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Canadian courts will decide whether to extradite a VAR for allegedly using a colleague's ID on Cisco sites; lawyer says charges are a big company's phony attempt to pressure the little guy.

Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers sent a sobering memo to company employees on Monday hinting at major changes. ITworld has uncovered the first draft of Chambers' message. (OK, not really.)

According to researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, using wearable sensors, ordinary people could create powerful new mobile Internet networks. Doing so, they say, could create new ultra high bandwidth mobile internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base stations.

Now that my sound function works, and I vented about the User Access Control, let's get to a serious problem: networking. If you've never heard the phrase “DHCP Broadcast Flag” before, you're in good company. DCHP (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) is the rock-solid protocol that assigns IP addresses to devices as they connect to the network. I say rock-solid, but that's before Microsoft's bizarre configuration change turned DHPC into a source of incredible frustration. I've been fighting networks for over two decades and never, ever had to worry about DHCP before, but that was before Microsoft's incompetence with Vista.