Opinion

World’s most expensive cell number

Schools to punish students over bad blogs

Heavy cell phone use may signal teen depression

iPods get into your shoes

Symantec showcases the ‘Security of Information’

* Securing data is a vital aspect of enterprise risk management

Mixing sales channels to reach small businesses

* Bandwidth.com and CompUSA tag team for Internet telephone sales

The role of strategic ROIs

* Strategic vs. tactical ROIs

Spamming and phishing with pictures and voice

* Security firms fight image-only spam and phishing via VoIP

AdRem upgrades NetCrunch

* AdRem's NetCrunch is optimized for NetWare

Microsoft’s Whale buy is good all round

* What does Microsoft get in Whale?

Interpersonal relations matter

* Awareness of personality types can help security managers get things done

Nortel updates turnaround effort

* Also: Qwest acquires OnFiber Communications; and BellSouth demands that USA Today retract NSA spy story

IBM rolls out grid software for batch processing

* IBM Batch-on-Grid

Trafigura turns to Network Physics for application optimization

* Commodity trading company's experiences with performance mgmt.

Is future-proofing a thing of the past?

* Gartner analyst comments spark debate on Gigabit Ethernet

IBM updates mgmt. database, debuts process-based apps

Loco for the OQO

* Latest Cool Tools video: Bluetooth to serial adapters * Latest Cool Tools Column: Palm's new Treo * The past 7 days on the Cool Tools Blog * Featured reader resource

Cisco patches Windows VPN client

* Patches from Cisco, Apple, Trustix, others * Beware data-stealing Trojan that sends its bounty to a remote site

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NetFlash: Cisco buys into virtualization vendor NeoPath

* Cisco buys into virtualization vendor NeoPath * Spam filter blamed in lost bid for telecom services * AT&T launches satellite Internet access service * Vonage IPO stock drops on first day * Survey: All about you * Today on Layer 8

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Time Sink #12: Name My Tune

Gearhead This Week: Taking computers under water

Is Vonage sweet at $17?

Sean Connery at heart of privacy flap

Microsoft rewards employees, stiffs contractors

Tales from the Apple store opening

What took down Montana’s network?

Tales from the front: GWU automates IP address management

* George Washington University is using BlueCat appliances to cut overhead costs on its IP network

HP joins SOA Link; Heroix uses open source tools in mgmt. product

* SOA Link gets a new founding member; Heroix embraces open source