Opinion

Qualcomm: Contrarians at the gate

Exclusive: Sony PS3 first look

IBM holds lead on Top 500 Supercomputers List

Microsoft releases six security updates

What data-recovery tools are needed?

Disk drives: We’re driven to drink

Supercomputing conference boasts super network

* Inside the network at SC06

Alcatel bumps Cisco, the 4 most trendy Linux developments, and more

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

The three laws of telco economics

Tech is getting easier, CIOs say

ChoicePoint: Lipstick on a pig?

NetFlash: Nick Lippis and the IP ‘black hole’

* Nick Lippis and the IP 'black hole' * Project management software can curb IT inefficiencies * Skype launches first mobile service * Egenera tucks Xen into management platform * Apple iPhone rumors multiply * Cool Tools video: Exclusive: Sony PS3 f

Recapping Patch Tuesday

* Patches from Microsoft, Trustix, Gentoo, others * Top 10 viruses from the past 7 days, according to Trend Micro * Microsoft labels Google's Gmail as virus, and other interesting reading

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Off topic: Why I’ve always hated Bobby Knight

AIM 6.0 touts “offline messages”

With tsunamis, does size matter?

As Japan braces: Tech-related tsunami resources

How to give Firefox fans a heart attack

Where are all the pretty pictures?

Microsoft tags Gmail as virus

iPlane: Six airlines to install iPod docks

What percentage of the Web is porn?

Dual-mode, convergence heats up

* Enterprise convergence gear on tap

Cisco and cable group offer CCNA training to cable workers

* Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers becomes a Cisco Academy

Alexa and Alexaholic, useful, inaccurate, free stats

* Alexa's data collection is limited but useful

Vendors line up to incorporate virtualization into their products

* Building the virtualization ecosystem

Putting authentication context into context

* What is ‘authentication context’?

Feds making significant progress on IPv6, survey finds

* Juniper's second annual survey of government agency progress on IPv6

MySQL exec sees databases in the sky

* MySQL CEO envisions a system of interconnected databases