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Microsoft is letting out more details about Windows 8 Enterprise. Among other directions in this edition designed for large companies, Microsoft is trying to provide IT departments with resources to handle the growing "bring your own device" trend. Also known as the "consumerization of IT," BYOD means that more IT departments are having to provide support for consumer devices used for work by their employees. Windows to Go, BranchCache One of the features in the Enterprise edition is Windows to Go, which allows a corporate Windows 8 desktop to be carried on a bootable USB drive. In a post Wednesday on the company's Windows blog, where the new Enterprise details were revealed, Microsoft's senior director of Windows, Erwin Visser, said Windows to Go can give "contingent staff access to the corporate environment without compromising security." There's also BranchCache, allowing users to cache content from central servers so that they don't need to repeatedly download it from a wide area network. Visser wrote that, when used in conjunction with Windows Server 2012, BranchCache allows IT to "streamline the deployment process, optimize bandwidth over WAN connections and ensure better security and scalability." Other new features include DirectAccess, which will permit remote users to access a corporate network without a virtual private network, and provides IT administration tools for keeping the devices up to date with the latest policies and updates. The new AppLocker restricts the files and apps that selected users can run. Software Assurance (SA) customers will be able to use Windows to Go on any authorized PC that has Windows SA, as well as on their own PC or other personal devices. Similarly, a new Companion Device License for Windows SA customers will optionally provide rights to a corporate desktop on up to four personal devices. Virtual Desktop Access Rights for RT Additionally, when... newsfactor.com »

Cisco has completed the acquisition of ClearAccess, a company that offers telco management software that competes with legacy systems in an age of mobile video. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ClearAccess provides software to service providers for the provisioning and management of residential and mobile devices. Cisco picked up the software and the talent, which is being integrated into the Cisco Network Management Technology Group. As Cisco sees it, service providers are faced with growing network complexity, exploding video and data traffic, and an increasing number of devices connected to their networks. With the proliferation of these devices, Cisco has noticed a clear trend: Service providers are looking for ways to immediately lower operating expense while delivering and enabling new services. Beefing Up Cisco Prime Jamie Lerner, vice president and general manager of Cisco Network Management Technology Group's Service Provider Applications division, said the ClearAccess acquisition will accelerate Cisco's software architectural advancements in mobility, cloud and managed devices, and video. "ClearAccess provides a critical technology that will advance Cisco's mission to offer service providers a complete set of tools to manage their networks, within the home and across any connected device, amid the ongoing proliferation in network traffic," he explained. Cisco believes ClearAccess' management and software capabilities will augment Cisco Prime -- Cisco's network management software portfolio -- by offering service providers a set of tools for managing the connected home, including monitoring and managing bandwidth usage, parental controls, diagnostics and analytics. Driving Network Visibility We caught up with Zeus Kerravala, principal analyst at ZK Research, to get his take on how important Cisco's latest acquisition is in the grand networking scheme. He told us that with the impending mobile traffic tsunami, it's vital for operators to have a clear understanding of what is going on in their network. "The first step... newsfactor.com »

Microsoft and the banking industry on Monday provided a detailed, behind-the-scenes account of an operation they said disrupted a major cybercrime operation that used malicious software to allegedly steal $100 million from consumers over the last five years. A senior attorney from Microsoft's digital crimes unit, Richard Boscovich, said the company and financial industry associations used a creative legal strategy as part of a civil lawsuit that targeted a global network of computers suffering from an infection known as "Zeus." Those computers were under the remote control of a criminal group that stole personal information, financial credentials and money, according to court records. The Zeus network has not been eliminated, Boscovich said, but the action has made it much more difficult and expensive for the criminals to operate. "This was an initial volley," according to Boscovich, who said Microsoft and the industry groups will continue to target the Zeus network. A federal judge approved a warrant authorizing the raid in late March against computer servers at hosting centers in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Attorneys for Microsoft, the Electronic Payments Association and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center had filed a civil lawsuit claiming the Zeus network had infected 13 million computers since 2007. Boscovich said he believes the people behind the Zeus botnets are located in Eastern Europe. He declined to be more specific because the case is ongoing. United States marshals accompanied employees of Microsoft on the sweep, according to Boscovich, a former U.S. prosecutor. The company and the industry groups relied on existing federal laws, including the 1946 Lanham Act that covers trademark infringement and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a statute that has been used to prosecute members of the mafia and the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. Congress envisioned that civil litigants would use both laws to protect... newsfactor.com »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Dynamics Corp, one of the largest U.S. weapons manufacturers, said it plans to acquire privately-held wireless network equipment maker IPWireless Inc as defense spending in the United States begins to decline. Reuters: Internet News »

Demonstrating that IBM is not the only tech heavy hitter to make strategic investments in data analytics, Cisco is acquiring a privately held company that offers scalable, real-time network data analysis and reporting software. Cisco will purchase Truviso for an undisclosed amount. Once integrated into Cisco's portfolio, the company promises its clients "instant access" and visibility into network use and services. And that instant access and visibility promises to help enterprises increase operational efficiencies and drive new revenue streams. "Customers want to be able to tap into and better analyze the enormous volume of data traversing their networks to identify ways to enhance services and generate new revenue opportunities," said Jamie Lerner, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Network Management Technology Group. "Embedding Truviso's real-time business intelligence into the network will help customers unlock these capabilities at the speed of the network." Cisco's Prime Play Cisco is making this move based on needs its research uncovered. Specifically, Cisco points to the proliferation of end-user devices and growth in network-connected applications as factors that are increasing the amount of data on the network exponentially. Cisco is betting that both service provider and enterprise customers are looking for ways to better understand this data and act upon it in real-time to improve operations, customer experiences, and service offering differentiation. How can Truviso help? The company owns what it calls "continuous query technology." With its analyze-first, store-later approach, Truviso offers enterprises detailed information and visibility of network use and services in real-time. Cisco is integrating Truviso technology for its Cisco Prime platform. The company said Truviso's software analytics will strengthen its network management platform with the core technology to gather and analyze streaming data. Cisco also noted that the acquisition reinforces its commitment to delivering intelligent networks and supports its five foundational priorities -- core, data center, virtualization,... newsfactor.com »

T-Mobile USA on Tuesday said that Nokia Siemens Networks and LM Ericsson AB will supply the network equipment for its new wireless broadband network, a project worth $4 billion. T-Mobile is commissioning a "4G LTE" network, the same technology used by Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. for their high-speed networks. It will use, in part, radio frequencies handed over by AT&T after the bigger company backed off its deal to buy T-Mobile due to opposition from federal regulators. In addition to handing over spectrum licenses, AT&T gave T-Mobile $3 billion in cash, which will help finance the upgrade. T-Mobile plans to have the network live next year, covering 75 percent of the 25 largest cities. Sweden's Ericsson is one of the main suppliers for the LTE networks of Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint Nextel Corp., along with Alcatel-Lucent SA of France. For Nokia Siemens Networks, a joint venture of Finland's Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG of Germany, the T-Mobile order represents a new chance to get into the U.S. market for network equipment. It got a $7 billion order from Harbinger Capital, a hedge fund, to build a network for its startup, LightSquared, but that project appears moribund because regulators concluded it would have interfered with GPS navigation. T-Mobile USA is making the announcement on the first day of CTIA Wireless, the U.S. cellphone industry trade show, in New Orleans. The company is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the U.S., with 33.2 million devices on its network. It's a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany. newsfactor.com »

Sprint Nextel will continue to invest in its current 3G network even as it builds out its 4G, long-term evolution high speed data network, officials announced at the annual CTIA-Wireless Association gathering in New Orleans Wednesday. Bob Azzi, senior vice president of the carrier's wireless network, said the company would roll out LTE coverage in the relatively low 5 megahertz channels, but will offer reliable "handoff speeds" between 3G and 4G, according to media reports. Azzi said Sprint's 3G network will still do most of the work in the foreseeable future while LTE rolls out in an initial six cities for 15 devices. Reassigning Spectrum "What we focus on is what the customers are really going to get in the network, and that's why we're really confident that this network will be really competitive," he was quoted as saying. Azzi said the company would shut down its integrated digital enhanced network, acquired when it bought out Nextel in 2005, by the end of next year and reassign that spectrum to boost both its 3G and 4G networks. In a separate address, Sprint CEO Daniel R. Hesse sounded a downbeat note about the state of the industry that clashed with the overall upbeat tone of the conference, The New York Times reported. "The reputation of our industry has dropped to the lowest of any major industry," said Hesse as reported by the Times. "Even the cable and oil industries rate higher with consumers than we do. That's a bummer." 'Lose the Acronyms' Technology analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told us that Sprint's vision for the future holds appeal for consumers. "It is a pretty complex plan that basically means that Sprint customers will get phone services and data better, faster, and cheaper (both from a Sprint cost and user cost) than any other network," Enderle said.... newsfactor.com »

LightSquared Inc., which hoped to create an independent wireless broadband network in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday. Regulators blocked its plan this winter because of concerns that its transmissions would interfere with GPS navigation. LightSquared hasn't given up. Chief Financial Officer Marc Montagner said in a statement that the bankruptcy filing is intended to gain the company "breathing room" while it continues to work through its regulatory issues. It has said that it has invested more than $4 billion in the network. LightSquared listed assets and liabilities of more than $1 billion each in the filing Monday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The company, which is based in Reston, Virginia, is owned by Harbinger Capital Partners, a private-equity firm that made billions betting against subprime mortgages ahead of the collapse of the housing market. Harbinger bought SkyTerra, a provider of satellite communications services to businesses, in 2010. It then lobbied the Federal Communications Commission to allow it to use the spectrum set aside for SkyTerra for ground-based communications -- essentially, a conventional wireless broadband network, rather than a satellite-based one. But SkyTerra's licenses were for spectrum adjacent to a band used by GPS satellites. On the ground, GPS units had no problem filtering out transmissions from SkyTerra's satellites, but regulators determined that they could be disrupted by strong, ground-based signals. LightSquared's CEO, telecom veteran Sanjiv Ahuja, resigned in February. The company's largest creditors are Boeing Satellite Systems Inc., owed $7.5 million, and telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, owed $7.3 million, according to the filing. newsfactor.com »

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Coming a few days after Facebook's Wall Street debut to mixed reaction by investors, Microsoft's new social network had been widely seen as a possible rival to Mark Zuckerberg's juggernaut. "Is this the next Facebook?" asked Fox News as the network, So.cl (pronounced Social), was opened to general users after a long beta-testing period. A Bing Bulletin Board But the fledgling network, geared toward students, as was Facebook initially when it was conceived in Zuckerberg's Harvard dorm room, seems to be more akin to a hybrid of search engine Bing and Pinterest, the upstart topic-based content-sharing network. "Express Yourself," So.cl implores potential users on its homepage. "With So.cl you can share your search and express your ideas through beautiful collages of content." When a user enters search topics, a field is instantly populated with images related to the topic to be shared with the user's contacts. They can also connect through chat and video parties. "Video parties let you search, and quickly assemble a list of movies to view together with friends," reads the site's FAQ. "You can view any existing party collection created by any other So.cl user, or create your own, and easily chat with other So.cl users." All posts are visible to other users by default unless they are marked private. "We expect students to continue using products such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other existing social networks, as well as Bing, Google and other search tools," Microsoft tells visitors on the FAQ page. "We hope to encourage students to reimagine how our everyday communication and learning tools can be improved, by researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives." For now, users can only sign in through their Facebook or Windows Live accounts. Facebook's phenomenal success has launched a slew of new sharing initiatives from the successful Twitter to the failed Google Buzz... newsfactor.com »

A popular technology used to provide security on cellular networks can unwittingly help a hacker break into Facebook and Twitter accounts, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at the University of Michigan said the technology, known as network firewall middleboxes, is meant to block data that doesn't appear to be part of the flow of information traffic on the network. Of the nearly 150 networks computer science Professor Z. Morley Mao and doctoral student Zhiyun Qian tested worldwide, 32 percent used the middlebox technology, the University reported Monday. An attacker could hijack an Internet connection using them, the researchers said. Middleboxes monitor the "sequence numbers" of data packets being sent to mobile devices. For example when a smartphone user takes a photo and shares it with a friend, the researchers said, it gets broken down into numerous packets before it's sent across the network. The friend's smartphone looks to the sequence numbers to put the picture back together. Middleboxes could help hackers use the process of elimination to home in on a number in the right range, as the middlebox can unwittingly let a hacker know when he's identified a sequence number that will allow a packet through. Armed with a valid sequence number, the hacker could spoof Facebook or Twitter's Web log-in page and gain the user's passwords, the researchers said. "Firewall middleboxes are supposed to protect against this kind of attack, but it turns out they do the opposite," Qian said. "Most vendors and carriers that deploy such firewall middleboxes still believe they are safe and we want them to be aware of this design flaw." newsfactor.com »

SAP is making a major move to expand its cloud presence -- a $4.3 billion move. SAP announced a deal to acquire Ariba, a cloud-based business commerce network. The acquisition merges Ariba's buyer-seller collaboration network with SAP's customer base and business process expertise, with the goal of creating new models for business-to-business collaboration in the cloud. "The cloud has profoundly changed the way people interact. The impact will be even greater as enterprises connect and collaborate in new ways with their global networks of customers and partners," said SAP Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe. "Cloud-based collaboration is redefining business network innovation, and we are catching this wave in the early stage of its evolution." A Cloud-Based Future SAP is betting that adding Ariba to its mix will create "the business network of the future," while also delivering immediate value to its customers and providing another solid engine for driving SAP's growth in the cloud. Time will tell how well SAP integrates Ariba's technology. One thing is certain: the move positions SAP in a fast-growing segment as buyers and sellers across the globe connect in new ways through the cloud. SAP's entry into the inter-enterprise business network space expands its growth opportunities and accelerates its momentum in the cloud. SAP last week announced a roadmap for its cloud apps business that focuses on managing customers, suppliers, employees and financials. The Ariba acquisition will also boost SAP's cloud applications portfolio, which includes SAP Business ByDesign and SAP Business One. Ariba generated $444 million in annual revenues in 2011 on 38.5 percent growth. Ariba's business network recorded 62 percent organic growth in the same period. The Oracle Threat Meanwhile, SAP points to industry stats to bolster its reasons for the multibillion-dollar acquisition. SAP's homework shows the current size of the cloud-based enterprise network and procurement segment... newsfactor.com »