Industry

Nokia’s testing lab is a cell phone’s chamber of horrors

Not exactly a drop in the toilet, but tests that run a cell phone through the wringer

Cheaper desktop videoconferencing

Microsoft changes ‘ballot screen’ to close antitrust case

While rivals want time to study the modifications, EU officials seem eager to accept Microsoft proposal

Rimini Street ups third-party maintenance ante

The company will now support a range of additional SAP technologies

NASA says 200-yard long asteroid will miss Earth

NASA had said Apophis asteroid could have hit Earth around 2029

CIA endorses cloud computing, but only internally

While it can improve security, the agency won't be outsourcing data to Google or Amazon

ACS’s IT Outsourcing Business Could Get Lost at Xerox

Russian WiMax operator eyes GSM handover, WiMax 2 tests

Yota's mystery supplier will soon deliver a WiMax terminal that can hand over calls to GSM networks

FCC’s Genachowski to enter wireless hot house

The FCC chairman will keynote CTIA's conference amid discussions over net neutrality, spectrum

Ciena to buy Nortel unit for $521 million

Metro Ethernet Networks business generated approximately $1.36 billion in revenue for Nortel in 2008