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(News) Cisco Earnings Reflect Broader Economic Rebound
(News) Comcast May Now Regret Suing the FCC Over Net Neutrality
(News) Cisco Courts SMBs With New Additions to Unified Communications, Wi-Fi, Network Switch Lineups
(News) FCC Broadband Speed Tests Should Also Support Enforcement
(News) Google Should Take Its Broadband to Failing Cities, Not Happy Ones
(News) Netgear Announces Superfast Powerline Network Products
(News) Google announced plans to test broadband speeds up to 100 times faster than current standards, challenging broadband providers to invest more to expand their own broadband pipelines.
(News) While Cisco Systems branches out into consumer electronics, video, mobile data and other areas, one of its biggest areas of focus today is enterprise data...
(News) Juniper Networks and Symantec say they are investigating a sophisticated online attack that hit Google and Adobe
(News) Cisco Systems is adding a China business unit to its Asia division, highlighting the strength of the Chinese market and Cisco's efforts to grow there.
(News) The new year in IT news kicked off this week with the annual gadget-and-gear extravaganza, the Consumer Electronics Show. Apart from CES, Google got in on the...
(News) Juniper has patched a serious bug that could be exploited to crash its routers.
(News) Cisco's Chambers Demonstrates Home TelePresence
(News) Chinese network gear vendor Huawei Technologies reached global contract sales of $30 million last year, a rise of nearly 30 percent from the year before.
(News) Google is in a really big hurry to make the Web experience faster.
(News) The wireless LAN industry nearly returned to its pre-recession health in Q3 and is likely to hit record revenue this quarter, according to Dell'Oro.
(News) Cisco needs its distributed management structure to enter multiple new markets, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said.
(News) Wipro has designed a gateway that allows remote collection of patient information using wireless and wired communications.
(News) Cisco has raised its bid for Norwegian video conferencing vendor Tandberg to about US$3.4 billion. The previous offer was US$3.0 billion.
(News) We had a blockbuster deal this week, with Hewlett-Packard saying it plans to buy 3Com, and a blockbuster settlement, with Advanced Micro Devices and Intel ending...
(News) HP is intensifying its rivalry with Cisco. The purchase of 3Com signals that the gloves are off and the battle for the data center is getting hot.
(News) Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion.
(News) Logitech is purchasing LifeSize for $405 million. The acquisition puts Logitech in the big leagues for enterprise video-conferencing.
(News) Unveiling 61 new products and features, Cisco Systems executives emphasized the importance of collaboration at an event in San Francisco on Monday.
(News) Acadia Gets Cloud Computing Venture Rolling in Asia
(News) Cisco Systems will buy a Chinese set-top box maker as the country works to digitize all cable television by 2015, creating market opportunities.
(News) In a blog entry on Monday, Cisco publicly hinted it might let its Tandberg acquisition bid expire.
(News) SMC Networks will rebrand most of its products and introduce some higher-end gear in North America, expanding the Edgecore brand.
(News) Alcatel-Lucent saw third-quarter losses increase and sales drop compared to the same period last year.
(News) Cybercriminals have found a new launching pad for their scams: the phone systems of small and medium-sized businesses across the U.S.
(News) Chinese networking giant Huawei Technologies has struggled to break into developed markets for communications equipment, despite long-standing fear among the...
(News) While Apple's announcements of new iMacs, a remodeled MacBook, updated Mac minis, and a new multitouch mouse have dominated Tuesday's tech news, the company also...
(News) The United States is in the middle of the global pack on broadband infrastructure and is forging a very different upgrade path than the rest of the world...
(News) An ITU body approved two main components of the G.hn standard for home networking.
(News) Russian WiMax operator Yota will soon begin offering its customers a WiMax terminal that can make VOIP calls and hand them over to a GSM network.
(News) Cisco Systems has signed an agreement to buy videoconferencing vendor Tandberg for about US$3.0 billion.
(News) A Simple Plan for Small Business Networks
(News) Cisco has released its semi-annual IOS patches, fixing 12 bugs in its router firmware.
(News) Alcatel-Lucent will integrate its IP routers and optical equipment to work more closely together and be centrally managed.
(News) Several months ago, I wrote about how pathetic my broadband options were in San Francisco and, in fact, how bad things are in the country as a whole.
(News) Wi-Fi chip vendor Atheros plans to acquire Intellon, a maker of chips for home powerline networking equipment, for about US$244 million.
(News) If you have an older Ethernet-networked printer, you may find that, after upgrading to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), the printer no longer responds to your Mac's...
(News) Dell expanded its reseller agreement with networking vendor Brocade Communications
(News) 3Com plans to integrate intrusion prevention technology from its TippingPoint subsidiary in enterprise networking gear from its H3C division.
(News) Everyone wants a faster network. But before you can do anything to speed up yours, you must ascertain how fast it's currently going. Yet measuring network speed...
(News) Netgear on Monday announced the availability of its ProSafe 8-Port VPN Firewall (model FVS318G). It's priced at $139.
(News) Six undersea cables that carry Internet and communications traffic throughout Asia were severed or damaged by Typhoon Morakot as it ravaged Taiwan.
(News) Nortel Networks' CEO will leave the company in the coming weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
(News) Real Host, a Latvian ISP associated with cyber-crime, has been knocked offline.
(News) I've had the benefit of FIOS high-speed net access at home for a few years now, and have been thrilled with the reliability and speed. A few months back...
(News) Deal Allows IBM to Resell Juniper Switches, Routers
(News) 'Telework Day' Urged for Cost, Energy Savings
(News) Alcatel-Lucent plans to ship a router module next year that supports the emerging 100Gb per second Ethernet standard at the edge of carrier networks, where...
(News) Cisco's Eos media platform includes aggregation of consumer data to draw connections among fans of many types of media, the company says.
(News) Sprint-Ericsson Deal Dubbed a Boon to Both
(News) Cisco needs more than products to be an IT platform leader, CTO Padmasree Warrior told the Cisco Live conference.
(News) Chambers Unfazed at Disrupted Speech
(News) Cisco Promotes Telecommuting
(News) Apple on Wednesday released a pair of updates: one for its Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Firmware and a minor update for Final Cut Pro. Both updates are...
(News) ExpressCard slots may have gone away on new 15-inch MacBook Pros, but that's not stopping Nova media from offering the GlobeTrotter Express 441 -- a new...
(News) Asia Leads in Broadband Growth
(News) Bill Would Limit Broadband Fees Based on Use
(News) T-Mobile says it wasn't hacked, but confirms that hackers posted genuine data to the Full Disclosure list.
(News) Internet traffic will increase fourfold over the next four years, as more users, more devices and more multitasking all contribute to the demand for bandwidth.
(News) Verizon wants to give FiOS TV customers more choices of how to buy and view video, while fostering more targeted advertising.
(News) Network administrators and security specialists have long had tools and software for analyzing the streams of traffic that course through company systems, but...
(News) What NAS Can Do for the Small Business
(News) The evolution of communications is about taking one kind of thing and making it better, faster, and more reliable. USB 1 evolved into USB 2; FireWire 400 morphed...
(News) HP a Close Second to Cisco in Networking
(News) Cisco is in much better shape in this recession than in the 2001 crash, Chairman and CEO John Chambers said Monday.
(News) Emulex has once again rejected an attempt by Broadcom to take over the company.
(News) Electronic health-care systems have become a hot topic around the world, with governments providing stimulus programs to hurry the trend along. A renowned...
(News) A Thai hospital famous for medical tourism and celebrated for its use of new technologies is turning to robotics to become more efficient and improve patient...
(News) The U.S. economy has weathered 18 recessions spanning a total of 90 years since 1776, not including the current downturn. Each of those 18 prior recessions, some...
(News) Reader Steve Hawley is all too typical. His home network houses a mix of Macs and Windows PCs, an old 802.11b Linksys router connected to a cable modem, and a...
(News) Nova media on Friday announced an update to launch2net, its software for connecting Macs with mobile data services. Launch2net costs US$50.
(News) Even as the world economy languishes, Microsoft is putting an increasing focus on its research efforts.
(News) Office rental company Regus will deploy Polycom telepresence suites in at least 30 locations worldwide after a similar arrangement with Cisco fell through.
(Reviews) Expand Your Small-Business or Home-Office Network With an Ethernet Switch
(News) Offer follows rejection of previous attempt to purchase company earlier this year
(News) One recent positive IT trend is to drop the monikers "user" and "end user" and apply the more descriptive word "customer" to...
(News) Their inclusion will open the door for femtocells in TVs
(News) Silicon Valley Cable-Cutters: The Real Harm
(News) Apparent vandalism cut off wired and wireless service to thousands and shut two IBM facilities.
(News) Facebook cites legal proceedings against the BitTorrent search engine as the reason
(News) What the FCC's National Broadband Policy Must Do For Business
(News) Outpost24's Jack Louis died before patches for the flaws he found could be released
(News) Two companies were named following an early morning Dallas raid last Thursday
(News) The new center addresses the growing market for network services
(Reviews) Think back to the first time you saw a computer accessing the Internet wirelessly. (Yes, kids, there was a time before Wi-Fi)...
(News) The networking company has released its twice-yearly IOS patches, posting eight updates
(News) The move is part of a wider effort to shave $1 billion from Cisco's expenses
(News) Nova media on Friday introduced a major upgrade to the GlobeSurfer III, a router connects to the Internet using a 3G wireless...
(News) 3Com may have lost ground in Western markets in recent years, but it has built strong operations in China that it hopes will...
(News) Tips to Bring Twitter to the Enterprise
(News) The relationships between startups and older organizations is comparable to the relationship between siblings. There's rivalry...
(News) Cisco Systems' move into the heart of data centers, expected to be laid out at an event next Monday, holds the promise of...
(News) Open-source routing vendor Vyatta is adding security features to Vyatta Community Edition 5, coming Monday.
(News) Apple announced on Friday the availability of
 Time Capsule and AirPort Base Station Update 7.4.1.
 The update, which includes...
(News) In addition to releasing an update for the AirPort Extreme on Tuesday, Apple also released software updates for its AirPort...
(News) Awaking from a winter's slumber, Apple recently released a slew of new products Tuesday, covering everything from Time Capsule...
(News) Apple's slew of hardware updates on Tuesday didn't stop with just desktops. The company also threw in updates for the AirPort...
(News) Conficker Spawn, Recession Smackdown
(News) Cisco and Trend Micro teamed up to build an Internet security service into some home Wi-Fi routers.
(News) Alcatel-Lucent on Monday launched ng Connect, an initiative to help foster use of LTE and other networks.
(News) Cisco proposes a blueprint for "intelligent urbanization", hoping to use Bangalore as a reference.
(News) Europeans are likely to use more mobile data than US, according to Cisco.
(News) Tata has set up a new practice around Cisco Systems technology.
(News) Spending a half hour with San Francisco's most famous network administrator.
(News) Botnet operators are adding code to launch a new type of distributed denial of service attack, security experts warn.
(News) Nova media on Tuesday introduced the iCON 431, a new 3G USB modem with memory stick capabilities. The new device costs
€168...
(News) All UK homes will have broadband communications by 2012, the communications minister promises.
(News) Despite a House bill that proposes an investment of roughly $6 billion and a Senate bill for $8 billion, universal broadband faces many roadblocks.
(News) Cisco is looking to reduce the energy consumption of network attached devices such as IP phones, laptops and access points.
(News) The original Mac was the first mass-market computer to be networkable right out of the box. A popular saying of the time...
(News) Cable and Wireless sets up communications gateways in India after getting security clearance from the government.
(News) A handful of Indonesia's best-known islands are to be linked by a submarine fiber optic cable that will be laid over the...
(News) Video meeting rooms at the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower in Mumbai have reopened following November's deadly terrorist attacks.
(News) What happens when a rural farmer needs to arrange transport to get his produce to market? Or a health care worker wants to...
(News) Only about 200,000 broadband lines where added in the last quarter of 2008 in the U.K.
(News) Telecom operator TeliaSonera has given notice to of its 1,200 employees in Sweden.
(News) India's 3G spectrum auction again delayed.
(News) Madagascar has reduced its international bandwidth tariffs to 22 percent.
(News) U.S. cable operator Charter is suing Verizon for alleged patent infringement in its FiOS service.
(News) Nokia said it will discontinue its only WiMax device, the N810 WiMax Edition.
(News) Cisco on Wednesday announced the availability of Eos, or Entertainment Operating System, its hosted platform for media...
(News) China finally issues 3G licenses after years of delay.
(News) Cisco says that due to strong international interest, it is extending the deadline for its router application development...
(News) Comcast says it has adopted new network management techniques.
(News) Clearwire will formally launch its first commercial WiMax network on Tuesday in Portland, Oregon.
(News) The recording industry has fired some of its online spies -- but that doesn't mean they're about to get all warm and cuddly.
(News) While not as well known or widely used as Wi-Fi or Ethernet, powerline networking-using your existing home electrical wiring...
(News) India says it has postponed the auction of 3G spectrum by two weeks.
(News) Once you've hooked up your most speed-critical devices via Ethernet, it's time to think about what should connect wirelessly...
(News) Every AirPort base station these days has three free Ethernet ports (in addition to the one that connects to your broadband...
(News) Using the same type of nanotechnology that enables hard drives to read and write data, researchers at Stanford University have...
(News) A repair ship had started repair work Monday on two of three undersea cables that were cut on Friday in the Mediterranean.
(News) The NSA has been granted a patent for detecting whether network communications have been tampered with.
(News) Brocade completed its acquisition of Foundry Networks for $2.6 billion.
(News) Sweden's largest tabloid Aftonbladet has decided to equip 700 of its employees with iPhones.
(News) Swedish incumbent TeliaSonera may have to open up its fiber network to competitors under .a new proposal by the Swedish...
(How To) Putting a secure and well-thought-out telecommuting plan in place at your company may yield a happier, more productive workforce.
(News) The iPhone will no longer be available for just Orange subscribers in France after a decision by the national competition...
(News) An ITU standards effort aims to end fragmentation in home networking but irks some existing industry groups.
(News) Pledging to "renew our information superhighway," President-elect Barack Obama this month offered a broad outline of an...
(News) Motorola announced on Tuesday what appears to be a contract to help build 3G networks in China.
(News) A 3G cellular service was launched in North Korea at 5pm by Cheo Technology, a company in which Egypt's Orascom Telecom holds...
(News) China may soon issue 3G licenses, according to mainland news reports.
(News) The Indian government issues detailed guidelines for online auction of 3G spectrum starting Jan 16.
(News) Alcatel-Lucent will cut its investment in WiMAX to reduce costs, instead pinning its fourth-generation mobile broadband hopes...
(News) In Japan, NTT is testing a digital billboard system that watches back
(News) A former South Carolina school official is sentenced to two years in jail for defrauding the federal E-Rate program.
(News) Vodafone's offer for Swedish navigation software developer Wayfinder puts it at odds with competitors like Google and Nokia.
(News) India's first 3G operator, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam, launches 3G services.
(News) Verizon Wireless expects to begin deploying next-generation LTE wireless broadband within a year, a top executive of the...
(News) Cisco will add real-time translation to its TelePresence high-definition conference technology next year.
(News) Cisco Systems will shift resources into new product areas next year, including making a major push into homes, Chairman and...
(News) In pledging to "renew our information superhighway," President-elect Barack Obama has offered the broad outline of an economic...
(News) Vodafone has offered 239 million Swedish kronor (US$29.4 million) for Wayfinder, which develops software for mobile...
(News) Cisco unveiled a multipronged effort to better equip networks to handle video traffic, which the company believes will soon...
(News) Improved latency and speeds increased to a theoretical 21M bps will help mobile broadband compete with ADSL, the head of 3...
(News) With the U.S. economy in a recession, and low broadband sign-ups during the past two quarters, you'd think broadband providers...
(News) Vodafone has joined forces with Western Union on an international mobile money transfer pilot.
(News) The next step in the evolution of mobile networks is almost here, which will boost speeds to 21M bps (bits per second)
(News) A California satellite technology provider has signed a deal to put a planned broadband Internet satellite into orbit above...
(News) Payment processor CheckFree says that hackers redirected customers from its Web site to a server that downloaded malware.
(News) The FBI warns that thefts of copper wire pose a threat to the U.S. infrastructure.
(News) Sierra Wireless has agreed to acquire machine-to-machine wireless networking vendor Wavecom for
€218 million.
(News) Universities, state officials push to broaden corporate access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
(News) Plans to reform Europe's legal landscape for the telecoms industry remain on track, after nearly being derailed at a meeting...
(News) Now that the iPhone lets us get online wherever we are, the concern for data security becomes even more important. One way to...
(News) VMware security chief Nand Mulchandani has left to be CEO of OpenDNS.
(Reviews) The concept of a "tower defense" game isn't particularly new: It's where you build defensive structures to prevent successive...
(News) T-Mobile USA has made Yahoo's OneSearch the default search engine on its phones, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday.
(News) Charles Giancarlo spent more than a decade at Cisco Systems and was widely considered a likely heir to Chairman and CEO John...
(News) Telepresence, the high-end form of videoconferencing now coming from several vendors, is the first technology that might let...
(News) Money talk dominates security, wireless, green IT and open source sessions at annual 451 Group event.
(News) Cisco and the New York Yankees plan high-tech features for the new Yankee Stadium.
(News) Nortel is reporting net losses of $3.4 billion for the third quarter, and is also announcing plans to cut 1,300 jobs in bid to...
(News) My problem with broadband? It's the lack of real choice.
(News) For its first quarter, Cisco posted net income that is about the same as it was a year earlier.
(News) On Sunday Sprint Nextel reconnected its network with Cogent Communications after severing it earlier last week.
(News) Cisco lost a court case brought by a reseller and was ordered to pay damages of over $6 million.
(News) QoS tools prioritize network traffic for better performance.
(News) A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and...
(News) It's not peaches and cream out here right now, but it's not all moldy fruit and curdled milk, either.
(News) Sun reels as Arista Networks snares Andreas Bechtolsheim, Sun's chief scientist.
(News) Telcordia researchers say they can encrypt data traveling at 100G bps with an optical component instead of electronics.
(News) Cisco launches specialist training program for networking professionals in India.
(News) Intel has acquired the assets of NetEffect, a maker of Ethernet chips and adapters for high-performance computing clusters...
(News) Cisco plans to set up more globalization centers similar to the one it has in Bangalore.
(News) EMC gave its blessing to Emulex converged network adapters that use Fibre Channel over Ethernet.
(News) Employees who wish their employers would let them work from home now have more stats to include in their business cases for...
(News) Brocade on Tuesday secured a US$1.1 billion loan to fund its acquisition of Foundry despite a tightening of credit markets...
(News) Even as WiMax promises faster average network speeds than other wireless networks, one company is banking on making money off...
(News) Vendors are now working on patching a critical TCP/IP bug that can bring down many firewalls and operating systems.
(News) Skype's president says his company was unaware that Skype users in China were having their instant message conversations...
(News) Microsoft and Cisco have started selling a networking appliance that runs some Windows Server functions.
(News) A six-company consortium has completed the first phase of a new submarine cable that will connect the United States with China...
(News) Notorious Internet service provider Intercage has been knocked offline by its service provider for the second time in a week.
(News) Cisco has issued 12 sets of security patches for its IOS router operating system.
(News) Notorious Internet service provider Intercage is now back online, after being dark since Saturday.
(News) Internet service provider Intercage has been knocked offline after being linked with malicious Web sites.
(News) Nortel Networks lowered its revenue expectations for the third quarter and said it will consider selling its metro Ethernet...
(News) Cisco pushed its video technologies for business collaboration and service-provider profits at its financial conference.
(News) IT professionals looking to cash in on hard-earned certifications may be surprised to learn that many IT skills continue to...
(News) The city of San Francisco is searching for a hidden device on its network, apparently installed by a rogue network...
(News) An administrator of a P-to-P network is sentenced to 18 months in prison.
(News) An IT manager's guide on how to be better at what you do, no matter how experienced you are.
(News) EMC released its much-awaited Clariion CX4 Series array.
(News) John Stewart doesn't talk like your typical corporate executive. He said that his company, Cisco Systems, has been lucky when...
(News) The story "DNS attack writer a victim of his own creation," posted Tuesday, has been changed to clarify that no BreakingPoint...
(News) One week after releasing attack code, HD Moore has fallen victim to a cache poisoning attack.
(News) Security researchers are criticizing hacker Dan Kaminsky for keeping quiet about technical details of a critical DNS flaw.
(News) An industry group is acting to fill in gaps among standards for 100G bps networks.
(News) All over Beijing, Olympic countdown clocks tick off the seconds that China has awaited for seven years: the moments until Aug...
(News) Avaya President and CEO Lou D'Ambrosio has stepped down for medical reasons.
(Reviews) Competition among broadband providers for small-business customers pushes speeds up and prices down.
(News) Amazon again experienced site performance problems on Monday, after having issues on Friday.
(News) You can get 10 Mbps upstream and downstream for as little as $1,295 in 22 U.S. markets from Speakeasy.
(News) Authorities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are launching free Wi-Fi access in Harvard Square, home to Harvard University.
(News) Volvo Group's business is all about getting from one place to another. The company sold its car division to Ford Motor in 1999...
(News) An inexpensive way to share USB peripherals over an Ethernet network removes the needs for carting equipment and cables around an office.
(News) U.S. cable broadband providers Comcast and Cox Communications are slowing BitTorrent traffic at all times of the day, not just...
(News) Businesses alone are not doing enough to avert an impending shortage of Internet Protocol addresses, and governments must work...
(News) A security researcher has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco Systems' routers, a development that has placed...
(News) An earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter Scale knocked out mobile phone service in the western Chinese city of Chengdu.
(News) The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is taking the issue of counterfeit Cisco equipment very seriously, according to a...
(News) Cisco Systems revenue rose more than 10 percent in the company's fiscal third quarter, though its net income fell due to an...
(News) This year marks a watershed for the Interop trade show in Las Vegas, as the granddaddy of enterprise networking events adds a...
(News) Cisco Systems' Linksys brand may disappear sooner than expected, according to a top executive for small business at the...
(News) Apple's AirPort Express provides boasts a lot of power beneath its tiny, modest exterior, for Windows users on Wi-Fi networks as well as those with Macs.
(News) iPass offers an inexpensive 3G card, unlimited US 3G service, and unlimited Wi-Fi service for a pretty remarkable monthly rate for the frequent traveler.
(News) Bain Capital Partners and China's Huawei Technologies have abandoned their bid to buy U.S. networking firm 3Com because of security concerns by the U.S. government, Bain said.
(News) Following the lead of Microsoft and Oracle, Cisco Systems will start releasing security patches for some of its products on a schedule.
(News) Siemens plans to cut 3,800 jobs at its Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) subsidiary, including 2,000 jobs in Germany, the company announced Tuesday.
(News) Industry needs to team up with cities to battle climate change, Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers told local government leaders on Wednesday.
(News) Cisco Systems posted solid financial results for its most recent quarter on Wednesday, but the networking giant lowered its financial forecast for the months ahead, citing a slowdown in U.S. and European markets.
(News) As servers and storage start to merge into unified, virtualized systems, Cisco wants to do the same thing with the networks that connect them.
(News) We've all run into obnoxious people on the Internet. But these are the kinds of idiots who make you feel like logging off permanently.
(News) Interesting beta services from Flickr, DimDim, and Jiffle.
(News) Former Brocade Communications Systems CEO Gregory Reyes has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and a US$15 million fine for fraud related to backdating of the storage networking company's stock options.
(News) Sunday's inadvertent disruption of Google's YouTube video service underscores a flaw in the Internet's design that could some day lead to a serious security problem, according to networking experts.
(News) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is starting to look at how the organization might function after its current memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Commerce expires in September 2009.
(How To) True or false, the information people find about you on the Web can have a big impact on your life. Here are five techniques to make sure that what people read about you is good (or at least true).
(News) Bain Capital, a U.S. equity investment firm, declined to comment Wednesday on news reports that a U.S. government panel reviewing a proposed acquisition of networking vendor 3Com plans to extend its review.
(News) Verizon Communications' Business unit will begin building more than 2,000 miles of a high-speed, ultra long-haul (ULH) network in parts of Europe next month, the company announced Thursday.
(News) Nortel Networks achieved a measure of financial recovery in the third quarter as it posted a small profit, even while revenue for most of its businesses fell.
(News) Cisco upgrades switches for multimedia
(News) VSNL plans to spend US$200 million to build an undersea communications cable system between Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, and potentially Vietnam, the company said late Wednesday.
(News) Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers announced on Thursday US$16 billion in new investments in China, including manufacturing, investment and educational programs.
(News) Alcatel-Lucent's head of enterprise systems, Hubert de Pesquidoux, will take on the role of chief financial officer as part of a management shake-up intended to streamline decision-making. The company has suffered from lackluster performance since its formation from the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies last December.
(News) Cisco Systems on Monday appeared to further distance itself from a tax scandal in Brazil, saying it can't vouch for everything its channel partners do.
(News) Platinum Equity LLC will acquire Covad Communications Corp. for about US$304 million, making the communications services company the latest technology company to sell to a private equity firm.
(News) The Web 2.0-social networking phenomenon's seemingly irresistible force field has ensnared yet another niche: travel.
(News) Competition may not fix problems with broadband speed and cost in the U.S., because of the high cost of entry into the market, the leader of a technology think tank said Friday.
(News) Senior 3Com Corp. executives are waiting for the full terms of a US$2.2 billion acquisition bid to be made public, as several important details affecting the company's future remain unclear.
(News) Google Inc. and IBM Corp. have teamed up to offer a curriculum and support for software development on large-scale distributed computing systems, with six universities signing up so far.
(News) The growth in remote working means IT departments should review and if necessary overhaul their application and IT infrastructure access, Butler Group has said.
(How To) Manufacturer Boosts Productivity, Morale With IT Overhaul
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