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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Faster Fibre Channel products on tap. Fibre Channel is getting faster but not necessarily more expensive. That was the word leading up to this week's Storage Networking World in Phoenix, where some of the first 4G bit/sec Fibre Channel products are expected to be introduced. [Network World on Storage]
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Software aimed at corralling USB storage devices. DeviceWall employs a server program to set up usage policies and a software agent, running on Windows PCs and notebooks, to enforce them. It can block the use of all USB storage devices plugged into PCs, or permit use of specific devices based on individual users or groups of users. [Network World on Storage]
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Networking This Week: VoIP Hits The Big Time. VoIP isn't just for the early adopters anymore, as AOL's new service shows. There's more VoIP news this week as well. [Networking Pipeline]
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Cisco to acquire Topspin for $250 million. Cisco Systems said Thursday it has agreed to buy server networking equipment provider Topspin Communications for $250 million in cash and options. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Intel employees put hotspot on the North Pole. Intel is contributing to global warming, the company admitted Thursday. Not the bad kind, though. Two employees at Intel Russia have erected what may be the world's most northerly Wi-Fi hotspot 130 kilometers from the North Pole. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Antivirus company warns of new Symbian Trojan. Fontal.A is a new Trojan horse program that runs on Symbian Series 60 mobile phones and prevents them from restarting. [Computerworld News]
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Net outage strikes Comcast. Blog: Comcast, the largest provider of broadband Internet access with 6.5 million customers, suffered a general outage Thursday evening. ... [CNET News.com]
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Microsoft releases backup server public beta. Microsoft's beta for its first backup server is out, with the aim of making backups smoother and recoveries faster. But to achieve success it still needs the support of the big tape backup players By mailroomuk@zdnet.com (Matt Loney). [ZDNet UK News]
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