Opinion

Microsoft to revamp patch management software

Dell to help customers corral their switches

Bells file court challenges to FCC telecom order

ITWorx NetCelera and Packeteer PacketShaper Xpress

* The Reviewmeister continues his compression obsession

Net Know-It-All

So you think you're a Net Know-It-All? Take this week's quiz and find out.

Dell designs for lower TCO

* Dell's strategy to lower the cost of owning Dell equipment

Searching for domains

* WhoIs ULTRA from AnalogX

Storage name systems

* The Internet Storage Name Service

International Internet traffic up, but rates keep falling

* Study finds prices are falling for international traffic

Agents can hurt network performance

* Agents and spyware may affect the performance of your network

Number portability is coming

* Will changing cellular providers improve your service?

An event for data center denizens

* Network World's free technology tour

The gospel according to Dilbert

VoIP drives network makeovers

XML ties apps together for call centers

* How XML can unite applications that call centers rely on

Check the locks work for your house

* Patches are only as good as your test of it in your own environment

More than full employment for lawyers?

Brave new world of WLAN analyzers

Showdown set for fall VON in Boston

Wi-Fi service: What’s missing?

Access rule vs. firewalls

Why federal telework is slow to grow

Broadband telephony taking off

Web pages made simple

Separating your personas

* Identification using one identity, but multiple personas

A clean Windows reinstall

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on how to install a clean copy of Windows 2000 or XP without reformatting the hard drive

And the winner is . . .

Running the numbers on source verification

Storage servers, backups and architectures

Consumer-grade access points in a business network