Network World 360 podcast: Skype lays blame, and the summer of spam
Skype: Network felled by Windows Update; Enterasys package secures VoIP systems; The summer of spam: record growth, record irritation. (6:09)
LinuxWorld podcast: Will your web app work with the new Firefox? Mike Schroepfer
The “Alpha 7” release of Mozilla Firefox is out, and should be the end of user-visible feature changes. The Mozilla Corporation’s VP of Engineering explains some of the browser’s new features, and what you can start doing now to make sure that your sites and web applications will work with the new browser release. (13:18)
Java Technology Insider podcast: Chet Haase on maximizing Swing and Java 2DIn this first interview in JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider podcast series, Daniel Steinberg chats with Chet Haase about rich client development using Swing and Java 2D. Listen in as Chet, a Sun Microsystems client architect, makes the case for Java desktop applications, tackles the big issues facing Swing developers, and talks about the near future of Java development on the client side.
