| 8 great new iPhone alternatives
Apple unveiled its latest smartphone offerings this week, in the form of two new devices: the 16GB and 32GB iPhone 3G S. That's all fine and good for Apple fanatics; you can have your spiffed up iPhones. Here are eight more devices we like just as much - or more - than Cupertino's new mobile wares. Wi-Fi Direct allows device-to-device links
A new industry specification promises to un-network Wi-Fi networks. Dubbed Wi-Fi Direct, the spec will let your laptop or smartphone connect directly with other wireless devices. Wi-Fi Direct Could Be the Death of Bluetooth
The Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new wireless networking specification which will enable devices to establish simple peer-to-peer wireless connections without the need for a wireless router or hotspot. Wi-Fi Direct has a wide array of potential uses, many of which encroach on Bluetooth territory and threaten to make the competing wireless protocol obsolete. Study backs open access to broadband networks
Almost all of the most successful countries in broadband deployment have opened up the networks of their main carriers to competing service providers, according to a draft report put out for comment on Wednesday by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. iPhone apps enable 'supercomputer-class' image rendering
University of Utah researchers and programmers are creating an iPhone application that will let users edit massive image files containing hundreds of gigabytes of data. When you get bored with that, you can use another of their recently released applications to virtually dissect a real human corpse. Microsoft apologizes, recovers most Sidekick data
Microsoft Thursday issued the following letter to T-Mobile Sidekick customers in the wake of the recent outage that looked as if it would result in the loss of many customers' data. Sidekick implosion: Was it sabotage?
A blogger quotes inside sources who say the Sidekick meltdown was the result of sabotage given the improbability that anyone would attempt a system update without backing up data. Microsoft Sidekick Debacle & the Cloud: Lessons Learned
This week's cloud tempest is the very visible breakdown of Microsoft's Danger storage service for the T-Mobile Sidekick phone. An apologetic email (as reported by TechCrunch) first went out from Microsoft to users noting that all data had been lost with no way to recover it. Apparently, it now seems that some or most of the data will be recovered, which is, of course, good news. I don't know that Microsoft has provided any formal explanation of what went wrong, but most of the speculation I've seen identifies a failed SAN upgrade with no data backup available as the cause for the data loss. 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. 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. UNCC hopes Meru tool can help keep Wi-Fi running
A North Carolina university says a new Meru Networks Wi-Fi tool help it more quickly determine the cause of problems on its wireless network. 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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