Opinion

Pinpointing the exact middle of the ‘Net

NASCAR in clashes with AT&T, Motorola

Don’t write off shrink-wrap just yet

Keyboards are disgusting

What you can learn watching network traffic

* The key to understanding business issues lies in monitoring traffic

An easy way to ensure a healthy, reliable PC

* Persystent Enterprise stabilizes PCs

Letters to the editor: The IT age

Neighborhood America – customer touch specialists

* Neighborhood America can make an in-house project from hell manageable

Single sign-on educational opportunities

* SSO white papers and Webcasts

Configuring a switch for link aggregation with a SAN

Q&A: Cisco’s plans for WebEx; Data centers breathe easier with less oxygen

OpenBSD patches IPv6 flaw

* Patches from rPath, Mandriva, Gentoo, others * RSA to offer Trojan take-down service * Microsoft concedes: OneCare AV software 'not stellar', and other interesting reading

Resetting a Macromedia Contribute administrator password; Configuring a switch for link aggregation with a SAN

Hunting down wireless devices doing MAC spoofing

Insider threat being blown out of proportion?

Exclusive Red Hat review; Identity thieves work with ‘bot herders’; More

* Welcome to the afternoon edition of Network World Daily News.

Security and virtualization

IETF pushes for interoperable NAC

* NAC is a strong candidate for standardization

Wireless sensors enter the IP and Web services arena

* IETF, vendors bring IP standards to wireless PANs

Red Hat makes a splash

* Experts say RHEL5 was worth the wait

Cisco/WebEx prepare for the next wave of business communications

* Analyzing Cisco’s $3.2 billion purchase of WebEx

WebEx: What Cisco gets from acquisition; Inside Cisco’s $3.2 billion WebEx bet

Why outsourcing LAN management makes sense

Vodafone takes hybrid approach to mobile VoIP

Report says identity thieves working hand in hand with ‘bot herders’

Wal-Mart and the Three Great RFID Lies

Juniper’s executive brain drain continues

* CFO, head of Service Layer Technology group resign

A 12-year-old I want reading my blog

ICANN dropkicks RegisterFly

Scoble: Microsoft ‘sucks’ at most everything