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Nortel plans a restructuring in Asia
News The Asia-Pacific headquarters of the company that filed for bankruptcy protection last week, said the move will "strengthen the business for the long-term".
Tags: Networking technology, Business plans, Acquisitions, Business planning, Nortel Networks Corp., Asia, Philippines, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Bankruptcy
Five ways to cut your telecom spend
Insight perspective Phones, mobiles and e-mail are essential to running any business. So how can you reduce telecoms costs? An analyst offers some advice.
Tags: Smart phones, LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Networking technology, Mobile, Supplier, Telecommunications, Cell Phone, Quocirca, Service
Ultra-broadband to cause bandwidth divide
News Adoption of ultra-high speed residential broadband will create bandwidth divide among world regions, as well as within countries in three to five years, says Gartner.
Tags: Networking technology, Bandwidth, Mobile Broadband, TV, Video, Gartner Inc., HDTV, Broadband, Cable, cable television
Cloud services to get supercharged
News New parallel networking technology increases throughput for Internet-based services by up to 40 times.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), SaaS, Business broadband, IP, Video, Storage, networking technology, Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS)
Sensor swarm converges on energy use in buildings
News Inspired by how bees operate in a hive, Regen Energy has developed a mesh network of controllers to try to make commercial buildings more energy efficient.
Tags: Green IT, Controller, Sensor, Carbon Emission, Renewable Energy, software programmer, networking technology, HVAC, software, monitoring
Playdom exec: Social gaming to look 'a lot more like Hollywood'
News After raising US$43 million in venture funding and acquiring two smaller companies, it's no surprise that Playdom's days of running like a Web start-up are numbered.
Tags: Games, Networking technology, Facebook, Green Patch, CBS Interactive Inc., game company, entertainment, Electronic Arts Inc., valuation, Hollywood
Report: eBay is building a Frankenskype
News Auction company wants to spin off telephony service it bought over four years ago, but rights to some of its software still remain with company's founders.
Tags: Networking technology, VoIP, Business structures, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Google Inc., IPO, Bloomberg L.P., telephony, founder
Gartner: Loosen up on social networks, security
News IT research firm tells its clients total lock-down on social networks and security is not only impossible, it's a bad idea. Industry must move "from control to greater autonomy".
Tags: Networking technology, Network security, Social Networking, Security, Information Technology, network, Gartner Inc., performance, corporate computing, China
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
News Google joins the data portability crowd with 'Friend Connect' allowing users to bring their data from social networks. The programming-free network is said to even incorporate Web sites that are not socially-enabled.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Networking technology, MySpace, Google Inc., Site, Orkut.com, Social Web, Plaxo Inc., Use Case
Facebook to open the gates with 'Facebook Connect'
News Hot off the heels of rival MySpace announcing it will connect profile content with other sites, Facebook reveals its own plan for exporting data to other Web sites.
Tags: Networking technology, Data Management, Security, Plaxo Inc., Digg, Advertisement, social networking, Facebook, network, marketing
Hackers break into Large Hadron Collider computer
News CERN says hackers accessed a computer system that monitors the particle accelerator experiments and analyzes data, according to a newspaper report.
Tags: Hacking, Networking technology, Network security, CERN, E-mail Message, Computer, phone, theory, black hole, Earth
Three APAC countries have fastest broadband
News Akamai report highlights South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong's connection speeds, and notes origins of online attacks spreading to many more countries.
Tags: Bandwidth, Next-generation technology/networks, Networking technology, Spam and phishing, Anti Phishing Work Group, Connection Speed, Banking, Akamai Technologies Inc., Attack Traffic, malicious software
Overland cable connects India and China
News Reliance Globalcom's new terrestrial cable connecting India and China, aims to reduce latency and provide redundancy in case of subsea cable break.
Tags: Bandwidth, Networking technology, Disaster recovery, Asia, India, cable system, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Cable
EU ploughs US$25.5M into 1Gbps mobile broadband
News EU-funded research into a new mobile Internet technology called LTE Advanced is due to kick off at the start of next year.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Networking technology, Mobile Broadband, Wireless Broadband, European Union, Wireless, Europe, Broadband, 3G, radio
Ericsson to pay US$1.1B for Nortel wireless tech
News Swedish telecom giant beats out Nokia Siemens Networks and a private equity firm, in an auction for the CDMA and LTE wireless tech assets of bankrupt Nortel.
Tags: Data Management, Mobile/Wireless, Networking technology, Nortel Networks Corp., Siemens AG, Telecommunications, Wireless, Bankruptcy, Canada, asset
