Verizon to deploy ultra long-haul network in Europe
Verizon Communications' Business unit will begin building more than 2,000 miles of a high-speed, ultra long-haul (ULH) network in parts of Europe next month, the company announced.
Verizon Communications' Business unit will begin building more than 2,000 miles of a high-speed, ultra long-haul (ULH) network in parts of Europe next month, the company announced.
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill designed to streamline VOIP providers' connections to emergency dialing 911 networks.
Thirteen US pharmacy software vendors have voiced support for electronic prescribing efforts, each committing to a formal campaign to educate pharmacists on the benefits of e-prescribing, an operator of an electronic network announced this week.
A former employee of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency has pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulently obtaining US citizenship and accessing a US government computer system to unlawfully find information about her relatives and the Islamic organization Hizballah.
A five-year extension of large portions of the US antitrust judgment against Microsoft isn't needed and the reasons a group of states have given for continuing oversight won't fix the problems they still see, the US Department of Justice said in a court brief.
VOIP provider Vonage has tentatively agreed to settle a patent infringement lawsuit filed by rival AT&T, with the smaller company paying about US$39 million, Vonage announced.
For some privacy advocates, Google's proposed US$3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick represents a major threat.
Yahoo aided the Chinese government in the arrest of a journalist, then its general counsel deliberately or negligently mislead the U.S. Congress about the company's role during 2006 testimony, a senior lawmaker charged this week.
Dell has entered into an agreement to acquire SAN (storage area network) vendor EqualLogic for US$1.4 billion, the companies announced Monday.
Online privacy policies need to be easier to understand and more conspicuous because few people now actually read them, said panelists at a U.S. Federal Trade Commission workshop on targeted online advertising.
More than half of all US government executives have rolled out open-source software at their agencies, and 71 percent believe their agency can benefit from open-source software, according to a survey.
A coalition of nine privacy and consumer groups have proposed a U.S. do-not-track list that would allow consumers to opt out of advertising efforts that track their movements online.
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a seven-year extension to an Internet tax ban, the final step before the legislation heads to President George Bush to be signed into law.
Organizations and law enforcement agencies fighting spyware are making progress, but new tools in an antispyware bill stalled in the U.S. Congress could improve the efforts, a member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said.
Verizon Communications posted net income of US$4.2 billion for the third quarter, up 19 percent from a year ago, driven largely by new wireless and fiber broadband customers, the company said.