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Entries from May 2008

NTT America Joins World Leaders in European Commission’s IPv6 Launch Event

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

NTT America, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, will engage with key stakeholders including global telecommunications and Internet industry leaders, large enterprises and policy makers at “European IPv6 Day,” presented by The Information Society and Media Directorate General of the European Commission on May 30, 2008 at the Robert Schuman room inside the Berlaymont building in Brussels, Belgium. The event will see the launch of the Communication “Advancing the Internet action plan for the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in Europe.”
Complete info at PR Newswire.

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Apple Security Update – Security Update 2008-003 and Mac OS X v10.5.3 (APPLE-SA-2008-05-28)

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

Security Update 2008-003 and Mac OS X v10.5.3 are now available and
address the following issues.
Complete info at HNS and MacObserver.

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Kenyans urged to adopt new web platform

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

Kenyans have been asked to deploy the next generation Internet protocol-GIN to avoid any disruption when the current one gets obsolete.
Complete info at KBC, AllAfrica and Business Daily.

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What

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

According to Cisco”s exam blueprint – admittedly a very broad blueprint at this time – the major new topics are IP version 6 (IPv6) and multicasting.
Complete info at India Interacts.

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Action needed as IP addresses run out

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

If we don’t want to run out of IP addresses, New Zealand needs to follow the example of the European Union and move towards IPv6, says Internet NZ president Peter Macaulay.
Complete info at NZ Herald

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Debian Security Advisory – linux-2.6 (DSA-1588-1)

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may
lead to a denial of service.
Complete info at HNS.

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EU pushes IPv6 upgrade

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

Companies and public sector institutions in the EU should switch to using IPv6 by 2010, the European Commission has said.
Complete info at TechWorld and ComputerWorld.

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10 Years Later

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

In 1998 any lingering doubts about the ultimate success of the
Internet were dispelled. There was nothing else left standing in the
data communications landscape that could serve our emerging needs
for data communications. IP was now the communications technology of
the day, if not the coming century, and the industry message of the
time was to adopt the Internet or imperil your entire future in this
business. By 1998 the job was apparently done, and the Internet had
prevailed. But the story was not over. Communications continued to
drive our world, and the Internet continued to evolve and
change. What has happened in the last decade of the Internet? What
aspects of internet technology has changed, and why?

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Net engineer argues firewalls are a security distraction

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

Early and extensive deployment of firewalls gave internet users

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UC in Government-A Walk on the Mild Side

May 30th, 2008 · Comments Off

Recently, I attended a one-day conference sponsored by the 1105 Government Information Group, publishers of Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News and Washington Technology, on the Networx contract and some other topics of interest in federal telecom including IPv6.
Complete info at UC Strategies.

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