* Microsoft ships high-performance Windows OS * Verizon stops collecting telecom tax * Black Hat: Researcher creates 'Net neutrality test * SMC, Asante pump out low-cost Gigabit Ethernet gear * Vodafone to stay in Verizon Wireless, hits out at A-IMS * Buzzblog: Ruling will have reporters acting like drug dealers * Today on Layer 8
Microsoft ships high-performance Windows OS
Microsoft Tuesday released Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, its first high-performance operating system. Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, which rose from a Microsoft Research project introduced in 2000, is Microsoft’s entry into the battle with Linux to provide platforms for research and other compute intensive workloads. Click here for more.
Verizon stops collecting telecom tax
Verizon has stopped collecting a 108-year-old telephone excise tax after the Internal Revenue Service decided in May to stop fighting to keep the tax. Click here for more.
Black Hat: Researcher creates ‘Net neutrality test
A Seattle-based security researcher has devised a way to test for ‘Net neutrality. Dan Kaminsky will share details of this technique, which will eventually be rolled into a free software tool, on Wednesday at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas. The software can tell if computers are treating some types of TCP/IP traffic better than others – dropping data that is being used in VoIP calls, or treating encrypted data as second class, for example. Click here for more.
SMC, Asante pump out low-cost Gigabit Ethernet gear
While wireless technologies (Wi-Fi, WiMAX, MIMO, et al) grab industry attention, a good cheap Ethernet switch is still the building block for most networks. SMC and Asante this week added new products to the latter category. Click here for more.
Vodafone to stay in Verizon Wireless, hits out at A-IMS
Vodafone is unlikely to part with its minority stake in Verizon Wireless, Verizon Chairman Ivan Seidenberg said in an earnings conference call this week. Click here for more.
Buzzblog: Ruling will have reporters acting like drug dealers
It’s perhaps the most famous scene in the Watergate movie “All the President’s Men”: Robert Redford/Bob Woodward meets the shadowy figure of Deep Throat/Hal Holbrook in an empty parking garage because both fear that any telephone conversation they have will wind up in government hands. Fast-forward three decades and every real-life reporter in America had better be able to find their way to the nearest parking garage, because a 2-1 New York federal appeals court ruling yesterday will render nearly impossible a journalist’s ability to assure a source anonymity – at least if the reporter is using his work telephone. Click here for more.
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