Government releases $4 billion in broadband stimulus funds The U.S. government Wednesday said that it is releasing $4 billion worth of funds to pay for the first round of broadband projects mandated by the economic stimulus package passed earlier this year. Choosing Between Netbooks and Notebooks Before you buy a smaller, cheaper and less powerful netbook, determine if you need a notebook instead. If so, you can spend about the same money and get more power, albeit in a larger package. In pictures: Microsoft Office 2010 highlights The Office 2010 applications show new stylings and usability improvements, including a more smoothly integrated Outlook. 10 free WordPress plug-ins make blogging better Bloggers who use WordPress have access to a plethora of plug-ins. A WordPress expert describes some of his favorites. Palm's Pre is a bigger big-seller than first thought Palm has sold nearly twice the number of Pre smartphones as previously estimated, according to Ed Snyder, co-founder and wireless industry analyst at Charter Equity Research. Firefox Stays In The Game With Firefox 3.5 Firefox released their 3.5 version update for download today and so far it seems to be a pretty good release, including some new additions and some catch up features. 5 Features IE Will Likely Crib from Firefox 3.5 As I'll predict here, for its next Internet Explorer launch Microsoft will crib innovative Firefox 3.5 features and skimp on giving credit. After all, we've seen Microsoft do this before? Remember where you spotted browser tabs the first time? IBM bundles x86 servers with VMware, offers special financing IBM is bundling its x86 servers with VMware's newest virtualization platform, and offering financing packages to lower upfront costs. Get a Ph.D. in Cisco: Become a Cisco Certified Architect Fred Weiller, director of marketing for Learning@Cisco, explains why Cisco created another high-level certification that combines technology know-now, architecture skills and business acumen. (11:29) Application Performance Management Best Practices Video In a new video, Peter Sevcik draws on findings from NetForecast's landmark APM best practices benchmarking study of more than 600 enterprises to show how APM best practices deliver performance excellence--and he identifies critical application performance management tool features required to support those best practices. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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