High-speed Internet will not be coming to hundreds of rural and northern Ontario communities anytime soon after the Ontario government scrapped its Connect Ontario: Broadband Regional Access Program (COBRA), IT World Canada learned Tuesday.
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI), IBM Corp. and Toshiba Corp. will begin development this month on a teraflop-class microprocessor that, the companies hope, will make possible within the next five years consumer electronics devices more powerful that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, the companies said Monday.
Nortel Networks Corp. will consolidate its Latin American wireless and local Internet access operations during 2001 by building broadband networks with local partners, the new vice-president of Nortel for that region said Monday.