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Obama meets polar bears, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Enermax

By Jock Yooler Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:35

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Google slashes price on Picasa storage

By a staff writer Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:40

Picture this

Verizon Wireless gets writ from AT&T

By a staff writer Tuesday, 03 November 2009 18:20

A public spat has blown up after AT&T sued Verizon Wireless over an advertisement alleging it has gaps in its coverage.

Internet achieves middle age: life begins at 40

By a staff writer Thursday, 29 October 2009 05:41

Forty years back, on the 29th of October, Leonard Kleinrock connected the UCLA computer to Stanford Research Institute.

WiMAX far from dead in Taiwan

By Mike Magee Sunday, 25 October 2009 22:49

A senior industry figure from the telecomms market proclaimed at a conference in Paris earlier this month that WiMAX was dead. Hermann Hauser, responsible for spinning off ARM, said LTE is the way ahead.

Internet behemoths fight hard for net neutrality

By a staff writer Monday, 19 October 2009 03:40

Twenty four CEOs and founders of internet companies have written to the FCC in a bid to influence the body on the vexed subject of net neutrality.

AT&T slates Google Voice: nun today, nun tomorrow

By the writing staff Wednesday, 14 October 2009 22:58

Giant telephone company AT&T sent a lengthy letter to the Federal Communications Commission yesterday attacking Google by accusing it of double standards for openness.

Social Networking helps you dodge the law

By Emma Woollacott in Paris, France Thursday, 08 October 2009 21:37

And we thought we were cynics. Honestly, we're like babes in the wood compared to this lot.

How Google buys companies

By Emma Woollacott in Paris Wednesday, 07 October 2009 06:26

Wesley Chan, director and lead voice strategist for Google, today told a bunch of hopeful entrepreneurs how to persuade Google to buy their companies. The answer seems to be to really annoy the company's top brass.

Carla Bruni victim of own success

By Nigel Constantine Monday, 05 October 2009 22:45

She has everything, looks, fame, Napoleonesque husband, but Carla Bruni can't get a website running to save her life.

Cisco eats up Tandberg at $3 billion tag

By the writing staff Wednesday, 30 September 2009 22:03

Giant networking company Cisco said it has bought Norwegian firm Tandberg for $3 billion.

Private Clouds are SaaS's future enemy

By Mark Everett Hall Monday, 28 September 2009 06:54

The Great Recession has taken its toll on IT vendors. Loads of companies have lost money. Too many to count failed to meet Wall Street’s insane profit expectations. Their layoffs put thousands of smart workers on the street. It’s been devastating.

Facebook trips the Lite fantastic

By C Shanti Friday, 11 September 2009 04:21

Social networking site Facebook has introduced a slim down version of Facebook aimed at people with slow net connections.

Mingleverse promises live 3D telecomms

By Mike Magee Monday, 07 September 2009 00:42

A startup is set to launch a system which combines 3D voice, good audio and visual telecommunications to connect people across countries and continents.

Google Gmail outage was a very Big Deal

By C Shanti Wednesday, 02 September 2009 03:36

Pressure on Google servers caused the 100 minute outage of Gmail yesterday and the company has gone out of its way to Google Grovel about the problem.

Scientists develop thinner optical fibers

By Emma Woollacott Friday, 13 November 2009 04:53

Show promise for diagnostic tools

The cloud turns CIOs into services entrepreneurs

By Mark Everett Hall Wednesday, 11 November 2009 10:52

CIOs ignore cloud computing at their peril

Twitter tilts at lists on feeds

By a staff writer Friday, 30 October 2009 05:08

Social networking tool Twitter has introduced a feature to let people organize the folk they follow by classifying them into lists.

The future of 4G is murky

By Mike Magee Sunday, 25 October 2009 23:49

Basic design and silicon to achieve power and cost targets for 4G data or phone based devices is still not in place, according to a report from a senior semiconductor analyst.

Americans tweet like a flock of canaries

By Emma Woollacott Thursday, 22 October 2009 00:23

One in five online Americans feels the need to tell the world what they're up to, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Finland promises broadband for all

By Emma Woollacott Thursday, 15 October 2009 01:30

Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness... and broadband. Yup, the Finnish government is planning to make broadband internet access a legal right for all its 5.3 million citizens.

Wi-Fi Alliance promotes peer to peer Wi-Fi Direct

By the writing staff Wednesday, 14 October 2009 04:15

The Wi-Fi Alliance said it is close to releasing the final spec for wi-fi devices to connect directly to each other.

WiMAX has failed, industry guru claims

By Mike Magee in Paris, France Wednesday, 07 October 2009 12:04

Hermann Hauser, the man who span off ARM from Acorn and later CSR, said at a roundtable today here in Paris that WiMAX has failed.

Cisco expands management from 10 to 2,500 people

By Mike Magee in Paris, France Wednesday, 07 October 2009 03:06

Mohsen Moazami, VP of Cisco's internet business solutions group, told the Etre conference today that it has devolved its management from 10 top stars 10 years ago to 2,500 to 3,000 people now.

Global broadband quality improves - but not enough

By Emma Woollacott Thursday, 01 October 2009 02:30

The quality of broadband in the US is lower than that in Lithuania, Bulgaria and Latvia, according to a report commissioned by Cisco.

How Smart are Twitter's Investors?

By Mark Everett Hall Tuesday, 29 September 2009 05:39

Opinion Twitter is all the rage. And while it's great fun, is it really worth $1 billion, which is what the Wall Street Journal pegs it at after a $100 million investment led by T. Rowe Price and Insight Venture Partners last week?

AMD bullish about server market

By Mike Magee in San Francisco Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:35

Chip firm AMD is holding an alternative event just a block away from the Intel Developer Forum and wheeling in stray hacks off the street, briefing them about the stuff it makes.

Networking companies sued over network patent

By Christine Meier Friday, 11 September 2009 04:07

A case started in a Delaware district court on the 4th of September, alleging many of the most important networking companies in the world breached an existing patent.

US Telcos call for lower broadband speeds

By the writing staff Wednesday, 02 September 2009 23:15

Back to the future

US telcos have hit on a clever idea to provide universal broadband to every US citizen - they're calling on the government to define broadband as anything over 768 Kbps downstream and 200 Kbps upstream.