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Most popular stories this week: Aug. 6

The most-viewed stories at Network World for the week ending Aug. 6.

TEDx Talks Bring TED Conference to Your Backyard

Attend a local TEDx meeting to inspire innovation and change

Beatles on iTunes? ‘Don’t hold your breath,’ says Yoko Ono

Long-running Apple vs. Apple vs. EMI dispute continues

Heroix, Nimsoft roll out cloud management features

* Tools give IT the ability to monitor private and public cloud services and other infrastructure from a single console

Secure and share sensitive documents in your extended enterprise

RIM poised to deliver touchscreen smartphone

* Company moves to protect fiercely loyal customer base

Shoretel upgrades UC software

* Latest release includes a client for the iPhone and a distributed database, along with other features

Extreme CRM Makeover, Open Source Edition – Episode 3, It ain’t just for sales people

Too many people still think CRM begins and ends as a tool for sales people, the whole company uses CRM today

Hole 196: Lessons Learned

I'm going wrap this up for now - but I'm not dismissing this whole affair any time soon, and neither should you.

Android 2.2: How to install Flash on Froyo

Flash-ify your Froyo!

Surprise! SAP is now big into open source

If you ask them, “Why?” they’ll answer, “Why not?”

Router advances from Cisco, others, drive spending

Enhancements like CRS-3, 100G Ethernet will help market grow 60% in five years: Dell'Oro

Open source, the demo-meritocracy

Open source is driven by pragmatic values of transparency and enfranchisement

Cisco firewalls hit again by DoS condition

Company issues advisories on switch, router module and ASA appliance

NASA goes after lighting storms on Earth

NASA set to launch large-scale storm research project

Rumor: New iPods, iPads, and iPhone on the horizon

Rumor has it that Apple over the next few months will release new iPods, a smaller iPad, and believe it or not, a new iteration of the iPhone

Google Wave drowns, washes out, crashes out, goes out with the tide, etc. etc

Nothing like a clever product name to get the journalistic juices flowing

Lobbyists not public interest will settle ‘Net neutrality debate

Updated, 1:30 p.m.: Closed-door meetings between Verizon, Google, FCC and others only a warm-up act

How Microsoft ranks with the most tardy bug fixers

TippingPoint leans on vendors to fix software bugs or else

Building a better netbook

Hitachi ID upgrades Password Manager

* Adds capabilities to support all of a user's authentication factors -- passwords, security questions, OTP tokens, smart cards, voice biometrics and hard disk encryption keys

Building a better netbook

Contribute or Be Shamed

What is the appropriate amount of contribution to an open source project?

IT security auditors are NOT evil and could keep you from getting hacked

Auditors often get a bad rap but the process of auditing security as a system can greatly reduce risk and find weaknesses in security that can result in your company being hacked.

Putting Your Scorecard to Work, Pt. 1

Linking financial data to other measures the next necessary step

Free Software Foundation’s Women’s Caucus is looking for an intern

The goal: Raise the profile of successful women in FLOSS and get it to other women at a younger age

Unix How-To: Give Me That Old-Time Security!

Android 2.2 on Motorola Droid: First impressions of Froyo

Fellow Android nerds, I have seen the Froyo and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do

GPL Has Some Bite Behind It

Ruling in the BusyBox suit shows that GPL has legal teeth to enforce violations

NSF meeting looks at squeezing more out of wireless spectrum

NSF convenes Enhancing Access to the Radio Spectrum workshop