Opinion

New NIST security publications

* NIST keeps cranking out security documents

Qualities of good leaders and employees

* To celebrate National Boss Day last month, HotJobs conducted a survey on boss-employee dynamics

Spam-blocking tool stands out from the crowd

* Secluda’s InboxMaster is an interesting spam-blocking tool

Everybody but Microsoft

* To counter the company’s Office System 2003 marketing blitz, a look at cheap and free alternatives

County government, healthcare provider take no availability risks

* Customers get savvy about diverse net designs

Novell to be married off?

* Is IBM Novell's suitor?

Storage Networking World ends on a high

* Notes from Storage Networking World, Orlando

Making IT important to the business, Part 2

* Report says collecting and correlating performance data is essential

SonicWall consolidates low-end product lines

* SonicWall TZ 170 to replace Tele 3 and SOHO 3 models

Juniper goes for an edge

* Aims for Cisco’s older 7X00 series with new routers

Microsoft aims to improve search, VeriSign gets Flashier

* News from the e-business trenches

Bugzilla bugs fixed

* Patches from BEA, Oracle, others * Beware latest variant of the Yaha family * Microsoft puts a bounty on virus writers, and other interesting reading

NetFlash: Public WLANs slowly taking shape, Cometa CEO says

Asante improves workgroup switch

* Asante Technologies enhances its high-end workgroup switch

New mgmt. standards needed

* Paradigm shift calls for new management standards, such as DCML

Spell it out

* Acrobot handles TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms)

Last mile wireless

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Study touts broadband benefits for California

* Report urges changes to California telecom regulations

Financial firm uses wireless products to keep WLANs out

* How Principal Financial ensures its environment is WLAN-free

Symantec/ON Technology merger missing professional services element

* Delving into the marriage between Symantec and ON Technology

Liberty Alliance’s wasteful exercise

* Liberty Alliance tries to compare apples with oranges

More Linux-based/open source business management packages

* Enterprise accounting, payroll and resource planning

Which handset is most appropriate for wireless?

* Different handset options for using VoIP and WLANs together

Keeping track of your data center

* What the Data Center Markup Language could do for your data center

Getting to know Longhorn

* Where to get Longhorn information

Lucent lights up Verizon

Second of several vendors for carrier's next-gen SONET buildout

NetFlash: Novell prepares to take on Red Hat

Sprint’s Forsee: Reorganization ‘changing the culture of the company’

Settlement foes propose stiffer remedies in Microsoft case

IBM aims for desktop outsourcing