Local phone firm wants the calls
The Manhattan phone company purchases unused wholesale bandwidth from much larger telecoms and resells it to about 1,000 corporate clients around the country that want to use landlines. More...
Nokia Siemens Networks achieves world record copper DSL speeds
Nokia Siemens Networks used circuits that involve the creation of a virtual - or 'phantom' - channel to supplement the two physical wires that are the standard configuration for copper transmission lines. More...
Massive take-up of mobile phones prompts urgent rationalisation program
MODERN life is ruled by numbers. We've all got heaps of 'em - credit cards, telephones, bank accounts, store accounts, frequent flyers . More...
Week in review: Super fast broadband and wireless for everyone
Never mind Cameron vs Boris, the most interesting spat of the week is the increasingly bad-tempered feud between Oracle and HP. Back in the real world, normal people have 100Mbps broadband and Wi-Fi on the London Underground to look forward to. More...
3G internet now available at top of Mt Everest
"This achievement is as mighty as the altitude as 3G high speed internet will bring faster, more affordable telecommunication services to the people living in the Khumbu Valley, trekkers, and climbers alike," said Lars Nyberg, chief of Nordic telecoms firm TeliaSonera. More...
Apple Mac Support in OCS 2007 R2 and Lync 2010
For the longest time, Apple Mac users have been 2nd class citizens in a Microsoft network and application world. With the new "2010" release of products, Apple Macs are finally reaching parity in terms of features / functions / support! Take for example Exchange 2010, Mac users get the same Outlook Web Access capabilities when they use Apple Safari browser as Windows users running Internet Explorer (drag, drop, etc), and same for Sharepoint 2010 Mac users get the same functionality in document libraries, lists, etc as Windows users do. More...
CRTC shackles competitive market: Teksavvy
CRTC green lights usage-based internet billing CBCBell Canada has won concessions from the CRTC in its plan for usage-based internet billing. Bell Canada has won concessions from the CRTC in its plan for usage-based internet billing. More...
London Tube Gets Wi-Fi Trial
The promise of internet access on the tube has just moved a step closer as BT has announced a six month trial of Wi-Fi access - but only at Charing Cross underground station. More...
Nexus Two from Samsung, Gingerbread rumors swirl
Reports from around the web seem to indicate a new Google phone is on the horizon that will usher in the latest version of the AndroidOS, codenamed Gingerbread. More...
Quick-thinking girl, 12, fends off would-be kidnapper with her iPod
A quick-thinking 12-year-old girl in Delaware prevented a kidnapper from taking her when she held up her iPod Touch - which looks exactly like the iPhone - and told the man she was calling 911. More...