Opinion

Mailbag: The threat of mobility

* The growth of mobility will create a variety of data security problems

Pain free technology

* Decide what hurts, and fix or sidestep it

Get trained in data center management

* The Data Center University

ClearSight improves VoIP, adds video analysis

* ClearSight Analyzer gets updated

Google exec says IT ‘crisis’ preventing business innovation

IBM social networking site looking for Many Eyes

Information assurance in Beer-sheba

* An early story of identity theft

Introducing Cisco Subnet

* Cisco Subnet is live

Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides have got the goods

* Constantly updated resource provides one-stop shop for IT product research

NetFlash: Web 2.0: Meaningless buzzword or Internet revolution?

* Web 2.0: Meaningless buzzword or Internet revolution? * IBM social networking site looking for Many Eyes * Can we make radio interference into a virtue? * Google exec says IT 'crisis' preventing business innovation * New mobile service simplifies o

QuickTime fix from Apple

* Patches from Apple, SuSE, rPath, others * Symantec: Storm Trojan worst outbreak since 2005 * Widgets: The next big security threat?, and other interesting reading

MIT’s network, 10 networkiest movies, 7 security best practices, and more

Welcome to The Best of Network World. Here is this week's Readers' Choice, with the most-clicked stories of the week.

Differences between MySQL character data types

What’s running? Use What’s Running

Breaches: Boards need to wake up

Soup-to-nuts data protection system

* IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager

Bradford Networks revamps NAC software

* NAC Director from Bradford Networks

Can we make radio interference into a virtue?

Caption contest: Microsoft/Nortel edition

Microsoft didn’t ‘bribe’ standards expert

Real world law: sell more, keep job

Linux Getting Easier

Caption contest winner

Memories on ice

Offer from Dell: “Look, Ma, no Windows”

SlimTimer: Timetracking made simple

* Timetracking that's elegant, reliable and free

Retailers must check for PCI standards compliance

* Complying with governance mandates

RSA introduces the fourth-factor authentication

* Somebody you know

How to cheat at Windows system administration

* “How To Cheat At Windows System Administration Using Command Line Scripts”

Unisys releases open source services and product packages

* New offerings from Unisys