In a landmark decision, the FCC is set to censure Comcast for engaging in traffic management. While largely symbolic – Comcast will not be fined, the Journal reports – it marks an important victory for those seeking greater regulation of the internet.

Dilbert is alive and well.

VMware, Inc. announced its stand-alone ESXi hypervisor will be available at no cost to help companies of all sizes experience the benefits of virtualization.

A new free eBook details lessons that Bill Lane learned about presentation and corporate communication while working as a speechwriter for the bombastic CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch.

Meru Networks has introduced RF Barrier(tm), the first IEEE 802.11-based technology for proactively defending wireless networks against eavesdroppers and "parking lot" attackers.

RF Barrier uses wireless LAN technology to block the radio-frequency (RF) signals from the corporate network as they exit the building, without disrupting internal WLAN operation. This limits an attacker’s ability to eavesdrop on data and perform offline analysis.

Former U.S. "Cyber Czar" Andy Purdy called for the creation of public-private partnerships to bring the growing threat of cyber attacks under control. His comments were delivered to international delegates gathered in Durban for Govtech 2008, hosted by South Africa’s State Information Technology Agency.

Zrinity Inc announced it has added another Web 2.0 firm to its list of customers. Jacobs Interactive team of engineers, developers and business managers choose Zrinity’s on-premise email delivery and marketing systems.

American Internet Services will host its first technology expo on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008. The AIS Tech Expo will be held in San Diego, CA’s new Lightwave Data Center. AIS is now accepting applications to participate in the event as vendor or exhibitor.

One of the most common examples of less-than-perfect programming Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard has seen in Notes is the use of @DBLookup or @DBColumn with no thought given to the caching of data — every call specified with NoCache, because the developer wanted to be sure that data was freshly looked up. In this article, he discusses the right way to do it.

Read this DominoPower article.

Bravo Amazon S3: Finally, we want you to know that we are passionate about providing the best storage service at the best price so that you can spend more time thinking about your business rather than having to focus on building scalable, reliable infrastructure. Though we’re proud of our operational performance in operating Amazon S3 for almost 2.5 years, we know that any downtime is unacceptable and we won’t be satisfied until performance is statistically indistinguishable from perfect.

It’s not the failure we’re applauding. It’s not even the substantial steps they took to deal with them. It’s the passion. Service is important, but so is passion. We’re seeing fewer and fewer businesses displaying any soul at all, so to see Amazon be clear about their problem and to go out of their way to say, "…we want you to know that we are passionate…" they deserve kudos. So often, we wonder if "they" even care. It’s great to see the S3 team really does.

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