Verizon buys Alltel in $28.1 billion blockbuster (Network World)

Apparently tired of being the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless has finalized a deal that will vault it past AT&T and net it millions of new wireless subscribers.

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They say it got smart: a 2008 review of the PS3 (Ars Technica)

No system has changed more since launch than the PlayStation 3, and it's time to take another look at what Sony's console can do. Ars Technica re-reviews the PlayStation 3.

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EarthLink closing Philadelphia Wi-Fi Network (BusinessWeek)

A few weeks after announcing it will shut down its municipal wireless network in New Orleans, EarthLink Inc. said Tuesday that it has notified its Wi-Fi customers in Philadelphia that it is terminating that network, too.

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Philadelphia SecureWorld Expo Discount for BDPA Members

BDPA Members are offered a $50 discount off the $195 two day conference pass which includes access to the Conference Sessions, Keynotes, Lunch, Exhibits, Open Sessions and 12 CPE Certificate of Attendance.

BDPA Members receive a special $200 discount off the $695 SecureWorld+ pass which includes 4+ additional hours of intense training worth 16 CPE credits.

SecureWorld+ Topics Include:

• Rapid Rollout of Risk Assessment Requirements
• Information Risk Leadership Strategy: Putting All the Pieces Together
• Forensics as an Investigative Tool
• Auditing and Securing Data Access
• Creating Profit in Business Continuity Planning
• The Three P's of Security Awareness: People, PC's and Paychecks

BDPA Members also receive complimentary admission to Expert Panels, Vendors Sessions and the Exhibit Floor. BDPA members may send an email to president@bdpaphilly.org to obtain the discount code.

We hope you plan on attending the SecureWorld event.

To register, go to - www.secureworldexpo.com/

Municipal WiFi: Not dead yet (Network World)

As large-scale, for-profit projects falter, innovative new models emerge including municipally owned networks deployed for specific purposes such as public safety, viral nets put up by non-government entities, and imaginative efforts that combine wireline and wireless technologies.

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PA primary will be unauditable; GOP blocks e-voting reform (Ars Technica)

Over 85% of voters in tomorrow's Pennsylvania presidential primary will cast ballots on paperless touchscreen machines that are insecure and impossible to audit. The White House and the GOP have just blocked a federal effort to fix this problem before November.

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