Notes from the Consultant’s Jungle

Undoubtedly you’ve heard by now that Intel has a bid on the table to buy McAfee (for $7.7B).  We’ve written before about the collaboration that’s been going on between the two companies for almost two years now, which we suspect is a leveraging of features at both ends of the stack to improve security of [...]

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We’ve just wrapped up day-one of this year’s Cloud Expo at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.  You know, it’s been nearly a year since I attended Cloud World in San Francisco, and over that period of time it surprises me how little new anyone is saying about cloud computing.  It borders on [...]

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There’s a piece by Jim Finkle in Reuters this morning about the rise in cybercrime in social networking sites.  The article mentions that MySpace had been plagued by this for several years, but now with the increasing popularity of Facebook, the criminals are going where the game is.
Per the article, “Facebook is the social network [...]

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The Internet is going mobile. ‘Big news, right? Well, with the open-access provisions attached to the auction of the 700 MHz spectrum, the continued success of open-source public VoIP applications, and open platforms such as Android and OpenMoko, things are really accelerating.
The auction of the 700 MHz spectrum comes with the requirement that the winning [...]

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