News from Mobile World Congress; Is Cisco short of cash in the U.S?; 4 steps to better QoS for VoIP

Daily News PM Alert NetworkWorld.com | LANs & WANs Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Novell Experience a new level of interoperability. Deploy and implement virtualization, identity management and systems management solutions from Novell and Microsoft that reduce the complexity of your mixed-IT environments and increase ROI. Request a SUSE Linux Enterprise deployment kit now at. Spotlight Story Slideshow: First look at the latest Google phone: The HTC Magic High Tech Computer (HTC) unveiled its second Google Android-based smartphone, the HTC Magic, with mobile service provider Vodafone on Tuesday. View slideshow. Plus see more news from the Mobile World Congress:  Slideshow: New Windows Mobile UI images leaked out Bitstream's new Bolt mobile browser: built for the Web, and for speed Nokia unveils thinner smartphones to do more with less Samsung flexes muscles with Omnia HD Arm to show its first 32-nanometer smartphone chip Adobe preps full Flash player for smartphones LG mobile device to include Intel's Moorestown chips Google, Nvidia bringing Android to Tegra chips Microsoft announces mobile apps store, backup service Related News: News podcast: Network World 360 Alcatel-Lucent has founded an industry group aimed at promoting 4G wireless devices, application and content. Also, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is in full swing this week, with announcements from hardware vendors, Microsoft and Adobe, among others. (5:40) Is Cisco short of cash in the U.S.? Reese: Last week BusinessWeek reported that Cisco will spend $500 million this Friday (Feb. 20, 2009) to pay off debt related to its 2005 purchase of Scientific Atlanta. Four Steps to Better QoS for VoIP Sevcik and Wetzel: There are four key steps to deploying QoS for VoIP, and if you don't follow them all, your VoIP implementation will not live up to its full potential. Congress passes stimulus bill with billions for broadband, electronic health records The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have both passed the final version of a huge economic stimulus package, including billions of dollars for broadband deployment. ConSentry upgrades its threat engine ConSentry's new software for its intelligent switches adds a permanent agent for assessing endpoint security and can assess what Windows operating system patches have been... Fortinet wheels out Web application firewall Fortinet's security appliance offloads processing of SSL and XML traffic from Web servers. Riverbed bundles Microsoft Server in its WAN optimization appliances Riverbed will sell Microsoft's Windows Server bundled with its WAN optimization devices as a way to simplify purchasing for its customers. Altor tracks virtual machines in motion Altor Networks' firewall software for virtual environments now supports a unique identifier to track particular versions of virtual machines. Forensics Firm Finds Private Data on Drives Sold on eBay A New York computer forensics firm said that 40 of 100 hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders on eBay contained personal information, including corporate financial data, DNS server information, and ... Today on Google Subnet And the Oscar goes to … Google?; Analyst: Don't bet on Google just yet; It's official: Android Market offers paid apps; plus Google Blogoscoped’s Phil Lenssen launches a new sketch-sharing site. IT & social networks Survey takes a look at where IT pros do their social networking. 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