Library of Congress Picks Level 3 for Networking
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Level 3 Communications is providing the Library of Congress with fiber optic links to support its National Audio Visual Conservation Center.
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BROOMFIELD, Colo., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Level 3 Communications, Inc...
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The 3SP SSL-Explorer is the world's first open-source SSL-based VPN solution of its kind. Released under the GPL, this entry-level VPN solution provides users with a means of securely managing their IT infrastructure from outside the network perimeter, armed with just a standard web browser. This second release now provides full Active Directory authentication for use within Microsoft Windows Server environments. The release also sees a change from using the MySQL database to an internal HSQLDB database and this means that post-installation database configuration is no longer required.   Download the SSL-Explorer v0.1.1 here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116065  Find out more information on SSL-Explorer at: http://3sp.com/products/enterprise/ssl-explorer/ssl-explorer.jsp
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As a relative newbie to the industry Iâve managed to befriend experts, become a contributor to Search Engine Journal and win an iPod. Not bad for a 24-year-old from Jacksonville, FL who was looking for a career change just six months ago.  How did I do it?   Iâd like to attribute my networking success [...]
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By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  May 25--DENVER -- Level 3 Communications Inc. is eyeing China as a market for the network and services it now sells across the United States and much of Europe.
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The General Services Administration has picked three Northern Virginia companies to help federal agencies manage their spending on wireless services. The government expects to spend $93 million through the five-year program.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. and NEWARK, Del., Feb. 21  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students, faculty, and researchers across the state of Delaware can now access one of the most advanced computer networks in the world.
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New entry-level workgroup storage devices start at $3,000.
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(InfoWorld) - ConnectBeam founder and CEO Puneet Gupta admits that social networking hasn't gotten much traction in the enterprise. But he also believes that the practice of social bookmarking -- as powered by his one-and-a-half-year-old company -- could change all that. Social bookmarking allows users viewing any piece of content to create their own folders and subject tags. Using ConnectBeam's technology, those bookmarks are made available to anyone else inside the corporation who is searching for information. Along with each tag, the system uses standard directory technology to identify and create profiles of employees who create the bookmarks. Social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us and Reddit has been around for a while. But ConnectBeam takes the service into a new realm: behind the firewall. In so doing, Gupta believes he has found a way to give corporate employees the information they need, while allowing them to work the way the want. ConnectBeam also relies on another standard tool in the social bookmarking toolkit: folksonomy, which is an informal categorization of content based on user-defined tags. Folksonomies are flexible and more powerful than a conventional fixed-category taxonomy. As an example, Gupta notes that a taxonomy has trouble telling the difference between the element Mercury and the planet Mercury; a folksonomy, built on user input, puts content into context, he says. By leveraging folksonomy and other social networking concepts, Gupta believes that large companies with 15,000 employees and more can gain a level of collaboration that goes beyond what is available today. As an example, he points with pride to Honeywell, one of the first big organizations (121,000 employees) to take a chance on Gupta's fledgling company. Using ConnectBeam, a Honeywell employee in Boston looking for information on "aviation lighting" might find a bookmark on that subject from another Honeywell employee in Bangalore. That bookmark is certain to be more relevant than something a standard Google search might turn up. Despite the sheer usefulness of social networking, there is no magic bullet to get companies to adopt the idea. Social networking tends to spread virally, not unlike the transmission method that used to be called word-of-mouth. To encourage adoption, Honeywell started by asking corporate librarians and the e-learning department to import what they had in their Web browser bookmarks into ConnectBeam. A handful of librarians imported their bookmarks twice a day, in the morning and evening. The bookmarks were tagged and placed in folders. Even from that preliminary experiment, "You could already see the folksonomy emerge. It became a tag cloud," says Gupta. When an employee comes in the following day, does a search, and finds a relevant bookmark in the cloud, he becomes motivated to save what he finds as a bookmark. In a large, niche-focused corporation like Honeywell, the folksonomy around a subject quickly emerges and becomes extremely useful -- as in the case of the aviation-lighting example. "The fact that somebody took the time to define this unstructured data" says Gupta, "it becomes part of the enterprise's institutional memory forever."
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By Paula M. Davenport, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Sep. 21--People with severe visual impairments can now send and receive e-mails, navigate the Internet and create documents and presentations at a new computer workstation in the Spokane Valley Library.
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(InfoWorld) - As Democrats take over leadership of both houses of the U.S. Congress from Republicans, technology industry lobbyists will try again to push for worker visa reform. Legislation to allow more highly skilled foreign workers to come to the U.S. and stay longer failed in the last session of Congress, but it will be reintroduced in the next session, said Andrea Hoffman, vice president of TechNet, a lobbying group for technology companies. TechNet is pushing for three reforms, Hoffman said: Increasing the number of H1B visas granted annually to foreign workers employed temporarily at U.S. companies; granting employment-based visas to workers whose H1B visas are about to expire but whose application for lawful permanent residency (commonly known as a "green card") is backlogged; and allowing foreign workers who earn advanced degrees at U.S. colleges and universities to stay and work in the U.S. once they graduate. Legislation on those reforms became part of a controversial immigration reform bill that tied Congress up in debates about illegal immigrants, deportation, and border security and ultimately failed. With Democrats winning control of the Congress in the November elections, TechNet is going to push its reform agenda anew, Hoffman said. "We are very optimistic," she said. "The change in leadership will be a very good opportunity for the tech industry." One way to keep highly skilled and well-paying jobs in the U.S. is to reform the student visa policy, said Gary Fazzino, vice president of governmental affairs for Hewlett-PackardÂ and a member of TechNet. "We're interested in making it easier for foreign-born students who come here and receive technical degrees to remain in the U.S. more easily than has been the case in the last few years," Fazzino said. HP hosted a public forum Monday on legislative issues in the new Congress featuring U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos, a Silicon Valley Democrat. "I'll be very sensitive to the needs of the valley," Lantos told IDG News Service after the event, when asked about the proposed immigration reforms. He declined to discuss specifics. Under current law, 65,000 H1B visas are granted each year to foreign workers, each of whom needs to be sponsored by a U.S. company that couldn't find an American worker who has the needed skills. But that quota for federal fiscal year 2007 was filled before the year even began, according to Hoffman. TechNet wants the ceiling raised to 115,000. Labor interest oppose raising the ceiling. Among the critics is the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, in Seattle, which argues that there are more high-tech workers available in the U.S. than jobs to fill. TechNet also advocates a new "employment-based visa" category for those who have an H1B that is about to expire but are still on a waiting list for a green card. There is a backlog of more than 500,000 green card applications in the U.S., according to ImmigrationVoice.org. "The system is archaic," Hoffman said. "It is not consistent or structured in such a way that it fits business practices and models ... and we need change."
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Microsoft is teaming with the U.S. Library of Congress to put the library's exhibits online.
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Leveraging IP Network Resources to Enable Next-Generation Corporate Communications.
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(InfoWorld) - SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. companies and the federal government need to step up and fix the problems in their computer networks, the nation's new cybersecurity czar told attendees during his first-ever address atÂ RSA ConferenceÂ here on Thursday. Within the next 10 years, the majority of the world's communication needs will probably be handled by the Internet, said Gregory Garcia, the assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). "This proliferation of applications and devices within the converged network is going to create a breeding ground for security problems," he said. "Our networks and our systems are vulnerable and they are exposed." Garcia outlined two priorities for the year ahead. First, his office is working with federal agencies to adopt common security policies and practices. Second, he plans to work with the private sector to push forward a process called the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. This effort is intended to evaluate computer security risks on an industry-by-industry basis and outline the steps that need to be taken to address them. The broad strokes of this plan were outlined last June, and the DHS is now working with industry to flesh out sector-specific plans, Garcia said. He made it clear that the DHS expects U.S. companies to participate. "There are a lot of plans in Washington. This one is going to stick," he said. "The private sector owns and operates 90 percent of the critical infrastructure, and it's up to you all, not just the DHS, to secure this infrastructure." Companies looking for best practices already have a number of standards they can consider, Garcia said, pointing to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 17799 specification and the guidelines prescribed by Technet, an IT industry association. Computer security has not been a top priority at the DHS, which has paid far more attention to physical security threats to the nation since its inception in 2003. And though DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff tried to put a sharper focus on computer security by creating Garcia's high-level post in 2005, the position remained vacant for more than a year. Garcia was introduced Thursday by Art Coviello, president of EMC's RSA group, who said afterward that he was encouraged by the assistant secretary's speech. "It's a combination of carrot and stick," he said in an interview. "Chiding industry to actually comply with these standards that are out there, and a veiled threat of regulation to get things done." Coviello said that cybersecurity has "languished a bit" within DHS ever since U.S. President George W. Bush signed off on his administration's comprehensive cybersecurity plan in 2003. "The Department and Secretary [Tom] Ridge and Secretary Chertoff obviously focused on the right things -- physical threats -- but now it's time to get after the critical infrastructure from the cyber side," Coviello said in the interview. "I don't think industry is looking for a lot of regulation from government," he added. "What they are looking for is leadership."
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Invited testers evaluate 'next generation' network that allows friends to edit friends.
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Card-catalog classifications hardly seem the subject of trans-Atlantic imbroglios, but the Library of Congress recently settled one when it agreed to reinstate a past policy of classifying works by Scottish authors under the heading âScottish literature.â Early last year the library started classifying about 600 titles by Scottish writers as âEnglish literature,â with subheadings like âScottish authorsâ or âScottish poets.â That offended the National Library of Scotland, which complained, enlisting the support of an American congressman, Mike McIntyre, Democrat of North Carolina. Early this month, the librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, wrote to the National Library of Scotland and the British Library, informing them that the Scots would get their own catalog distinction. As of now the Library of Congress is still classifying the works of Irish and Welsh writers under subcategories of English literature, but a spokesman, Matt Raymond, said the library has yet to receive any complaints.
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The announcement came from eight different departments of the Chinese Government. According to reports, CERTNET2 is now being called the biggest network running the next generation Internet since it connects 25 universities in about 20 cities.