* AT&T's golden age may be past, but Golden Boy remains * Appeals court revives Oracle shareholder case * U.S. government agencies aim for software assurance * New York presents wireless security challenge for RNC * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
For many years, he was the face of AT&T. Twenty-four feet high, 40 tons, and covered in gold leaf from head to toe and from wingtip to wingtip, a certain statue has been a source of pride for the carrier since 1916. Ladies and gentlemen, for your weekend reading pleasure, I give you The Genius of Electricity, The Spirit of Communications, the “merciless messenger” and a Phonebook Cover Hermes for the ages – Golden Boy! AT&T’s golden age may be past, but Golden Boy remains http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004widernetgoldenboy.html?net
For many years, he was the face of AT&T. Twenty-four feet high, 40 tons, and covered in gold leaf from head to toe and from wingtip to wingtip, a certain statue has been a source of pride for the carrier since 1916. Ladies and gentlemen, for your weekend reading pleasure, I give you The Genius of Electricity, The Spirit of Communications, the “merciless messenger” and a Phonebook Cover Hermes for the ages – Golden Boy!
AT&T’s golden age may be past, but Golden Boy remains
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004widernetgoldenboy.html?net
Appeals court revives Oracle shareholder case
Just when you thought all the shareholder lawsuits regarding the fall from the height of the tech boom were behind us, a judge has ruled that a three-year-old case against Oracle can continue. Local 144 of the Nursing Home Pension Fund alleges that Oracle Chief Larry Ellison knew Oracle was going to take a revenue hit in March 2001, and that’s why he sold a huge amount of stock just over a month before.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0902appeacourt.html?net
U.S. government agencies aim for software assurance
U.S. government agencies need to better understand the vulnerabilties of the software they’re buying, said IT workers from several government agencies during a software assurance forum in Washington, D.C., this week.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0902assure.html?net
New York presents wireless security challenge for RNC
Transportation Security Administration security checkpoints, hundreds of Secret Service agents, thousands of police on foot, horses and motorcycles, city blocks barricaded by dump trucks filled with tons of sand and an invisible wireless back door that is virtually impossible to monitor and control. That was a snapshop of the security situation at this week’s Republican National Convention at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0902rncwir.html?net
Today on Layer 8, where we love our long weekends:
RNC protesters turn to text messaging; Disney offers free collaboration software (yes, that’s Disney); everyone overreacts to the kids-and-the-Internet study; and the best of commentators’ double entendres from the Athens Olympics; 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. Cisco warns of IOS flaw
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0827cisflaw.html?net
2. Feature: Mano a mono: One consultant’s battle against Microsoft monoculture
https://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/083004mono.html?net
3. American ITIL: Best practices win converts
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004itil.html?net
4. Spammers using sender authentication too, study says
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831spammusing.html?net
5. Nextel tests wireless broadband waters
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004flarion.html?net
