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Tue, November 07, 2006 - Europeans avoid cell use when traveling.

Tue, November 07, 2006 - Zoom Technologies has launched its iHiFi Wireless Personal Audio Link for iPods and other music players.The iHiFi range of wireless products lets iPods play music through a stereo or powered speakers. The solution includes a Bluetooth receiver that attaches to a stereo or powered speakers and Bluetooth transmitters for iPods and other audio devices.The system works at ranges of 70 ...

Wed, November 01, 2006 - The process of integrating Africa’s telecommunications by connecting networks across the continent is going through another rough patch, as ministers from several countries take time to study a protocol that provides a framework agreement for several projects.Telecommunications ministers from Zambia, Mozambique, Sudan and Kenya have declined to endorse the protocol, which among other things has provisions for building the East ...

Mon, October 16, 2006 - Hoping that the third time’s a charm, Hewlett-Packard (HP) has again extended the deadline for Mercury Interactive shareholders to approve HP’s US$4.5 billion pending purchase of Mercury.HP Monday extended its previously announced tender offer for all of Mercury’s common stock until midnight Eastern time, Oct. 27.The previous tender offer expired at midnight Oct. 13. As of then, Mercury shareholders had ...

Fri, October 13, 2006 - NTT DoCoMo has attracted more than 860,000 people to its DCMX service that allows a cell phone to be used to make credit purchases in stores, it said Thursday.The service was launched in late April, and the number of subscribers topped 860,000 as of this week, the company said. DCMX provides 10,000 yen (US$83.80) of instant credit to users ...

Tue, October 10, 2006 - The integration of broadband gateways into home networking is jumping forward with an acquisition set to be announced by Cisco Systems’ Linksys division on Tuesday.Linksys is to acquire the intellectual property and selected assets of Ashley Laurent, a provider of software primarily for DSL gateway devices. The eight employees of the Austin, Texas, company will join the Home Networking Business ...

Tue, October 10, 2006 - Ray Noorda, founder and former chief executive of Novell and a pioneer of network computing, died on Monday at the age of 82 due to complications associated with Alzheimer’s disease, the Associated Press reports via BusinessWeek.com.Novell’s Ray NoordaNoorda, who was often referred ...

Thu, September 14, 2006 - After testing the waters with consumers for more than a year, BT Group plans to extend its converged fixed-mobile communications service to businesses early next year. The move follows a successful field test with a government organization.BT Corporate Fusion, announced Thursday, combines Wi-Fi and mobile phone service for voice calls, using voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology when calls are made over a ...

Thu, August 31, 2006 - Chinese networking equipment maker Huawei Technologies is expanding its R&D in India with a new center in Bangalore for the development of optical network products and wireless LAN technologies.Huawei, of Shenzhen, already has two centers in Bangalore, which has the company’s largest R&D operation outside China. Huawei employs about 1,200 engineers in Bangalore, and is adding another 150 by year’s ...

Tue, August 29, 2006 - Nokia plans to integrate Sourcefire’s intrusion-prevention software into its line of network security appliances by year’s end.Sourcefire, which is based on the open-source Snort software, scans the network for suspicious activity, which it can either block or report back to network administrators.The product makes a logical addition to Nokia’s appliances, which already use Check Point Software Technologies’ firewall and virtual ...