NetFlash: Heads roll at Nortel; more expected

With a new CEO in place, Nortel is cleaning house. Two senior execs are gone, and more are expected to, you know, leave to pursue other opportunities and spend more time with their families. Heads roll at Nortel; more expected http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/120105-nortel.html?net&story=120105-nortel

With a new CEO in place, Nortel is cleaning house. Two senior execs are gone, and more are expected to, you know, leave to pursue other opportunities and spend more time with their families.

Heads roll at Nortel; more expected

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/120105-nortel.html?net&story=120105-nortel

Alcatel plays catch-up with 10G switches

Alcatel this week is to launch two switches targeted for corporate-backbone and data-center deployments, where Gigabit Ethernet links are either aggregated from stacks of LAN-edge switches in wiring closets or from racks of Gigabit-enabled servers.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/112805-alcatel.html?net&story=112805-alcatel

Hackers publish two more Windows attacks

Hackers have given system administrators two more reasons to update users’ Windows PCs. Over the past two days, they have published two more samples of software that could be used to attack an unpatched Windows system, bringing the tally of new Windows attacks released into circulation this week to four.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/120205-hackers-windows.html?net&story=120205-hackers-windows

RIM one step closer to Judgment Day?

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has lost its latest move in the long-running patent infringement case brought by NTP, according to published reports.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/120105-rim-lawsuit.html?net&story=120105-rim-lawsuit

IT Borderlands: When online shopping doesn’t work

Ken Fasimpaur offers some advice to an online retail site he ran across, starting with: “First, after boldly claiming that ‘This service is available whenever you are – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week’ on your splash screen, you might want to make sure that your electronic payment system doesn’t go down for twenty straight hours …”

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/3764

Cartoon, quote of the week, videos and more

Check out today’s Friday Edition and take a break from the weekly grind. In addition to this week’s cartoon, quote of the week and the best of Cool Tools videos, you’ll find the most-read opinions and blogs from Network World.

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

Today on Layer 8, now celebrating our 2,000th post:

ICANN kills Triple X domain; the definitive 2006 calendar for the geek in your life; Gmail adds virus scanning; and Japan abandons iPod tax idea; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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