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Sprint Nextel getting ready to pull plug on legacy nets
Sprint’s legacy data networks are on life support. Frame relay and ATM customers need to make migration plans now.
Open-source users, companies scoff at Microsoft threats
Open-source supporters are thumbing their noses at Microsoft Corp.’s claim that it will seek royalties from users and distributors on 235 patents it holds for technologies in Linux and open-source software, saying they are not worried about …
Microsoft patent claims hint at internal issues
Microsoft Corp.’s aim to seek patent royalties from open-source distributors and users may be an attempt to use legal threats to deflect attention from larger questions surrounding its business, including lack of interest in new versions of core …
U.S. senators take outsourcing firms to woodshed over H-1B use
Two U.S. senators – a Democrat and a Republican – are taking aim at nine prominent outsourcing companies demanding that they explain their use of the H-1B program.
IBM wires telemedicine network for military hospitals
IBM and healthcare technology vendor VISICU are wiring a telemedicine network that will provide remote critical-care support to military hospitals along the Pacific Rim, the companies announced this week.
U.S. ISPs slam into wiretap deadline
U.S. broadband and VoIP providers on Monday hit a deadline to prove they could accommodate law-enforcement wiretaps.
How satisfied are Microsoft customers?
Making customers happy, some experts say, is the fine art of balancing experience and expectation. Based on that, the feeling of Microsoft Corp. customers is starting to edge ever so slightly towards the disappointment end of the spectrum, according …
Funambol upgrades open source BlackBerry rival
Funambol is offering a new version of its open source software for delivering push e-mail, address book and calendar functions similar to those available on BlackBerry devices.
