| Microsoft, Intel to back Cisco's "Unified Computing" launch
Contrary to previous reports, Cisco's data center vision does not seem to be a largely solo effort. Raytheon creates first mobile adhoc battlefield net, with 20-year-old radio
Cox: Raytheon says it's been able to rejigger an existing radio to create for the first time a mobile, ad hoc, battlefield network for voice, data and video traffic with soldiers, vehicles, and airborne units. That's news because the Department of Defense's multi-billion dollar, problem-plagued Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS, called "jitters") has been unable to achieve that basic function after nearly a decade. Verizon lands massive $2.5 billion DoD service contract
Verizon Business has signed a contract that could be worth up to $2.5 billion to provide telecom services to U.S. military installations around the world. Web Genome Project offers Web search alternative
Internet users can test two new search techniques that were both announced Wednesday. Budget cuts a bigger threat to IT reliability than Y2k was
The economic downturn may accomplish what Y2k never did, and that's to disrupt data center operations. Google Apps guy is now the nation's CIO
The nation's new CIO, Vivek Kundra, is a Google Apps lover who undertook a major initiative to move the District of Columbia to the open source office suite, reports Microsoft Subnet blogger, Mitchell Ashley. Smartphone growth continues to slow, Gartner says
Sales of smartphones increased by 3.7% during the fourth quarter last year, compared to the same period in 2007, according to Gartner. Cisco Type A phones and daylight savings bug
Cisco Type A phones in Cisco Unified Communications Manger versions after 5.1 have a bug with daylight savings, reports Cisco Subnet blogger Dennis Hartmann. Microsoft puts the kibosh on Facebook worm Koobface
Microsoft is trying to stamp out the Koobface worm, which has spread aggressively on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company said Tuesday. Podcast: Preparing for the next Conficker
Keith Shaw talks with Mike Paquette from Top Layer Security about ways that IT and security pros can prepare their systems for the next Conficker variant or worm that comes looking to wreak havoc on their systems. (16:30) Today on Layer 8: The International Space Station gets its crab
The International Space Station has garnered a lot of “firsts” in its history and soon it will get its first crab meat delivery courtesy of NASA. The Miller's Select crab meat will fly up onboard NASA’s shuttle mission STS119 which is expected to launch this week (though a liquid hydrogen tank problem delayed the launch). Food can represent a peculiar threat to space life. You may recall that in 2007, an astronaut was trying to make a pretend sushi meal with bag-packaged salmon and accidentally squirted a blob of spicy wasabi into the air. After a lengthy cleanup, the wasabi was exiled to a cargo bay. Today on Cisco Subnet
Cisco picks partners such as Microsft and Intel for next-gen data center assault; Cisco offers third Wireless IP phones: the 7925 and Cisco Subnet blogger Dennis Hartmann offers a comparison of all three choices; Should Cisco be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average … some say yes. Today on Microsoft Subnet
Despite losing billions, Bill Gates is again the richest guy on Earth; Dancing Woz vs. dancing Ballmer: you vote; European antitrust regulators are giving Microsoft more time to respond to an antitrust complaint over the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
New Horizons Computer Training is offering a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,500 to be given to one lucky Microsoft Subnet reader. Deadline for entry is March 31. | 
Out of the more than 150 products tested, a baker's dozen rise to the top of the list.
Six readers dish on their must-have network products, from desktop systems to wireless access points.
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