I’ll be posting a lot more on this soon, but for now, this snippet from the Hermes project:
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is looking into a request from serial anti-Phorm campaigner Alexander Hanff to launch a private prosecution over BT’s stealth trials of the controversial contextual advertising system.
The trials had previously been cleared by the City of London police, which [...]

It sounds a little odd, and it is a bit of serendipity… I’d had been researching the current generation of management tools, both commercial and those of the open source / free variety and today I hear that F5 Networks have a new partnership (hot on the heals of the one with Secerno for database security earlier [...]

This did actually make me smile. Nortel’s energy calculator has obviously ruffled some feathers over at Cisco. They have posted this response on youtube:

Actually, getting real power consumption figures for network kit is very tricky. Experiments here suggest that consumption varies by use (both traffic/processor load and what is plugged in). But at least we [...]

Without futher ado, episode 5 of the Network Industry Review Podcast:
networkindustryreview5 podcast

It looks like carriers are slowing their VoIP spending, according to figures released by Infonetics Research (this will affect folks like Tellabs and Sonus Networks). VoIP Monitor runs with more on the report:
Large RBOCs and ILECs are scaling back on VoIP equipment purchases, helping bring down the worldwide service provider VoIP market 8% sequentially to $816 million [...]