Anderson: Qualcomm: Contrarians at the gate, 11/16/06
What is the dominant wireless company today? Nokia? Motorola? Ericsson? No – it’s Qualcomm. Irwin Jacobs, Qualcomm’s founder, once told me that when he started the company, he thought it would be a small consulting firm working on interesting problems …
Tolly: The great afterthought: Your broadband router, 11/18/06
We all know the saying about the weakest link and recognize its inherent truth. In the great chain of technology that is our broadband service, we seldom think of our state-of-the-art routers as being that link, but perhaps we should.
Bradner: ChoicePoint: Lipstick on a pig? 11/16/06
ChoicePoint’s data breach early last year was the first major such incident we actually heard about. That we heard about it was thanks to a then little-known 2003 California law requiring companies that suffer data breaches to tell the people whose …
Editorial: Tech is getting easier, CIOs say, 11/16/06
Technology is getting easier and as a result, CIOs are looking for a broader range of skills when they hire. That was one nugget that came out of a CIO panel discussion at a private function hosted by Network World publisher IDG in Toronto last week.
Through Channels: We don’t need no stinkin’ badges – or do we? 11/16/06
Much of relationship building in today’s business world involves understanding where people and organizations fit in: who they are, what they’re good at, what they’re likely to cost and a host of similar things.
‘Net Buzz: Presume 1% of the Web is ‘adult’: Is that a lot? 11/20/06
The answer to this question has apparently become relevant in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the U.S. government over the long-dormant Children’s Online Protection Act.
Backspin: The Fourth Annual Golden Turkey Awards, 11/20/06
As usual, our goal is to celebrate individuals and entities that don’t, won’t or can’t come to grips with reality, maturity, ethical behavior or social responsibility because of their blindness, self-imposed ignorance, thinly veiled political agenda…
Johnson: The three laws of telco economics, 11/16/06
A long-term trend I’ve pointed out over the years is that the definition of a “service provider” has grown and changed, to the point where it can encompass everything from Vonage to Google to your local municipal wireless network or cable company.
Dr. Internet: What data-recovery tools are needed? 11/16/06
What data-recovery tools can we use to recover the files on our RAID partition?
Gearhead: Disk drives: We’re driven to drink, 11/16/06
Disk storage is notoriously fickle. One minute your drive is humming happily, and the next it’s screaming like a banshee and trying to turn into a lathe – or simply dies. Whatever the issue, at that point the unprepared probably will start swearing, …
Nutter’s Help Desk: A pair of DHCP problems to fix, 11/20/06
I have four Linksys WRT55AG Dual-Band Wireless A+G Broadband Routers on the network that use the PIX501 as a gateway. But from time to time they also produce DHCP. That confuses the other computers and they pick the wireless router address as their …
Cool Tools: Five Cool Tools lessons learned, 11/20/06
Around the technology media universe, it’s time for holiday gift guides, and Network World is no exception (see our list of favorite products). Just as retailers put out holiday displays before Halloween, holiday gift guides keep coming out earlier.
Insider Threat: Content filtering to protect intellectual property, 11/20/06
My company recently got into a dispute about intellectual property. The lawyers for the other side came back and showed us that employees at our company had sent this information to partners and customers without an NDA. My company now is going to …
