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Article | 26/07/2010 Cisco may call home TelePresence 'UMI'

Cisco Systems may be planning to give its consumer TelePresence system the friendly sounding name "UMI," according to a trademark application made las...

Article | 23/07/2010 MagicJack femtocell misses planned launch date

The magicJack femtocell, a product unveiled to much excitement earlier this year, has not launched as expected during the second quarter, although the...

Article | 21/07/2010 Australia, Japan reach broadband accord

Australia and Japan appear to have signed a bilateral agreement relating to broadband, with NBN chief executive, Mike Quigley, and other government of...

Article | 21/07/2010 Intel runs into major WiMax snafu in Taiwan

An apparent lack of communication between Intel and the Taiwan government over the closing of Intel's WiMax Program Office in Taiwan has brewed into a...

Article | 20/07/2010 Nokia Siemens expands wireless networking presence

The joint venture of Nokia Siemens Networks has agreed to purchase the network equipment division of Motorola for an estimated $US1.2 billion. Motorol...

Article | 20/07/2010 Cisco to pay up to $US112 million in Power-over-Ethernet patent case

Network-1 Security Solutions, an acquirer and licensor of intellectual property, says it has settled its Power-over-Ethernet patent infringement case ...

Article | 20/07/2010 Windows Phone 7 'preview' winning generally good reviews

Microsoft announced a broader release of the latest build of its Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, and it's getting good reviews from developer...

Article | 20/07/2010 Nokia Siemens buys Motorola wireless network unit for $1.2B

Motorola has found a buyer for its wireless network equipment unit: Nokia Siemens Networks will pay US$1.2 billion for most of that business, the comp...

Article | 15/07/2010 Optus demos Nokia Siemens Networks LTE

Optus and Nokia Siemens Networks successfully demonstrated Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile technology at a Thai restaurant in Gordon, Sydney, today, ...

Article | 14/07/2010 Experts: Smart meters face image problem

Despite the U.S. government spending billions of dollars to encourage electric utilities to roll out the Internet-powered smart grid, the nation is at...

Article | 14/07/2010 Ozmo's chip and software turn Windows 7 laptop into Wi-Fi hotspot

Improved silicon and firmware from Ozmo Devices will turn a Wi-Fi-equipped Windows 7 laptop into a local hotspot for peripherals such as a keyboard an...

Article | 14/07/2010 Bluetooth at heart of US petrol station credit-card scam

Thieves are stealing credit-card numbers through skimmers they secretly installed inside pumps at gas stations throughout the US Southeast, using Blue...

Article | 13/07/2010 Mobile phone coverage expanded via 'mesh' networks

Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide have developed a way to expand the reach of mobile phone networks by turning each mobile into a mesh ne...

Article | 13/07/2010 Energy Efficient Ethernet being put to the test

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) has begun testing Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) products to make sure they work toge...

Article | 10/07/2010 Fring Enables 3G Video Calls on iPhone 4

The problem with Apple's iPhone 4 Facetime commercial is that not everyone has an iPhone 4, and that's just not happening.

Article | 9/07/2010 FaceTime video chat may be added to next-gen iPod Touch

Evidence is mounting that there's more FaceTime video chat coming in handheld devices, with reports surfacing today that the next iPod Touch, due this...

Article | 7/07/2010 Database admin sentenced for hacking employer's network

A former senior database administrator at a Houston electricity provider was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison for hacking into his former emplo...

Article | 7/07/2010 Nokia sells off wireless modem business

Nokia is selling off its wireless modem business to Renesas Electronics, a move that could help the mobile giant better focus on phone competition and...

Article | 2/07/2010 Intel is closing its WiMax Program Office in Taiwan

Intel is closing down its WiMax Program Office in Taiwan and shifting employees from that group to other platform and products groups, a company spoke...

Article | 1/07/2010 MIT researchers promise an Internet that's 100x faster and cheaper

MIT researchers have developed technology that they say not only will make the Internet 100 to 1,000 times faster, but also could make high-speed data...