Opinion

The upside and downside of SSL VPN

* VPN observations from Interop

FCC reaffirms wiretap deadline

* Also: Google won't do Silicon Valley Wi-Fi; Democrats introduce 'Net neutrality bill

HP’s server cooling technology is inspired by model airplanes

* HP shows off Active Cool Fans

How to deal with those pesky vendors

* Storage vendor fluff

ETelemetry debuts bandwidth management appliance

* Metron associates bandwidth directly with end users

Novell SecureLogin for ActivIdentity gets updated

* Novell SecureLogin enhanced

Sidestepping technical pain

* 28 years later, personal computing still sucks far too often

Postal inspectors provide valuable fraud awareness resources

* Resources from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service

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NetFlash: Verizon looking to sell off more lines

* Verizon looking to sell off more lines * Mitel files for IPO * Art imitates wireless network * GFI adds Grisoft’s antivirus engine to e-mail content filtering * 3 vendors help boost WAN performance * Kodak combines imaging and wireless * Today on L

Extreme protects Interop network from probes

* Extreme Networks and the InteropNet

Patch Tuesday brings Exchange fixes

* Patches from Microsoft, Debian, Ubuntu, others * Beware new variants of Mytob, Bagle, Rbot, more * Change in Microsoft Vista security system promises Windows migration headaches, and other interesting reading

Unisys focuses on flexible infrastructure

Execs tell regulators SOX costs exceed benefits

Kodak combines imaging and wireless

* Latest Cool Tools video: Kodak combines imaging and wireless * Latest Cool Tools Column: The pros and cons of portable external hard drives * The past 7 days on the Cool Tools Blog * Featured reader resource

All the week’s most read stories, and more

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

Vonage Annoys with IPO

Time Sink #10: The Wooden Periodic Table

Geek Toys #3: Preserving Snowflakes

Backspin This Week: Too Damn Complicated

Still haven’t found what I am looking for

The oddest PC we’ve seen

San Fran offers teens sex info via cell

Zombie-net hacker heads to the pokey

Is Firefox getting corporate?

CEOs and their ‘crack cocaine’

Expert identifies the latest DNS threats

* Part 2 of a Q&A with DNS expert Cricket Liu

HP introduces continuous learning policy to ensure certified pros are up-to-date

* No more exams for HP certified professionals

Approaches to going ‘all wireless’

* Wireless hierarchy vs. wireless mesh

SOA governance vendors form interoperability coalition

* SOA Link vendor members work to ensure product interoperability