Goodbye Carly

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The firing of Carly Fiorina as HP CEO leaves a gaping hole in the trade show speaker circuit – who will replace her as HP’s most charismatic speaker? Who else could comfortably rub shoulders on stage with politicians and pop stars like Sheryl Crow, Dr. Dre and Alicia Keys, who shared the stage with Fiorina at last year’s CES to stamp out digital music piracy? It will be an interesting challenge for HP.

Back with executives who are still employed, there was some talk about boxers and explosives at this week’s VoiceCon show in Florida. Find out why in the “Reporter’s notebook” link below.

We’ll be back next week with the showdown from RSA Conference and LinuxWorld.

* BREAKING NEWS FROM VOICECON, FLORIDA:

Bank of America breaks down its VoIP deployment, 02/08/05

“Divide and conquer” is Bank of America’s approach as it undertakes a massive PBX-to-VoIP migration, according to the bank’s top network architect, speaking at the VoiceCon show here Tuesday.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0208bofa.html?nl

Nortel to support converged apps on Wi-Fi BlackBerry, 02/08/05

Nortel and Research in Motion (RIM) announced a partnership where users will be able to run Nortel’s converged voice/data applications on a new Wi-Fi-enabled BlackBerry handheld device.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0208norrim.html?nl

VoiceCon: Reporter’s notebook, 02/08/05

We got hit up by some three dozen vendors leading up to VoiceCon who wanted to give us their schtick. We declined, but invited them to set us up with any customers …

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0208vconfall.html?nl

VoIP vendors to ‘converge’ on show, 02/07/05

There will be no shortage of VoIP PBXs, phones and gateways on display at this week’s VoiceCon conference, but such infrastructure components could get overshadowed by a slew of announcements about new management tools for converged networks.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/020705voicecon.html?nl

* NEWS FROM RSA CONFERENCE, SAN FRANCISCO:

RSA Security rolls out authentication server in appliance form, 02/08/05

At the RSA Conference 2005 next week in San Francisco, RSA Security, the show’s organizer, is grabbing the spotlight to announce its authentication server will be offered in appliance form for the first time.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0209rsa.html?nl

Start-up to demo gear that promises more reliable SSL VPNs, 02/07/05

Start-up NeoAccel says its SSL remote-access gateway will overcome one source of delay that its competitors don’t address: making the gear suitable for use on Wi-Fi networks.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/020705-neoaccel.html?nl

Intrusion, spyware tools highlight show, 02/07/05

Intrusion-detection and prevention system vendors will be out in force at next week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco, and they are promising a slew of new products.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/020705-rsa-conference.html?nl

Group’s aim: secure VoIP, 02/07/05

A group will debut this week with the goal of raising awareness and spurring discussion of VoIP security needs.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/020705-voip-security.html?nl

* NEWS FROM LINUXWORLD, BOSTON:

Linux lovers can expect a Valentine from Red Hat, 01/24/05

Linux leader Red Hat will finally debut a version of its Red Hat Linux Enterprise with full support of the 2.6 Linux kernel next month at LinuxWorld Expo in Boston.

https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/linux/2005/0124linux1.html?nl

* UPCOMING TRADE SHOWS (Feb., March., April )

Demo @15

Feb. 13-15, Scottsdale, Ariz.,

https://www.demo.com/demo/

LinuxWorld

Feb. 14-17, Boston

https://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS05A

RSA Conference

Feb. 14-18, San Francisco

https://www.rsasecurity.com/

Internet Telephony Conference & Expo