Nine skills in high demandRead the story and get the stats.
Networking and wireless LAN experts are hot commodities, closely followed by those versed in open source and data center technologies, our annual salary survey finds.
Can you spot a phish? Play Carnegie Mellon’s game and see
A Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student has developed an online game to educate Internet users about phishing threats.
Cisco rolls out branch office router, LAN switch, security gear
Cisco this week is unveiling a raft of products designed to allow customers to implement a consistent set of security, unified communications, application acceleration and wireless services at remote sites.
Seven ways to improve enterprise search
Bad enterprise search is a common problem in businesses, but it’s not always the vendor’s fault. Here are seven ways customers can maximize the effectiveness of enterprise search.
GPL lawsuit may be settled out of court
Monsoon Multimedia and the Software Freedom Law Center are discussing a settlement regarding Monsoon’s open source licensing violation, but a deal isn’t certain.
HP unleashes wireless network traffic monitoring
HP claims to be the first to implement a technology designed to improve traffic monitoring in wireless networks.
‘Fraudster’ posts confidential eBay member data on forum
Someone used an eBay Inc. discussion forum on Tuesday to post confidential information about eBay users along with what may be their credit card numbers.
AirMagnet strengthens WLAN defenses
AirMagnet unwrapped the new version of its enterprise wireless LAN security defense application. New features protect against more attacks, and make it simpler to manage complex WLANs.
Vonage loses Sprint-Nextel patent suit, plans appeal
A federal court ruled on Tuesday that struggling VoIP provider Vonage infringed on patents owned by Sprint Nextel.
VIDEO
NAC standards: Where are we now?
Steve Hanna, a Juniper distinguished engineer and co-chair of NAC standards groups at the IETF and the Trusted Computing Group, discusses the progress of the NAC standards effort and Cisco’s lack of involvement.
LIVE CHAT
Chat with Amazon.com’s CTO liveJulie Bort in advance will be eligible for a Network World T-shirt.
If ever there were a man that knew how to eek out capacity and secure a data center, it would be Werner Vogels, vice president & CTO of Amazon.com. Join him for a live chat on Monday Oct. 1 from 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. EDT. No registration is required, but those who RSVP “yes” to community editor
CHAT
IM is the biggest, most overlooked threat
Messaging guru Michael Osterman discusses the overlooked IM threat, the best low-cost archiving solutions and how social networking affects the enterprise in this chat transcript.
BLOGS
Today at Cisco Subnethow? Start-up Dimdim challenges Cisco WebEx. Cisco furthers home-networking ambitions with China home appliance company. IP routing expert Jeff Doyle mulls fast reroute without MPLS. Cisco trainer Wendell Odom asks: Can a VTP client cause a VTP server to update its VLAN database? Plus: Why is Cisco Subnet blogging about Kiefer Sutherland’s DUI arrest?
Cisco wants to become a $50 billion company by 2010 –
Today on Microsoft Subnetbug targets Linux, but Macs and Windows not safe either; Office 2008 for Mac to launch Jan. 15 and cost $400; Microsoft Subnet welcomes new blogger, certification trainer Ron Colanna. Got training or cert questions? Fire away! Or check out his post on navigating Microsoft’s certification FAQ.
OpenOffice.org
Buzzblog: Those video-happy Pats; countering Photoshop; and life after 51ironic technology investment from the owners of my favorite pro football team. Next an interesting defense against photographic fakery. And, finally, a look at a new social-networking site targetted at adults but marketed in such a way as to have me wondering how long I’ll be welcome.
Busy day at DEMOfall07 Tuesday: First we have an
Today on Layer 8, where we think this supersize-everything trend has got to end somewhere:
Now here is something we didn’t need. U.K.-based Ad-Air launched a service that will let companies advertise on five-acre plots near the runways of some of the world’s busiest airports. On its Web site, the company proudly proclaims its ads are nearly four times the size of the Dallas Cowboys’ football field and that “such size leads to an unprecedented audience impact; they are quite simply overwhelmed by the scale of the advertisement.”
