http://www.networkworld.com/podcasts/360/ Network World 360 delivers the week's top news and highlights the best of NetworkWorld.com. en Copyright 2009 Palm has just introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show a brand-new touchscreen smartphone, powered by a brand-new operating system. Wi-Fi may not be cutting-edge technology anymore, but iPhones, netbooks and other portable devices will put it in many more consumers' hands this year. (5:34) /podcasts/360/2009/010909-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2009/010909-nw360-daily.html Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Open Cloud Consortium addresses the technical issues facing cloud computing; University of California, Irvine researchers are applying lessons learned from music and video peer-to-peer file transfer networks to a system for reducing traffic jams on the roads. (6:49) /podcasts/360/2009/010809-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2009/010809-nw360-daily.html Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 AT&T is building a production-quality IPv6 data network for the U.S. Army in Germany that will cost approximately $23 million when it is completed next year; An information technology think tank is urging Congress to devote $30 billion toward the IT industry, saying such a move will create or retain nearly 1 million jobs, more than half of them at small businesses. (6:30) /podcasts/360/2009/010709-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2009/010709-nw360-daily.html Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Network-management vendor SolarWinds announced Monday it has acquired the assets of New Zealand-based software maker Kiwi Enterprises; Users of social-networking and micro-blogging site Twitter have been caught in a phishing scam and tricked into revealing their Twitter user names and passwords. (5:27) /podcasts/360/2009/010609-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2009/010609-nw360-daily.html Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Verizon is setting up a Wild West-style telecom showdown by expanding its FiOS network further into territory traditionally held by rival AT&T. Juniper has the most to gain from Nortel's tenuous financial position, according to a bulletin issued last month by investment firm Oppenheimer & Co. (5:17) /podcasts/360/2009/010509-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2009/010509-nw360-daily.html Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Pirated copies of a Windows 7 build pegged by many as the beta Microsoft will release next month have leaked to the Internet. In other news, efforts to restore normal communications between Europe and Asia have suffered a setback after an important undersea cable broke for a second time, this time at a much greater depth. (4:52) /podcasts/360/2008/122908-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2008/122908-nw360-daily.html Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Does transitioning to virtualization increase security risks? Some state CIOs are hoping that their aging IT systems -- some so old that the source code is missing -- can get a similar makeover. (7:05) /podcasts/360/2008/121908-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2008/121908-nw360-daily.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Security experts say that Web surfers should immediately install a new bug-fix for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, released Wednesday morning. Novell has alerted customers and partners that it is cancelling its annual BrainShare conference, which was to have been held in Salt Lake City in March, due to would-be attendees’ restricted travel budgets. (5:21) /podcasts/360/2008/121808-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2008/121808-nw360-daily.html Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Apple Tuesday announced that the January 2009 Macworld Conference & Expo will be its last. Government lawyer: "Bribery was nothing less than standard operating procedure for Siemens" (6:05) /podcasts/360/2008/121708-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2008/121708-nw360-daily.html Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Wireless local-area-network vendor Trapeze Networks – itself acquired by Belden six months ago -- announced Monday it has acquired Newbury Networks. Which are the "most trusted" companies in terms of data privacy -- those that are good stewards of the personal information they collect in the course of doing business? (5:51) /podcasts/360/2008/121608-nw360-daily.html /podcasts/360/2008/121608-nw360-daily.html Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500