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In This Issue:
1. Editor's Note: Special Report—Live From China
2. Today's Top Story
- Take A Test Drive Of Microsoft's Virtualized Server Software
Related Story:
- HP, VMware Teaming Up To Use Server Virtualization To Replace PCs
3. Breaking News
- Scattered E-Voting Glitches Reported In Eight States
- E-Voting Security Scrutinized During Midterm Elections
- Microsoft Launches 3-D Maps For Web Search
- AOL Tests APIs For Embedding AIM Into Web Sites
- New IBM Hybrid Supercomputer Offers Big Performance Jump
- Microsoft Makes Xbox A Family Machine
- Antivirus Vendors Miss Stration Worm's Second Spamming Stage
- Bug Project Calls Out Operating System Vulnerabilities
- Open Search Initiative Gains New Partners To Give Business Intelligence A Boost
- Open Source VoIP Takes A Few Steps Forward
- Adobe Opens Flash Scripting Engine Code
- Microsoft To Launch Major VoIP Move Early Next Year
- HP's Software Ambitions Grow As It Closes Mercury Acquisition
- Intel Packages Blogs, RSS, And Wikis For Businesses
4. Grab Bag
- Year-End Computer Bug Could Ground Shuttle (The Register)
- Every Vista PC To Get A Domain Name (APC Magazine)
- CAN-SPAM Didn't—Not By A Long Shot (Cato @ Liberty)
5. In Depth
- German Court Orders ISP Logs Destroyed At Customers' Request
- Can Integrated Security Catch A Thief Or A Terrorist?
- IBM Unveils Controversial Video Surveillance Technology
- U.S. Official Urges Stiffer Anti-Spyware Penalties
- AT&T Names Suspected Pretexters
6. Voice Of Authority
- Google, Microsoft Pay Top Dollar In India
7. White Papers
- Business Continuity And Availability In 2007—Surviving The Next Katrina Or Ernesto
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Quote of the day:
"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest." -- Alexandre Dumas
One of the exciting things about life as an American here in the 21st century is the emergence of developing nations as economic and cultural powerhouses. For most of my life—for most of the 20th century—most Asian nations and other countries in the developing world fell into two categories: military threats, such as Japan, North Vietnam, and North Korea; and objects of pity and charity, such as India, Bangladesh, and China.
Of course, Japan emerged from that threat-or-victim trap after World War II. And now we see many other developing countries, including China, India, and Korea, emerging to stand side-by-side with the United States and Europe as equals and competitors. It's a little bit scary—in the future, I think I'll find my job is as much in danger of outsourcing as any of yours. But mostly it's exciting. It's the dawn of a great era. It's not a clash of civilizations, as we're seeing with some regimes in the Middle East, but rather a meeting of civilizations in cooperation and competition. Asian countries have different cultures, different economic and political systems, and thousands of years of history that's mostly independent of the West. That gives us lots of opportunities to explore and learn from each other.
This week, InformationWeek is doing some exploring of this strange new world, as Editor-at-Large Aaron Ricadela spends some quality time in Beijing soaking up information about the IT industry in China and reporting it back home. Our package of coverage is growing daily all week. It includes:
Two posts in Aaron's daily travel journal: "Friendship, Peace, Cooperation, Development" and "Sliced Duck And Sharp Views With Reed Hundt." I expect Aaron will have filed one post more between the time we finish putting together this newsletter and the time you read it. Look for it on the InformationWeek Weblog.
Two in a daily series of podcast phone interviews with Aaron. The most recent podcast includes discussion of the travel experience, comparison with Aaron's earlier trip to report on IT India, China's higher education system, getting Internet access, government censorship of the Internet, and former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt's perspective on what the United States needs to do to compete with China. An earlier podcast provides an overview of the trip, recorded while Aaron was still in California. I expect there may be at least one more podcast posted by the time you read this newsletter. Look for it on the InformationWeek Weblog.
And we'll have a complete report on IT in China in Monday's issue of InformationWeek, available in print and on InformationWeek.com.
Is China an opportunity or a threat to the U.S. economy? Let us know what you think on the InformationWeek Weblog.
Mitch Wagner
Take A Test Drive Of Microsoft's Virtualized Server Software
Related Story:
HP, VMware Teaming Up To Use Server Virtualization To Replace PCs
Scattered E-Voting Glitches Reported In Eight States
E-Voting Security Scrutinized During Midterm Elections
Microsoft Launches 3-D Maps For Web Search
AOL Tests APIs For Embedding AIM Into Web Sites
New IBM Hybrid Supercomputer Offers Big Performance Jump
Microsoft Makes Xbox A Family Machine
Antivirus Vendors Miss Stration Worm's Second Spamming Stage
Bug Project Calls Out Operating System Vulnerabilities
Open Search Initiative Gains New Partners To Give Business Intelligence A Boost
Open Source VoIP Takes A Few Steps Forward
Adobe Opens Flash Scripting Engine Code
Microsoft To Launch Major VoIP Move Early Next Year
HP's Software Ambitions Grow As It Closes Mercury Acquisition
Intel Packages Blogs, RSS, And Wikis For Businesses
Everything You Hate About IT—And Weren't Afraid To Say
Then dive deep and check out the image gallery with graphical results of 25 poll questions on topics including software pricing trends, vendor support shortcomings, the causes of failed IT projects, and more.
A Personal Approach To The Web
Year-End Computer Bug Could Ground Shuttle (The Register)
Every Vista PC To Get A Domain Name (APC Magazine)
CAN-SPAM Didn't—Not By A Long Shot (Cato @ Liberty)
German Court Orders ISP Logs Destroyed At Customers' Request
Can Integrated Security Catch A Thief Or A Terrorist?
IBM Unveils Controversial Video Surveillance Technology
U.S. Official Urges Stiffer Anti-Spyware Penalties
AT&T Names Suspected Pretexters
Google, Microsoft Pay Top Dollar In India
Business Continuity And Availability In 2007—Surviving The next Katrina Or Ernesto
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1. Editor's Note: Special Report—Live From China
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Windows Server software is available in a virtualized format for what Microsoft is calling its Test Drive Program.
Instead of employees being given their own computers, they would be served their Microsoft Office applications from a virtual machine in a data center.
The bulk of the problems were reported using touch-screen voting, rather than optical scanning gear, which allows paper-based ballots to be collected even if there are machine glitches.
Project Vote predicts voting troubles in 33 urban jurisdictions in nine states.
The goal is to beef up local search traffic by offering photo-realistic 3-D models of buildings and landscapes in cities including Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, and Dallas.
New APIs and AIM Whimsicals let developers embed windows in their pages for sending and receiving IMs. They also integrate functionality into Web sites that lets users set their IM availability, away messages, and profiles.
Indiana University plans to use the new technology, which combines Cell chips with PowerPC chips, to speed molecular research.
Microsoft is hoping for a larger role in the digital living room by making movies and TV shows available for viewing through the Xbox video game console.
Antivirus vendors completely missed the fact that the most massive worm attack in months has a secondary payload that has sent millions of pharmaceutical spam messages, a security intelligence company revealed Tuesday.
A new hacker project that promises to disclose one operating system kernel vulnerability daily hasn't yet come up with any serious bugs, a security company said Tuesday, but Gartner warned enterprises that the plan constitutes a security wake-up call.
With the addition of Fast, a scalable enterprise search engine, and Inxight, a provider of enterprise software used in information discovery, business intelligence can be made more useful to more workers.
Several vendors, including Fonality, Digium, and Polycom, unveil new VoIP software, gear, and partnerships designed to move open source telephony into the mainstream.
Adobe plans to open the source code for the scripting engine in the Flash Player, which will be incorporated into a new Mozilla open source project called Tamarin.
The VoIP rollout will include videoconferencing and be combined with e-mail, video, and instant messaging technologies.
HP becomes one of the world's largest software vendors as it folds Mercury into the overall company.
Intel says the tools will boost productivity by 50%, speed projects by 25%, and cut e-mail volume by 30%.
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NASA needs to launch the next shuttle mission on time, because if it doesn't get off the ground by Dec. 18, a computer bug could mean the 12-day mission has to slip until January. The shuttle was never expected to be in orbit as one year gives way to another, so the computers aren't set up to switch to a new "Day One." To the shuttle, January 1 is just day 366. That would leave the shuttle out of synch with NASA's ground-based computers.
Want to be able to access your machine anytime, anywhere? Can't be bothered purchasing a domain name and configuring Dynamic DNS? Microsoft has a solution: the "Windows Internet Computer Name"—a unique domain name for your computer. There's one small catch though: You have to be using the next-generation networking protocol IPv6, which, although thoroughly integrated into Windows Vista, isn't supported by most home routers yet.
Should Congress or the FTC ramp up enforcement? Increase penalties to bring spammers to heel? No. They should abandon the enterprise entirely and confess their incompetence to regulate the Internet and technology.
T-Online must destroy activity logs of users who request the action, unless it can prove legal justification. That will make it difficult to prove piracy among T-Online users.
IBM, Cisco, and other vendors are introducing systems that combine digital and physical security in an effort to provide a more comprehensive system that's easier for businesses to use.
The S3 system can be programmed to spot suspicious behavior, such as prolonged lingering at an airport security fence. It could also nab an employee who's spending too much time in the lunchroom.
FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz said the agency should be given expanded authority to impose civil fines on spyware distributors.
The defendants were identified as John Does when AT&T's lawsuit was first filed in August because of a lack of information about their real identities, the company said.
Paul McDougall says: Thinking of a career in IT? Then don't waste your time on lowly tech services companies. The big bucks are in software development, working for industry giants like Google and Microsoft. In India, that is.
This white paper outlines the issues underlying any BC&A implementation and offers guidance for reducing risk. It explains how to use service level agreements and data valuation as organizing principles for revitalizing BC&A systems and describes 10 simple steps to maintain support from end users and executive management.
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