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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

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New Sprint chief Hesse faces a big inbox

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New Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse has lots of choices as he takes over the ailing mobile carrier and looks for problems to start solving. Read full story

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15 must-have Firefox tricks
What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is. And that ...

Top 10 of Layer 8 in 2007
At Layer 8 we get to write about all manner of tech and not-so-tech topics. Take our Top 10 stories of the year, we have articles on everything from a look at unmanned militiary aircraft to open source math software and a look at cursing in the workplace. Enjoy!

Privacy groups: FTC has obligation in Google deal
Two privacy groups are stepping up the pressure on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, saying the agency has an obligation to consider ...

IT pros lean 'independent' politically, survey says
What do IT workers think about politics? The Washington, D.C.-based high-tech industry association CompTIA polled 600 IT workers about ...

Internap extends uptime SLA to CDN services
Internap announced today it is extending a 100% service-level agreement to its CDN services, which the company says will optimize the delivery of ...

Almost half of U.S. Internet users 'Google' themselves
As users post more information about themselves on social networking sites and elsewhere, they are also conducting more online searches about ...

Apple patches keep coming: Mac OS, Safari beta fixed
Apple kept its rush of year-end security patches coming Monday, issuing a flurry of fixes for its Mac OS X operating system and the ...

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Buzzblog: Why phone-record thieves laugh at the law
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday announced a $25,000 wrist slap against a scam artist who it acknowledges "earned" almost a quarter of a million dollars by illegally obtaining and selling telephone records through the use of pretexting.

Today on Cisco Subnet
Cisco: Vulnerabilities in '08 go beyond content security threats. Competitive lab test pits Fortinet FortiMail-4000A against Cisco IronPort C350 e-mail security appliance. Blogger Joe Pantierri says Cisco opening up IOS is not a counter move against Juniper but is all about beating Microsoft to the unified communications punch. Four lessons Cisco has learned from the open source community. Plus: Take Wendell Odom's survey on CCVP time and effort.

Today on Microsoft Subnet
IE crippled by Microsoft patches. Join the Microsoft Bloggers Network. Apple product security more flawed than Microsoft. Trainer Ron Colonna encourages students to get their certifications on the more mature technology rather than wait for the new techs to ramp up. Three of Microsoft's products make it in PC World's The 15 biggest tech disappointments of 2007.

December giveaways from Microsoft Subnet: Win a training course of your choosing from New Horizons Computer Learning Centers worth up to $2,500. Plus we have 15 copies of MCTS 70-620 Exam Cram: Microsoft Windows Vista, Configuring by one of our newest bloggers, Patrick Regan for grabs. 

December giveaways from Cisco Subnet: Up for grabs: 15 copies of CCIE Voice Exam Quick Reference Sheets. Enter to win one of 15 downloads of Cisco Press' CCIE Voice Exam Quick Reference Sheets by Mark Lewis. Check out Mark's blog for Cisco Subnet here and an excerpt of the book here


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12/19/07

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES:

  1. Xbox signal jamming WLANs
  2. Feds are dropping the ball on IPv6
  3. 10 crazy USB stocking stuffers
  4. Vonage sued by Nortel
  5. Guru predicts last-minute IPv6 switch
  6. Sun server/storage exec Q&A
  7. Cisco opening up IOS
  8. How to really bury a mainframe
  9. Unix admin tried to axe power grid
  10. How Microsoft can save Vista


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