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Intel's Light Peak: One PC cable to rule them all
News Chipmaker wants to replace today's hodge-podge of copper cables with single type of optical connection, and hopes standardization will help it catch on.
Tags: Components, Intel Corp., UWB, QoS, Cable, monitor, wireless communication, PC, Components, Sony Corp.
Web-science pioneer is made a dame
News The New Year's honors list included a damehood for Professor Wendy Hall, a seminal figure in the research and development of web libraries, hypermedia, multimedia and the semantic Web.
Tags: Web sites, Government, Benefits, Semantic Web, Hypermedia, Information And Communication Technology, Tim Berners-Lee, Association for Computing Machinery, Computer, Wendy Hall
US govt eases restrictions on US telecom firms in Cuba
News The White House announces a shift in policy toward Cuba to allow for greater telecommunications links to the communist country.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Networking technology, Mobile/Wireless, Satellite, Telecommunications, Cell Phone, Cable, phone, Cuba, White House
Gates: Get U.S. schools in order
News Microsoft chairman says China, others are coming on strong, and the U.S. risks losing its advantage.
US West CEO Trujillo to resign
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Qwest CEO: US West actions "bizarre"
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Will Lucent spinoff grow at Internet speeds?
News As struggling Lucent Technologies sheds units to bolster its networking equipment business, analysts wonder whether daughter company Avaya Communication will be able to go it alone.
Optics still the engine to drive industry?
News With a downturn in telecommunications spending and network operators running into financial trouble, the next plateau in high-speed fiber-optics technology may be slow to arrive.
Optics still the engine to drive industry?
News The next plateau in high-speed fiber-optics technology may be slow to arrive.
Investors don't buy Lucent acquisition rumor
News Wall Street loves a good rumor, especially one as tantalizing as Friday's scuttlebutt marrying telecom giants Lucent Technologies and France's Alcatel in a stock deal worth as much as US$40 billion. But most analysts and shareholders aren't buying it.
Thinking up Microsoft's next advantage
News Meet Rick Rashid, a brainy academic who directs Microsoft Research, a 600-person effort. His mandate: Keep the software maker's technology ahead of the curve.
Incredible undersea cable scenario
Blogs You'd be laughed out of the room if you made up this scenario for a tabletop exercise: At 08:00 on Wednesday morning ...
Asia's cables on the blink
Blogs On Dec. 26, 2006, the Hengchun earthquake near Taiwan was actually two shocks within 5 minutes of each other at 8:30 p.m...
Palm looks to raise $368 million in IPO
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Thai national telecom project to finally get under way
News Thailand's new national fiber optic telecom project will finally take off with the signing of a deal between state agency, the Telephone Organisation of Thailand (TOT), and Alcatel on Thursday, coinciding with the dissolution of the House.
