Opinion

Time to break up Microsoft

Sys admin trashes employer’s net

Feds to data-mine MySpace?

Video game detox clinic opens

Microsoft vs. Cisco: The new clash of the titans

Survey: gaping security holes

Tax-happy feds should simply quit meddling

Digital recording directly to a hard drive

TCO and the PC upgrade problem

Laptop security: Do companies care?

A Goodsyncing feeling

Netgear, chipmakers try to save 802.11n’s rep

* 11n chip industry joins forces

Vendors release edge products at Globalcomm 2006

* Globalcomm 2006 announcements by Juniper, Ericsson, Cisco and Time Warner

PingID upgrades its federation server

* Try out PingFederate Version 4 for free

A trying time on United’s Web site

* Is interacting with your Web site as good as in the real world?

Linux server uptime worse than Windows and Unix, says Yankee Group study

* Yankee Group blames outages on lack of Linux, open source documentation

‘Net neutrality is necessary to save the Internet

House defeats bill, but the debate rages on.

‘Net neutrality debate sets out a false choice

The current discussion is framed as all or nothing. That is, without new regulation there will be anticompetitive behavior. This is patently false.

Here’s hoping BusRadio drives off a cliff

Microsoft OneCare could be the undoing

NetFlash: Users demand better network hardware management

* Users demand better network hardware mgmt. * Justice launches fly-off competition for $2.5 billion wireless deal * MessageLabs launches encrypted IM software * Fear and loathing of video on the LAN * Network World Radio: Trying out a new format * T

Preparing for the CCNA

A dozen patches coming from Microsoft

* Patches from Ubuntu, Mandriva, Debian, others * Beware new Sdbot variant that exploits known Windows flaws as it spreads through network shares

Network neutrality debate, the week’s news and more

Here is this week's Editors' Choice; look for Readers' Choice later this week.

Digital recording directly to a hard drive; Preparing for the CCNA

IPFIX eases network-flow reporting

* IETF has proposed standardizing flow export

Compatibility with legacy equipment key to NAC’s future

Split appears between Cisco and EMC

Avaya bolsters IP phone line

Microsoft vs. Cisco: The new clash of the titans