Wow… A friend also told me this InfoWorld - On July 26, McAfee will begin offering a new application called Rootkit Detective, designed to detect and remove dangerous rootkit attacks. The software will also help end-users ward off the threats, as well as funnel new intelligence into the company's ongoing research operations. And if you would like to know speaker Pelosi to Attend HESTEC 2007 at the Universitiy of Texas-Pan Forbes - Patricia Loera, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Dr. Joyce Winterton, assistant administrator for Education, NASA; and Diane Auer Jones, assistant secretary for Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education. Rex Tillerson, CEO, ExxonMobil … I have this floating around somewhere developers Keep Cracking Away At Mesh Networks Mesh networks have been talked about for many years as a wireless networking technology for the future. The basic idea is that instead of having every individual access point or cell site backhauled to a larger network (like the internet or the PSTN), access points can talk to one another, and traffic can hop from one AP to the next, until it reaches one with a backhaul connection. This sounds great, in theory, since it makes it much easier to deploy wireless networks, but mesh networks haven’t proven easy to get going in the real world. Still, researchers continue to push forward, with the latest development coming from a Swedish company that says it’s got a way for mobile phones to communicate directly with others up to a kilometer away, bypassing a centralized mobile network. While the direct range is limited, the mesh functionality can expand the coverage area.

Assuming the technology actually works well in the real world, it could be a useful way to allow communications in remote areas without mobile networks, while the company behind it says it could also be used to allow for free calls. It doesn’t sound as if they have things completely sorted out on the technology front yet, but the bigger problem with getting the technology adopted in the developed world, where traditional mobile networks are common, is that coverage can’t be guaranteed. Instead of plunking down a base station (or WiFi access point, etc.) and knowing it will cover a certain area, this sort of mesh network requires that there be a chain of users, each no more than 1km apart, between the two people who wish to communicate. If any part of that chain breaks, the network has to try route around it and hope that there’s another way to connect the two parties. This can be a problem, particularly when networks are first launching and there aren’t a lot of users around. It’s also a hurdle that users in developed nations, where mobile networks are already plentiful — and relatively cheap — won’t be very willing to overlook.Did you know that Mesh means the cords, threads, or wires surrounding these spaces. Often used in the plural.