Cisco/WebEx: Cisco dresses up for smack-down with Microsoft over unified communications
With one $3.2 billion acquisition, Cisco has gotten in Microsoft’s face and positioned itself to give the software giant a fight in the battle to supply corporations with unified communications tools from office applications to Web conferencing, experts say.
Analysis: WebEx key to Cisco’s transition into applications
Cisco’s acquisition of WebEx is perhaps its most aggressive move yet – and not the last — to transition itself from a network hardware vendor to a provider of networked applications and software.
The Internet: Starting over from scratch
Sure, the Internet is just one notch down from the air we breathe on the list of things we can’t do without these days, but Stanford University researchers say the ‘Net could be a whole lot better.
With tax season here, IRS warns of cybersquatters
If you’re paying taxes to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service there is only one URL you need to know: IRS.gov.
Level 3 plots enterprise services growth
Level 3 has high hopes for its enterprise services division as it predicts double-digit growth for the group in 2007.
Core Security discovers IPv6-related flaw in OpenBSD
Core Security Technologies says it’s discovered an IPv6-related buffer-overflow vulnerability in several versions of the OpenBSD operating system that would allow an attacker to knock a server offline or take control at the kernel level. The OpenBSD …
Foundry launches high-density WLAN gear and location-tracking software
Foundry this week launched new wireless LAN access points and controllers which can help users concentrate more connections per access point, and stretch WLAN applications beyond simple data access.
Novell users say Linux transitions successful
As Novell kicks off its annual user conference, customers are enthusiastic about their transitions from the legacy NetWare operating system to Linux. There’s discord, however, among Novell users regarding the company’s controversial technology pact with Microsoft.
DSL gateways will mark video to catch pirates
Another role could soon be added to the many already performed by home gateway devices: identifying video pirates.
Military system provides instant cell phone access from anywhere in world
U.S. soldiers stationed in remote regions of Iraq and Afghanistan can flip open their RAZR or LG mobile phones and place calls, thanks to a new portable cellular communications system from LGS, the U.S. government marketing arm of Alcatel-Lucent.
Blue Lane shields virtual machines
Blue Lane Technologies made available Thursday a software download the company says will serve to shield virtual machines from security threats lurking in network traffic.
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Today on Layer 8, where we change our tune every day:
The tone was mostly cordial, but the underlying energy was anything but as the top auto manufacturers testified before a congressional hearing on global warming. The Big Four – Ford, Chrysler, GM and Toyota – pretty much all sang the same song: They cannot cure their part of the global warming situation and fuel economy situation alone and that anything they do will be expensive and take time. Which led Layer 8 to wonder: Don’t they ever get tired of parading that tune out there?
