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Standardized Signatures in Exchange Server 2010: enforcing your company’s brand image

How to automatically add a dynamic signatures on e-mail using the New-TransportRule cmdlet.
Submitted by tyson.kopczynski on Sat, 05/22/10 - 11:10pm.

After last week’s really great “discussion” about Apple, I have decided to turn back to a more technical topic for tonight’s post. Email signatures… we all know that people try their hardest to make their personal signature as creative and zingy as possible. Don’t believe me, just look at some examples on this posting: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/09/18/personalities-of-poor-email-signatures/

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The Heart of Social Media - Separating Hype from Reality

Social media at its heart is a channel - a channel with new opportunites & challenges. Don't let the hype get in the way of helping you use these channels to solve real business problems.
Submitted by Alpa Agarwal on Sat, 05/22/10 - 5:35pm.

As corporations sort out their social media strategies, its important to separate hype from reality, to enable enterprises to conduct real-business, impacting the bottom line.

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Cisco releases new AnyConnect SSLVPN Client

Always-on VPN gives you more control over your users
Submitted by jheary on Sat, 05/22/10 - 3:09pm.

Cisco recently released version 2.5 of its AnyConnect SSLVPN thick client. This release brings with it two new innovative features called Always-on VPN and AnyConnect Secure Mobility. Several other feature additions made it into this release as well not least of which is optimal gateway selection. AnyConnect 2.5 is a maintenance release so it includes bug fixes and other reliability improvements.

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Can Open Science Do Better Than Pure Greed?

Joseph Jackson and a new generation want a return to Citizen-Scientists who follow an "open science" philosophy. Can it prove a better model than good old fashioned greed?
Submitted by Alan Shimel on Sat, 05/22/10 - 10:10am.

The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much.

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Inline Power, POE or POE+ -- which do you need?

POE and POE+ are the standard, but if you can live with its limitations inline-power equipment is cheap.
Submitted by Mike Sheldon on Fri, 05/21/10 - 6:03pm.

Cisco Inline Power, POE, and the new POE+

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If you have multithreading in Windows Phone 7 do you need multitasking?

Exploring how WP7 handles multiple application threads
Submitted by John Cox on Fri, 05/21/10 - 4:55pm.

Microsoft’s decision to block multitasking for Windows Phone 7, at least in the initial release, unleashed complaints from some developers and pundits. It was a step backward! The Apple-fication of Windows Mobile and so on. 

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Microsoft has nowhere to go but up in cloud market

New study shows competitors have a head start in cloud race
Submitted by Robert Mullins on Fri, 05/21/10 - 4:52pm.

Microsoft may be "all in" on pursuing cloud computing opportunities, but a new study shows the company has its work cut out for it in building a market.

BTC Logic, an IT consulting and research firm, this week released a report, "BTC Ranks: Top 10 Cloud Companies," a commendable effort to assess all the moving parts of the emerging cloud computing industry and help enterprises contemplating cloud computing make some sense of it.

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ShoreTel grows up, gets San Francisco Giants

Over five years, ShoreTel has become a $100 million company with some deliriously happy customers.
Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Fri, 05/21/10 - 4:50pm.

Posted by Cisco Subnet editor Julie Bort. When ShoreTel won the contract to supply the San Francisco Giants with a VoIP system to replace an aging, expensive Centrex system, it was quite the coup. Not only is the Giant's 10-year-old stadium named AT&T Park, but Cisco has been pounding down the doors of sports outfits nationwide to sell its fancy, but pricey, systems built specifically for stadiums.

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Microsoft CALs…Part II

Second part of series on how to license Microsoft Server Client Access Licenses (CAL)
Submitted by Cynthia Farren on Fri, 05/21/10 - 4:19pm.

I started this topic last week in the interest of making Microsoft Client Access Licenses (CALs) easier to understand, now it’s time to take a slightly deeper dive…

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Google Pac-Man Doodle latest in string of classic ones

Topeka April Fool's gag, Pi Day and Winter Olympics doodles among 2010 highlights
Submitted by Alpha Doggs on Fri, 05/21/10 - 3:30pm.

During a week in which Google has had no shortage of headlines (the company held its I/O conference, got the go-ahead for its AdMob buyout and broke into the TV business), it's the interactive Pac-Man Google "Doodle" above its that really has Web users buzzing.

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The Other Side of the Symantec/Verisign Deal

Symantec Deal Is Just The Latest Chapter Of Verisign's Colossal Riches-to-Rags Story
Submitted by joltsik on Fri, 05/21/10 - 3:28pm.

I am pretty bullish on the upside of Symantec's acquisition of Verisign. Frankly, I don't understand why Gartner is such a downer and focused on SSL alone. Oh well, to each his own.

Regardless of whether you think this is a good or bad deal, Verisign's divestment is just the latest sad chapter for a company that once had a market cap in the tens of billions of dollars. I know that this was a long time ago during the Internet boom. Heck, even GiantLoop, the fly-by-night CLEC I worked for raised about $200 million back then with no business plan.

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Apple reverses its "No cash for iPad" policy

Apple is no stranger to controversy, but this particular tale was especially strange. Earlier this week, a woman named Diane Campbell went into an Apple store to purchase an iPad. When she tried to pay with cash, she was told that Apple wasn't accepting cash payments for iPads.
Submitted by Yoni Heisler on Fri, 05/21/10 - 3:17pm.

 

Apple is no stranger to controversy, but this particular tale was especially strange. Earlier this week, a woman named Diane Campbell went into an Apple store to purchase an iPad. Campbell is disabled and lives on a fixed income, and over the course of a few weeks, she dilligently saved up enough money to afford an iPad - $600.

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An Open Web App Store could eliminate interoperability problems

Mozilla supports bringing the open web to the world of apps. Can this work?
Submitted by Amy Vernon on Fri, 05/21/10 - 3:15pm.

An Open Web App Store could revolutionize the booming app business, or it could be a crushing failure - due to no fault of its own.

A post this week on the Mozilla blog details what the foundation proposes as the core principles of an app store for the open web. What struck me first as both the coolest thing and the biggest hurdle was this: that apps would work no matter the browser or mobile device.

First, the core principles:

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Cisco gains share

Q1 data on service provider routers, Carrier Ethernet gear shows healthy growth
Submitted by Cisco Subnet on Fri, 05/21/10 - 2:46pm.

The market for Carrier Ethernet equipment and service provider routers enjoyed healthy growth in the first quarter, climbing 27% from last year to $2.34 billion, according to Synergy Research. Synergy's study covers service provider core, BRAS and multiservice edge routers; and Carrier Ethernet access, aggregation and Ethernet services routers and switches. 

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FTC greenlights Google-AdMob deal

FTC says Apple moves make Google/AdMob advertising network viable
Submitted by Layer 8 on Fri, 05/21/10 - 1:08pm.

The Federal Trade Commission today said it closed the investigation of the proposed  $750 million Google acquisition of mobile advertising network company AdMob. 

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My first month using the iPad for business: it’s still lacking

iPad as a business tool: the good, the bad, the annoying
Submitted by Larry Chaffin on Fri, 05/21/10 - 11:27am.

I have been using my new iPad as a business tool since Interop. While it has been good in some areas, it has also been annoying in others.

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Star Wars Episode V: Special Special Special Keith Edition

JibJab app lets you put your face into the action
Submitted by Keith Shaw on Fri, 05/21/10 - 11:03am.

You had me at "Put Yourself in Star Wars".

The folks at JibJab have teamed up with the Star Wars people (you know, Lucasfilm) to offer a Web app that lets you star in the Star Wars films. Just upload a photo of your face, do some quick tweaks and voila! You're in the movie. You can then embed the video as I've done here, or you can share your masterpiece with friends via Facebook or Twitter.

I gotta admit, it's a little creepy seeing me as Princess Leia, but I think I do make a bad-ass Lando.

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Air Force set to fly Mach-6 scramjet

Air Force set date for first flight test of hypersonic jet
Submitted by Layer 8 on Fri, 05/21/10 - 10:51am.

The US Air Force said it was looking to launch its  14-foot long X-51A Waverider on its first hypersonic flight test attempt May 25. 

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Most popular stories this week

This week's winners included revelations about hackers and open-source licensers. Check out the list to see if there's anything you missed this week.
Submitted by Jeff Caruso on Fri, 05/21/10 - 10:36am.

This week's winners included revelations about hackers and open-source licensers. Check out the list to see if there's anything you missed this week.

1. Black duck eggs and other secrets of Chinese hackers

2. Car hackers can kill brakes, engine, and more

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Winner and Still Champ, DotNetNuke

By popular demand, DotNetNuke, which built an open source empire on the Microsoft .Net platform
Submitted by Alan Shimel on Fri, 05/21/10 - 8:43am.

When I started writing about commercial open source companies that have been successful selling to the enterprise, several comments pointed to DotNetNuke. When I wrote about some open source content management solutions and collaboration platforms, the few comments turned into a torrent.

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