* IBM and HP choose start-up NetXen's NIC technology
* Making sense of access-control plans from Cisco, Microsoft and others * Alcatel, Lucent agree to merge * Virtualization gaining ground in open source * UC Berkeley upgrades voice * Novell scrambles to fend off Microsoft on its old home turf * Today
* IT's big flops * Good idea, but... * Sprint lays out its wireless broadband network plans * IT worker disputes state government security breach * Q&A: Router man * The most prevalent wireless threats
* Florida banks hacked in new spoofing attack * Google acquires stake in AOL, nails down partnership plans * Microsoft rebrands FrontBridge service with Exchange name * U.S. regains most-connected status * Maine college virtualizes its servers * IT s
* LANs feature prominently in Network World retrospective
* McAfee plans to acquire security companies * After IE attacks, Microsoft eyes security betas * Nanotechnology will shape future networks * Novell SuSE CTO to leave Novell * NetPro software to ease Active Directory management * Then and now: $20 buy
* Security vendor patches dangerous IE bug * 20 people who changed the industry * Look ma, no tapes * LogicBlaze unveils open source SOA platform * Stratus extends fault-tolerance reach * Nortel to simplify, expand services offerings
* The Tolly Group tests Force10's S2410 for latency
