| On the road again? Bring gadgets
Technology has made traveling, whether for business or pleasure, much more enjoyable than ever before. If you have a road warrior on your holiday list this season, check out some of our picks that will help ease the burden of being away from home and work. Packeteer introduces plan for guaranteeing WAN application performance
Packeteer is introducing a new management platform that draws data from its own and other vendors' gear to boost the performance of applications over the WAN and is the first step in a broader application-performance plan. Doubling of energy use makes data center cooling a hot topic
Data center operators will go to almost any lengths to avoid an overheated server. Case in point: a financial institution in London suffered a power shortage during an extremely hot day one recent summer, and was left with no ability to cool its servers and storage. Internet Society CEO sets her sights on next billion 'Net users
The Internet has 1.3 billion users, but that’s not enough for Lynn St. Amour. As CEO of the Internet Society, she is expanding the nonprofit group, which promotes development of the Internet globally. St. Amour doubled the group’s staff in 2007 and beefed up its outreach activities in Africa, South America and Asia in her bid to add another billion Internet users worldwide. National Correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan sat down with St. Amour this week at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force, an ISOC-funded standards group. Here are excerpts from their conversation. Vista SP1 RC available publicly next week
Microsoft Tuesday shipped Vista SP1 RC to select testers and said it would make the service pack publicly available next week. The SP1 release candidate is available on Microsoft Connect, and on Thursday it will be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Next week, the general public will get access via Microsoft’s Download Center. Windows Server 2008 hits the streets
Microsoft Wednesday made available the final beta of Windows Server 2008 and said it is on track for shipment at a planned launch event at the end of February. Microsoft made Windows Server RC1 available for download as a 30-day free trial or for evaluation until June 30, 2008 if the user requests a product key. RC stands for “release candidate” and signifies the software is ready for a final beta test before shipment. Silicon Valley wireless group seeks new builder
The big-name backers of Silicon Valley's proposed wireless network are looking for a new company to build and operate the system after potential financiers rebuffed the original vendor. VIDEO New Voyager is good, but doesn't score an "i"
Keith tests out the new Verizon Wireless Voyager from LG. It looks like THE hot phone on the market and has some cool features, but how does it stack up against that other touch screen phone? BLOGS Today on Cisco Subnet
What possessed Cisco to hire the former CTO at struggling Motorola as its CTO? Cisco’s NetFlow vs. Inmon’s sFlow: Which will prevail? Blogger Rus Healy, who is no stranger to the CCIE lab exam, writes about "conquering the intimidation of pursuing a CCIE". Plus: Cisco security expert Jamey Heary's take on Cisco's entry into the high-speed IPS market. Today on Microsoft Subnet
What users (and Web developers) hate about IE7: It was intended to be an innocent little blog post lauding the browser's milestones, but it set off a firestorm of reaction from frustrated users. Plus, which browser is more secure – Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or Mozilla’s Firefox? And, master trainer Ron Colonna discusses training by exception. Microsoft Subnet blogger Mitchell Ashley goes deep to explain Microsoft's vision for virtualization, which centers on the concept of diversity of virtualization. Today on Layer 8
Florida is known for lots of things, some of them good – but mostly its known for afternoon thunderstorms and lightning. NASA doesn’t like that so much. So it is building an enormous lightning protection system at the Kennedy Space Center that will not only protect people and equipment but will collect strike information for analysis by launch managers. | 
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