Opinion

Look for integrated products from Symantec-Veritas deal

* Potential benefits of Symantec’s proposed acquisition of Veritas

Why does broadband need ISP services anyway?

NetFlash: IBM’s PC unit lost money from 2001 onwards

* IBM's PC unit lost money from 2001 onwards * Network Life: Where do routers come from? * EBay drops Microsoft's Passport * Pew study: Blogs busted out in 2004 * Today on Layer 8

HP moves up in Gartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant’

* HP improves its standing in Gartner’s eyes

Apple ships SAN file system, upgrades server

Two Flash items from Macromedia

Finally… TiVo To Go

ActivShopper toolbar automatically compares shopping prices

* ActivShopper hunts for cheaper prices

Linux predictions for 2005

* Linux thrives on the desktop but may struggle with security

NetFlash: A powerful start to the New Year

* The 50 most powerful people in networking * Despite tsunamis, outsourcers stay in Chennai * VeriSign: Online shopping up 24% this year * AOL members report significantly less spam in 2004 * Today on Layer 8

How ‘management’ may take on new meaning at Cisco, Part 2

* More from Cisco’s analyst meeting

3G wireless broadband service comes to small businesses

How Microsoft did in 2004

* Microsoft juggled security and open source issues in 2004

New work-at-home jobs site mixes truth with fiction

If you’re legitimate, shouldn’t your paid advertising be too?

The basics of the home-based business

SMBs in 2005: Still adored or ignored?

How we did with our identity management resolutions

* The year in identity management

Web services require collaboration between net, app staffs

* Web services play role in convergence that requires collaboration

Wireless pop quiz: Reviewing 2004

* The wireless year in review

The Power Issue empowers readers

* The Power Issue empowers readers * Network World’s Power Poll: funny, yes; scientific, no * The most excellent network * Look at me!

Level 3 lights up U.S. fiber net for France Telecom

IBM’s PC unit lost money from 2001 onwards

This week on Network World Fusion, 01/03/05

Welcome to This Week on NW Fusion, featuring breaking news, info, and tips from Network World Fusion, the most comprehensive enterprise networking resource on the Internet. See below for the week's biggest stories and check out our other e-mail news

Cisco again regarded as most powerful net company

Server network card problem

The new storage pool: heterogeneous virtualization

PCI-Express on the server fast track

* Focus on PCI-Express

iDefense warns of xpdf flaws

* Patches from IBM, HP, Debian, others * Beware new, virulent Cabir mobile phone worms * Trend Micro snatches Hotmail account from McAfee, and other interesting reading

Keeping an eye on outbound e-mail on your corporate network

* A look at Barracuda Spam Firewall-Outbound Edition

Safety tips for the New Year