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Daily News PM Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Book alleges Alexander Graham Bell fraudulently obtained his lucrative telephone patent By Brad Reed Author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends that dodgy patenting in the telecom industry extends all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell. Read full story MORE STORIES SPONSORED BY NOMINUM Live Webcast: DNS creator shares best practices Join DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris for a Live Webcast 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific, Tuesday, Jan. 15, and learn best practices for deploying a secure, resilient and high-performing DNS architecture. Learn how to check your DNS setup in order to support fast-growing mission-critical networks. Register today for this Live Webcast. RELATED NEWS: News podcast: Network World 360 Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Diehard has surged to the top of Kaspersky Lab's Virus Top Twenty list for December; The state of Oregon is embarking on a data center consolidation and virtualization project that officials say will save $10 million to $12 million per year; Competitive Local Exchange Carriers' share of end-user switched access lines in the United States declined throughout 2006. (6:40) This week's most-read stories 1. 8 can't-miss tech predictions for 1998 2. The 15 best downloads of the year 3. What doesn't matter in IT anymore 4. Tech start-ups that should matter 5. NASA, SETI scientists to meet 2008’s most dazzling meteor shower on the wing 6. How Google Quietly Gained Control Of Open Source To Compete With Microsoft 7. The 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year 8. AOL to end support for Netscape browser 9. The top 10 Buzzblogs of 2007 10. Storm switches tactics third time, adds rootkit 11. Researcher says Sears downloads spyware 12. Cisco's virtual switch smashes throughput records 13. 8 hottest skills for '08 14. 'Diehard' virus variants flexing muscle 15. Security dominates 2008 IT agenda 16. Bank of America authenticates via mobile phone 17. Management in '08: Can you say automate? 18. The smartest and dumbest tech moves of 2007 19. Oregon launches massive data center consolidation, virtualization project 20. Avaya quietly delivers mobile convergence 21. Tech moves that matter - for good and bad 22. Now you can blame cell phone wielding drivers for causing traffic jams, not just accidents 23. Cisco's Giancarlo leaving company 24. What really matters in IT today 25. The 9 worst Microsoft products ever EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS Exploring what matters most in IT today. TAMING THE VIRTUAL BEAST VM management tools from Microsoft, VMware, XenSource leave room for improvement. 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