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Power plays 2004

Click on the tabs below to get the play by play on this year's major power struggles and powerful events.

The big management fix

Web services you can bank on

Runner-up Northern Trust built a service-oriented architecture that promises big efficiency gains

Voice over IP gains traction

On the leading edge of RFID

Getting your rebate money

The fate of the IXCs

Once-mighty interexchange carriers AT&T, MCI and Sprint now must evolve or face extinction.

Reinvention or extinction?

The future is wireless, VoIP

Consumer VoIP is key for AT&T

Brian Underdahl on building a home network

Get a grip

How to be the go-to guy without going crazy.

Welcome to Network Life

Profiling cybercrime: Networking threats and defense strategies 11/29/04

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Victim’s rights: Cybercrime retaliation

Advanced technologies aim to protect network assets

Serious business

Profiling cybercriminals: A promising but immature science

Is the law’s arm long enough?

The battle against cyberterror

Cyber squabbling in Washington

Cybercrime: The story behind the stats

2004 Holiday Gift Guide

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IBM’s World Community Grid

The Extended Enterprise Issue, 11/15/04

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Going nowhere

A third way?

An end to the VPN blues

A deep-rooted legacy of access

The richer, the better

Citrix vs. Web access: Points of differentiation

Stop! Access restricted

Seven security considerations

The ‘uncertainty principle’

When inside becomes outside

Hallmarks of the ‘digital organization’

Search engines

The evolution of IDS

Signature no longer valid

Will IPS replace IDS?

Evaluating the IDS options

E-mail at a crossroads

Sender authentication hits roadblocks

Security Summit

John Seely Brown on conferencing and collaboration

Automation know-how

Outsourcing meets automation

Organize to automate

Danger in the new data center

Grid on the job