The United States Treasury Department this week announced that, after receiving direction from the Obama Administration, it has amended sanctions on Cuba, Sudan, and Iran, allowing for the exportation of US-based "services and software related to the exchange of personal communications over the Internet, including web browsing, blogging, email, instant messaging, and chat; social networking; and photo and movie sharing."
I’m not a hardcore networking person, but it was impossible not to notice last month when Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) “leaked” that an upcoming announcement on March 9 would "forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses, and governments."
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A top Google executive says desktop computers will be irrelevant in three years. Alan Reiter suspects it won't be desktops that will be irrelevant (snicker).
Apple doesn't want you to get adult entertainment in a WiFi hotspot – at least not with an iPhone. Its adult apps are banned, and now it’s also nixed some hotspot-locating applications. The reasons are different, and they tell us something important about smartphone app stores.
Hospitals get instrumented and data flows like blood through veins, transforming the delivery and quality of healthcare. Here’s a quick look from HIMSS, the biggest healthcare IT show on the block.
Toyota launches a site on TweetMeme where it's aggregating Toyota-related Tweets, hoping to repair its image with the public. Who cares whether these guys can build safe cars? They can Tweet!
If your enterprise is up to speed on its compliance for security, does it make you sleep better at night? How many certifications and check boxes does it take to secure a network? Time to think differently about what we're protecting.
