Opinion

What’s the difference between a BlackBerry and a BlackJack?

Broadband: The must-have

The perfect holiday gift if you’re a complete loser

Next up: spoofed voicemails?

* Spoofing on steroids

Desktop protection for pennies per day

* SecurityCoverage works behind the scenes

Give praise to Novell’s support team

* You can count on Novell’s support organization

Gartner addresses pressing acceleration, optimization questions Part 2

* WAN optimization and application delivery technologies will converge, Gartner says

Cost-benefit analysis of security

Cedars-Sinai creates a supercomputer with Sun servers

* Cedar-Sinai uses Sun Grid Rack system for medical analysis

The benefits of thinking strategic when deploying network optimization

* Lesson learned from IT Roadmap

New storage technologies cure acne!

* How data compression differs from de-duplication

Alliances for better NAC

* Companies join to develop deployable products that go beyond bare bones NAC

Wireless routers for the road

Lucky 7 patches from Microsoft

* Patches from Microsoft, Gentoo, Mandriva, others * Terrorists may try cyberattacks, Russian expert say, and other interesting reading

IBM releases free search software for small, midsize businesses

Microsoft releases beta of unified communications hub

NetFlash: Striving to keep teleworkers happy

* Striving to keep teleworkers happy * Cisco's top technologist wants to rally latent start-up spirit * Outsourcing 2006: 8 trends you need to know about * Packeteer unwraps video management software * CCIE: Talk about a stress test * Network World V

Extreme, Avaya partnership rolls on

* Latest in the partnership between Extreme Networks and Avaya

WiMAX security, teleworker morale, Cisco’s Chambers, and more

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

100Tbps Internet routers could be on the way

Here’s what’s happened to Reddit (apparently)

Better than a dating service for the single IT guy?

Are iTunes sales ‘collapsing’ or not?

‘Net addiction: Real problem or blown out of proportion?

Nintendo steals Sony thunder

Why it pays to be a slacker

10 tips for a successful job interview, Part 1

* Tips to help you get the right job

Interoperability and open standards are not a management panacea

* Vendors vie for interoperability

Microsoft WGA says: ‘Prove your innocence’

* Microsoft introduces ‘indeterminate’ status to Windows Genuine Advantage

Planning ahead for 802.11n

* Migration strategies for higher-throughput Wi-Fi