Communications & Telecom

In his keynote address at an information technology auditing conference in New York, Howard Schmidt, U.S. President Bush's advisor on cybersecurity, predicted that networks operated in the U.S. and abroad are likely to be brought down by catastrophic events unless security greatly improves.

Toronto

More than 28 million people, who pass through Pearson International airport in Toronto annually, face being without their wireless device of choice in the airport, if an agreement between The Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) and The Greater Toronto Airport Association (GTAA) can

June 17-19 Moncton, N.B.HPCS 2002The 16th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications will...

Teleglobe Inc. announced Wednesday that it is axing 850 jobs. In total, the company is expected to lose half of its U.S. workforce along with 15 per cent in Canada.

Italy's Blu SpA is likely to become the first European mobile phone operator to be broken up for sale, a company spokesman said Friday, one day after the company presented a formal plan for the disposal of its assets to Communications Minister Maurizio Gasparri.

Indian telecommunications carrier Bharti Group and Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) have finished building their joint US$250 million i2i cable connecting the two countries. The cable will enter commercial service within the next four weeks, SingTel said in a statement late Monday.

An enormous increase in IT capabilities and an even more substantial drop in the price of equipment has driven businesses to sink more money into information.