News podcast: Network World 360
Enterasys to unveil distributed intrusion prevention package; Red Hat posts strong fiscal year '08 earnings (5:47)

Microsoft isn't credible about open source
Microsoft Subnet blogger Mitchell Ashley says Microsoft's attempts at an image makeover within the open-source community aren't backed up by actions - and its Open Specification Promise doesn't help.

This Year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries
From AT&T to Woz's "US Festival," with DNS, TCP/IP, Lotus 1-2-3, Word, "WarGames" and even the first real cell phone included: 1983 was a heckuva year in tech. A few have already received press attention, but only here can you find all 25 neatly assembled and alphabetized.

New bloggers

You can tell what George Churchwell's blog is about by its name: Broadband IOS: Learning Cisco IOS-XR. Brandon Carroll is writing about Cisco certification issues.

Network World Community

Users debate whether a school should let an 11-year-old run its network and continue to discuss our recent 10Gig switch test.

Jeff Doyle explains signaling in MPLS networks.

Keith Shaw details iPass's consumer hot-spot service. Paul McNamara counts down 25 of this year's 25th tech anniversaries. Peter Sevcik and Rebecca Wetzel dissect the Comcast/BitTorrent kerfuffle.

Noah Schiffman reports on a zero-day exploit competition.

Wendell Odom continues his CCNP lab series, this time looking at the ISCW exam. Robert Williams and Taylor Ripley show how to stop an inadvertent certs cheater.

Michael Morris discusses what should go into a written network architecture. J. Peter Bruzzese asks: Is the Mac ready for the enterprise? Tyson Kopczynski looks at VMWare's beta VI Toolkit for Windows.

Brad Reese interviews Tim Olson and Pejman Roshan, founders of mobility start-up Agito. Craig Mathias is skeptical of cable companies getting involved with WiMax.

Alex Lewis wonders: Could Gmail replace Exchange?

Ken Presti looks at Action Packed Networks, which says it has a new way to manage Cisco routers.

Ron Nutter reports on the quizzes some companies want to give him as part of their job-application process.

Mitchell Ashley details Boomi and message bus and virtualization. Kerrie Meyler explains modeling and Operations Manager 2007.

In depth

Leveraging Web 2.0 safely in the enterprise
How many times have you e-mailed yourself work just so you could continue a project at home or while traveling? Have you ever shared a file with a business associate using Google or Yahoo? If you answered "yes" or have tried any of the growing number of new social networks on the Web to overcome workplace collaboration challenges, you're not alone. In fact, researchers estimate that over half of U.S. employees abandon enterprise tools when they need to work with applications outside of their organization to complete a project or task.

How to

Ron Nutter helps a user who thinks her PC has been taken over by spyware. Joseph Vittorelli shows how to make the case for funding an access-control project.

More news

11-year-old takes school network by the horns
Preteen steps in to install security gateway, grudgingly agrees to MySpace blocking.

How ISPs learned to stop worrying and love P2P
As Comcast's reversal this week shows, traffic-management practices that target individual protocols are increasingly going out of fashion.

Universities build open source enterprise applications
U.S. universities are collaborating on a suite of enterprise applications, tailored for the needs of higher education.

Teleworking not an experiment at National Science Foundation
While many federal government agencies have struggled to boost telework participation into the double-digits, the National Science Foundation has just over half its staff teleworking.

What spooks Microsoft's chief security advisor
Microsoft security honcho Bret Arsenault says application exploits, virtualization security and attacks coming from .edu domains are among the things that keep him up at night.

Vyatta unveils open source appliance for SMBs
The Vyatta 514 is a networking appliance that combines the company's open-source routing and security software with a small form factor hardware platform. The product features integrated routing, firewall and VPN capabilities to connect small businesses and branch offices to the Internet or private networks.