Stephen Lawson

Google Inc. has teamed up with EarthLink Inc. to craft a citywide Wi-Fi proposal for San Francisco, which closed the RFP (request for proposal) process for its wireless broadband initiative.

Avaya and Juniper Networks have tightened a partnership to bring security together with the next wave of enterprise telephony.

The integration of Siebel Systems Inc. into Oracle Corp. will result in a reduction of 2,000 in the total workforce of the combined companies, but a majority of the layoffs will affect Oracle employees, Oracle said.

A court-ordered shutdown of Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry service in the U.S. could hamper response to emergencies, and keeping government users connected while cutting off others might not be feasible, according to a brief filed Wednesday by the federal government in the ongoing patent case involving NTP Inc.

An independent panel to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina on communications networks, convened by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), met for the first time Monday.n

Intel Corp. will enter the next era of Moore's Law in the second half of 2007 with commercial shipment of its first PC processors based on a 45-nanometer manufacturing process, the company said Wednesday. Intel showed off what it called the world's first fully functional SRAM (static RAM) chip made with a 45nm process technology.

The U.S. Supreme Court won't review the patent infringement dispute between Research in Motion Ltd. and NTP Inc., closing down one of the BlackBerry mobile device vendor's avenues against NTP's suit, RIM said in a statement Monday.

An industry group seeking common ground on the emerging IEEE 802.11n high-speed wireless LAN specification has agreed on a compromise proposal that may form the basis of a final standard. The joint proposal group, which includes backers of all the major factions in the fight over how to boost the speed and range of wireless LANs approved a proposal by a unanimous online vote with two abstentions.