| Cisco backpedals on WiMAX with Starent buy
This week's $2.9 billion acquisition of Starent Networks indicates that Cisco is backpedaling from its WiMAX focus and shifting it to LTE as the 4G underpinning of next generation mobile data networks. What kind of cloud computing project would you build with $32 million?
The US Department of Energy said it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The Internet has shifted under our feet
The way traffic moves over the Internet has changed radically in the last five years, according to a new report, and few people have realized it. Dramatic license in the Bing/Google race
Media coverage of the search industry often reminds me of the editing on The Amazing Race. Even if the first-place team is miles and hours ahead of the second-place team, the producers have to make things seem close and exciting. Otherwise, why would you watch? Bugs hit Google Docs after recent upgrade
Google Docs users are having problems printing, exporting and uploading certain files, the company acknowledged, as it is rolling out a set of upgrades to this hosted office productivity suite. Brocade taps Motorola for Wi-Fi
Brocade Tuesday said it is refreshing its Wi-Fi product line via a five-year strategic partnership with Motorola. Microsoft beefs up its hosted Exchange/SharePoint suite
Microsoft today announced a number of improvements to its hosted Office productivity suite, dubbed the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. Redmond has added support for PowerShell commandlets, tripled the number of users each account can support (to 30,000) and has improved life for its Mac users. Business Software Alliance Dirty Tricks Update
I've been thinking about the most important issues I've covered over the past years. I rate the Business Software Alliance and its use of extortion tactics based on tips from disgruntled employees at the top of the despicable list. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Microsoft Expression Web 3 In Depth. Cisco Subnet is giving away training from Global Knowledge and 15 copies of Building Service-Aware Networks. Google Subnet is hosting many new bloggers. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are | 
Some of the cell towers that dwell among us are cleverly hidden; others, not so much.
What if you could combine the best parts of every phone out there?
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