Opinion

Great Storage Haiku Contest 2006

* Start thinking of your storage-related haikus now

How open is your organization’s culture to sharing knowledge effectively?

* The impact of corporate culture on messaging techniques

Lucent-Alcatel: Is it a good merger?

* The effect megamergers have on the corporate network

Application acceleration market topped $1 billion in 2005

* Gartner counts the application acceleration market

ActivIdentity says support for eDirectory is key

* ActivIdentity partners with Novell

Wireless operators await spectrum auctions

* Also: San Francisco picks Google, Earthlink for Wi-Fi plan; and Atrica hardens Ethernet for outdoor environments

Virtualization is a hot issue for IT pros

* Virtualization survey; Microsoft gives away Virtual Server 2005 R2

New security handbook impressive

* The three-volume Handbook of Information Security

BlueRoam extends VPN service to handheld devices

* BlueRoam now supports BlackBerries, Treos and Windows Mobile devices

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NetFlash: IP address management growing up

* IP address management growing up * Qualcomm chipset could triple wireless bandwidth * Searching for a new phone: The quest continues * Critics hit SF Wi-Fi plan on privacy, interference * Oracle to buy Portal Software for $220 million * Today on La

Cisco adds application module to Catalyst 6500

* Cisco's Application Control Engine

Microsoft releases critical Internet Explorer patch

IP address mgmt. growing up

Searching for a new phone at CTIA

* Latest Cool Tools videos: Searching for a new phone at CTIA, Parts 1 & 2 * Latest Cool Tools Column: Watch out for wearable USB 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.

Rack mount your gear cheap

Steve Jobs wants your change

One super-sweet office game

IPTV brings bad, bad things

Using tech to keep justice in line

Ass Backward

Which brand of detergent washes whiter than white?

Who knew? … Practically nobody.

Slamming Red Hat

Computers hijack quarter vote

Casinos to network slots

‘Star Wars kid’ settles lawsuit

Blue Cat targets IP address management

* Blue Cat Networks introduces Proteus

IEEE-USA aims to foster innovation

* Could you be a candidate for IEEE-USA's Innovation Institute?