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Sprint CEO Dan Hesse shared the company's WiMAX plans last week at CTIA Wireless. The plan to build a fourth-generation wireless network is a risky one, but Hesse explained to Denise Dubie why it's a smart strategy for Sprint.

Quick -- what was the first personal computer you ever owned? You don't have to think about it for even a second, do you? No matter how many machines you've had over the years, you always remember your first -- usually with great fondness.

A look at the greatest all time Data Center controversies in the history of the networking industry.

There is no shortage of ITprofessionals that have laboured through an implementation and felt worthy of an award after investing months in a large scale project.

On Feb. 10, the XX Olympic Winter Games will begin in Turin, Italy, and Enrico Frascari, managing director of technology for the Torino Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, says he will be ready. It takes years to design, implement and test the IT infrastructure needed to support the Winter Olympics, said Frascari, formerly CIO at Olivetti Lexikon. He leads a consortium of 11 companies responsible for IT at the upcoming games, which includes the timing, scoring, imaging and telecommunications. He speaks with Computerworld about the challenges of running such a big IT operation and some of the new technologies being unveiled in Torino.

Microsoft Corp. and its manufacturing partners debuted gadgets based on its new Wireless Pocket PC platform at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes Tuesday. Attendees are being given a hands-on sneak peek at the Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition and the Windows-Powered Smartphone 2002 device (previously known by the code name Stinger), which will go on sale from partners in Europe and U.S. by the end of June.

Robin Nixon, managing director of Getronics Australia, has resigned, but won't be disappearing.

The Telecom Italia Group saw its net consolidated profit sink by 50.7 percent to 483 million euros (US$434 million) in the first half of 2001, Telecom Italia SpA announced Wednesday.

Marco Tronchetti Provera, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Pirelli SpA tires and cables group and Gilberto Benetton, chairman of the Edizioni Holding SpA investment group, confirmed Monday that they intend to have a hands-on management role in running Telecom Italia SpA, which they took control of Saturday in a 7 billion euro (US$6.14 billion) deal.

Acer Argentina S.A., a subsidiary of Taiwanese company Acer Inc, and Banco de la Nación Argentina, Thursday announced they had signed an agreement to kick off the Argentina Digital Project. The project is aimed at granting low interest rate loans through businesses or labor unions for those seeking to purchase personal computers for home use.

Bob Robertson, the man set to replace Bruce Thompson as managing director of Hewlett-Packard Australia, has thrown HP's plans into disarray by taking a regional job with Lucent, where another expat Australian holds the reins. Closer to home some big moves occurred this week