NetFlash: Ebbers sentenced to 25 years for WorldCom fraud

Opinion
Jul 14, 20052 mins

* Ebbers sentenced to 25 years for WorldCom fraud * Feature: The ROI of VoIP * Sun to open-source Web single sign-on technology * Microsoft settles networking software patent dispute * Weblog: Tar and feathering in the digital age * Today on Layer 8

Yesterday the sentence was handed down: Bernie Ebbers got 25 years in prison for his role in WorldCom’s massive corporate accounting fraud. Is the sentence too harsh? Too lenient? Ebbers sentenced to 25 years for WorldCom fraud http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071305-ebbers.html?net&story=071305-ebbers

Yesterday the sentence was handed down: Bernie Ebbers got 25 years in prison for his role in WorldCom’s massive corporate accounting fraud. Is the sentence too harsh? Too lenient?

Ebbers sentenced to 25 years for WorldCom fraud

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071305-ebbers.html?net&story=071305-ebbers

Feature: The ROI of VoIP

Ever wonder just how much VoIP costs, and how much you could save by implementing it? Our in-depth story lays out all the dollar signs.

http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/071105-voip.html?net&story=071105-voip

Sun to open-source Web single sign-on technology

Sun Wednesday said it will open-source components of its Web authentication and single sign-on technologies as part of a project it is calling OpenSSO.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071305-sun-open.html?net&story=071305-sun-open

Microsoft settles networking software patent dispute

Microsoft has reached a licensing agreement with networking technology vendor Alacritech that will remove Microsoft’s forthcoming TCP Chimney software from the legal limbo it’s been stuck in for the past several months, following a patent dispute.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071305-microsoft-patent.html?net&story=071305-microsoft-patent

Weblog: Tar and feathering in the digital age

Deb Radcliff yesterday took on vigilantes on the Internet, pointing to a group with the good intention of publicly humiliating pedophiles. But what happens when the group humiliates the wrong person?

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/2322

Today on Layer 8, where it’s clobberin’ time:

Dell shuts down customer support forums; naughty spam on the decline;  Google stock sets off buying boom in Calif. town; and ways to find out what your pets do all today; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/?net&story=layer8