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Nortel Networks said it will further cut its workforce by 3,200 and eliminate bonuses as part of its ongoing bankruptcy reorganization. Also, worldwide server revenue saw its biggest quarterly drop in years in the last quarter of 2008 and may not recover until next year, IDC said in a survey released Wednesday. (5:38) New Google dashboard provides downtime information
Google made good on a promise to keep its customers better informed of service outages by introducing a new dashboard for Google Apps on Wednesday. Hey, this sounds familiar. Where have I seen it before? Oh, yeah - Network World's Twitter feed! Start following Netbooks: All About the New Ultraportables
The term netbook, coined by Intel, conveys little useful information about this category of machines. Sure, they all have wireless networking, but so does every other laptop.... Motorola - You Win Some, You Lose Some
Mathias: I am a huge fan of Motorola, perhaps because we owe so much to this company for so many innovations in wireless over the years. I've always found Motorola products to be solid, their marketing people informed and helpful, and the company pervasive and influential even when not the leader in a given case. There's no denying they've run into problems in recent years (but, then, who hasn't?); many assert that the lack of a good follow-on to the Razr was to blame; that's a little simplistic, but increasingly aggressive competition and the overall macroeconomic picture certainly haven't helped. This week's 25 most-read stories 1. Turning 5,000 discarded cell phones into art
2. 2009 Best of the Tests winners
3. 40% of geeks surveyed really work fewer than... say what?
4. Bring in the iPhone clones
5. Five fantastic open source tools for Windows admins
6. iPhone-controlled car to demo at Geneva Motor Show
7. 'I am Richer' app appears in Android store
8. Fave raves: six enterprise products readers love
9. Microsoft has big growth plans even as economy limps
10. Forget the Oscars: Sit back for the 404 Awards 11. Juniper SRX 5800: Biggest firewall ever
12. 9 Dirty Tricks: Social Engineers' Favorite Pick-Up Lines
13. Conficker worm gets an evil twin
14. Just what has DARPA accomplished in recent decades?
15. Verizon Wireless takes aim at pesky 'Rabbit'
16. Techies end-run feds on DNS security
17. Citrix drops price of hypervisor to zero
18. 2009's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries
19. 20 most useful career sites for IT professionals
20. 5 Must-Have Web Freebies for Amazon's Kindle 2 21. iPhone plagues Princeton with flaky Wi-Fi problems
22. Juniper's answer to Cisco in the data center: Stratus Project
23. Five fantastic open source tools for Windows admins
24. 10 of the Worst Moments in Network Security History
25. Starbucks sued after laptop data breach Today on Google Subnet
Google News ads: Another nail in traditional media’s coffin; Google finally Tweets; Google launches Apps status dashboard - a day late; Google to Microsoft: Two can play this monopoly game; and Google Blogoscoped tries out Gmail’s latest tweaks. | 
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