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Craigslist's founder is stumping the country for a more responsive and transparent government that puts everything the government does online. He's not just talking either, putting his support behind a variety of sites that track legislation, members of Congress, their staff, federal spending and lobbyists. If only the U.S. Senate would cooperate.
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Hewlett-Packard plans a foray into the booming consumer smart phone market with an iPaq touch screen powered by the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system.
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Nine years after Sun Microsystems bought StarOffice, the resulting OpenOffice.org project is ready to roll out its 3.0 release. Enhanced format compatibility and features put it on par with Microsoft Office.
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EXCLUSIVE: The embattled FAA, which has suffered a number of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes this year, has upgraded its legacy internal business systems to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Sun Microsystems and an IP network provided by Cisco Systems. If all goes as planned, this architecture may replace critical systems that directly affect all air travelers in the United States.
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Investigations reveal that the 20-year-old, mainframe-based IT system has crashed several times in the last nine years and that the FAA has been planning its replacement for at least four years. But a new, next-generation IT system won't be online until at least the end of 2008. Meanwhile, the old system creaks along on a wing and a prayer.
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ISP Comcast says it plans to implement a traffic management system that will allocate bandwidth according to use when networks are congested. Comcast and other ISPs are struggling to find ways to handle P2P traffic and other online services.
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McAfee is looking to beef up its network security portfolio with the acquisition of Secure Computing. McAfee officials say the move will allow McAfee to deliver network security offerings that span detection, filtering, encryption, blocking, archiving, reporting and compliance.
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Fortinet has entered the database security space with a new appliance based on technology it acquired from IPLocks. The product - which supports IBM DB2, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and a host of other databases - is targeted at mid-level enterprises looking to address database security concerns. Fortinet also has plans to release other versions of the appliance to support both larger and smaller database environments down the road.
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With the addition of enterprise instant messaging pioneer Jabber, Cisco Systems bolsters what it calls its 'presence' product portfolio and makes no bones about its overall goal: to become No. 1 in the unified communication/collaboration business.
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Cisco agrees to buy Jabber for its enterprise instant messaging technology, which is based on the open-source XMPP standard. Jabber will help bolster Cisco's unified communications and collaboration software strategy versus Microsoft, IBM, Google and others.
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Amazon is getting into the content delivery business to help organizations better deliver their content from the edge of the network. The new service will work with Amazon's S3 data storage service and will be provided on a pay-as-you-go basis.
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From virtual desktops to offline patch management, here are the top 10 products that caught our eye at VMworld.
By Cameron Sturdevant
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At the 2008 VMworld conference, VMware and Cisco announced that the two companies have jointly developed a software switch that can be used within virtual environments to help manage, secure and network virtual machines. This piece of virtualization technology will help VMware build out its cloud computing infrastructure offering, especially when VMware releases the 4.0 version of its Virtual Infrastructure suite, and it allows Cisco to create a greater presence for the company within data center virtualization.
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At the VMworld conference, VMware CEO and President Paul Maritz tells the audience that VMware plans to address what he deems the desktop dilemma, by using virtualization to create a new type of virtual desktop infrastructure that will not only take advantage of traditional desktops but also allow for virtualization on laptops and other mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs. In order to achieve these goals, VMware is turning to a number of partners in the PC area, such as HP and Wyse Technology.
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Security vendor Symantec adds a remote access solution to its SAAS portfolio. The beta offering of Symantec Online Remote Access continues Symantec's journey along the road to software as a service, as SAAS solutions continue to gain steam in the market.
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InterSpect 610 system provides innovative, but pricey, inside-out protection.
Version 3.0 detects variety of intrusions—for a price.
Bart's Network Boot Disk provides an easy-to-use, customizable boot.
Visual Network Design's RackWise 1.0, a multivendor equipment diagramming and assembly management utility, takes the sting out of creating plans to rack-mount network infrastructure equipment.
Combo corrals WLANS, but interface needs work.
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