Hello again!

Here in Vermont we just survived our coldest weekend so far this winter. It was a great weekend to stay inside and finalize the newsletter!

We bring you an assortment of stories this month—about security, the Internet, hot products and technologies for the next decade, and Google’s quest for a piece of the telco pie. Enjoy!

Until next month,

Paul

A secure password is not 123456
Despite constant Internet scares, most people still choose simple passwords. Is your password one of the top 30?

A recent anniversary
On January 25, 1915, Alexander Graham Bell inaugurated the United States’ transcontinental telephone service by placing a 3400-mile call to Thomas Watson. Bell was in New York and Watson was in San Francisco.

Internet stats
Want to impress your friends with all of last year's facts and figures about the Internet? Check out these amazing stats.

Is Google out to be the new telco?
Google Voice (now for the iPhone and Palm Pre) is an HTML5-based application that merges all of a user’s phone numbers into a central contact point. Does this make Google a phone company?

10 influential products for the new decade
We just reached 2010, and already there is buzz about which products and technologies will shape business strategies in the next decade. eWeek reveals its top picks.

Is information security recession-proof?
Yes, we might be starting to emerge from the recession, but most people are still on strict budgets. However, the information security budget just might be recession-proof, according to a recent survey.

The state of IP
In May 1974, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published “A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection,” in which Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn described an internetworking protocol for sharing resources via packet switching. Thus, IP was born. IP now pervades everything we do, so check out the current state of IP.

How fast will it get?
As traffic loads increase, so do the demands on carrier backbones. Alcatel-Lucent has a new 4 Tbps optical switch, next in its line of converged IP and optical transport devices.

Expert guide on endpoint security
How do you protect an end device from malware? Find some answers in this report entitled “Strategies for Endpoint Security.” (Note, free registration is required.)

The View from the Hill
Our various updates provide you the best in telecom news. Whether it is our Twitter feeds, PodSnacks, wiki, or our weekly podcast series the Hill Associates Week in Telecom (tHAWT), thousands of our students count on us to keep them up-to-date on topics they find important.

Stay ahead of the curve
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