NetFlash: Keeping track of NASCAR

As the Olympics come to a close this weekend, it’s fun to reflect on how much watching sports on TV has changed, how much network technology and graphics are driving that change and augmenting our sports-watching experience. But the most complex graphic in sports TV isn’t the country flags superimposed onto the lanes in track and field, or the K-Zone ESPN uses for baseball coverage. No, that honor goes to NASCAR, which has a system to tell you the position and speed of every car on the track – five times a second. Keeping track of NASCAR http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/082304widernetnascar.html?net

As the Olympics come to a close this weekend, it’s fun to reflect on how much watching sports on TV has changed, how much network technology and graphics are driving that change and augmenting our sports-watching experience. But the most complex graphic in sports TV isn’t the country flags superimposed onto the lanes in track and field, or the K-Zone ESPN uses for baseball coverage. No, that honor goes to NASCAR, which has a system to tell you the position and speed of every car on the track – five times a second.

Keeping track of NASCAR

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/082304widernetnascar.html?net

Network World Fusion Radio: Microsoft on Sender ID

This week Network World Fusion Radio looks at Sender ID, a new framework being considered by the IETF and pushed by AOL and Microsoft that’s designed to authenticate mail senders and help eliminate spam and phishing attacks. George Webb, business manager of Microsoft’s Safety, Technology and Strategy Group, joins us to discuss the potential impact of Sender ID on your organization. Listen now:

https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0826radio.html?net

Cisco warns of flaws in ACS product

Network equipment maker Cisco warned customers about security holes in two products that provide user authentication and authorization services for network devices such as firewalls and routers.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0826ciscowarns.html?net

DOJ announces online fraud convictions

Fifty-three people have been convicted and another 103 arrested in a huge Department of Justice sweep for online fraud and other Internet-related crimes, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0826dojannou.html?net

Today on Layer 8, No. 8 in your program, but No. 1 in your heart:

A strange new technology – Mobile Proximity Dating; what not to title a press release; nearly everybody busy busting Internet criminals; and thousands sign up for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” via IM; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

https://www.nwfusion.com/weblogs/layer8/?net

This week’s top 5 stories so far:

1. IOS changes could alter face of Cisco routers

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/082304cisco.html?net

2. Broadband over power lines gaining steam

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/082304specialfocus.html?net

3. Is security ripe for outsourcing?

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/082304outsecure.html?net

4. State IT execs betting on VoIP

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/082304nastd.html?net

5. Nortel chief discusses why enterprise stays

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0820ntqa.html?net