Opinion

AT&T to replace Cingular brand Monday

Outrage and lust

Battery fires, rootkits and Sony’s brand

Cisco security advisories

Cisco security responses

Parting thought from CES/Las Vegas

Searching make you cranky? You may be old

Love Wikipedia? … Have a spare $51,729.50?

Online education

Your next home could be a castle, Dracula’s castle

Apple playing chicken with Cisco … probably not a good idea

On second thought, screw user satisfaction

Money apparently no object for iPhone fans

Not to be confused with Justin Timberlake’s Alpha Dog, the movie

New threat to married (or attached somehow) men everywhere

E-mail is still really, really important

* How workers use e-mail

Technology guidelines for 2007

* Getting more work with less pain from technology

Cisco analyst conference mulls super fast pipes vs. highly functional nets

* Thoughts from Cisco analyst conference

Start-up proposes alternative to TCP

* Data Expedition, Inc.'s approach to traffic acceleration and network optimization

Virtualization was hot in 2006

* Virtualization in the news

Business intelligence gets collaborative

2007 IT strategy: More of the same

Linux invades CES, Wi-Fi security becomes law, and more

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Patches from Adobe, Microsoft, Cisco

* Patches from Adobe, Microsoft, Cisco, others * F-Secure warns of Saddam Hussein malware * Malware now hiding in search results, and other interesting reading

NetFlash: Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name

* Cisco sues Apple over iPhone name * Verizon previews 2007 services road map * Opinion: Apple iPhone: Another enterprise Trojan horse? * Sophos buys Endforce for network access control * Free hacker scan for universities, nonprofits * Cisco, Jabber

CES iPod gems

New tape specification debuts

Opinion: Apple iPhone: Another enterprise Trojan horse?

Bill Gates touts Home Server

Foundry gear in NutriSystem, Cadence networks

* Foundry switches land in two networks