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Article | 2/07/2011
Controlling Wi-Fi radio 'nap-time' reaps big power savings
A Duke University grad student has come up with a way to double, or more, battery life in Wi-Fi devices, without any changes needed on the device itse...
Article | 29/06/2011
Alcatel leaps ahead with 400-gigabit routing chip
Alcatel-Lucent is charting a course to the next generation of carrier routers with new silicon that is focused today on delivering services from the e...
Article | 11/05/2011
Ballmer: Microsoft won't tie Skype to Windows
Microsoft will integrate Skype's calling features into many of its key products, including Office, the Xbox and its Windows Phone software, but it wil...
Article | 6/05/2011
Man sentenced to prison for defrauding Cisco
A Maryland man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for directing a multimillion-dollar warranty fraud scheme targeting Cisco Systems, the U.S....
Article | 29/04/2011
China's ZTE fires back at Huawei with own lawsuit
Chinese telecommunications equipment supplier ZTE has fired back against its rival Huawei Technologies by filing its own patent infringement lawsuit a...
Article | 29/04/2011
China's Huawei files lawsuit aganist rival ZTE
China's largest telecommunications equipment supplier, Huawei, has filed lawsuits against Chinese rival ZTE for patent infringement involving mobile t...
Article | 26/04/2011
Dell brings remote desktop capabilities to workstations
Dell on Tuesday announced a desktop workstation that acts like a server from which remote client PCs can exploit graphics processing capabilities.
Article | 15/04/2011
As PlayBook launches, Cisco's Cius slowly emerges
As Research In Motion launched its PlayBook on Thursday evening, Cisco Systems was already accepting orders for its Cius enterprise tablet and shippin...
Article | 15/04/2011
Asia out of IPv4 addresses
The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has run out of all but a handful of IPv4 addresses that it is holding in reserve for start-up net...
Article | 13/04/2011
Connexus offers hybrid broadband
Victoria-based ISP, Connexus, has introduced a hybrid broadband product allowing users to customise router configurations and at both ends – their cor...
Article | 14/04/2011
Why you shouldn't worry about switching to IPv6 now
A lot of coverage of IPv6 over the past few years gives the impression that you need to switch to IPv6 soon. That's not necessarily the case, though, ...
Article | 14/04/2011
Study: Broadband stimulus overlapped existing service
Three large broadband projects funded recently by the U.S. Rural Utilities Service (RUS) largely cover areas already served by broadband providers, ac...
Article | 11/04/2011
Internet2 turns 15: Has it delivered on its promise?
With nearly $100 million in new funding, Internet2, the faster, better Internet reserved for research and education, has embarked on an upgrade that w...
Article | 11/04/2011
NBN plan changed to avoid compensation
The federal government changed its original plan for a national broadband network (NBN) to avoid having to compensate Telstra to the tune of $20 billi...
Article | 8/04/2011
Conroy: Public NBN sentiments untarnished by criticism
Despite increasing amounts of criticism of the National Broadband Network (NBN) by industry figures, public opinion of the $36 billion remains high, a...
Article | 8/04/2011
Japan's NTT aims to fix quake-hit undersea cables by May
Seven segments of undersea data and telephone transmission cables that were damaged in the March 11 earthquake off Japan should be repaired by early M...
Article | 7/04/2011
NBN Co urged to be more transparent
The company rolling out the national broadband network (NBN) has been urged to be more transparent about who will eventually lay its high-speed cables...
Article | 6/04/2011
Telstra launches 21Mbps mobile Wi-Fi modem
Telstra has announced the launch of a new mobile Wi-Fi modem that is capable of theoretical maximum download speeds of 21 Megabits per second (Mbps).
Article | 4/04/2011
20 events that shaped the Internet, part 1
Today we all use our smartphones and our broadband-equipped home and work PCs to instantly access information and data on just about any topic via the...
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