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Alcatel-Lucent reports employee data lost or stolen, 05/18/07: A CD containing personal information about thousands of Alcatel-Lucent SA employees and their dependants has been lost or stolen, the company said on Thursday.
A day with the ‘Can you hear me now?’ guy, 05/17/07: Have you ever wondered what a typical day is like for the Verizon Wireless test guy? Take the Visual tour.
Millions disconnected by NTT broadband outage, 05/15/07: Millions of broadband Internet users across most of eastern Japan were unable to log on Tuesday evening after a problem at the country’s largest broadband provider.
IPTV driving telecom M&A, 05/16/07: IPTV is the driver behind recent merger and acquisition activity among telecom infrastructure equipment vendors, according to a market research firm.
$250,000 to find out if someone in the virtual meeting rolled their eyes: Helzerman’s Odd Bits blog picked up on Forrester Research’s review of Cisco TelePresence in which the reviewer said it was harder to ignore the other person at the meeting beamed onto the TelePresence screen as the technology made her appear “much more persuasive”. Helzerman said there have been times when the writer has been in teleconferences and tried to guess at the other party’s reaction.
