Saturday | 6 September, 2008
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Verizon Wireless to buy Alltel for $28B 06/06/2008 09:23:39
Verizon Wireless Thursday officially announced an agreement to purchase Alltel for US$28.1 billion, which would make the new company the largest wireless carrier in the US with 80 million subscribers. - +
NSFNET: The vibrant ghost of Christmases past 24/12/2007 07:22:14
At the start of the Christmas shopping season 20 years ago the National Science Foundation announced that a group consisting of Michigan's Merit Network, IBM and MCI had won a contract to develop and deploy the T-1 NSFNET. This network led directly to the Internet of today -- the NSFNET was a gift that has kept on giving. - +
Internap extends uptime SLA to CDN services 20/12/2007 08:15:09
Internap Wednesday announced a service-level agreement for its content-delivery-network services that guarantees 100 percent uptime performance. - +
Nine wireless network companies to watch 10/09/2007 09:38:05
New or emerging wireless and mobile companies continue to be a fountain of innovation, as our selection this year shows. - +
Verizon reports growth on wireless, broadband 01/05/2007 10:52:51
Growth in its wireless and broadband divisions pushed first-quarter revenue higher at Verizon Communications, although earnings declined from a year ago because of asset divestitures and merger costs. - +
Venezuela to buy back Verizon's stake in carrier 14/02/2007 09:24:03
Verizon Communications has agreed to sell its stake in Venezuela's largest telecommunications carrier, CA Nacional Telefonos de Venezuela (CANTV), to the country's government for about US$572 million. - +
Killian: Verizon-MCI merger is meeting goals 22/01/2007 11:11:39
Verizon Business, an operating unit formed after Verizon Communications acquired MCI, marked its one-year anniversary on Jan.6. The U.S.-based operation expects total revenue to exceed US$20 billion for 2006, leading Verizon Business President John Killian to call it "a very good first year." In a recent interview with Computerworld, Killian talked about the past year, the competition and the future of his business unit. - +
Networking 2006: Mergers, wireless advances 27/12/2006 07:37:53
If there was a big networking story in 2006, chances are it came through the airwaves rather than over wires. Most of the biggest issues involved wireless technologies or services, and they'll keep radiating out into 2007. - +
Shaklee chooses Virtela for global expansion 29/11/2006 09:59:14
Imagine being the IT director faced with this problem: Your company has just been bought by a private equity firm that wants to take the operation global. You need to upgrade a 10-year-old network, but you don't know what countries you'll need to support or when you'll need to support them. - +
'Net pioneer celebrates 40 years and looks ahead 13/11/2006 14:07:09
Merit Network, the pioneering Michigan research network that played a key role in the development of the Internet, this week will celebrate its 40th anniversary. President Emeritus Eric Aupperle, a 32-year Merit veteran who served as director and president during the organization's heyday in the mid-1980s and 1990s as the operator of the National Science Foundation's NSFnet, spent some time reminiscing and looking ahead with Jim Duffy. - +
Former WorldCom CEO to report to prison 26/09/2006 08:19:21
WASHINGTON: Former WorldCom CEO, Bernard Ebbers, will this week start a 25-year sentence related to his role in the accounting misstatements that led to the telecommunications giant's bankruptcy.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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