Communications Service Provider
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M'sian city complex signs 3Com deal
News Already wired up with fiber optic cables, country's Mid Valley City development will now get a new network infrastructure encompassing hardware from 3Com.
Tags: LANs and WANs
Open-source applications find takers
News Singapore systems integrator iZeno sees opportunity for open-source business software, even as others dismiss open-source software as "immature".
Tags: Customer resource management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Open source, SMB
Wireless players: Cooperate, or else...
News Wireless network operators and application vendors should start learning to play nice with one another. At stake is an industry that could be worth US$29 billion by 2006, a recent study revealed.
UK govt Web monitoring plans unworkable, warns Linx
News Traffic-switching organization, London Internet Exchange, says proposals to monitor all Web communications are technologically impractical.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Network security, data retention, Spokesperson, communications service provider, Government, e-mail, monitoring, Internet
Cisco sheds jobs as it 'realigns' business
News Layoffs include 250 workers at its headquarters as the company begins to restructure its business to focus on new areas of growth.
Tags: Layoffs, Cisco Systems Inc., Workforce, communications service provider, Worker, technology company, recession, job, revenue, John Chambers
US$39M cost of tracking e-mail and phone calls
News U.K. Home Office reveals multimillion-pound cost of monitoring kingdom's communications.
Tags: Security, Privacy, Government, data retention, communications service provider, Internet Service, phone, e-mail, electronic communication, Internet Service Provider
UK govt outlines Facebook monitoring plans
News In a consultation launched on Monday, the U.K. Home Office described how it wants service providers to retain and process data about their users' activities on social networks and other third-party services.
Tags: Network security, Data mining & analysis, Web 2.0, Home Secretary, Database, IP Telephony, Compensation, communications service provider, Government, Facebook
Opposition party highlights flaw in UK govt comms data plans
News The Conservatives have raised concerns about who will have access to communications-traffic data, but welcome a halt to plans for a single, centralized database.
Tags: Data security, Database management, Government, Home Secretary, Spokesperson, communications service provider, Flaw, phone, user-ID, U.K.
Short Take: M1 deploys Lucent billing solution
News Local mobile communications service provider MobileOne (Asia) Pte Ltd (M1) has been using Lucent Technologies' Arbor/BP software as its billing platform since last fall, the latter said in a statement.
Open-source applications find takers
Techguide Open-source business applications are stable and ready for deployment, says a Singapore-based systems integrator, amid industry criticism that they are not mature enough for the enterprise environment.
South Korea to start IPTV trial
News South Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication has given the go-ahead for an IPTV trial.
Tags: TVs
Discounts expected for networking equipment
News Telecommunications carriers are driving a hard bargain while shopping for networking equipment--and some networking companies are giving in with steeper-than-usual discounts, analysts and executives say.
All data breaches must be made public
Insight perspective European legislators seem to be about to pass a directive that could make it obligatory to disclose data breaches--but not in every case. That selectivity is a mistake, says EU data tzar.
Tags: Security Management, Privacy, Data security, E-business, Security, Data Breach, European Parliament, e-commerce company, phone, electronic communication
Demand for converged services to rocket
News Converged services are rising in demand with changing consumer lifestyle, where single-service telco offerings are becoming thing of the past, says analyst.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Consumer Technology, Next-generation technology/networks, TV, IP, Singapore, Broadband, Service, pay-TV, Frost & Sullivan
UK Web snooping plans unworkable, say critics
News Experts from London School of Economics say U.K. government plan to record traffic details of all Web communications is "an impossibility".
Tags: Security, Government, Microsoft Windows Live, Spokesperson, London School of Economics, phone, Internet User, user-ID, Internet Service Provider, Internet
