| Cisco retreating from WiMAX with Starent buy?
Cisco blew a big hole in its "agnostic" mobile wireless story with this week's $2.9 billion buyout of Starent. While placing a big bet on mobile WiMAX two years ago with the $330 million purchase of Navini Networks, Cisco trumped that this week by plunking down almost 10 times that amount on Starent, which sees LTE as "the future." Firing up those femtocells
The folks over at the Femto Forum, in conjunction with the European telecommunications standards institute, recently announced a "plugfest" for March 2010. The plugfest will serve as a forum to for interoperability tests among femtocell network gateways, security gateways, femtocell access points and chipsets. If The Cloud Were Really The Cloud Then Outages Would Be Rare
Do we really have a cloud or just offsite Microsoft, Cisco and Linux hosting centers? I'm struck by what seems like a near constant barrage of news about cloud outages and service downtime. Cisco Tandberg bid hits an iceberg
Cisco's $3 billion offer for videoconferencing leader Tandberg has been rejected by shareholders who own a 24% stake in the company. Cisco needs 90% of shareholders to "buy in" to the deal in order for it to go through, according to this report for IDG News Service's Mikael Ricknäs. What kind of cloud computing project would you build with $32 million?
The US Department of Energy said today 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. Near term deal for Cisco rival Brocade doubtful
Oppenheimer & Co. downgraded Brocade stock early this week, citing skepticism that the company will be snapped up anytime soon despite reportedly putting itself up for sale. Cisco dodges question on status of 7600 LTE gateway
One of the lingering questions in the wake of Cisco's definitive agreement to purchase Starent Networks for $2.9 billion is, what does this mean for the LTE gateway under development for the 7600 series router? Google increases revenue, profit and says economy is recovering
If you are looking at Google as an indicator of overall economic health, you'll be happy to know the company had a good third quarter. It's the OpEx, Stupid (and a couple of notable events)
As part of my presentation on the .11n road show that I'm now in the middle of, I'm talking about a key theme motivating advances in WLAN (and really, overall network) management - that an emphasis on what it costs to purchase and install a wireless LAN detracts from where the focus should really be, and that is on total cost of ownership (TCO). 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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