Opinion

This Week in Gearhead: Programming Your Brain

This Week in Backspin: 2007, the Year of Being Outraged?

Time Sink #18: Wondermark, perhaps the world’s best comic?

Acer Users Beware!

Money for nothing, MIT for free

Potty mouth: reading e-mail in the bathroom

Why can’t Yahoo block Yahoo-targeting phishers?

One bangin’ audio system

Letters to the editor: “Microsoft Research fights critics, targets innovation”

Q&A: 100G Ethernet to the masses

NetFlash: Wi-Fi body to simplify security setup

* Wi-Fi body to simplify security setup * Apple’s Macworld opens arms to corporate users * Tech Update: A new SSL certificate is on the way * Cool Tools: Palm unveils Treo 750 * Storage vets push new hybrid technologies, 1TB disk drives * Real-time

The year ahead: Juggling IT risks, opportunities – and more

Welcome to the editor's choice edition. Look for the reader's choice edition on Thursday.

A new SSL certificate is on the way

* Extended Validation SSL

Sophos box takes aim at bad Web sites, misguided end users

* Web security appliance defends against spyware, other malware infections

Using a camcorder for data backup; Getting a wireless card to work again

What’s bubbling in network management for 2007?

* Network configuration management, quality of experience in 2007

Users say to IT: It’s none of your business what I do

* Users really do ignore IT authority, according to Cisco report

802.11a phones hit the street

* Enterprises gain more flexible Vo-Fi design option

Convergence on the mind for identity management vendors in 2006

* Convergence happenings in 2006

Squirl, collecting the long tail

* A social cataloging tool that helps you catalog practically anything

Report: Almost half of users will move to Linux for critical apps in 4 years

* Linux rollouts for business critical applications

AT&T’s acquisition concessions benefit consumers

* What did AT&T agree to give up for it to purchase BellSouth?

Cisco Secure Access Control Server flaws patched

* Patches from Cisco, Microsoft, Gentoo, others * Top 10 viruses for December, according to Sophos * A new SSL certificate is on the way, and other interesting reading

Getting a wireless card to work again

Rogue access points and 802.1X

Cisco warns of vulnerabilities in NAC product

Protecting your data center during power-outage season

Convergence/VoIP predictions for 2007

Two quick-setup Asterisk packages debut

* Digium and Fonality offer software for setting up VoIP servers in less than 30 minutes

CES starts with a bang