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Article | 1/12/2009 After year of trouble, Big Bang machine breaks world record
After a year of technical problems, bad publicity and staggered momentum, the Large Hadron Collider has returned to work with a vengeance.
Article | 24/11/2009 Ciena will pay $US769M for Nortel's metro Ethernet business
Ciena will pay US$769 million for the optical networking and carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel Networks' Metro Ethernet Networks business, the two com...
Article | 24/11/2009 Mobile groups protest proposed US net neutrality rules
A month ago, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission began a proceeding to create formal net neutrality rules for broadband providers, and the prop...
Article | 21/11/2009 Google adding IPv6 to YouTube
Google plans to upgrade its YouTube video streaming Web site to provide support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communicat...
Article | 20/11/2009 10G in data centers driving Ethernet switch market
The Ethernet switch market grew for the second consecutive quarter during the third quarter of this year, driven by continued strength in data center ...
Article | 18/11/2009 Smartphones on Wi-Fi vulnerable to security attack
A new report from a mobile security vendor details how the most popular smartphones, including the iPhone, are very vulnerable to man-in-the-middle at...
Article | 16/11/2009 Cisco ups offer for videoconferencing firm Tandberg to $US3.4B
Cisco has raised its bid for Norwegian video conferencing vendor Tandberg to 19 billion Norwegian Kroner (US$3.4 billion), up from $3.0 billion, but s...
Article | 11/11/2009 Acadia, Cisco, EMC, VMware data center cloud unveiled
Cisco, EMC and VMware last week unveiled the much rumored joint venture to sell their products to companies wanting to build internal clouds. Called A...
Article | 16/11/2009 HP's 3Com acquisition: An inside look
It started with a cup of coffee between 3Com COO Ron Sege and HP ProCurve chief Marius Haas a year ago.It ended with this week's $US2.7 billion blockb...
Article | 13/11/2009 Google buys Gizmo5 Internet calling service
Google is bulking up its phone offerings with the acquisition of Gizmo5, a company that offers voice-over-IP software for mobile phones and computers....
Article | 12/11/2009 HP-Cisco battle spreads to China with 3Com deal
Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of networking gear vendor 3Com will unlock a major new market for the company, taking its growing rivalry with Cisco Sys...
Article | 13/11/2009 Cisco pushes to open up telepresence
Cisco is making a concerted effort to improve the compatibility of its telepresence gear, something that industry observers say has been lagging, but ...
Article | 13/11/2009 HP's history of billion-dollar technology buys
HP's news that it would lay down $US2.7 billion to acquire network switch maker 3Com not only causes industry watchers to look ahead at what could com...
Article | 12/11/2009 Logitech's LifeSize buy bewilders
Logitech's only video products are commodity Web cams, but that will change when the company closes a deal to buy high-definition videoconferencing ve...
Article | 12/11/2009 HP to buy 3Com in $US2.7bn networking, data center bid
Hewlett-Packard has agreed to buy 3Com for about US$2.7 billion, pushing forward the giant IT vendor's strategy for combining computing, storage, serv...
Article | 12/11/2009 Unpatched SMB bug crashes Windows 7, researcher says
A day after Microsoft plugged more than a dozen holes in its software, a security researcher unveiled a new unpatched bug in Windows 7 and Server 2008...
Article | 12/11/2009 Clearwire claims 173,000 WiMax users
Wireless broadband provider Clearwire had about 173,000 WiMax subscribers at the end of September and should be able to offer service to 120 million p...
Article | 11/11/2009 WiMAX switched on in South Australia
Adelaide became the first city in Australia to utilise WiMAX broadband technology as South Australian ISP Adam Internet yesterday switched on its Adam...
Article | 11/11/2009 Logitech to buy HD video company for $US405 million
Logitech plans to acquire LifeSize Communications, a company that makes HD video communications equipment, for US$405 million in cash, the companies s...
Article | 11/11/2009 Google offers free Wi-Fi in US airports during the holidays
Hoping to bring holiday cheer to harried travelers, Google is footing the bill for Wi-Fi access at 47 U.S. airports through mid-January, so that peopl...

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