Opinion

Heads roll at Nortel; more expected,

Microsoft upgrades hosted e-mail service suite

Vendors mix voice, mobile tools

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Letters to the editor: “Beware cybersquatters”

Now this is Christmas

30-second ad standard too long

The 2006 calendar for geeks

ICANN’s odd .xxx move

Japan dumps iPod tax idea

Gmail gets virus scanning

NetFlash: Heads roll at Nortel; more expected

* Heads roll at Nortel; more expected * Alcatel plays catch-up with 10G switches * Hackers publish two more Windows attacks * RIM one step closer to Judgment Day? * IT Borderlands: When online shopping doesn't work * Cartoon, quote of the week, video

Hackers publish two more Windows attacks

Microsoft Research tool ‘snarfs’ up unwanted e-mail

Nicholas Carr: Kill the screensaver

Skype adds video

Up to 10% addicted to the ‘Net

Use Firefox without a mouse

BlackBerry service in danger?

Deadheads get their downloads back

Orbital Data debuts WAN acceleration products

* A look at what the Orbital 6000 series will offer customers

Primary Rate Interface vs. Basic Rate Interface

* BRI was designed to provide two bearer channels for digital voice

Marathon servers

* Novell shows off servers with longest uptime

MailShadow’s mailbox-level disaster recovery

* Software provides disaster-recovery option for Exchange

Managing the CIRT: Professionalism

* DISA on maintaining professionalism in a CIRT

Whale’s SSL VPN gear adds compression

* Whale Communications takes on compression

Linux Networx zooms into supercomputing

* Linux Networx’s Linux Supersystems

Dust-up over Storage Networking World’s RFID tagging of attendees, Part 2

* More of the e-mail conversation with Storage Networking World’s Ron Milton

Management shakeup underway at Nortel

* Also: Hole found in Cisco IOS code; security expert says more sophisticated cyber attacks likely

WLANs keep going strong

* Studies show strong growth