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The best companies want to keep their business flexible, innovative and competitive without driving up operating costs and capital expenses. US owned telecommunications equipment manufacturer, Avaya, puts the solution at your (Read More)
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When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and p (Read More)
mocoNews.net:
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) said it is buying a division of privately held RadioFrame Networks, which makes network equipment for Sprint’s Nextel division. The iDen base station techno (Read More)
www.ft.com:
The two main UK opposition parties on Friday threatened to block regulatory reforms affecting broadband, internet piracy and broadcasting unless the government made concessions. (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
If there is one thing about the tech blogosphere it is its predictability. Just as you could predict the almost breathless press that surround Google’s announcement that yes they were working on an operating system, yes they (Read More)
GigaOM:
Air Canada is testing an in-flight Wi-Fi service from Aircell on its flights between Toronto and Los Angeles and Montreal and L.A. From now until Jan. 29, passengers can plunk down $9.95 per flight to surf on a laptop and $7. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Black Friday is a week away, and thousands of markdowns are already announced. Our master list of Giz-friendly deals—a hefty read—includes similar items priced differently at different stores. Keep it refreshed, cuz we'll be (Read More)
CommunicationsDirect News:
As growth in the broadband market continues to slow, due to depressed housing starts, a weak economy and a nearly saturated market, competition is intensifying between cable and telco providers, which are increas (Read More)
CommunicationsDirect News:
France Telecom's chief executive has told a conference the group plans to announce a new strategy before the end of the year, which will see the operator turn its focus onto big projects like high-speed broadba (Read More)
DSLreports - front page:
AOL continues an interesting trip that took them from one of the largest and most powerful ISPs on the Internet, to a fractured and financially-troubled company with dreams of becoming an advertising giant. Of course most of (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Almost two-thirds of adults have broadband connections at home, but that's a long way from the ultimate goal: universal adoption of high speed Internet throughout the United States. Depending on which study you believe, w (Read More)
GigaOM:
The New York City Council is voting on a resolution this morning supporting the idea that Internet service providers cannot discriminate against web traffic on their networks. As gestures go, this resolution supporting net ne (Read More)
DSLreports - front page:
According to the Wall Street Journal, the FCC is seriously considering re-establishing some kind of open access rules, which would give new entrants access to incumbent infrastructure at reduced price. Open access was the cen (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
If the lawsuits don’t work, fight fire with fire.That seems to be the approach AT&T is taking after a judge dismissed its request to pull Verizon Wireless’s “There’s a Map For That” ads earlier this week.AT&T released a comme (Read More)
BBC:
This morning I joined a clutch of damp, sleepy and dishevelled hacks - sorry, bright-eyed and enthusiastic fellow journalists - at a briefing at the Department of Business in Whitehall about the Digital Economy Bill.In brief (Read More)
Reuters:
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The launch of 3G in China and India by the likes of China Mobile and Bharti Airtel could boost wireless broadband worldwide, sparking a boom in new offerings as millions of users sign up for services. (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Google made an announcement! It was an OS, in case you haven't heard. But it was also something else: a long-term, high-risk bet about the future of the internet. Here's what Google needs to happen for Chrome to make it. Just (Read More)
Top Headlines | ZDNet.com.au:
NSW Minister for Education, Verity Firth, today said that the government had signed on Telstra to bring fast broadband to over 1.2 million students. (Credit: Alex Serpo/ZDNet.com.au)The $280 million contract will run for four (Read More)
The Inquisitr:
Anyone who has been on Twitter for the past couple of hours will have notice the over abundance of messages about Google’s Chrome OS announcement today. Then the deluge of posts started showing up letting us know all about th (Read More)