The original products for the data de-duplication market were based on specific systems that focused on improving the value of disk-to-disk backup solutions while providing organizations the ability to minimize their reliance on...

One of the intriguing aspects of Cisco Systems Inc.'s newest revamp of its enterprise WiFi strategy is the way it might start to extend the vendor's reach into other types of networks. Cisco today unveiled what it is calling its Vision mobility strategy. It's centered around the new Mobility Services Engine (MSE), ...

Having just missed out on buying virtual VPN player Vanco plc , British also-ran Cable & Wireless plc is now in talks to buy U.K. Ethernet service provider THUS plc.  C&W issued a statement to the London Stock Exchange today saying it "confirms that it has made a preliminary approach to the Board of Thus in...

Feature overload on wireless devices is no longer hot, according to a national survey conducted by Kelton Research for Jitterbug. The survey found the majority of consumers actually prefer basic personalized options and good old-fashioned personal service rather than a multiplicity of fancy features. Other findings of the...

Bell Canada parent BCE Inc, fighting the clock, was today to file a request for an emergency appeal with Canada's Supreme Court in hopes of salvaging its historic $52 billion leveraged buyout -- the largest such deal in the history of the industry. The appeal is a last ditch "do or die" effort following a surprise ...

SAN DIEGO -- Qualcomm and Adobe have partnered up to embed Adobe’s Flash technology into the BREW platform, giving BREW’s small development community a set of powerful tools and simultaneously giving Flash’s enormous developer pool a mobile outlet for their Web content and applications. Several of...

BT has won a 44-million-euro (US$68.6 million) contract from 3 Ireland to expand its network infrastructure and roll out faster mobile broadband services. The Irish Independent reports that BT Ireland will deliver the necessary technology support to 3 Ireland by year-end 2008 to support the current mobile broadband industry standard...

Dutch telcos, including KPN, have expressed an interest in buying the Orange broadband unit of T-Mobile Netherlands. Citing an article in Dutch daily, Het Financieele Dagblad, Reuters reports that KPN has since decided not to pursue a deal. However, leading Dutch cable broadband provider, Ziggo, maintains it wants to buy part of...

Russia's leading mobile operator by subscriber numbers, Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), has announced that it has commercially launched its first 3G network in the country, in St Petersburg. The three tariff plans available offer 100 MB of prepaid traffic for 190 roubles (US$8.0), 500 MB for 1,000 roubles, and 1 GB for 1,500 roubles,...

As more players in the industry address open access, the need for testing devices might get even greater. The yellow heads rolling down city streets might draw a few strange looks from passers-by. But the substance that Metrico Wireless puts inside the heads can lead to even stickier circumstances. Take, for example, when...