* Katrina could cost BellSouth $600 million * Battle lines drawn again between browsers * Vendors prep management tools to handle virtualization * Microsoft renames business app project, targets mid-market * SonicWall offers versatile security platform * Greenpeace dumps old PCs on Wipro's doorstep * Today on Layer 8
BellSouth lost 810,000 lines to Hurricane Katrina – and 6,500 of its employees are in areas that were hardest hit. Find out when service might be restored and what the company is doing to help those employees. Katrina could cost BellSouth $600 million http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090605-bellsouth-katrina.html?net&story=090605-bellsouth-katrina
BellSouth lost 810,000 lines to Hurricane Katrina – and 6,500 of its employees are in areas that were hardest hit. Find out when service might be restored and what the company is doing to help those employees.
Katrina could cost BellSouth $600 million
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090605-bellsouth-katrina.html?net&story=090605-bellsouth-katrina
Battle lines drawn again between browsers
“Firefox is not a war on Microsoft,” says one of the browser’s creators. But Microsoft probably sees it that way. The company is scrambling to improve security in its Internet Explorer browser in order to shore up its massive market share, which has been slipping. The wild card is AJAX technology, which Google has invested heavily in.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090505-firefox-ie.html?net&story=090505-firefox-ie
Vendors prep management tools to handle virtualization
Computer Associates and BMC Software will soon join IBM in upgrading their management packages to help customers get a handle on their growing virtualized environments, making it easier to shift server workloads to meet business demands.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090505-virtualization.html?net&story=090505-virtualization
Microsoft renames business app project, targets mid-market
Microsoft Wednesday renamed its suite of next-generation business applications for the mid-market and reiterated its plans to tie them together with Office on the front end and bundles of infrastructure software on the back end.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090705-microsoft-dynamics.html?net&story=090705-microsoft-dynamics
SonicWall offers versatile security platform
SonicWall this week is introducing a new multifunction security device that can scan for a laundry list of malicious activity within corporate networks and keep outbreaks contained to LAN segments.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090505-sonicwall.html?net&story=090505-sonicwall
Greenpeace dumps old PCs on Wipro’s doorstep
Activists from the environmentalist group Greenpeace International Monday dumped some 500 kilograms of used PCs outside the Bangalore headquarters of Wipro, one of India’s biggest outsourcing companies.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/090605-greenpeace-wipro.html?net&story=090605-greenpeace-wipro
Today on Layer 8, home of a tremendous Act 1 closer:
Ex-Microsoft exec alleges incompetence; (fake) Google OS screenshot; programmer fired for eating leftover pizza; and the start of our latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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