SEC charges ex-Nortel executives

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Mar 13, 20073 mins

SEC charges ex-Nortel executives

U.S. and Canadian stock regulators filed fraud charges on Monday against several former executives of Nortel Networks, accusing them of twisting accounting practices to make it seem that the company was meeting Wall Street expectations.

From Cisco Subnet: Renting Cisco equipment is the new panacea for enterprise customersBrad Reese discusses renting Cisco equipment vs. buying. When does it make sense to rent? What are the pros and cons? Also, weigh in with your thoughts on renting vendor equipment vs. buying new.Many government Web sites fail to serve the public

Seems it’s OK for some portions of our government to go looking pretty will-nilly for information about us, but we can’t get information easily about them. A report issued today by the National Security Archive Knight Open Government survey, found widespread failure among federal agencies to follow the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendments that took effect in 1997.

Vyatta adds VPN capability to its open source router

Vyatta is adding VPN support to the latest release of its open source router/firewall product.

Otellini e-mail among those missing in AMD case

E-mail messages from some of Intel’s most senior executives are among those that should have been preserved but were not after the chip-maker was sued for alleged antitrust violations by Advanced Micro Devices, according to a court …

Open source IDS app gets an update

IT managers who want to get a handle on their security logs but don’t have the budget for big-ticket software can check out an updated version of the open source host-based intrusion-detection system OSSEC.

Netuitive spots performance problems on virtual machines

Netuitive this week announced software that the company says will help IT managers using VMware technology more quickly pinpoint poorly performing virtual machines.

Verizon pops VPLS

As expected, Verizon Business this week launched its nationwide Virtual Private LAN Service, which is designed to enable businesses to connect offices around the country as if they were on the same Ethernet LAN.

Combo of single sign-on and virtualization pays big dividends at hospital

It’s a technology that many companies still find elusive, but single sign-on (SSO) is working as promised at Southwest Washington Medical Center (SWMC), while delivering a return on investment in just eight months. As a bonus, the SSO project …

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