NetFlash: New WLAN group shakes up standards process

NetFlash: New WLAN group shakes up standards process
10/13/05

In this issue:

* New WLAN group shakes up standards process
* Qwest repeats call for conditions in telecom mergers
* Survey says software spending stable
* Microsoft and Yahoo to link IM networks
* CA CEO: Fixing CA could take three years
* Today on Layer 8
* Links related to NetFlash
* Featured reader resource
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NETFLASH: BREAKING NEWS FROM NETWORKWORLD.COM

By Jeff Caruso

With two groups of vendors deadlocked in the IEEE over the next
wireless LAN standard, what do you do? Form a third group,
apparently. Depending on who you talk to, this third group will
either build bridges like nothing else can or drive in the final
wedge.
New WLAN group shakes up standards process
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8718>

Qwest repeats call for conditions in telecom mergers

Having failed to take part of one of the telecom industry's
mega-mergers, Qwest is asking the government to be stern with
the companies that were successful.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8719>

Survey says software spending stable

IT budgets are generally stable, but companies are still looking
for ways to reduce IT expenses, according to new research from
Goldman Sachs.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8720>

Microsoft and Yahoo to link IM networks

Microsoft and Yahoo will make their respective consumer
instant-messaging networks partly interoperable in the second
quarter of next year, the companies announced Wednesday.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8721>

CA CEO: Fixing CA could take three years

John Swainson is approaching the one-year anniversary of his
hiring as the top executive at Computer Associates. At CA's
software development facility Tuesday, he spoke with a group of
reporters and editors from International Data Group, Network
World and Computerworld's parent company. The main topic was the
status of his efforts to revamp the software vendor, which was
wracked by an accounting scandal, multiple government
investigations, weak revenue growth and the ouster of CEO Sanjay
Kumar before Swainson's arrival.
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8722>

Today on Layer 8, the source for "news":

We drool over the new video iPods - particularly the new
all-black model; share some great news about the potential end
to dish washing; fret about the use of RFID to track our every
move; and shoot down the theory that riding a bike to work is
practical. All that and more at:
<http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/layer8/?net&story=layer8>

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Windows 2000 vulnerability could lead to new outbreak
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8723>
2. Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine has serious bug
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8514>
3. The ABCs of SOA <http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8558>

4. Nortel's uphill battle
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8090>
5. Bechtel says move to IPv6 is all about business
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlnetflash8557>

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To contact: Jeff Caruso

Jeff Caruso is managing editor of online news for Network World.
He oversees daily online news posting and newsletter editing,
and writes the NetFlash daily news summary, the High-Speed LANs
newsletter and the Voices of Networking newsletter. Contact him
at <mailto:jcaruso@nww.com>
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