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Article | 5/01/2010 Mobile DTV goes Wi-Fi to reach iPhones

Among the devices supporting mobile digital TV at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week will be a small box designed to b...

Article | 19/12/2009 Philadelphia plans to buy its Wi-Fi network

The city of Philadelphia plans to buy a controversial Wi-Fi network that was built by EarthLink in 2006 but sold only two years later as the strugglin...

Article | 18/12/2009 Cisco's UCS powers Taser police video service

Cisco Systems' UCS data-center architecture provides the backbone of a service from Taser International that collects and stores video from police cam...

Article | 16/12/2009 Broadcom pushes mobile video, bright outlook

Broadcom on Tuesday highlighted mobile video and home networking in product announcements and a rosy business forecast while the company received good...

Article | 16/12/2009 WLAN market on the rebound, Dell'Oro says

The wireless LAN industry nearly returned to its pre-recession health in the third quarter and is likely to achieve record revenue when the current qu...

Article | 12/12/2009 HP aims at flexible, unified storage

Hewlett-Packard hopes to do the same thing with storage that it did with servers, leveraging years of system-building experience and economies of scal...

Article | 11/12/2009 WiGig fast wireless group finishes standard

The Wireless Gigabit Alliance has completed its specification for a technology to deliver as much as 7G bps (bits per second) over a very high unlicen...

Article | 11/12/2009 Battle over voice on LTE heats up

Backers of two competing specifications for delivering voice over LTE mobile data networks have heralded demonstrations in the past two days, while mo...

Article | 11/12/2009 Dell aims management software, 10G Ethernet at data centers

Dell added 10-Gigabit Ethernet to its EqualLogic storage line and introduced infrastructure management software in a set of product announcements Thur...

Article | 9/12/2009 Cisco still open to IBM partnership

Cisco Systems tried to partner with major server vendors several years ago before coming out with its own blade servers earlier this year, and it's st...

Article | 8/12/2009 Palm Pre user sues, alleging data loss

A Palm Pre user is suing Palm and Sprint Nextel, alleging they caused him to lose most of the data from his phone, and he wants to turn the suit into ...

Article | 8/12/2009 Ruckus patents technique for video over Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi equipment vendor Ruckus Wireless has patented a technique that appears to be widely used to improve video on wireless LANs.

Article | 5/12/2009 Hearst's Skiff plans e-reading service around content

The Hearst publishing company unveiled its long-awaited e-reader plan on Friday, describing an "e-reading service platform" coming next year that will...

Article | 2/12/2009 Cisco extends deadline for Tandberg deal

Cisco has given shareholders of Norwegian videoconferencing vendor Tandberg about two more days to accept its US$3.4 billion buyout offer.

Article | 2/12/2009 Broadcom buying Dune Networks for cloud switching

Broadcom has agreed to acquire Dune Networks, a privately held maker of high-speed switch fabrics, for about US$178 million, the companies announced M...