| IT salaries continue to shrink; New Cisco cert goes beyond CCIE
As the economy continues to languish, IT salary trends offer little hope to both working and unemployed IT professionals, as companies cut wages and fewer high-tech positions become available due to attrition. Also, Cisco announced a new certification, the Cisco Certified Architect, which will become the rank above CCIE. The CCA will attempt to marry the networking engineering know-how of the CCIE with the business acumen of an MBA. (6:14) Products of the Week
Our round-up of intriguing new products from Websense, Sun, ProStor among others. Blind phone hacker gets 11-year sentence
A Boston-area teenager was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison Friday for hacking into the telephone network and harassing the Verizon investigator who was building a case against him. NASA moon shot gets rocket blast, more money
NASA continued to develop its future moon landing program this week by getting a positive test on the rocket it might use to land humans on the moon and increasing the budget for the spacecraft it will use to get them there. DoctorsonDemand.com prescribes an end to doctor's office visits
A recently launched service, DoctorsonDemand.com, uses interactive voice technology that allows consumers to contact an available doctor for a quick consult that could avoid costly in-office or emergency room visits. Fahrenheit 113: Hot iPhone's Tragic Number
The manager at my local Apple Store looked a little grim when I mentioned iPhone 3GS overheating and battery problems yesterday. "If that's what it is, you're going to have a flood of phones coming back," I told him. As if he had to be told. Trade groups urge China to drop Web filtering program
A wide-ranging group of trade associations has urged China to lift its requirement that an Internet filtering program be distributed with all new PCs, with the order set to take effect this week. The cost of scaling Wi-Fi capacity
Wireless LANs rarely allow for simple direct cost comparisons. In addition to variable pricing structures among vendors, one reason is that product architectures differ. That means some systems have different components than others. So how can you compare them, tit for tat? 'Swatting' case shows need to ban caller-ID spoofing
What Matthew Weigman and his cohorts did went so far beyond "pranks" -- or even hacking -- as to leave little room to question the sentence he received yesterday. From an IDG News Service story on our site: June Giveaways
Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
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