* Buzzblog: Nokia gets fire investigator to flip-flop * Microsoft, Nortel CEOs expand on their VoIP alliance * Telecommute. Kill a career? * Cisco's iPhone violates GPL, expert says * Seagate, ProStor target speed, capacity with new drives * Q&A: Why Acopia didn’t get a Christmas card from Network Appliance or EMC * Today on Layer 8
Buzzblog: Nokia gets fire investigator to flip-flop
Public officials have kept the info a secret for days, but it was Nokia that made the cell phone at the center of a California fire that left a man critically injured. However, the investigator who first fingered the phone as the ignition point now says Nokia engineers have shown him the error of his ways. Meanwhile, the victim has an attorney. Click here for more.
Microsoft, Nortel CEOs expand on their VoIP alliance
Nortel and Microsoft this week expanded on their Innovative Communication Alliance – a VoIP-focused partnership announced in July 2007 – at an event at NBC Studios in New York, where the two companies’ CEOs introduced several jointly developed products and laid out a roadmap for the next several quarters and beyond. Click here for more.
Telecommute. Kill a career?
Employees who frequently telecommute may damage or kill their chances to advance within a particular career. Over 60% of 1,320 global executives surveyed by executive search firm Korn/Ferry International said they believe that telecommuters are less likely to advance in their careers in comparison to employees working in traditional office settings. Company executives want face time with their employees, the study said. Click here for more.
Cisco’s iPhone violates GPL, expert says
Even while Cisco is suing Apple for violating its iPhone trademark, an open source enthusiast is accusing Cisco itself of infringing copyright in the same product. Click here for more.
Seagate, ProStor target speed, capacity with new drives
Seagate Technology this week introduced a hard drive that it claims is the fastest hard drive available. Meanwhile ProStor announced a new high-capacity removable disk drive as a replacement for tape media for workstations and servers in small and midsize markets. Click here for more.
Q&A: Why Acopia didn’t get a Christmas card from Network Appliance or EMC
File virtualization company Acopia is no longer a start-up. The Lowell, Mass., outfit, launched five years ago and backed by $85 million in venture funding, has been shipping its boxes since 2004 and winning over customers such as Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch. The company also is taking dead aim at storage stalwarts such as EMC and Network Appliance. CEO and President Chris Lynch met recently with Network World Executive News Editor Bob Brown. Read the interview.
Today on Layer 8, where we laughed till we thought we’d die:
It’s not every week that geek technology hits the holy trinity of comedy – The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert, Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien. But, spectacularly Apple’s iPhone did it in the past week. Oh, in related techie amusement, see The Colbert Report’s take on AT&T and Cingular and how the new AT&T hasn’t really changed anything for the better. At your home for not-just-networking news.
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