Sycamore Networks(NASDAQ--SCMR),whose optical switches and telecom software have powered carrier networks around the world since 1998,says it is shutting down.The company is selling off assets of its Intelligent Bandwidth Management ...
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IDG News Service-Marten Pieters,MD&CEO,Vodafone Essar,says IT has helped the company serve more customers,conquer rural India,and make Vodafone India's second largest mobile service provider. CIO:What do you think of the low tariff rates ...
Joanna Shields has resigned from her role as European boss of Facebook to become chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO). Joanna Shields will join as the chief executive of TCIO in January 2013. The government ...
"Technology should be irrelevant," says Gavin Walker, CIO of the UK's air traffic control business, NATS. Walker is a firm believer in focusing on what IT can enable, rather than the technology for its own sake. As CIO, he heads a ...
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All of the UK's major mobile operators have joined forces to prevent interference from their impending 4G networks to Freeview TV signals across the country, following joint meetings with the government and Ofcom earlier this month. EE, ...
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IDG News Service - Verizon Communications reported 3.9% growth in revenue for the third quarter and 21.2% growth in net income, driven by gains in mobile revenue and customer additions for its Fios broadband and television services. ...
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Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs will give the opening keynote at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in January, a logical choice for an event whose focus is increasingly mobile, but one that might not garner the attention of a Bill Gates or Steve ...
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It was looking like it would be this time next year before mobile operators other than EE – formerly Everything Everywhere – were able to offer 4G. The merger between T-Mobile and Orange was the only brand to receive a ...
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Mobile operator EE will offer 4G services in the UK from 30 October, it has confirmed. Rumours were rife yesterday when EE, along with mobile operators O2, Vodafone and Three had peace talks with communications regulator Ofcom and Culture ...
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Mobile operator EE will announce its launch date for 4G services imminently as it finalises its deployment testing programme. An EE spokesperson would not be drawn on yesterday's rumours of peace talks between communications regulator ...
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In a bid to cut tension between mobile operators in the battle to bring 4G to the UK,communications regulator Ofcom and Culture Secretary Maria Miller are holding peace talks with the networks today that could result in 4G services becoming ...
Research In Motion (RIM), the company behind the BlackBerry smartphone, has posted another quarterly loss. While it represents another blow to the struggling mobile device producer, the net loss of $235m for the second quarter isn't as ...
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The European Commission(EC)has outlined a cloud computing strategy that aims to boost European business and government productivity. The strategy,dubbed Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe,aims to deliver a net gain of ...
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Will U.S.regulators balk over Japan-based SoftBank becoming a 70%owner of Sprint,based in Overland Park,Kansas.? On the surface,analysts say the foreign ownership issue is unlikely to derail the$20.1 billion deal. Sprint and others ...
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Some BlackBerry users are experiencing total service outage according to warnings issued by service provider Vodafone this morning. A RIM statement on Facebook reads, "We are currently experiencing a BlackBerry service issue impacting ...
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