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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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 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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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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Cisco Inline Power, POE, and the new POE+
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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