Stephen Lawson

Manufacturers and service providers looked at the emerging WiMax wireless technology this week and saw a possible rival to wired broadband services

Dell Inc.'s networking division looked inward on Monday, eyeing the cores of data centres and small- and medium-sized enterprise LANs with a pair of Ethernet switches that also act as routers.

Emirates, an airline that offers private suites in first class, is now adding a wireless LAN e-mail service on some aircraft.

A bill establishing a National Nanotechnology Program and allocating US$3.7 billion to the program over the next four years recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives in a voice vote.

As workers become more mobile and companies rely more often on good, fast, always-available support to hold customers, services based on speech recognition are starting to come to the rescue.

Cisco Systems Inc. will bolster its multimedia networking portfolio with audioconferencing, videoconferencing and Web-based collaboration tools through the acquisition of Latitude Communications Inc., the company announced recently.

Cisco Systems Inc. will bolster its multimedia networking portfolio with audioconferencing, videoconferencing and Web-based collaboration tools through the acquisition of Latitude Communications Inc., the company announced Wednesday.

Telecommunications equipment buying by enterprises may be starting to bounce back on the strength of VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol), according to an October survey by CIO magazine in the U.S.