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    Asus EeeBox EB1501 Nettop: DVD Slot Drive, Ion Graphics, and 1080p HDMI

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    Wow, this could be my fallback plan for a lightweight entertainment PC if the Eee Keyboard ends up sucking. The EB1501 is the first EeeBox with an optical drive, Windows 7, and a classy new design.
    Otherwise, its specs are the same as the recent EeeBox EB1012. That means dual-core Atom N330 processor, 2GB of DDR2-800 RAM (expandable to 4GB), 250GB hard disk, and Nvidia Ion graphics.
    The optical drive is only a DVD-RW, but I can use my PlayStation for Blu-ray. Otherwise, the EB1501 can pretty much connect to anything and everything: it's got 802.11n Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, 6 USB 2.0 ports, an SD card reader, and an eSATA connection for external hard disks. An S/PDIF connection also gives you 5.1 audio.
    What a crazy little box. We're still waiting on U.S. pricing and availability, but it's expected to be €399 ($580) in Europe, and should arrive around October 22—when Windows 7 arrives. [Asus]



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    Bill Gates Lost $7 Billion Last Year, Is Still Richer Than God

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    Pity poor Bill Gates! In this terrible economy, he lost $7 billion last year, bringing his net worth down to… $50 Billion.
    Don't worry! He's still the richest man on the planet, but he's less richer than everybody else than last year. Other losers on this year's Forbes 400 include Paul Allen, who lost $4.5 billion, Michael Dell, who lost $2.8 billion, and Steve Ballmer, who lost $1.7 billion.
    Amazon's Jeff Bezos, unlike all the other tech mavens on the list who lost money, actually made $100 million this year, bringing his value up to $8.8 billion. Good for him! I'm sure that made a fucking difference. [Forbes via Fortune]




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    Pioneer Churns Out the World's First 12x Blu-ray Burner

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    The BDR-205 is pretty much like any other mainstream 5.25-inch internal Blu-ray writer, in terms of looks and features, except for the fact that it, get this, spins slightly faster than the current crop of 8x writers. Slightly!
    I was tempted to try to find a late-90s press release for Pioneer's first 12x CD burner to see how closely the language matched this one—let's just assume "very"—but a) I couldn't find one, and b) I didn't want to diminish Pioneer's achievement here too much—any device that cuts into the atrociously long Blu-ray burn times we've become slowly and begrudgingly accustomed to is a categorically good thing. The BDR-205 is due in October for $250. [Crunchgear]
    Pioneer Launches First 12x Blu-ray Disc Writer
    High-Speed 12x Write Capability Lets Professional Users and Enthusiasts Quickly Test, Author and Preserve High Definition Content
    LONG BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. today announces its new BDR-205 Blu-ray Disc® Computer Writer, the industry's first and fastest model to feature up to 12x write speed for single and dual-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD) media*. Ideal for authoring providers and system builders, the Pioneer® BD/DVD/CD Writer provides accurate, rapid performance for demanding professional applications.
    "The BDR-205 drive represents our ongoing efforts to combine Pioneer's engineering expertise with advanced technologies, and our next generation Blu-ray Disc writer is a great example of our no-compromise approach to optical disc product development," said Steve Cohn, director of optical disc sales for Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. "We are bringing to market the fastest Blu-ray Disc writer to date, and it is just one of the many 'firsts' that have come to define Pioneer's 30-year heritage in optical disc innovation and leadership."
    Dynamic Performance for an Array of Professional Users
    When utilized with a properly configured PC, the drive's Low Vibration Mechanism Design improves overall writing accuracy, especially for those preserving copious amounts of critical data. Designed for maximum flexibility, Pioneer's writer provides significant solutions for multiple user groups, including:
    * System builders can confidently recommend the sophisticated BDR-205 to their clients, noting the drive's unique design, robust build quality and high grade parts
    * With 50Gbytes** of storage space on a dual-layer Blu-ray Disc, professional users can utilize the BDR-205 to rapidly test high definition feature films during the authoring process, as well as to back up large volumes of data with ease
    * Besides up to 12x write speeds for Blu-ray Disc media, Pioneer's new computer drive also provides read and write speed performance up to 16x for DVD and 40x for CD media
    The new BDR-205 Blu-ray Disc computer writer begins shipping October 2009. The retail version of this product, the BDR-2205, will be available Q1 2010 for $249 MSRP.
    Pioneer has been an innovator of optical disc technology since it shipped its first LaserDisc products, the precursor to DVD, to the consumer market in 1980. Pioneer went on to introduce the first DVD writer for video authoring use in 1997, the first DVD recorder as a VCR replacement in 1999, the first DVD/CD writer for home computer users in 2001 and the first Blu-ray Disc writer in 2006. Pioneer Corporation is one of the original Blu-ray Disc Founders. More details can be located at Pioneer USA - Home.




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    Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines

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    Steve Jobs said people don't read any more. But Apple is in talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a "new device." And they're not just going for e-books and mags. They're aiming to redefine print.
    Several years ago, a modified version of OS X was presented to Steve Jobs, running on a multitouch tablet. When the question "what would people do with this?" couldn't be answered, they shelved it. Long having established music, movie and TV content, Apple is working hard to load up iTunes with print content from several major publishing houses across several media.
    Two people related to the NYTimes have separately told me that in June, paper was approached by Apple to talk about putting the paper on a "new device." The R&D labs have long worked on versions of the paper meant to be navigated without a keyboard or mouse, showing up on Windows tablets and on multiple formats using Adobe Air. The NYTimes, of course, also publishes via their iPhone application. Jobs has, during past keynotes, called the NYTimes the "best newspaper in the world."
    A person close to a VP in textbook publishing mentioned to me in July that McGraw Hill and Oberlin Press are working with Apple to move textbooks to iTunes. There was no mention of any more detail than that, but it does link back to a private Apple intern idea competition held on campus, in their Town Hall meeting area in 2008, where the winning presentation selected by executives was one focused on textbook distribution through iTunes. The logic here is that textbooks are sold new at a few hundred dollars, and resold by local stores without any kickbacks to publishers. A DRM'd one-time-use book would not only be attractive because publishers would earn more money, but electronic text books would be able to be sold for a fraction of the cost, cutting out book stores and creating a landslide marketshare shift by means of that huge price differential. (If that device were a tablet, the savings on books could pay for the device, and save students a lot of back pain.)
    Apple also recently had several executives from one of the largest magazine groups at their Cupertino's campus, where they were asked to present their ideas on the future of publishing. Several mockups of magazines were present in interactive form. It is presumed that more talks took place after the introduction and investigatory meeting. Some magazine company is also considering Adobe Air as a competing option for digital magazines, but without a revenue/distribution system that iTunes has, it seems unlikely.
    I haven't heard anything about traditional book publishers being approached yet, but given the scope of the rest of the publishing industry's involvement, it's not hard to imagine they're on board as well. (If you know something, please drop me a line.) Update: Reader Tom reminds me of this Andy Ihnatko rumor, from several sources, that Apple is receiving truckloads of books at its HQ. It's a thin line to draw, but its something.
    Another source corroborates that the January announce date others have reported is correct within the month, with this information heard from a high level.
    Some I've talked to believe the initial content will be mere translations of text to tablet form. But while the idea of print on the Tablet is enticing, it's nothing the Kindle or any E-Ink device couldn't do. The eventual goal is to have publishers create hybridized content that draws from audio, video and interactive graphics in books, magazines and newspapers, where paper layouts would be static. And with release dates for Microsoft's Courier set to be quite far away and Kindle stuck with relatively static E-Ink, it appears that Apple is moving towards a pole position in distribution of this next-generation print content. First, it'll get its feet wet with more basic repurposing of the stuff found on dead trees today.




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    Courier Tablet Runs Windows 7, Hardware Made By Microsoft

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    More details on Courier, courtesy of Mary Jo Foley: Most interestingly, her sources say it runs Windows 7 underneath, the same way the Surface runs on top of Vista, and that Microsoft will actually make the tablet hardware.
    There've been questions as to whether Courier is a software platform—meaning another manufacturer would make the actual hardware—or whether Microsoft will pull a Zune/Xbox 360. Mary Jo's sources say it's the latter (which makes sense, given that it's supposedly J. Allard's baby). But, Courier did actually start life as a "as a software idea on how one would really build OneNote from scratch if you could for the Tablet form factor. That then morphed into building a tablet."
    So far, they're aiming for a "mid-2010" delivery, since it's further along than a Microsoft Research project, but not quite in the commercial pipe yet. Which puts it right in the Apple tablet's purported path. Oh, 2010 is going to rock. [ZDNet]




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    INTERNET-BASED APPLICATIONS AND SERVICES
    After a few months' rest, SQL Web attack spreads anew

    Oct 02, 2009 02:39 pm | IDG News Service
    The Asprox Web site has infected more than 2,000 Web pages in the past few days
    by Robert McMillan

    A botnet network of hacked computers has sprung back to life in the past few days and started infecting Web sites so that they attack PCs of unsuspecting visitors.
    Named Asprox, after the toolkit used in its attacks, this network gained attention in May and June when it infected an estimated tens of thousands of Web pages on more than 1,000 Web domains, typically infecting the Web sites of small businesses, schools and local governments.
    "After several months of no activity, this botnet is back to its old tricks," wrote Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in a Thursday blog post.
    Security vendor SecureWorks picked up on the attack "a couple of days ago," when it noticed an uptick in so-called SQL injection attacks against the company's clients, according to Jason Milletary, a security researcher with the company. However, it's not clear whether the attacks are as virulent as before, he said.
    In a SQL injection attack, the criminals take advantage of database programming errors in order to trick Web sites into posting their attack code. With Asprox, this SQL injection process is automated, so it can add malware to a lot of Web sites in a very short amount of time.
    Asprox places a bit of JavaScript code on the hacked Web site that generates an invisible HTML element, called an iFrame, which in turn launches the attack code. According to Warner, at least some samples of the current Asprox code exploit a bug in Adobe's Flash Player.
    Researchers with the security watchdog group Shadowserver say they've tracked more than 2,000 Web pages that have been infected by this latest Asprox attack, far fewer Web pages than were attacked with the first version of the malware.
    In an e-mail interview, Shadowserver's Mike Johnson said that the Asprox gang has revised its malware, changing the configuration file structure of their code and adding new command and control computers that they haven't used in the past. "It almost looks as if they're starting over from scratch after losing control of the previous botnet," he said.
    Asprox is not currently a major problem for most Web users, security experts say; it's just another sign of the ever-present dangers on the Web.
    "People should be expecting malicious sites," Johnson said. "People should be expecting innocent sites being compromised in some way, shape or form that then in turn try and attack the browser."




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    GOVERNMENT
    Secret Service says Facebook assassination poll posed no threat

    Oct 02, 2009 12:40 pm | Computerworld
    Investigators find juvenile was behind the 'Should Obama be killed?' online poll
    by Sharon Gaudin

    The person who created and posted an online poll asking if President Barack Obama should be assassinated is a juvenile and will not be charged with a crime, according to the U.S. Secret Service.
    The Secret Service identified the person behind the poll within a day of launching an investigation and conducted an interview with the juvenile, said Special Agent and spokesman Ed Donovan. He said agency is not disclosing the name, the sex, the age or the address of the pollster.
    "It was a mistake on that person's part," said Donovan.
    The Secret Service began its investigation on Monday after agents were alerted to a Facebook poll asking: The poll asked "Should Obama be killed?" Responents could answer: yes; maybe; yes, if he cuts my health care; and no.
    The poll, which went online over the weekend, was taken down early Monday after the Secret Service alerted Facebook that it was on the site.
    Neither the Secret Service nor Facebook would say how many people voted in the poll or what the results were. A screen shot of the poll, which was posted on the blog, The Political Carnival, shows that at some point at least 387 people had voted.
    Earlier this week, Barry Schnitt, a spokesman for Facebook Inc., was quick to point out that the poll did not originate from social networking site, but instead was posted via a third party application.
    A source within law enforcement noted that while posting the poll was not illegal, federal investigators couldn't discount the possibility that the person behind the poll had malicious intentions. The source said the Secret Service found and interviewed the person in order to gauge his or her intent.




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    SECURITY
    Microsoft's Free AV Looks Good in New Test Results

    Oct 02, 2009 02:05 pm | PC World
    Security Essentials did a good job at blocking malware in new performance tests from AV-Test.org.
    by Erik Larkin

    Microsoft's new free Security Essentials looks like it can get the job done, according to new scanning tests conducted by AV-Test.org.
    The free standalone antivirus product has caused a stir since its Tuesday release, as might be expected when the words "Microsoft" and "free" are involved. In a post on the day of its launch, I referenced AV-Test performance results from a MSE beta. We now have new results from tests conducted this week against the final product (available for download), and overall MSE looks good:
    Malware detection: MSE detected 98.44 percent of AV-Tests's collected zoo of 545,034 viruses, worms, backdoors, bots and Trojans, an entirely respectable showing. However, it didn't do nearly as well when it came to detecting adware and spyware, such as bank info stealers, and detected only 90.95 percent of the 14,222 samples.
    As expected, MSE detected 100 percent of the samples in the Wildlist. Most reputable AV apps detect all the Wildlist samples.
    Dynamic/behavioral detection: If a program includes behavioral detection, it can identify malware based solely on how it acts on a PC. It's a useful feature for detecting brand-new malware that doesn't yet have a signature.
    AV-Test found that MSE doesn't include any effective behavioral detection. However, AV-Test's Andreas Marx noted that's typically the case for standalone antivirus programs, and that you'll generally need to buy a security suite to get the feature.
    Or, you can pair your free or paid standalone AV program with PC Tools' free Threatfire, which adds an impressive layer of behavioral detection to your security arsenal.
    Disinfection: MSE was able to clean up all of the active components from 25 different test infections, meaning the malware was effectively neutered. As is usually the case, the program often left behind some traces of the infection, such as registry entries or a turned-off Windows firewall.
    Rootkit removal: MSE did well here. It identified and removed all 25 rootkits (stealth technology used to hide other malware) used in the tests.
    Scan speed: When I compared the MSE beta to other free (and finished) AV apps over the summer, it came in last for scanning speed. In these latest tests, Marx says that MSE scan speed "is quite OK when compared with other AV products" - not the fastest, but not the slowest.
    False alarms: Security Essentials didn't put up any false positives for any of 600,000 known clean files used by Windows, Office and other common apps. However, as Marx notes, most of those files come from Microsoft, so a false positive would have been surprising.
    Overall, these results show that Security Essentials holds its own as a free standalone antivirus app. As with most other options in that category, it doesn't provide a firewall, behavioral detection, or other security extras. But since Vista and Windows 7 already include a two-way firewall, and you can add top-notch behavioral protection with another free app, MSE looks like a good budget choice for baseline antivirus protection.


    Finally, if you're interested in a good business-side opinion piece on Microsoft's move, take a look at this post from Sunbelt's Alex Eckelberry






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    IBM aims at Google, Microsoft with new Webmail

    Oct 02, 2009 03:25 pm | IDG News Service
    LotusLive iNotes will cost $3 per user per month
    by Chris Kanaracus

    IBM has launched LotusLive iNotes, an on-demand e-mail, calendaring and contact management system meant to compete with the likes of Gmail and Microsoft Exchange, the company said Friday.
    Pricing starts at US$3 per user per month, undercutting Google Apps Premier Edition, which costs $50 per user per year.
    IBM is aiming the software at large enterprises that want to migrate an on-premise e-mail system to SaaS (software as a service), particularly for users who aren't tied to a desk, such as retail workers. It is also hoping to win business from smaller companies interested in on-demand software but with concerns about security and service outages, such as those suffered by Gmail in recent months.
    LotusLive iNotes is based on technology IBM purchased from the Hong Kong company Outblaze.
    "What we brought to Outblaze and to the marketplace is what you'd expect from IBM in terms of security, reliability and privacy," said Sean Poulley, vice president of online collaboration.
    While alluding to Google's service outages, Poulley acknowledged that no company can guarantee 100 percent uptime for on-demand applications. But IBM has a long-standing track record of running "the world's mission-critical systems," he said.
    IBM will also have an opportunity to win customers from Microsoft who aren't ready to migrate to the upcoming Exchange 2010 release, given the headaches and investments involved, Poulley said.
    Far from concerned, Google is "actually pretty excited about this," said spokesman Andrew Kovacs. "When a company with as rich a history as IBM makes a statement that they need to have a cloud-computing solution for businesses, it's a validation of the cloud."
    That said, Google's offering is more full-fledged than IBM's, according to Kovacs. "Apps goes far beyond e-mail, and on the messaging side alone, we believe there's a pretty substantial difference."
    IBM also has a lot to prove in terms of the reliability of LotusLive iNotes, Kovacs said.
    "I've seen a claim of reliability and people are supposed to take IBM's word for it at this point," he said. "I haven't seen any statistics on Outblaze's [historical] uptime." Gmail has been more than 99.9 percent reliable overall, he added.
    Overall, the main point of interest in IBM's announcement is price, said Gartner analyst Matt Cain.
    "Outblaze always sold low-cost mailboxes and that's what this is," he said. "Google's long been in it, Microsoft's long been in it. Now IBM's in it."
    However, that's not to say IBM's brand on the software isn't of some value, Cain added. "From an enterprise perspective, you'd rather buy e-mail from IBM than a company called Outblaze."
    It's unlikely that IBM's pricing strategy will cause competitors to lower fees for their offerings, according to Cain. For one thing, Microsoft already has a $2 per month Exchange Online option called "Deskless Worker," Cain noted.




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    ANTISPAM
    Large online payroll service hacked

    Oct 01, 2009 05:40 pm | Computerworld
    Login data on unknown number of PayChoice customers stolen
    by Jaikumar Vijayan

    In a somewhat unusual data breach, hackers recently stole the login credentials of an unknown number of customers of payroll processing company PayChoice Inc., and then attempted to use the data to steal additional information directly from the customers themselves.
    The breach, first reported by the Washington Post this week, took place on Sept. 23 and involved PayChoice's onlineemployer.com portal site. Hackers broke into the site and managed to access the real legal name, username and the partially masked passwords used by customers to log into the site.
    They then used the information to send very realistic looking phishing e-mails to PayChoice's customers directing them to download a Web browser plug-in to be able to continue using the onlineemployer.com service. Each of the messages addressed people by their real names and contained their real username and passwords (partially masked), which had been harvested earlier from PayChoice.
    Users who clicked on the link to download the plug-in instead got infected with a username and password stealing Trojan.
    It is not immediately clear how many customers might have actually clicked on the malicious link.
    PayChoice, based in Moorestown, N.J, proivides payroll processing services and technology. The company bills itself as the "national leader" in the payroll services and software industry and claims over 125,000 business customers.
    In an e-mail statement to Computerworld , PayChoice said today it discovered the security breach in its online system last Wednesday.
    "We are handling this incident with the highest level of attention as well as concern for our clients, software customers and the employees they serve," CEO Robert Digby said in the statement. Once the company discovered the breach, it immediately shut down the online system and instituted "fresh measures" to protect client information, the statement said.
    The company has also engaged two outside forensic experts to help figure out the full scope of the intrusion. "PayChoice is determined to find the cause and extent of the breach and to take further measures to prevent a future occurrence," Digby said.
    Steve Friedl, an independent security consultant, said he first heard of the breach last Thursday when a PayChoice customer informed him. At this point, it is not clear what other information the hackers might have gotten access to, said Friedl who consults for a rival payroll services firm.
    But it appears very likely that the only data the hackers accessed was the information they included in the fake e-mails that PayChoice's customers received, said Friedl, who wrote about the incident in his blog .
    If hackers had in fact accessed on more data, it is highly unlikely that they would have resorted to sending out those additional e-mails to PayChoice's customers, and thereby running the risk of being exposed, he said.
    Friedl said the links in the phishing e-mails were to Websites hosted at Yahoo. The malware itself was a password-stealing Trojan that was designed to send the stolen information to a Web server in Sweden.
    The relatively poor English in the e-mails appear to indicate that those behind the attack were from outside the country, he said.
    Chris Wysopal, chief technology officer at application security vendor Veracode Inc., said the breach is interesting because it shows that hackers are looking for targets other than credit card numbers and social security numbers to steal.
    "The market is saturated with [stolen] credit card data," Wysopal said. A credit card record that was worth $10 in the underground in 2007 today can be had for about 50 cents, he said.
    As a result cybercrooks looking to monetize what they are doing are moving up to higher value attacks where possible, he said.
    In this case, the hackers appear to have been trying to install keystroke loggers to get information that would have allowed then to access online banking accounts of PayChoice's customers, he said. "That is where they would have got tens of thousands of dollars," had they been able to pull it off.
    An online payroll service company such as PayChoice presents a "huge attack surface" to those looking for ways to compromise it, Wysopal said. "An application like that, which is exposed to the Internet, is susceptible to SQL injection, cross-site scripting," and numerous other Web application attacks, he said.




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    VOIP
    Cisco voice monitoring tool updated by SolarWinds

    Sep 29, 2009 02:34 pm | Network World
    by Denise Dubie

    SolarWinds Tuesday announced an updated product that the company says will enable IT departments to use Cisco IP SLA to better manage WAN connections, router performance statistics and VoIP metrics.
    View SolarWinds' Orion IP SLA Manager in Network World's Products of the Week slideshow
    SolarWinds' Orion IP SLA Manager replaces the vendor's Orion VoIP Monitor and combines capabilities to track voice metrics such as jitter, latency and packet loss with visibility into Cisco's IOS IP SLA. According to Cisco, IOS IP SLAs "use active monitoring to generate traffic in a continuous, reliable and predictable manner, thus enabling the measurement of network performance and health."
    SolarWinds says it decided to monitor the Cisco technology with a commercial product (the vendor already made a free IP SLA monitoring tool available) because enterprise IT managers are overcoming the traditional barriers to such Cisco tools as http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/...otocol_group_h... ">IP SLA and NetFlow, for instance.
    "Traditionally there were key barriers to the deployment of IP SLA in customer environments. It could potentially have a pretty negative impact," says Josh Stephens, head geek for SolarWinds. "That has changed a lot over the past few years and now you can configure devices in such a way that IP SLA and NetFlow don't impact the operation of the device, but still add value when it comes to network performance monitoring."
    The software, targeted at network engineers ideally, can understand from every point on the network how voice applications, for instance, are performing, Stephens says. The product can help network managers get from one tool metrics on how each site is operating from a WAN perspective as well. Because IP SLA is already built into Cisco routers, network managers can quickly generate network and services performance data to identity site-specific or WAN-related performance issues. It tracks edge-to-edge router performance statistics that can be exported into a dashboard for quick reference as well, SolarWinds says.
    "Performance can vary greatly across sites," Stephens explains. "This product helps to make the process of collecting this data simple and helps network engineers better understand the performance of the networks, applications and services."
    Competitive products include CA's eHealth, which CA obtained via its Concord Communications buy, and tools developed by InfoVista.
    SolarWinds Orion IP SLA Manager pricing starts at $1,495, including first year maintenance. Orion IP SLA requires an installation of Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM). Pricing starts at $2,475 for Orion NPM, including first year maintenance. A free 30-day trial of the product is available for download here.
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    Cisco unveils data center blade switch

    Sep 29, 2009 01:10 am | Network World
    by Jim Duffy

    Cisco this week unveiled a blade addition to its Nexus line of data center switches that’s designed to aggregate multiple physical x86 blade servers from various vendors into a 10G Ethernet fabric.
    Cisco broadens data center ambitions
    The Nexus 4000 is the first blade switch in the Nexus line, which also includes the Nexus 7000 core switch, the 5000 top-of-rack switch, the 2000 fabric extender and the 1000V software-based virtual switch. The 4000 is intended to fit inside a blade server system enclosure and aggregate multiple 1G server NIC connections into a 10G pipe for connection to and from the Nexus 5000 and 7000 top-of-rack and core switches.
    The Nexus 4000 supports the same NX-OS converged LAN/SAN operating system as the rest of the Nexus family, and Cisco’s MDS SAN switch line. This is intended to provide consistency across the data center as well as scale, high availability, fault tolerance and uniform management, Cisco says.
    The Nexus 4000 supports FibreChannel and FibreChannel over Ethernet, and IP-based iSCSI or Network Attached Storage over Ethernet Data Center Bridging specifications for converged LAN and storage access from the server. It features a specialized ASIC for low latency and lossless operation in a virtualized environment, Cisco says.
    It can work in conjunction with Cisco’s Nexus 1000V virtual switch, which resides on blade servers running VMware’s ESX 4.0 virtualization software. The 1000V aggregates virtual machine images from a single server while the 4000 aggregates multiple physical blade servers, Cisco says.
    The Nexus 4000 will be sold to Cisco’s OEM customers who will rebrand it and then sell it to end users. Cisco expects its existing base of Catalyst blade switch OEMs to purchase the new Nexus blade switch.
    Since it is being developed for blade server vendors, Cisco says it will leave product details, availability and pricing up to those particular vendors. The new switch will compete with HP’s new 6120XG and 6120G/XG blade switches, and 6- and 10-port BNT switches from Blade Network Technologies, which are resold by IBM.
    The Nexus 4000 is a small piece of a broader strategy outlined by Cisco for its data center and FCoE initiatives. As part of that strategy, Cisco is positioning its MDS FibreChannel SAN switches as evolutionary elements in the transition to unified data center switching fabrics.
    In that vein, Cisco says it plans to unveil FCoE modules for both the MDS and Nexus 7000 switches; a 16Gbps FibreChannel MDS switch; and an 8Gbps FibreChannel expansion module for the Nexus 5000 FCoE switch. These will likely come in the first half of 2010, Cisco officials said.
    These will be piece parts in Cisco’s plan to incrementally evolve data centers to FCoE by starting at the server edge/access point and deepening the immersion into the aggregation and core areas of the data center network.
    The University of Arizona is embarking on the transformation right now. Eighteen months ago, the school commenced an “enterprise system replacement” project to upgrade its data center networking facilities to better support its HR, student information, financial management, grants management, business management and data warehousing applications.
    The school needed an infrastructure to support 300 to 400 physical servers, several hundred virtual servers running ESX, and 300 Terabytes of storage across 13 different EMC arrays for 55,000 users, says Derek Masseth, senior director for infrastructure services at the University of Arizona.
    “Our architecture was not going to meet our needs,” Masseth says, referring to the school’s current infrastructure of Cisco Catalyst 6500 switches and MDS 9500 directors in the SAN.
    With that, the university installed three Nexus 7000s in the core and several Nexus 5010s at the top of server racks. The school also deployed FCoE converged network adapters on the servers with plans to employ FCoE up to the core Nexus switches, Masseth says.
    University of Arizona realized a 50% reduction in capital expenditures and a 30% reduction in power consumption per port with the Nexus deployment, Masseth says. The school is not yet evaluating Cisco’s Unified Computing System to further tighten its server, storage, networking and virtualization environments but plans to give it a close look over the next year. The school is currently a Dell shop for its blade servers.
    In the meantime, the school plans to decommission its Catalyst 6500 switches from the data center.
    “We’d like to get to a pure Nexus data center,” Masseth says. “We have a very strong desire to be on a single platform.”




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    Elite Military Hacker Squad Would Stop Wars With Bits, Not Bombs

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    Efforts to drag our military's cybersecurity into the 21st century are well underway, but John Arquilla, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, wants more: A preemptive international hacker force, which would cripple enemies before they even become a problem.
    Existing plans for a new online defense strategy don't seem particularly bad, except for that first part: defense plans. The professor's idea is to deploy a much more proactive attack strategy:
    [Arquilla would] like the US military's coders to team up with network specialists abroad to form a global geek squad. Together, they could launch preemptive online strikes to head off real-world battles.
    Armies (even guerrilla armies) are so dependent on digital communications these days that a well-placed network hit could hobble their forces. Do these cyberattacks right-and openly-and the belligerents will think twice before starting trouble. Arquilla calls his plan "a nonlethal way to deter lethal conflict."
    The strategy makes the assumption that digital communications are completely vital to enemies big and small, which is generally true, and putting cyberwar directly before more traditional measures like sanctions could have a huge effect: If guerrilla groups can't organize, they won't be too effective; if governments can't use their vital defense networks, they're basically toothless. Wired's posted a few scenarios of how this could actually out, and even if they sound a little naive—they do—they're satisfying cinematic, for whatever that's worth. [Wired]




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    HP Photosmart Premium Web Printer Review: Your Mom Will Love It

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    HP puffed its chest when announcing the Photosmart Premium web-connected touch-enabled printer, and I understand why. You can print coloring books, movie tickets and news reports without even owning a computer. It works, and works well.
    The Gadget

    What the hell is it? It's a $400 Wi-Fi printer all-in-one (yes, this includes fax). It has a touchscreen that includes a string of different branded widgets. The widgets do many things you can do on your cellphone or a computer, but they all center around printing. So you don't just order movie tickets, you print them out, along with weather reports, blank to-do lists, Google calendars, coloring book pages from Nickelodeon and Disney, news synopses from USA Today and coupons for everything from Hasbro toys to Yoplait yogurt.
    The Price

    $400. Count 'em. That's more than twice what most similarly classed all-in-ones cost.





    The Widgets—and What's Missing

    In case you're not picking up on this, regular Giz readers may not be the target audience. It's as much an arts-and-crafts hub as it is a don't-want-to-mess-with-a-computer resource, full of easy-access widgets that scream out "overworked mother of five," with barely anything for "twentysomething nerd." (Honestly, I can picture Kristin Wiig using this and making one of those weird smiles of surprised satisfaction.) Still, I was impressed by the diversity and wealth of resources this thing has—at launch.
    Here's what it still needs though, and has the SDK to provide, so listen up, developers:
    • Driving directions - Google Maps is included, but for now you can just print the actual maps. A note says that driving directions are coming soon, and that just isn't soon enough. Hurry!
    • Boarding passes - Airlines widgets would be glorious: With all the emphasis on printing out boarding passes at home, how about a way to log into Delta or United and pull up your latest boarding passes?
    • Email - I swear HP had some device that printed emails out for old people who didn't like computers but liked hearing from their grandkids. Why isn't that app on here?
    • Epicurious - There's already a recipe widget, and you can already sift through nearly 600 dishes, but that's not satisfactory. Let's have proven content from the culinary maestros.
    • Sesame Street - As a dad, I am impressed with all the coloring and crafts that you can do with this thing, but if there's no Elmo, someone's gonna cry.
    The Performance

    I realize I've used up most of your attention talking about the services, and that's because the printer itself works fine. I have criticized HP's color palette in the past, but ever since my Epson blowout, I have given up on trying to find "the best printer" in all aspects. Epson may still have the absolute best color representation, but here I found a printer that jumped onto my Wi-Fi network faster than anything I've seen from Epson or Canon, and soon started spitting out out perfectly usable snapshots—not just from my computer but from my iPhone, using HP's simple but effective iPrint Photo app. It's a quick printer, if you don't count the painfully long "one-time" ink initialization period or inkjet head calibration.
    An odd, random note: In the gallery you may notice that it comes inside of an eco-friendly reusable bag. I was like, oh, I see, HP gets it, but then I noticed that inside that bag was another, plastic, eco-not-so-friendly bag. One or the other, HP. Pretty sure wrapping old-fashioned plastic inside newfangled recycled bags is like worse, not better.
    The Verdict

    Do I think you should spend $400 on this printer? Not for your bachelor pad, dorm room or group home, that's for sure. But do I think you and the rest of the fam chip in to get this thing for mom for Christmas? To quote one of the more famous moms of our time, "You betcha."
    Possibly the easiest Wi-Fi setup experience I've had to date

    Fast, decent print quality using HP premium print paper

    Amazing diversity of widgets for printing coupons, coloring books, movie tickets and more

    Designed for a full house, with kids in need of boredom relief, and parents in need of quick data and services—it's not for everyone

    The $400 price is twice what other all-in-one printers in this class cost, so basically the widgets cost you $200

    Launch was great, but there's a lot of fluff in the content lineup, and it's missing key applications that would make it a must-have appliance




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