Speculation rampant on potential Alltel suitors
Speculation on which company may acquire Alltel has run rampant ever since the wireless operator disclosed during an earnings call last month that it was reviewing “a broad spectrum of options” regarding a possible sale.
VoiceCon: Avaya, Nortel CEOs say they’re all about softwareThe future of Avaya’s and Nortel’s respective VoIP businesses is in software, as well as strong partnerships with enterprise-class application vendors, the CEOs for both companies said this week.Mozilla issues fix for Firefox, SeaMonkey flaw
The Mozilla Foundation has published a fix for a “critical” JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.
From Cisco Subnet: 10 things partners are saying about Cisco
Brad Reese on Cisco writes: “Chris Gonsalves is reporting that respondents to the 2007 VARBusiness Alternatives Study pulled a few punches when it came to describing Cisco’s tough tactics when dealing with solution providers. The networking giant was picked as the most retaliatory vendor across the voice, data and wireless networking categories.”
CEBIT – Trade show wrestles with an ‘image crisis’
There will be something for everyone at this year’s Cebit trade show. Unfortunately, that’s not what everyone wants.
Electricity provider cites SOA for efficiency gains
Using a service-oriented architecture, the Southside Electric Cooperative in Virginia has successfully eliminated much of the paperwork that slowed its processes, enabling it to double the rate at which it collects delinquent payments and reduce the average time it takes to complete service work from three days to one, officials there say.
Too late to discredit open source, advocates say
Advocates and users of free and open source software (FOSS) technology believe that it is too late for any form of crusade to discredit FOSS as it is already widely used.
Microsoft hits Google over book search model
A Microsoft attorney will attack Google’s book search service in a speech Tuesday to the Association of American Publishers, saying Google is misappropriating principles of fair use to further its own business model.
Security expert cracks RFID chip in U.K. passport
A security expert has cracked one of the U.K.’s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration.
Buzzblog: Top-shelf domain names fetched a bundle in ’06
The domain name aftermarket – or, if you prefer, speculation/ransom market – eclipsed the $100 million mark for the first time in ’06. Five names went for more than a mil, including the record $12-million undressing for one we won’t mention here (for fear of overzealous spam detectors).
Today on Layer 8 where we’re doing our best to add to the data monster:IDC confirmed this week what anyone who’s ever explored the Internet knew already: there’s a big buttload of data out there and it’s getting bigger every hour. According to an IDC study this week our digital universe equals approximately 3 million times the information in all the books ever written – or the equivalent of 12 stacks of books, each extending more than 93 million miles from the earth to the sun.
