• Xangati enables 360° data mining capabilities in its flagship service provider offering

Xangati, the company bringing service providers and IT organizations the next generation in application management, recently announced the availability of Xangati Broadband Subscriber Intelligence. By extending its ground-breaking Application Management 2.0 framework, Xangati provides service providers previously unavailable insights that allow them to track cumulative usage patterns of their subscribers, shrink operations costs and create new revenue streams.

• Fully Automated Key Management and Rollover Eliminates Barriers to DNSSEC Adoption

Infoblox Inc. recently announced availability of additional functionality to help organizations simplify deployment of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), a suite of IETF specifications for securing information provided by DNS.

Many security researchers are expressing growing alarm over the state of DNS security. Security researcher Dan Kaminsky, Director of Penetration Testing at IO Active who exposed the "Kaminsky DNS vulnerability" and is advocating implementation of DNSSEC, commented: "The lack of DNS security not only makes the Internet vulnerable, but is also crippling the scalability of important security technologies.

And, underscoring the importance of DNS security and DNSSEC, implementation of DNSSEC is mandated for U.S. Federal government agencies by the end of December 2009.

• Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age
• A project of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy is a group of 17 media, policy and community leaders. Its purpose is to assess the information needs of communities, and recommend measures to help Americans better meet those needs.

The Knight Commission sees new thinking about news and information as a necessary step to sustaining democracy in the digital age. It thus follows in the footsteps of the 1940s Hutchins Commission and the Kerner and Carnegie Commissions of the 1960s.

Download Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration from Webtorials

A recent study, "Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration" conducted by Frost & Sullivan and sponsored by Verizon and Cisco, provides a wealth of insight into how organizations of all sizes can incorporate advanced collaboration tools into their business processes. 

The study found organizations that deploy the most advanced collaboration technologies see a higher return on their collaboration investment and perform better than their less collaborative peers.

Proprietary Application by Glowpoint Enables Scheduled or On Demand Remote Diagnostics of Video Rooms for VNOC Managed Service Customers

Glowpoint announced the unveiling of an automated diagnostic application called Video Room Sweep ("VRS") that automatically performs comprehensive "sweeps" and emulations of video sessions for all components of telepresence and video conferencing rooms. Designed to offer a more automated and scalable proactive level of managed service, VRS can ensure higher in-use rates of video technology, resulting in predictable performance and a higher return on investment.