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Submission + - 25 years: Vint Cerf's favorite aha moment (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday May 19, 2011 @03:18PM

Julie188 writes: "With the 25th anniversary Interop show now just a memory, the show's founder, Vint Cerf, reflects on the path that lead to today's Internet. In a Q&A, he talks about one of his favorite aha moments, way back in 1977. "We did a demonstration where we were simulating someone in a mobile battlefield environment going across a continental network, then across an intercontinental satellite network, and then back into a wireline network to a major computing resource in national headquarters. Packets were traveling 94,000 miles round trip, as opposed to what would have been an 800-mile round trip directly on the ARPANET. We didn't lose one bit! After that exciting demonstration, we worked very hard on finalizing the protocols.""

Submission + - Mono rises from ashes as the Xamarin project (theregister.co.uk)

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on Monday May 16, 2011 @10:57PM

Julie188 writes: "Miguel de Icaza is finally talking about the fate of Mono and the developers laid off (fired?) by Attachmate. Two weeks was all it took for the unemployed crew to launch a new company. The project, dubbed Xamarin, will offer new commercial .NET offerings for iOS and Android; continue the development of both Mono and Moonlight, and "explore Moonlight opportunities" involving mobile computing and the Mac App Store."

Submission + - Developers feel the pinch of the 'Apple Tax' (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday May 12, 2011 @02:50PM

Julie188 writes: "The June 30 deadline is approaching for Apple developers to implement in-app purchases. Despite being wildly unpopular, Apple is sticking to its guns requiring developers to allow purchases via their applications. And it is taking a 30% cut of all in-app sales, even for situations like e-books, in which it also forced profit margins to be less than 30%. In other words, Apple is requiring developers like BeamItDown Software to take a loss on the products that it sells, while paying Apple a cut from the top."

Submission + - Google's biggest critic: prophet or paranoid? (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday May 12, 2011 @12:07PM

Julie188 writes: "If you make it your life's work to watch Google, can it lead to privacy paranoia? This interview with Scott Cleland, who has been called "the world's leading Google critic" makes me wonder. He's testified about Google in front on Congress and runs GoogleMonitor.com, Googleopoly.net, and Precursor. Cleland spent four years researching his new book "Search & Destroy, Why You Can't Trust Google Inc." In this Q&A, he discusses the many ways he believes Google violates users' privacy to collect, store and use data. He says, "If the world's Internet information access monopoly does not believe in privacy or property rights, we are all on path to become Google's serfs.""

Submission + - Visa to launch universal digital wallet (nytimes.com)

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on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @07:56PM

Julie188 writes: "Visa announced plans to introduce a one-click payment system that will allow Visa customers to pay for things with one click, even when using payment methods other than Visa, such as PayPal. The information will be stored in Visa’s secured servers so that users only have to sign in to pay for their purchase. People can buy things with one click at a particular site, say Amazon.com. Visa's plan is to create a one-click system across the Web."

Submission + - WebGL poses new security problems (h-online.com)

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on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @11:11AM

Julie188 writes: "Researchers are warning that the WebGL standard undermines existing operating system security protections and offers up new attack surfaces. To enable rendering of demanding 3D animations, WebGL allows web sites to execute shader code directly on a system's graphics card. This can allow an attacker to exploit security vulnerabilities in the graphics card driver and even inject malicious code onto the system."

Submission + - Cisco's Android CIUS tablet available May 31 (networkworld.com)

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on Friday May 06, 2011 @01:33PM

Julie188 writes: "While there's still no word on the price for Cisco's 7-inch Android CIUS tablet, we now know it will be available on May 1 to qualified channel partners from distributor Tech Data. Cisco is aiming the tablet at the enterprise market. It's claim to fame is a docking station that turns the tablet into a desktop videoconferencing platform and SIP IP phone, complete with 10/100/1000-Gbps switch ports. Cisco is trying to make tech-loving CxO's drool over the device with its latest product placements. The May 3 episode of NCIS LA showed geek girl extraordinaire Nell Jones grabbing the tablet out of the docking station mid-sentence during a video conference, moving from LAN to Wi-Fi and then hopping in a cab, transferring to a cell network. That's Hollywood for you. Your mileage may vary."

Submission + - Microsoft, Juniper won't fix dangerous IPv6 hole (networkworld.com)

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on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @06:15PM

Julie188 writes: "Security experts are urging Microsoft and Juniper to patch a year-old IPv6 vulnerability so dangerous it can freeze any Windows machine on a LAN in a matter of minutes. The hole is in a technology known as router advertisements, where routers broadcast their IPv6 addresses to help clients find and connect to an IPv6 subnet. Microsoft has downplayed the risk, and refuses to even post a Security Advisory about it, because it says the hole requires a physical connection to the wired LAN. (Experts point out that Microsoft routinely patches less dangerous holes that also require a connection to the LAN.) Juniper says it has delayed a patch because the hole only affects a small number of its products and it wants the IETF to fix the protocol instead. BTW, Linux and Cisco have long ago issued patches. In the past couple of weeks, public disclosure and video demonstrations of how to exploit the vulnerability on Windows have become more available by security professionals trying to get Microsoft to take action."

Submission + - Google found guilty in patent case for using Linux (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday April 21, 2011 @05:48PM

Julie188 writes: "A jury in the Eastern District of Texas told Google that it owes Bedrock Computer Technologies $5 million in damages for using versions of Linux that infringe on Bedrock's patents."

Submission + - Microsoft celebrates Feynman 50-year anniversary (networkworld.com)

Submitted by Julie188 on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @07:56PM

Julie188 writes: A couple of years ago Microsoft acquired the rights to the famed filmed lecture series by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman and posted them online for all to see via its Project Tuva site. As part of the 50-year anniversary of the lectures, the Project Tuva site now includes commentary from MIT physics professor Robert Jaffe. Project Tuva still requires Silverlight (alas, not HTML5), but does offer some nifty features for the aspiring physics student, such as search and the ability to take notes.

Submission + - Why Microsoft pushed patent case to High Court (networkworld.com)

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on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @12:46PM

Julie188 writes: "On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the i4i v Microsoft patent case. If the judges side with Microsoft, their ruling would make it easier to fight bad software patents. But what made Microsoft push so hard on this one particular patent suit? At any given time, it is fending off about 50 such suits. It lost the original i4i patent case, lost the appeal, got nowhere with its attempts to get the USPTO to review and invalidate the patent. The disputed "custom XML" technology has long since been removed from Word and, while a $260 million judgment is a hefty chunk of cash, it's couch change for the software behemoth. So why keep fighting this? In a nutshell, Microsoft says that the patent itself sucks (was granted even though i4i applied for it too late, and never released the source code). Therefore Microsoft says the law that keeps it in place sucks, too, and the USPTO, they suck, and don't deserve the deference they get. Naturally, i4i says that Microsoft's version of the truth is lies and more lies."

Submission + - Fedora Won't Be A Beefy Miracle (networkworld.com)

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on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @12:44PM

Julie188 writes: "In a surprise upset, the Fedora Project has chosen "Verne" for Fedora 16's release name, beating out Beefy Miracle — despite strong support from former Fedora Project Leaders Paul Frields and Max Spevack. Spevack had promised to organize a wiener roast at Southeast LinuxFest 2011 and wear a hotdog hat."

Submission + - VMware releases open source Cloud Foundry (networkworld.com)

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on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @12:34PM

Julie188 writes: "VMware shook the cloud world with an announcement that it was releasing an open source platform-as-a-service called Cloud Foundry. Not surprisingly, the new cloud platform takes direct aim at Microsoft's Azure and Google's Google Apps platforms. Cloud Foundry is made up of several technologies and products that VMware has acquired over the recent past and is released under an Apache 2 license. While VMware isn't the first-and-only player to launch an open source cloud initiative (Red Hat has DeltaCloud, Rackspace and Dell have OpenStack), some believe that with VMware now in the open source cloud business, pressure could be mounting for Microsoft and Google to release versions of their cloud that could be hosted somewhere other than their own data centers."

Submission + - Dell preloads servers with virtual desktops, VMs (networkworld.com)

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on Thursday April 07, 2011 @11:51AM

Julie188 writes: "Dell is clearly trying break free of its love-hate relationship with Microsoft. On Thursday the company served up a new choice for buying its servers: plug-and-play configurations that include up to 200 VMware virtual machines along with the networking and storage needed to run them. Dell is also offering a ready-made virtual desktop infrastructure in the same fashion, letting users buy servers pre-configured with hundreds to thousands of virtual desktops in two flavors: VMware or Citrix XenDesktop. The company tossed in an announcement about a new e-mail backup and archiving service, then promised to build 10 new data centers worldwide in the next 24 months — three in the U.S. — to support what it hopes will be a massive move to its cloud. (All told Dell is investing $1 billion in its cloud.) Almost as an afterthought, the company announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft, so it could say that Hyper-V might one day be offered as an option, but clearly its alliance with VMware and it's work with OpenStack and alliance with Canonical, shows Dell is trying to get the upper hand."

Submission + - McAfee's website full of security holes (networkworld.com) 1

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on Monday March 28, 2011 @03:08PM

Julie188 writes: "The McAfee.com website is full of security mistakes that could lead to cross-site scripting and other attacks, researchers said in a post on the Full Disclosure site on Monday. The holes with the site were found by the YGN Ethical Hacker Group, and reported to McAfee on Feb. 10, YGN says, before they were publicly disclosed to the security/hacking mailing list. Embarrassing? Yes, especially given that the company aggressively markets its own McAfee Secure service that is supposed to assure consumers that McAfee has scanned a website and found it to be safe."

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