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An Internet civics lesson?; Managing remote desktop management Voices of Networking NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by HP_Avnet How to Improve NOC Efficiencies Network managers are grappling with data center consolidation, expanding networks and shrinking change windows, network compliance and security issues, VoIP, and flat headcounts. Managing the network is getting more and more challenging. What's needed is a lifecycle approach based on an integrated tool set. This video shows a solution to those complexity challenges. View Now Spotlight Story 'Wiretapping' charges may be the silliest ever recorded Chi Quang Truong, 46, is being charged by police in Natick, Massachusetts with "unlawful wiretapping and possessing a device for wiretapping," according to this story in The MetroWest Daily News. If you're thinking foreign spy or industrial espionage, think again. Read full story Related News: An Internet civics lesson? The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just published the latest of its explorations on how the Internet is affecting us. The latest study confirms what many observers have assumed -- the Internet, or at least social Web sites, get more people involved in things political. Managing remote desktop management Remote desktop management is parts of the nuts and bolts of managing IT infrastructure. Mark Gibbs has found a product that makes managing your remote desktop management manageable. WAN Optimization: Cheap and Easy Does It In our just-completed WAN optimization survey we asked enterprises what is preventing them from implementing WAN optimization.  "Too expensive" tops the list of purchase impediments, followed by "too complex" and "lack of staff."  So the survey indicates that if WAN optimization were cheaper and easier to implement, it would be much more ubiquitous. Attend a conference on Virtualization... 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