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Article | 7/11/2008 Cisco doubles router speed with new processor

Cisco Systems announced Thursday that it is doubling the speed of its Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series routers to 20Gbit/sec., only eight...

Article | 3/11/2008 Motorola to lay off 3,000 as part of $800M in cuts for '09

Motorola officials have confirmed that US$800 million in cuts planned for 2009 will require laying off about 3,000 workers, with a little more than tw...

Article | 31/10/2008 IDC: Financial doldrums slowing mobile phone shipments

Global mobile phone shipments in the third quarter showed the effects of the worldwide financial crisis, falling significantly from previous quarters,...

Article | 31/10/2008 Motorola to shift phone OS to Android, Windows Mobile

Motorola Thursday announced a radical shift in its mobile phone business, saying there would be fewer shipments of phone models early next year but th...

Article | 8/08/2008 Road-warrior conundrum: Laptop or handheld?

As handheld devices become more like full-fledged computers in their own right, the question of whether business travelers might be better served by l...

Article | 23/10/2008 G1 phone buyers like the 'open' Android software

Judging by the smile on Jacek Ambroziak's face, you would have thought he won the lottery. For him, being the first in line to buy a new G1 phone at t...

Article | 16/10/2008 Cisco demos public rooms for TelePresence

Cisco Systems Wednesday announced the first TelePresence videoconferencing rooms available for public use, demonstrating the technology simultaneously...

Article | 7/10/2008 Wi-Fi helps college students get better grades, survey says

Can Wi-Fi make you smarter?

Article | 2/10/2008 WiMax backers upbeat despite economic fears

Even after Monday's stock market drop in the US and a general tightening in the financial sector, WiMax equipment makers and wireless operators at WiM...

Article | 25/09/2008 Cisco to unveil SaaS based on WebEx, Unified Communications 7.0

Cisco Systems will announce a new 7.0 release of its unified communications software Wednesday, as well as a SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform bas...

Article | 24/09/2008 Wireless rollout at Iraq base tries muni Wi-Fi model

US military personnel at Joint Base Balad in Iraq are receiving wireless Internet connections on a subscription basis via a satellite uplink and a rug...

Article | 24/09/2008 Microsoft to drop support for Office 2003 SP2

Microsoft warned users Monday that it will drop support for Office 2003 Service Pack 2 in three weeks, and it urged them to upgrade to a newer service...

Article | 24/09/2008 G1 Android phone is only half 'open' with T-Mobile lock-in

The new T-Mobile G1 wireless phone, announced Tuesday by T-Mobile USA, Google and HTC, generated attention for its use of the open Android platform, b...

Article | 18/09/2008 Google adds Street View, walking directions to mobile devices

Google has been steadily upgrading its Google Maps for mobile applications since 2007 and Wednesday added free walking directions and the ability to f...

Article | 12/09/2008 The smell of WAN acceleration

Glen Dalgleish, vice president of infrastructure services at global perfumer Coty, well remembers why he and his staff had implemented WAN acceleratio...