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During its wireless LAN (WLAN) advanced technology event in San Jose last month, Cisco Systems Inc. introduced new products, including its first 54Mbps 802.11g radios.

Manitoba Telecom Services (MTS) means to shed 85 people from the payroll by the end of the year, with the firm citing poor growth and unfriendly regulations as the main reasons for the move. Industry analysts, meanwhile, say the cuts indicate the state of Canada's telecom market.

The task force responsible for investigating the cause of the Aug. 14 blackout that crippled most of the Northeast corridor of the U.S. and parts of Canada concluded that a software failure at FirstEnergy Corp. "may have contributed significantly" to the outage.

Wi-Fi technology is steadily expanding: IEEE 802.11a and 802.11g are now firmly entrenched alongside 802.11b, and (Wi-Fi Protected Access) (WPA) security is now accepted as a standard. Yet Wi-Fi compatibility between devices is still at an all-time low.

Polycom pickup boosts voice Conferencing provider Polycom Inc. has agreed to pay about US$100 million for Voyant Technologies Inc., a privately...

A glitch in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Update automated patching service caused a security fix that was released last month to be delivered to computer users on Tuesday, the same day Microsoft proclaimed December would be a patch-free month.

Oracle Corp. has issued a security alert and software patches for a set of serious vulnerabilities in the security protocols used by some of its server products.

A judge ruled in favour of IBM Corp. in two motions argued in a Utah district court Friday in its ongoing legal dispute with The SCO Group Inc., a SCO spokesperson confirmed.