Should felons be allowed to be IT managers?
Nebraska’s Lincoln County Board was in a quandary this week over whether to keep its newly hired county manager of IT – who happened to be a convicted felon.
Cisco develops smart, mobile robots for wireless connectivity
Cisco has developed a set of small smart robots, which can act as wireless communications relays, that sense when a mobile user is moving out of service range, and can follow the user to maintain connectivity.
IPv6 taking on national-security implications
While the vast majority of networks today are based on the IPv4 protocol, the U.S. government is mandating that defense and civilian agencies are ready to accept IPv6-based traffic as well by June 2008.
Government’s monster Networx telecom contract award due Thursday
The U.S. federal government plans to announce Thursday the winners of a 10-year, $20 billion telecommunications services deal that is the largest pending network buy in the world.
CTIA vendors unveil flurry of high-speed cellular data access products
Vendors at the CTIA Wireless conference this week debuted an array of products, from modems for laptops to gateways for offices, aimed at helping enterprises exploit the higher bandwidth finally becoming available via 3G cellular data services.
Vonage could go bankrupt in two years, analyst warns
Vonage’s lackluster IPO and ongoing patent troubles are leading some financial analysts to speculate about the company’s long-term viability.
Aruba Networks goes public
Wireless LAN switch start-up Aruba Networks this week went public, and its initial stock price surged by nearly 30% in the first day of trading on the Nasdaq exchange.
Cisco to acquire network processor company
Cisco has agreed to buy SpansLogic, a privately held designer of network processing chips based in Mountain View, Calif., for an undisclosed sum.
Interview
Q&A: New IAB chair mulls DNS security, unwanted Internet traffic
Olaf Kolkman, a Dutch DNS expert, is the new chair of the Internet Architecture Board, a panel of 13 leading network engineers who provide technical oversight to the IETF, the Internet’s premier standards-setting body. He’s also CEO of NLnet Labs, an …
Blogs
Buzzblog: How contest winner found my address… and “Anti-Christ” found troubleWinner tells how she did it. Meanwhile, we hear from a fellow – a member of two famous families – about his beef with a North Carolina newspaper that yanked his posting privileges because his online moniker of choice was “Anti-Christ.”
So we put up $100 of Network World money to show how easy it is to find a home address (mine) on the Internet.
From Microsoft Subnet: The Microsoft spin doctors at work
Transparency at Microsoft is being debated in the blogosphere today, with the discussion sparked by a blog by Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, whose April cover story is about “radical transparency.”
