Stephen Lawson

Pakistan's Technology Business Development Office near Silicon Valley is being shut down after less than six months of operation, the country's IT envoy there confirmed Thursday.

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday will announce support for the Bluetooth wireless network technology in Windows XP, an executive of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) said at the Bluetooth Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Cisco

Corporations and service providers will be able to secure the traffic in and out of a data centre in several ways, all at high speed, using a cluster system announced Tuesday by Nortel Networks Corp., the company said.

A chip set and software that are due to be unveiled next month will aim to let Bluetooth wireless network products avoid interference from other devices that use the same radio spectrum.

U.K.-based wireless software and hardware vendor Red-M Communications introduced two Bluetooth software development kits for the Palm OS.

Lucent Technologies Inc. is putting its corporate professional services unit up for sale as it streamlines its operations to focus on large service providers.

Gigabit Ethernet over the next few years will evolve from a corporate network backbone into a technology of choice for service providers seeking to build relatively simple, inexpensive metropolitan- and wide-area networks.