BitGravity debuts live video delivery network at DEMO
BitGravity may not be the most well-known content delivery network vendor, but CEO Perry Wu is hoping that its new live video delivery network will make it a household name.
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Charter Communications deletes 14,000 e-mail accounts
Charter Communications acknowledged Thursday that it had inadvertently deleted about 14,000 of its customers' e-mail accounts.
Cisco buys into femtocell technology
Cisco announced today that it has made a strategic investment in IP Access, a femtocell manufacturer that is currently testing its products with mobile network operators around the globe.
XO unveils bandwidth-based voice pricing scheme
XO Communications announced Wednesday that it will start charging for converged IP services based upon bandwidth use rather than the total number of voice lines.
20 useful Web sites for IT professionals
For both work and pleasure, these 20 sites should be a boon to any busy IT professional.
New Trojan intercepts online banking information
A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users' bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central attacker database.
Book questions Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent
High-profile patent disputes are a common occurrence in today's telecom industry, from NTP suing RIM to Wi-LAN suing Cisco, to everyone suing Vonage. But author and science journalist Seth Shulman contends that dodgy patenting in the telecom industry extends all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell, who Shulman alleges fraudulently obtained a process used by a rival inventor to build the world's first working telephone.
Internap extends uptime SLA to CDN services
Internap Wednesday announced a service-level agreement for its content-delivery-network services that guarantees 100 percent uptime performance.
What to expect from Google and the 700-MHz spectrum auction
One of the biggest telecom events in 2008 is slated to occur just six weeks from now. Starting on January 24, both telcos and Internet companies will be able to place their bids on blocks of the 700-MHz spectrum, which are scheduled to be vacated by incumbent UHF television broadcasters in February 2009.
Verizon Business offers VoIP transition services
Verizon Business announced a flurry of new products this week that are designed to help businesses consolidate their voice and data services and switch more easily to VoIP.
Mobile Internet will open wide in 2008, IDC says
The advent of mobile broadband in 2008 will push every mobile network operator to open its network to a wide range of devices, not just those offered by the carriers themselves, IDC says.
How four airlines plan to connect fliers to the Web
With the announcement that JetBlue will be teaming up with Research in Motion and Yahoo to provide free e-mail and instant messaging on its flights, there are now at least four airlines with announced plans to experiment with in-flight broadband connectivity. In this overview of in-flight Internet capabilities, we take a look at what various airlines say they'll be offering to their customers in the future, which companies are building their networks, and when we can expect to get full Web connections during those long cross-country flights.
Webroot, Email Systems team for new e-mail security service
Webroot announced this week that will be teaming up with Email System, a software-as-a-service security provider, to deliver e-mail security services to enterprise users.
18Gbps transfer rate earns Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge crown
A team led by Indiana University won this year's Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge by achieving a peak transfer rate of over 18Gbps out of a possible maximum of 20Gbps.
Verizon tests 100Gbps network
Verizon took its 100Gbps optical network</a> out for a test spin last week by transmitting a live video feed for over 312 miles from Tampa to Miami.