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Something all of us Wii gamers can relate to these days is that of the quality of third party titles. With several third party titles not cutting the cheese, the creative director of Kuju Entertainment has come out and said that there are "a lot of lazy titles" on the Wii and that the developers are "under-exploiting" Nintendo's little white console.
President Bush delivers a brief speech at the Middle East Peace Conference in Annapolis, before leaving.
Fantasy Girl picks her Guys to Pickup and Guys to Dump for week 13.
Sneaking a peek at a patent application by Nokia shows the company slipping into me-too territory, doodling an application to the U.S Patent Office that looks surprisingly like a T-Mobile Sidekick. Supposedly sidestepping any danger of patent infringement is one notable difference: an odd crank-like device on the side that must be turned to open up the screen, with a half-turn revealing the QWERTY keyboard nestled underneath. Too much like a sidekick to be a separate patent? Nokia knows what it's doing, but this could still end up more as a court decision than an actual product. [Unwired View]
Advanced Micro Devices will today launch its 'Spider' platform for heavy-duty multimedia computers.
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(S04E08) "You want me to fake a heart attack? I do a great fake heart attack." - Sloan
Oh my god, me writing this is like totally like a term paper! Hellooo stereotypes and clichés! Who thought of this idea? Let's compare the show to high school? Cliques, cheerleaders, nerds, best friends, secrets, sex, and jocks. Weren't these types of comparisons blatantly obvious without all the teeny-boppers running around? The only thing that was missing was a prom... wait, that already happened. It got to the point where I was yelling at the TV, "Ooh ooh, this is gonna be a principal's office joke!" And it was. However, if you can look past the high school level writing that went into this episode, it was actually pretty good.
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TIBCO is offering an updated version of its Business Studio process modelling tool for free as it releases a new version of its product suite.
Massive telecommunications carriers, including AT&T, BT, and Verizon are promoting their ability to take over a significant portion of customers' IT security operations, and some enterprises are already buying into the model.
Over the last several years, the sprawling carriers have acquired and introduced a range of technologies and services that promise to help protect customers from the growing wave of IT-based threats, including denial-of-service attacks and Web-borne malware programs.
And while the carriers all concede that delivering safe telecommunications and Internet access to their customers' doorsteps is a fundamental requirement of their core business, the companies also maintain that they are uniquely positioned to become broader security outsourcing partners for their clients.
Florida-based First Advantage is already outsourcing a significant portion of its IT security operations to its carrier partner, Verizon Business.
The publicly-held risk management services company had previously seen a payoff from outsourcing elements of its call center and software development operations, and the increasing complexity of its security and compliance concerns made it a natural to enlist Verizon to take over more of the work, executives said.
"Compared to the cost of internal operation, price was obviously a major consideration, but it was also the idea that these are specialists in security who we would be turning to," said Isabelle Theisen, chief security officer at First Advantage.
"They can provide a level of monitoring and correlation that would not have been possible for us to achieve internally," she said. "And we wanted to take a more leading-edge approach to matching potential threats to specific assets, something that alone would demand a full-time team for us otherwise."
Theisen estimates that First Advantage, which specializes in employee background screening and insurance fraud investigation, has already ceded approximately 70 percent of its IT security operations to Verizon.
Among the services it consumes from the carrier, which include everything from AV (anti-virus) and IPS (intrusion prevention systems), to Web applications firewalls and operation of compliance-mandated server farms, many came to Verizon via its July 2007 acquisition of CyberTrust.
However, the seeds that have grown into the company's portfolio of security outsourcing skills were taking root years before the deal for the MSS (managed security services) company came to pass, Verizon Business officials said.
"We saw tremendous growth in demand for additional security services starting in 2005 and knew we needed to scale up; adding CyberTrust has helped us expand rapidly, and we're seeing even greater demand today, especially among multinational customers," said Cindy Bellefeuille, director of solution and product marketing at Verizon Business.
Some industry watchers have said that customers will increasingly expect carriers to eliminate many security threats as part of their core connectivity services just as they require the companies to guarantee network performance speeds in their SLAs (service level agreements).
However, Bellefeuille said that companies like Verizon can meet those demands while creating new opportunities for additional services aimed at thwarting targeted threats or providing automation services, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance server operation the company oversees for First Advantage.
"There will always be opportunities from an attack perspective for us to take action and protect customers on the backbone, and we'll do that," she said. "We've also driven a lot of internal innovation in last three years for fighting issues such as targeted attacks; we're building out the honeynets and doing more correlation of data. Now we're in the phase of launching services as both standalones and value-adds."
Verizon marketers foresee a future wherein the company could become a provider of end-to-end security outsourcing services.
While a majority of the services it has offered thus far have centered on external issues such as helping its customers ward-off DoS threats and malware, the company is already getting its hooks into more internal security operations, such as identity management, filtering data pulled in by IDSes (intrusion detection systems) and providing protection for various types of databases and software applications.
BT beefs up its security offerings
BT is another carrier that has turned heads in the security community in recent years with its acquisitions and stated business strategies.
The company's security aspirations were perhaps illustrated best by its Oct. 2006 acquisition of Counterpane, another MSS specialist.
Like Verizon, officials with BT said that the carrier is preparing to launch a far broader set of security services than merely those that it added through the Counterpane buyout.
Along with anti-DoS services -- and CounterPane's array of network monitoring, vulnerability scanning and e-mail filtering skills -- BT officials contend that the company will soon be able to provide customers with security offerings like anti-malware filtering, embedded firewalls, UTM (unified threat management), and intrusion prevention.
Enterprise customers will become particularly amenable to such carrier security services as they continue to upgrade to next-generation networking infrastructure, said Mick Creane, head of managed security strategy at BT.
While the company has been providing anti-DoS services for years -- using technology sourced from vendor Arbor Networks, which targets its products directly at service providers -- there is a far broader opportunity for carriers to realize in security, he said.
"When everything has gone IP, we will be able to offer even more services and flexibility," he said. "Organizations are recognizing that the threats are changing so quickly that it's a huge challenge to keep pace, but that within the large carrier service providers, we have the necessary economies of scale and expertise to deal with this problem."
Over time, Creane contends that by pulling together more managed security and carrier services, companies like BT will be able to provide an integrated set of network defenses that customers won't be able to rival with their own internal systems defense technologies.
In addition to those defensive opportunities, the carrier also plans to offer more proactive security services, such as filtering out inappropriate or unauthorized Web sites and blocking access to those URLs for its business customers.
"Customers are beginning to get it, and in the short term, we can use it as a business differentiator, but in the long term, I think they will begin to expect a certain amount of security expertise," Creane said. "BT and other carriers are in a very powerful position because by embedding security into the network at a higher-level, we will be able to do security cheaper than CPU-based products and services."
For now, most enterprises are just beginning to familiarize themselves with the carriers' expanding security services, but proponents maintain that the transition from companies doing more in-house to outsourcing more of their security responsibilities over to their existing bandwidth-providers, will evolve quickly.
For some customers, the carriers' security vision has clearly already been embraced with enthusiasm.
"I believe that they can help us correlate high-risk incidents and threats with information about our IT assets that will allow us to focus on the most high-priority items at any given time, from a security perspective," said First Advantage's CTO Theisen. "We can then move into adoption of a more risk-based system for our information assets. Right now it's all about just getting the necessary framework in place."
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After this gentleman/Aquaman-wannabe found himself on his third Treo in a year from water damage, he took drastic measures to protect his phone from the rage of the sea. Ripping apart his son's lunch bag, he found the answer had been there all along. Rinsing peanut butter and jelly away with his child's tears, Alexander Rose "invented" the perfect waterproof Treo case.
Oh yeah, except that it requires you to hold your Treo through a freakin' plastic bag. – Mark Wilson
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A Cambridge University team has come up with a novel way for computing devices to defend themselves against attack or malfunction of neighbours – let them commit digital suicide.
Roy Furchgott, has an eye for design. He writes an insightful piece in the NYTimes about Korean electronic maker Hannspree, and their latest design triumph: An LCD TV that looks great from the backside. Delicious, and useful for times when a TV doesn't sit against a wall.
In fact, he points out it looks like an Eames Lounge chair. Are Koreans the new bootleg master artists? Either way, it's in good taste. The chair is a design icon originally produced in 1956, and is crafted from rosewood plywood and leather. It's nice looking. So, the TV looks good, too. At least the backside.
What about the front? You know, the part of the set you'll be staring at most of the time? Roy reports the screen as having a "1,366 by 1,786 pixels in all three sizes: 26-inch ($1,200), 32-inch ($1,500) and 37-inch ($1,900)." Whoa, looks like a type-o. The TV is actually 768 pixels wide. We can throw no stones with the spellings and type-os, so no biggie. You forgive, we forgive.
The bigger deal is recommending a TV set for a good looking backside, when historically, Hannspree LCDs don't look so hot. This one might look better than the older sets, but I place the odds against that. –Brian Lam

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According to a product shot spied by Swedish mag Mobil Sony Ericsson's got a follow-up to the W880 up its sleeve, the W890. Besides coming with GSM and HSDPA support for North America, for now we know it's packed with 40MB of memory, Memory Stick Micro slot, choice of black or maroon shells, and possibly a 3.2MP cam. It's likely hitting AT&T in the US or Canadian outfit Rogers if it's carrier-specific, and probably soonish. Spec shot after the jump.




