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Article | 21/04/2009 CSIRO telescope gets bandwidth boost, turns data stream into torrent
Australian scientific agency the CSIRO reports that a $12 million upgrade to its radio telescope, which will boost bandwidth from 128 MHz to 2 GHz, is...
Article | 17/04/2009 Cellcrypt secure VoIP heading to BlackBerry
Cellcrypt, a British vendor of software for encrypting cell phone calls, has set up shop in Silicon Valley and is getting a product ready for North Am...
Article | 17/04/2009 How the Skype spinoff could change the market
Now that eBay has set a tentative timetable for spinning off Skype, the question becomes whether the Internet phone company can become a legitimate fo...
Article | 16/04/2009 Alaska Airlines flies ahead with in-flight Wi-Fi
U.S. airlines are now piling on to the in-flight Wi-Fi bandwagon, with Alaska Airlines joining other airlines in expanding the service to more aircraf...
Article | 16/04/2009 EBay gets over identity crisis with Skype IPO
Analysts today called Tuesday's announcement that eBay Inc. is looking to spin off Skype via an initial public offering a smart move by the online auc...
Article | 15/04/2009 Should eBay sell Skype back to its founders?
Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are trying to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/technology/companies/11skype.html?_r=1">buy b...
Article | 15/04/2009 EBay plans Skype IPO next year
EBay plans to spin off Skype via an initial public offering (IPO) because the Internet telephony unit doesn't mesh with the company's two other busine...
Article | 15/04/2009 Cisco 'could' announce 10% layoffs, analyst predicts
Forecasting a significant drop in revenue for the fourth quarter, a J.P. Morgan analyst Tuesday reported that Cisco Systems Inc. "could" announce a 10...
Article | 11/04/2009 Service restored after AT&T fiber cut
The fiber cut that shut off phone and Internet service to thousands of San Francisco Bay Area residents on Thursday was fixed overnight, according to ...
Article | 11/04/2009 Making a PBX 'botnet' out of Skype or Google Voice?
Flaws in popular Internet-based telephony systems could be exploited to create a network of hacked phone accounts, somewhat like the botnets that have...
Article | 9/04/2009 Start-up aims to challenge Microsoft, Skype, Google
Dutch start-up Perzonae Unified Communications is working on a service that will combine e-mail, instant messaging and, later, calls and teleconferenc...
Article | 8/04/2009 Apple seen readying huge Wi-Fi boost for iPod Touch, iPhone
Apple seems to be laying the groundwork to introduce high-capacity, low-power 802.11n Wi-Fi to the iPod Touch, and presumably to its 3G-enabled compan...
Article | 7/04/2009 3 to allow Next G mobile broadband roaming from mid April
3 Mobile will expand its roaming coverage and introduce new roaming pricing for users from mid April.
Article | 7/04/2009 Network World: iPhone app: Skype for iPhone
The popular VoIP and chat application makes its iPhone debut. Watch Keith Shaw make a phone call to Jason Meserve.
Article | 7/04/2009 Network World: Imprezzeo's impressive image search engine
Searching for an image based on text is frustrating. But Imprezzeo's new search engine technology lets you find what you're looking for based on simil...
Article | 7/04/2009 New NBN proposal promises faster Internet for homes and businesses
The Federal Government this morning unveiled its plans for the National Broadband Network (NBN). Spanning eight years and projected to cost $43 billio...
Article | 7/04/2009 Italian earthquake spotlights early warning systems
In the wake of Monday's earthquake in Italy, scientists and researchers working on early warnings systems said that knowing about an earthquake even j...
Article | 6/04/2009 CTIA: Motorola demos LTE
At CTIA Motorola gave a glimpse of LTE, the next-generation mobile technology for many of the world's carriers.
Article | 6/04/2009 CTIA: Samung unveils a mobile internet device that runs on WiMax networks
As the CTIA Wireless trade show got off the ground in Las Vegas, the South Korean electronics giant unveiled the Mondi, a mobile Internet device that ...
Article | 6/04/2009 CTIA: Skype introduces application for iPhone and beta version for Blackberry
Skype's peer-to-peer VOIP software is now available on the iPhone and a beta version will be coming soon for the Blackberry.

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