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Article | 16/09/2009 iPhones take on potholes with city reporting tool

CitySourced, a startup formed by well-connected political action site FreedomSpeaks.com, will let US citizens use a smartphone like Superman's phone b...

Article | 15/09/2009 Recession hasn't slowed global Internet traffic

Not even the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression could slow the ongoing explosion of traffic over international Internet connections,...

Article | 11/09/2009 Android-based Motorola Cliq coming with Blur social service

Motorola on Thursday announced its first Android smartphone, which will ship in the fourth quarter with T-Mobile USA under the name Cliq.

Article | 9/09/2009 Wi-Fi, powerline to merge in Atheros-Intellon deal

Wi-Fi chip vendor Atheros Networks plans to acquire Intellon, a maker of chips for home powerline networking equipment, for about US$244 million.

Article | 7/09/2009 Cisco's Chambers gets $US2 million payout despite bad year

Cisco Systems gave Chairman and CEO John Chambers a discretionary incentive payment of more than US$2 million for the company's 2009 fiscal year, desp...

Article | 3/09/2009 Qwest to deploy network capable of 100Gbps

Qwest Communications International is deploying equipment that will allow the carrier to deliver data at 100Gb per second (Gbps) all the way across it...

Article | 2/09/2009 Nokia Siemens changes CEOs

The founding CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks has resigned and will be replaced by another long-term Nokia executive as the two-year-old company battles ...

Article | 1/09/2009 EMC to resell VMware management software

EMC will resell virtualization management software from VMware alongside its own Ionix management platform in an expanded partnership aimed at helping...

Article | 1/09/2009 3Com to blend security brains, enterprise brawn

3Com plans to integrate intrusion prevention technology from its TippingPoint subsidiary into networking gear from its H3C division as part of a strat...

Article | 28/08/2009 Pillar brings 2TB SATA drives to enterprise

Pillar Data Systems on Thursday introduced what it called the first 2TB SATA hard drive for enterprise storage, which would usher in the next phase of...

Article | 27/08/2009 Advanced Wi-Fi sinks old ship's network barriers

If your hotel is an antiquated, out-of-service ocean liner that's crossed the Atlantic 1,001 times, it's nice to know that the place has steel walls a...

Article | 25/08/2009 USB 3.0 chip will bring RAID to external drives

Symwave, one of the first companies to design silicon for USB 3.0, is revealing more details about its SOC (system on a chip) using the high-speed sta...

Article | 24/08/2009 The cloud could be a boon for flash storage

Cloud computing and flash-based storage, two fast-emerging IT technologies, are driving each other forward as users of Internet-based services like so...

Article | 24/08/2009 AT&T says it didn't block Google Voice

Apple is still reviewing the Google Voice iPhone application, and AT&T has not played any role in that review process, the companies told the U.S. Fed...

Article | 19/08/2009 IBM middleware interprets data from RFID, other sensors

IBM on Tuesday introduced middleware that can gather data from a wide variety of networked sensors, analyze it, and feed it into other enterprise appl...