* Apple, Cisco extend talks on iPhone deal * Daylight-saving time: What’s up with those time servers? * BT puts up $196 million for INS * DEMO 07: Alcatel-Lucent to manage laptops * Microsoft partners on SSL VPN software * Cisco stackable switches add up to savings at Duke University * Kasperskys on cybercrime * Network World Video: Live from DEMO 2007 * Today on Layer 8
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Apple, Cisco extend talks on iPhone deal
Apple and Cisco have pushed back a deadline in their legal battle over the iPhone in order to keep working toward a settlement. Click here for more.
Daylight-saving time: What’s up with those time servers?
While time servers keep networked devices synchronized, they don’t recognize daylight-saving shifts. As several experts noted in our recent story, “Daylight saving changes: No Y2K, but there could be headaches,” a time server will do nothing to solve daylight-saving snafus. To help clear up the issue, Network World Senior Editor Jennifer Mears spoke with Paul Skoog, a product marketing manager at Symmetricom, which sells time and frequency products and services, including network time servers. Read the interview.
BT puts up $196 million for INS
BT Group announced Thursday its plans to acquire International Network Services, an IT consulting and professional services firm. Click here for more.
DEMO 07: Alcatel-Lucent to manage laptops
A project unveiled this week at DEMO 07 by Alcatel-Lucent will let enterprise network administrators reach out and touch corporate laptops anytime, anywhere. Click here for more.
Microsoft partners on SSL VPN software
Microsoft is announcing that SSL VPN appliances based on technology it acquired last year when it bought Whale Communications are available through two Microsoft partners. Click here for more.
Cisco stackable switches add up to savings at Duke University
When some network architects deploy thousands of LAN ports for users, they use chassis switches at the LAN edge for easier management and failover. Duke University, however, finds better network management and cost savings through stacking switches. Click here for more.
Kasperskys on cybercrime: Don’t blame the Russian mafia and why we need anti-anti-antivirus software
Russian security professionals Eugene and Natalya Kaspersky dropped by Network World this week en route from Moscow to the RSA Conference in California. In a wide-ranging interview with Features Editor Neal Weinberg, the Kaspersky Lab duo discussed the Russian mafia, the latest in hacker tricks and their view that the bad guys are winning. Click here for more.
Network World Video: Live from DEMO 2007
Keith and Jason check in from DEMO 2007 with some surreal highlights involving Barry Bonds – yes, THE Barry Bonds – and 10 of their favorite demonstrations. (38:11) Watch now.
Today on Layer 8, where we saw our shadow and that can only mean 3 more weeks ’til spring training:
We’d be remiss if we didn’t tap into wild and wacky spirit that is Groundhog Day. Today will be the 120th time Phil the rodent has stuck his nose out into the cold Pennsylvania morning air and said “Dang it’s cold. What’s the matter with you people? I’m going back to sleep.” You know the superstition: if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on the Christian holiday of Candlemas, winter will last another six weeks. No shadow means an early spring. According to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, Phil has seen his shadow 96 times, hasn’t seen it 14 times and there are no records for nine years (the years he just didn’t feel like getting up). At your home for not-just-networking news.
