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Article | 21/05/2013 In Pictures: 20 milestones in Ethernet's first 40 years

Reviewing the highlights of Ethernet's first four decades

Article | 21/05/2013 Canadian regulator takes lighter view of Bitcoin

It appears Canada's anti-money laundering regulator will leave Bitcoin exchanges in the country alone for now.

Article | 21/05/2013 In Pictures: 12 ways Windows 8 dominates the OS competition

Don't let all the Live Tile bashing fool you. Windows 8 still dominates the OS competition in a dozen crucial aspects.

Article | 21/05/2013 EU investigation could affect business from China's 4G deployment

The European Union may be trying to protect its telecom equipment industry with its recent threat to investigate China over networking equipment impor...

Article | 21/05/2013 Nokia Siemens unveils tools to boost mobile video performance

Mobile network builder Nokia Siemens Networks unveiled tools to optimize video performance on mobile devices on Monday, just in time for the CTIA Wire...

Article | 21/05/2013 Google Checkout to shut down in November

Google will retire its Checkout payment processing tool on Nov. 20, and warned retailers they will need to move to a different payment processing plat...

Article | 21/05/2013 Sprint gets SoftBank clearance to negotiate with Dish

Sprint Nextel said it had received permission from SoftBank to negotiate a rival acquisition offer from Dish Network.

Article | 20/05/2013 Yahoo revamps Flickr and offers a terabyte of free storage

Yahoo has made some radical changes to its Flickr photo sharing service, which now has a more photo-filled interface and comes with a free terabyte of...

Article | 20/05/2013 Samsung's Galaxy Tab 3 to contain Intel Atom chip, source says

Samsung will soon release its first Android tablet based on an Intel Atom processor, according to a source familiar with the plan, in what would be a ...

Article | 20/05/2013 Planview overhauls the look of its portfolio management software

Planview has updated the interface of its flagship project portfolio management (PPM) software to make it easier to navigate and appealing to a wider ...

Article | 20/05/2013 Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction

Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid paying t...

Article | 20/05/2013 The good, the bad and the ugly of Tumblr under Yahoo

Yahoo has promised "not to screw up" Tumblr now that it has acquired the freewheeling blogging site. But there are still several ways Tumblr could get...

Article | 20/05/2013 It's official: Yahoo will buy Tumblr for $US1.1 billion

After a weekend chock full of rumors and speculation, Yahoo has announced it plans to acquire Tumblr, the popular social service that hosts more than ...

Article | 20/05/2013 Attack on Telenor was part of large cyberespionage operation with Indian origins: report

A recent intrusion on the computer network of Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor was the result of a large cyberespionage operation of India...

Article | 20/05/2013 Smartphones take center stage in two-factor authentication schemes

We all know that relying on a simple user ID and password combination is fraught with peril. One alternative is to use one of the single sign-on solut...

Article | 20/05/2013 Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have been confirmed as the secret backers behind the European Privacy Association (EPA) which was accused of a lack of tra...

Article | 20/05/2013 Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China

Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company.

Article | 20/05/2013 Yahoo on Tumblr: We won't 'screw it up'

Yahoo has confirmed widespread reports that it will acquire the popular blogging service Tumblr, and also promised not to "screw it up." The deal is w...

Article | 20/05/2013 Corning taps into optical fiber for better indoor wireless

Bringing wireless indoors, which was once just a matter of antennas carrying a few cellular bands so people could get phone calls, has grown far more ...

Article | 20/05/2013 Mobile coverage in Sydney train tunnels 15 years in the making: Optus

Optus has revealed that the network infrastructure upgrade to bring mobile phone coverage into Sydney's train tunnels was a project that was 15 years ...