* Q&A: Light the birthday candles for Lotus Notes * Carriers jump into auditing * Cisco confirms interest in router start-up * Juniper connects high-end routers * Profiling cybercrime: Network threats and defense strategies * Today on Layer 8 * This week’s top 5 stories
Lotus Notes turns 15 on Tuesday, so we went to creator Ray Ozzie to get the full story on Notes’ birth. He talked about what the developers got right and what they missed, about Lotus’ eventual absorption into IBM, and how the whole experience influences what he’s working on today at Groove Networks. It’s a candid interview in Ozzie’s own words – and the full version is available online only. Q&A: Light the birthday candles for Lotus Notes http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1202lotus.html?net
Lotus Notes turns 15 on Tuesday, so we went to creator Ray Ozzie to get the full story on Notes’ birth. He talked about what the developers got right and what they missed, about Lotus’ eventual absorption into IBM, and how the whole experience influences what he’s working on today at Groove Networks. It’s a candid interview in Ozzie’s own words – and the full version is available online only.
Q&A: Light the birthday candles for Lotus Notes
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1202lotus.html?net
Carriers jump into auditing
One researcher says 12% of all service charges on corporate telecom bills are wrong. If you would like your carrier to correct the errors, it will, but it will charge you to do so. And how hard do you think they’d look? As one observer put it, “It’s like the fox watching the henhouse.” Another way to put it: “whacked.”
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/112904audit.html?net
Cisco confirms interest in router start-up
Cisco’s next acquisition could be a router start-up it has funded. According to Cisco’s 10-Q, the company made an investment in BCN Systems, a Santa Clara company staffed with ex-Cisco and ex-Juniper routing and switching engineers.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1202cisrtr.html?net
Juniper connects high-end routers
Juniper Friday launched a switching matrix for interconnecting multiple high-end carrier routers into a multiterabit-capable system designed to accommodate more service subscribers.
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/1203juniper.html?net
Profiling cybercrime: Network threats and defense strategies
Take a detour through the mind of the cybercriminal this week with our Special Section on cybercrime. Today’s online criminals are more sophisticated and more dangerous than ever before. They want your money. They want to terrorize you. And it seems like law enforcement officials largely still don’t quite know how to go after them. Learn who these criminals are and what you can do to protect yourself.
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2004/cybercrime/?net
Today on Layer 8, where it’s time to get your egg nog on, y’all:
ESPN to launch cell phone service; Lycos’ controversial anti-spam plan halted; discover the No. 1 word of the year; and cell phones go back to the future; 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 rolls out LAN tsunami
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1130ciscolan.html?net
2. Cingular maps out U.S. 3G rollout in 2005, 2006
https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/12013g-cin.html?net
3. SCO Web site hack mocks company’s legal claims
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/1129scowebs.html?net
4. Profiling cybercrime: Network threats and defense strategies
https://www.nwfusion.com/supp/2004/cybercrime/?net
5. No patching panacea
https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/112904patch.html?net
