Opinion

This month’s must-read career stories

* Keeping you abreast of IT career news

IBM, Cisco release crisis response service

Verizon Business maps 2007 network plans

Reporting data breaches won’t kill your company; Wireless security must be top priority

News from CEBIT; BRAINSHARE; INFOSEC; VON

Top open-source security tools; The 3 Great RFID Lies

Throughput promise of 802.11n lies in 5GHz band

* 2.4GHz channel-bonding limits will inhibit performance enhancements

Management musts: Daylight saving updates

* Taking preventative measures will help you in the long run

Not all IT controls are created equal

* Controlling compliance

HSBC gets behind Microsoft/Novell in Linux consolidation move

* HSBC plans to standardize its data centers on Microsoft and SUSE

Clarus tests VoIP; LiteScape provides VoIP authentication, presence

* Technologies seen at VoiceCon

Next shoe to drop for Vonage

* CFO, head of Service Layer Technology group resign

Even $20-million ballplayers hawk stuff on eBay

Things are worse

Caption contest: Experimentation

UK firms buys Cisco’s TelePresence setup

What’s in Cisco AutoQoS

Caption contest winner: Bill Gates edition

Father of Fortran dies

Microsoft phone is a stalking horse for bigger things to come

Adobe won’t fix Vista compatibility problems in current software

Software advocate blasts Microsoft-Novell ‘protection racket’

“They tried to teach my baby science.”

“Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case may decide if schools can control the likes of MySpace

YouTube rolls out red carpet: awards show voting this week

Will NASCAR’s Car of tomorrow induce recklessness?

So who was the first blogger?

IT consultants laughing all the way to the bank

The return to interstate-intrastate rates?

* Plain old telephone service

Intel takes aim at AMD with energy efficient quad-core chips

* Intel introduces two low-voltage processors