Opinion

Industry improves upon best practice frameworks

* ITIL and COBIT evolve with latest updates

Provisioning for non-employees in healthcare organizations

* Continuing our look at identity and healthcare

Letters: Nortel defends PBT

6LoWPAN: Low-power IP connectivity

* IETF 6LoWPAN draft standard for IPv6 communication over IEEE 802.15.4

Cracking down on wireless credit card security

* Retailers: Pay attention to PCI security standards

In a groove with Wimpy Media streaming products

* Why embedded music is a bad idea

Whirlpool takes Cisco NAC for a spin; Cisco accused of employee discrimination

Vonage appeal cites Supreme Court patent ruling; Complex setup hurts Linksys VoIP PBX

10 Gigabit Ethernet gear demonstrated; Five more years of Chambers

Wacky Security Threat Terms; Hackers hijack Windows

The Pirate Backup System; Clustered NEC arrays scale from gigabytes to a petabyte

Red Hat still has sway

* Red Hat shows it still has plenty of momentum and sway in the industry

Cable companies beef up their enterprise offerings

* News from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association show

A cynic rips open source; Sprint Nextel vs. 41 nonprofits

Nortel plans major enterprise product launch; Don’t jump the gun with 802.11n

Wireless access controllers: Worth the trouble?

Microsoft demands royalties for open source software

Looking for stripped-down Linux distribution; Wireless access controllers: Worth the trouble?

Verizon Business acquires Cybertrust

Review: Management software; Using ‘offensive technologies’ to secure networks

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State bans texting while driving

Washington state takes bold first step

Winners of April’s book giveaways

NAC approaches explained

Top ways to fix your online reputation

Explaining the security term “offensive technologies”

Cox aims to blast cable thieves

Can Microsoft be funny?

Vista Migration Step 2: Be Flexible with your plans

Google, YouTube cave to Thai censors