| News podcast: Network World 360
Cisco's dominance in enterprise switching is legend, but HP and 3Com have put together compelling product portfolios and value stories that add up to the first real competition the switch king has faced in years, and buyers are beginning to pay attention. (3:00) BES 5.0 a smart choice for smartphone management
Many factors enter in when an individual end user chooses between a BlackBerry, an iPhone or another device – there's coolness, cost, cachet, ease of use, features, apps. But for IT execs deploying a fleet of mobile devices, it's all about management. Nortel CEO Zafirovski steps down
Nortel CEO Mike Zafirovski stepped down today, having failed to revitalize the bankrupt telecommunications giant after a mid-decade accounting scandal and the current economic downturn. Code Library Bug Is Likely Patch Tuesday Target
This month's Patch Tuesday release will include nine security updates, five of them "critical" and all but one affecting Windows. Hathaway Resigns From Cybersecurity Czar Post
Melissa Hathaway's decision to step down as acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security Council could increase pressure on the Obama administration to name a cybersecurity czar. Unified Communications Without Tears
Four IT managers describe how they avoided some (though not all) of the pitfalls of unified communications deployments. Cybersecurity: Curiouser and curiouser
Gibbs is an aficionado of Carrol's Alice and finds a curious parallel between the administration's cybersecurity office and believing six impossible things. Six ways to train your employees on the cheap
Christina Hanger is chief operating officer at Worksoft Inc., a small, entrepreneurial software company in Addison, Texas. She has never had a big training budget, yet she acknowledges that a highly skilled technical staff is the lifeblood of Worksoft. Live by the Meme, Die by the Meme
In recent days, two major tech pundits, Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis, have come out swinging against Apple's tactics with respect to the iPhone App Store, iTunes integration, and related topics. Long-time Apple fans appear to be scratching their heads, wondering what has changed. Will Organized Crime Syndicates Foil the Presidential Stimulus Package by using this Low-Level Attack?
Organized crime syndicates are ridiculously powerful forces within the IT realm - stealing corporate/national secrets, forming netbot armies, finding 0-day exploits, identity theft, or even holding sensitive information for ransom. Report: Google Voice Can Sneak onto iPhone
Despite recent drama, Google Voice will soon be available for iPhone -- as a Web-based app, says The New York Times. Online spending down ... except for toys, games and books?
A curious contradiction? Or perfectly understandable? I could go either way. August Giveaways
Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Practical Intrusion Analysis; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of SCCM 2007 Unleashed. Google Subnet is giving away 15 copies of Web Geek's Guide to Google Chrome. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet, Microsoft Subnet and Google Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries is August 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
How well you remember the Black Hat conference's most notorious incidents?
How much longer are you going to hang onto that Ethernet cable? And other questions.
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