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Article | 21/12/2010 VHA CEO issues 3G apology
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (ASX: VHA) has apologised to customers for recent problems with its 3G network upgrade.
Article | 15/12/2010 Conroy proposes terms for convergence review
Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has proposed the terms of reference for a wide-ranging review of Australia's telecom and media regulation.
Article | 16/12/2010 EBay buys mobile software developer Critical Path
EBay will boost its mobile development capabilities with the acquisition of Critical Path Software, announced on Wednesday.
Article | 7/12/2010 MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks
With global networks carrying complex time-sensitive data, the speed of light is actually becoming a significant source of latency, researchers have f...
Article | 2/12/2010 AirPlay's support for third-party apps may expand
AirPlay, one of the main feature additions in iOS 4.2, could soon work with third-party apps and Safari, according to a purported Steve Jobs e-mail th...
Article | 1/12/2010 P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN
A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, ...
Article | 30/11/2010 4G to cover more than 4 billion people by 2015
More than 60 per cent of the world's population will have access to some form of 4G mobile broadband technology by 2015, according to a new report fro...
Article | 25/11/2010 Broadcom buys home networking company
Broadcom is set to acquire home networking company Gigle Networks, a privately-held company that develops system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions for home ne...
Article | 24/11/2010 EU to launch dedicated broadband satellite
There is light at the end of the tunnel for the estimated 20 million Europeans who cannot get high-quality broadband access. On Friday a new satellite...
Article | 23/11/2010 Study: Wi-Fi makes trees sick
Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according t...
Article | 18/11/2010 HP launches desktop, room-size videoconferencing
Hewlett-Packard today announced videoconferencing for desktops, laptops and conference rooms to complement its high-end, studio-based Halo videoconfer...
Article | 17/11/2010 Smartphones, data hogs causing wireless network capacity crunch
Two-thirds of wireless carriers say their networks are suffering due to the surge in data traffic. They're racing to apply a wide range of technical a...
Article | 13/11/2010 Cisco hires former iPhone engineer Papermaster
Former chief iPhone engineer Mark Papermaster has joined Cisco Systems as the head of its switching chip division.
Article | 6/11/2010 Italy to remove public Wi-Fi restrictions
Italy will remove existing restrictions on public Wi-Fi access to the Internet starting in January, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni announced...
Article | 5/11/2010 4G definition creates marketing free-for-all
Now that LTE and WiMax officially are not 4G, use of that heavily advertised term is a free-for-all -- at least until it comes time to name the next w...
Article | 4/11/2010 WiGig to line up with DisplayPort standard
With an eye to letting people link more devices and displays without using cables, the Wireless Gigabit Alliance plans to bring DisplayPort technology...
Article | 3/11/2010 Broadcom readies 100G Ethernet chip
Broadcom is shipping samples of a processor for 100-Gigabit Ethernet, part of an architecture that can scale up to a clustered system with a total cap...
Article | 2/11/2010 Network hardware failure blamed for PayPal collapse
A network hardware failure knocked PayPal offline for all of its users globally on Friday, and the recovery and failover systems didn't spring into ac...
Article | 2/11/2010 Adobe Connect 8 streamlines online conferencing
Have you ever participated in an online meeting or video conference where you've logged in at the correct time -- or ten minutes early as directed by ...
Article | 29/10/2010 Wi-Fi won't kill the office LAN ... yet
While Wi-Fi has increasingly become the primary choice for office worker connectivity, it may be some time before it replaces wired networks altogethe...

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