NetFlash: Ebbers sentenced to 25 years for WorldCom fraud

NetFlash: Ebbers sentenced to 25 years for WorldCom fraud
07/14/05

In this issue:

* Ebbers sentenced to 25 years for WorldCom fraud
* Feature: The ROI of VoIP
* Sun to open-source Web single sign-on technology
* Microsoft settles networking software patent dispute
* Weblog: Tar and feathering in the digital age
* Today on Layer 8
* Links related to NetFlash
* Featured reader resource
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NETFLASH: BREAKING NEWS FROM NETWORKWORLD.COM

By Jeff Caruso

Yesterday the sentence was handed down: Bernie Ebbers got 25
years in prison for his role in WorldCom's massive corporate
accounting fraud. Is the sentence too harsh? Too lenient?
Ebbers sentenced to 25 years for WorldCom fraud
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3293>

Feature: The ROI of VoIP

Ever wonder just how much VoIP costs, and how much you could
save by implementing it? Our in-depth story lays out all the
dollar signs.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3294>

Sun to open-source Web single sign-on technology

Sun Wednesday said it will open-source components of its Web
authentication and single sign-on technologies as part of a
project it is calling OpenSSO.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3295>

Microsoft settles networking software patent dispute

Microsoft has reached a licensing agreement with networking
technology vendor Alacritech that will remove Microsoft's
forthcoming TCP Chimney software from the legal limbo it's been
stuck in for the past several months, following a patent
dispute.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3296>

Weblog: Tar and feathering in the digital age

Deb Radcliff yesterday took on vigilantes on the Internet,
pointing to a group with the good intention of publicly
humiliating pedophiles. But what happens when the group
humiliates the wrong person?
<http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/2322>

Today on Layer 8, where it's clobberin' time:

Dell shuts down customer support forums; naughty spam on the
decline; Google stock sets off buying boom in Calif. town; and
ways to find out what your pets do all today; all this today and
more at your home for not-just-networking news.
<http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/?net&story=layer8>

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. This net screams
http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3248>

2. Quiet company aims to become the 'GE of wireless'
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3297>

3. Feature: The ROI of VoIP
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3178>

4. When management sets the wrong security culture
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3250>

5. Industry tries to unite again to tackle spyware
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash3298>
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THE ROI OF VOIP

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