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Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade submarine cable’s capacity

Alcatel-Lucent has signed a new contract with the East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy) consortium to increase the cable’s capacity to 1.4T bps (bits...

New conferencing options light up

Wednesday was a good day for people who want to use high-end videoconferencing but can’t afford a full-scale Cisco TelePresence meeting room.

Sierra Leone delegation inspired by CTO Forum

A group led by Sierra Leone’s information and communication minister, Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, returned from the Sixth Annual Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation (CTO) Forum...

Showdown in Zambia over effort to better mobile service

The Communications Authority of Zambia (CAZ) and mobile service provider Zain Zambia are in a showdown over the regulator’s threat on Tuesday to invoke...

Internet Society to engage policy makers on accessibility

As part of its INET Africa Regional Conference in Dakar, Senegal, the Internet Society (ISOC) will hold a discussion on broad and equitable Internet...

Microsoft’s Fast Search charged with fraud in Norway

Norwegian police on Thursday charged Fast Search Transfer with accounting fraud, an enterprise search company bought by Microsoft in January for US$1.2 billion.

Quest’s post-acquisition road map a killer for NetPro

A month after buying NetPro, Quest Software Wednesday said it would discontinue nearly half of its former rival’s  products as part of its future...

How bad is US broadband deployment?

Congress has passed — and the president has signed — the Broadband Data Improvement Act. It may now be possible to get some useful...

Cisco training top networking professionals in India

Cisco has launched a program in India to train people in high-end technical skills, as well as the communication skills required to interact with...

You’ve Got Malware!

There are just too many things going on over the network. More often than not, you sit and wait for the email to sound an...

Government study finds H-1B visa fraud

A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services study, H-1B Benefit Fraud Compliance Assessment  published in September but just coming to light this month, found...

Microsoft eyes game-changer for application development

With its ambitious Oslo software modeling platform, Microsoft seeks a new application development paradigm that raises the level of abstraction. But the effort has...

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