Opinion

Your take: Automated phone systems

* Readers offer suggestions on how to bypass them

Real ID Act up for debate

* MIT to hold public meeting about controversial Real ID Act

Could you or your outsourcer handle a one-two disaster punch?

* Recovering from back-to-back disasters

LAMP/Asterisk-powered voicemail keeps Katrina victims in touch

* LAMP is the engine behind contactlovedones.org

Microsoft touts Live Communications Server for securing IM

* Microsoft shows the way to secure IM

Readers are positive about online training

* Reader comments about online training courses and how employers view them

Closing breaches in application security

* Breach Security’s approach to security

Carriers are key to VoIP prominence

* Report from Fall VON 2005 Conference & Expo

NetFlash: Hard questions, dissension mark new stage in wireless sensing

* Hard questions, dissension mark new stage in wireless sensing * IPTV will trip up Bells, analysts say * Espion automates e-mail encryption * EMC unveils Exchange management software * Today on Layer 8

Qwest charges SBC with anti-competitive tactics

Experts discuss the next generation VoIP

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Google: So big we stopped counting

Chicago eatery opens cell phone area

Sailors block emergency channel with movie

Is Skype freeloading off your net?

NetFlash: Cisco teams with Trend Micro on security service

* Cisco teams with Trend Micro on security service * 3Com introduces branch office wireless * Opinion: Skype: Hazardous to network health? * Painless patching * ONStor, 3Par merge NAS and SAN * The Buzz Issue * Today on Layer 8

Check Point and Nokia join forces to offer VPN gateway for midsize businesses

* What the Nokia IP 260 and IP 265 offer midsized businesses

Extending Ethernet with copper is gaining steam

Security clearance process not quick

* Security clearance backlogs costing time and money

Fight Katrina frauds

* Examples of those who would take advantage of Hurricane Katrina disaster

Misunderstanding the fundamentals

* Net Insider columnist Scott Bradner takes a look at how congress plans to take a shot at telecom reform

Mailbag: The pros of providing e-mail to all workers

* Readers in favor of providing e-mail to everyone

Information stewardship: the role of the data center

* Data center management is all about information stewardship

Group tallies commuting costs

* Newly available telework resources include a how-to guide from Pointsec and a free VPN service from Google

Qwest claims SBC anti-competitive practices

* Complaints hit FCC three months before expected SBC/AT&T merger approval

Survey identifies data center access trends

* Data traffic is doubling annually, survey says

What Messman thinks will happen when Microsoft ships Vista

* Novell CEO expects flood of customers when Microsoft releases Vista