Friday, May 8, 2009

Web site offline as police, FBI investigate $10M extortion bid

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May 08, 2009
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In this issue:

1. Web site offline as police, FBI investigate $10M extortion bid

2. Best of WES: Top 10 BlackBerry Products and Services

3. Migrating to all-IP video surveillance

4. Debugging the Interwebs

5. Opinion: .unlimited? Pros and cons of the new generic TLDs

6. Robert L. Mitchell: VoIP quiz: How many minutes in an "unlimited" plan?


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Web site offline as police, FBI investigate $10M extortion bid

A week after a hacker claimed to have broken into a patient database and
encrypted millions of prescription records at a Virginia health agency, its Web
site remains offline except for a static Web page offering contact information.
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Best of WES: Top 10 BlackBerry Products and Services

Research In Motion's (RIM) Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) is the largest
BlackBerry event of the year, and as such, all the heavies in the space -- from
BlackBerry administrators to analysts and pundits, as well as power-users and
unabashed CrackBerry addicts -- come out to see the latest and greatest the
BlackBerry world as to offer.
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Migrating to all-IP video surveillance

IP video surveillance is becoming the security solution of choice due to the
latest H.264 compression technology and declining prices for IP cameras. The
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Debugging the Interwebs

We start this week with an interesting question my friend Dan O'Neill (La Jolla,
Calif.) raised in a list we both subscribe to. Dan remotely manages some 16,000
networked embedded Linux servers around the world (how cool is that?) as part of
his business.
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Opinion: .unlimited? Pros and cons of the new generic TLDs

At the top of the negatives is the $185,000 cost for a single gTLD evaluation.
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Robert L. Mitchell: VoIP quiz: How many minutes in an "unlimited" plan?

These days its seems, everyone offers unlimited minutes in VoIP calling plans.
So how many minutes does that include? That depends on how the vendor defines
"unlimited."
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