Here is this week's Editors' Choice; look for Readers' Choice later this week.
EDITORS’ CHOICE
From the front page
10 ways to cut telecom bills
Telecom is among the top 10 costs for most businesses in the United States, according to industry experts, and for many it ranks in the top five.
Sun jumps back into blades, expands Opteron line
After exiting the market last year in face of stiff competition, Sun next week is expected to introduce a new blade server as it fills out its x64-based product line, which has been a bright spot in the struggling company’s financial picture.
Analyzing software bugs to death
Ben Liblit wants to get the bugs out of your software, but he really could use your help.
In depth
Tips on beating the IT career blues.
Optical gear boosts availability
High-bandwidth networks use fiber links to carry large volumes of mission-critical traffic. Outages often result in large financial losses, so carriers and enterprises have used a variety of mechanisms, such as SONET rings in the core and MPLS in the access network, to boost availability. A new protection mechanism based on all-optical switching offers a more cost-effective solution for high-speed links, however.
Demand rises for wireless skills
Most network groups acquire this expertise internally, as IT pros learn on the job.
How to
Ron Nutter helps a user get his Groove set-up to allow wireless file sharing.
Tightening up home wireless security
Andrew Lockhart of the Wireless Vulnerabilities and Exploits project explains how.
From the blogs
Keith Shaw wishes Microsoft would assume some users are smart enough to know when they want to install certain ActiveX controls. Mark Gibbs wonders if we’re going to see a new emphasis on corporate honesty in the software world over how users are viewed and treated by vendors. One users seeks help on the best network OS for a small network. Paul McNamara discusses a Dell thermal incident, which involved a laptop bursting into flames.
More news
Q&A: Nortel’s new top technologist aims high
As Nortel’s new CTO, John Roese must think big. His task is to rally more than 12,000 engineers in product areas as diverse as Ethernet, cellular infrastructure, optical and wireless mesh, and outline R&D and technology strategies for each market. All while the company struggles to regain its footing. For example, Nortel said last week it would cut about 1,900 employeesin the next year in an effort to save more than $1.5 billion by 2008.
Software piracy: Love it or hate it
Big vendors such as Microsoft and IBM say that they’re collectively losing billions of dollars a year in software sales because of piracy, and are working together and with government to address the problem.
VoIP security services taking hold
Carriers are beefing up their VoIP security services, and demand for these offerings is growing as more VoIP vulnerabilities come to light.
Lotus nears release of Notes for Linux
IBM/Lotus this month plans to release a full Notes client that runs on Linux desktops and does not require users to roll out any of the company’s Workplace Client technology.
New Novell CEO stresses execution
In an interview with Network World editors, new CEO Ronald Hovsepian and Novell CTO Jeffrey Jaffe laid out their plans to grow Linux sales, spur NetWare customer migration to Linux and push Linux to corporate desktops.
Even more
Our This Week page will also link you to: Retailers fail to pass security test; CA upgrades configuration database; Microsoft opens Office 2007 for online testing; CipherTrust upgrades instant messaging security appliance; Microsoft sets communication plan.
