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Intel hopes POEM will encourage office staff to save energy

Personal Office Energy Monitor, an application still in development, will give office workers a way to save energy

UC and the SMB

Webtorials releases report on customer service trends, intro to 2011 Application & Service Delivery Handbook

First commercial GSM call marks 20-year milestone

None of the involved expected GSM to become such a big success

Outsourcing to India may not be affected by privacy rules

The government will issue a clarification on the rules soon, said a Nasscom arm

Apple, Microsoft consortium beats Google for Nortel patents

The US$4.5 billion sale includes more than 6,000 patents and patent applications

AT&T Labs taps telecom, venture veteran as new chief

New AT&T Labs chief Prabhu formerly was CEO for Alcatel USA, Tellabs

KDDI offloads traffic on cellular network through Wi-Fi

It is installing more than 100,000 Wi-Fi access points throughout Japan

Microsoft offers developers early access to Windows Phone Mango

RIM agrees to review its structure

The troubled mobile giant reached an agreement with a shareholder

LightSquared to start building LTE network

The carrier hopes to deploy some base stations before the FCC approves turning them on