Google home page bug strikes again
Google renamed and upgraded its Personalized Home Page this week, but one thing the update couldn’t shake was a bug that began upsetting many users last Thursday and persisted until Wednesday.
Vonage files to vacate patent ruling
Internet based phone company Vonage says a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has given it new life in a crippling lawsuit with telecommunications giant Verizon.
Proposed Microsoft, IBM identity protocol standard spawns controversy
A protocol developed by IBM and Microsoft for standardizing the sharing of user identities between companies was turned over to a standards body on Wednesday amid controversy that it overlaps with similar protocols already recognized as standards.
Is MPLS alternative DOA?
Granted, it was an MPLS-immersed conference. And Cisco had its best engineering SWAT team there to exterminate anything that threatened its router franchise.
Apple patches hack challenge’s QuickTime bug
Apple Tuesday released new versions of QuickTime for both Mac OS X and Windows to plug a hole discovered during a hack challenge last month.
U.S. agency says Wall Street isn’t ready for a pandemic
The U.S. government’s watchdog agency warned Tuesday that the country’s financial markets haven’t finished planning for a potential flu pandemic and recommended that federal banking and securities regulators set deadlines for completing the work.
Business Objects upgrades mobile analytics tool
Business Objects today announced an upgraded version of its business intelligence software that lets mobile users, with a BlackBerry or other handheld device, view reports and initiate business processes based on the data they see.
Symantec slips, but closes in on AV product delivery
Symantec is slipping on its target delivery time for the next major upgrade of its security product for enterprises, code-named Hamlet, while it irons out final code wrinkles during beta testing.
Zafirovski maps out Nortel strategy
Nortel wants to become a leader in helping companies and carriers take advantage of an explosion of network connections, President and CEO Mike Zafirovski told shareholders on Wednesday, according to a company statement.
Video
Your cell phone as a credit card
Kyocera’s Near Field Communications (NFC) technology transforms standard cellphones in to a credit card for buying everything from vending machine items to movie tickets with the wave of the phone. Keith gets a demo of this technology that could be coming to a phone near you soon.
Podcast
5 Cool iPod Tips and Tricks
We dig deeper into the iPod and iTunes feature set, providing listeners with five cool tips for getting more out of your iPod. Keith Shaw speaks with Michael Miller (pictured), author of “iPodpedia: The Ultimate iPod and iTunes Resource”, about everything iPod. (12:59)
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Today on Layer 8 where we didn’t even know where Apia was:Great Package Race put on by the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. DHL won this year, delivering first to three of the five locations and second to the remaining two.
Kind of funny to imagine UPS, FedEx and DHL vans hurtling down some small backwater dirt road, bobbing an weaving NASCAR-style all in the effort to make sure they deliver a package first. But that’s the scenario those companies faced recently in the
