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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
The disruption of the Pushdo botnet has not stopped spammers, despite nearly two-thirds of the botnet's command and control servers being taken out of commission. - From the shutdown of McColo to last week's disruption of the Pushdo botnet,
spammers have continually found ways to stay in business.
Nearly 20 of the 30 command and control (CnC) servers associated with Pushdo
were taken offline last week due to efforts by security vendor LastLine.
The servers...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
T-Mobile says it will ramp up HSPA+ speeds to 42M bps in 2011 and reach 200 million people in 2010. - T-Mobile
plans to increase theoretical peak speeds of its HSPA+ (High-Speed Packet
Access) to 42M bps in 2011, according to an Aug. 31 statement from Neville Ray,
the company's chief network officer. Currently, the carrier offers
quot;theoretical quot; peak speeds of 21M bps.
HSPA+
will all...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
Security researchers at Zscaler say many organizations are leaving themselves open to corporate espionage via the WebScan feature included in HP's all-in-one printers. - Research from Zscaler has exposed how a feature in Hewlett-Packard's all-in-one
printers can be abused remotely to steal scanned documents.
The feature, WebScan, allows users to remotely scan a document and
have an image of the document sent from the scanner to their Web browser.
Unfortunate...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup combines Syncsort backup management software, NetApp snapshot, clone and replication, and NetApp disk storage in a turnkey package. - SAN FRANCISCO Storage
maker NetApp and data
integration/protection software provider Syncsort
announced Sept. 1 at VMworld 2010 here that they have combined to market a new
data protection package for mixed-bag data centers which means just about all
data centers.
Called NetApp Syncsort Inte...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
Google Chrome has teamed with a director and the band Arcade Fire to create "The Wilderness Downtown," a wistful, HTML5-intensive trip down memory lane to the band's song "We Used to Wait." - In one of the more bizarre mash-ups involving Web-based maps, browsers and
indie rock music, Google has teamed with a director and the band Arcade Fire to
create a sort of do-it-yourself movie that takes a wistful look at childhood.
Where REM's quot;Stand quot; provided an
upbeat soundtrack for...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
Having direct Web access is less important these days, as people are spending less time inside traditional Web browsers and more time accessing e-mail, social media sites and games from their mobile phones and smartphones. Here, Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy explains in more detail about why direct Web access no longer matters. - I'm sure this week's column title caught your attention. You might have even asked yourself, quot;Is this guy losing it or what? quot; While my family figured that out a long time ago, there's a very important message in the title, but it needs some explanation.
The fact that the Web no longer m...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others have forged ahead in making virtual desktop infrastructure a viable choice for centrally managed, highly configurable use cases. Here are “three Cs” to consider when testing a virtual desktop product: components, capacity, capability. Components include both the services and underlying physical components, capacity is the number of virtual desktop instances that can be supported by your host systems and capability now includes feature-rich graphics and peripheral device support along with the usual desktop and line-of-business applications. -
1. License costs
In addition to the “three Cs” one of the most important testing criteria is
licensing costs. None of the competing vendors make it easy to do an apples-to-apples
comparison, so youll need to do some noodling to get a price per-desktop, per-year
figure. It makes a difference ho...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
VMware vCloud Director makes it possible to offer virtual data center infrastructure without requiring IT involvement in the provisioning process. - ...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
In its 11-plus years of operating, Google has rarely been shy about snapping up companies where it sees a need. Google has acquired DoubleClick for display advertising and the wealth of ad data the company holds, Postini for cloud-based e-mail security and, of course, the prized YouTube video-sharing Website. Then the economy tanked and Google's shopping spree dried up; the company acquired no companies from October 2008 until August 2009, when it bid for On2 Technologies. Since that time, the company has pursued and snapped up more than 20 companies and counting in search, social networking, gaming, advertising, cloud collaboration and a few miscellaneous acquisitions. The key theme here is Google's increase in social-oriented purchases. Expect buys such as Slide, Jambool, Angstro and SocialDeck to bolster Google's Social Me network to fight Facebook. Scores.org has whipped up a helpful infographic to put the purchases in perspective. In the slide show, eWEEK runs through the deals here. - ...
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Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
When it comes to voice and video, Google should think collaboration and not competition. -
As it currently stands, Googles recent addition of Public Switched Telephone Network
voice calling to Gmail is much ado about nothing. While the feature works well enough
and Google enjoyed a nice burst of voice traffic right after launch, I can only
hope the move is the first s...
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