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Three African trading blocs look to joint ICT governance

AT&T upgrades entire backbone network to 40Gbps

IP/MPLS backbone covers more than 80,000 fiber-optic wavelength miles

Accusations flying in SAP-Waste Management suit

Lawmakers, sports leagues raise concerns about white spaces

New worm feeds on latest Microsoft bug

Etisalat Nigeria goes live with commercial services

Microsoft bug, Greenspan speaks, Yahoo cuts

Forrester: Holiday online spending to grow modestly

Cyberoam: Spammers hijack legitimate e-mail

Google offers its maps to help voters find polling places

Dell focuses on India as global market softens

Microsoft responds to Chinese user outrage over piracy tool

Ericsson takes LTE to the street

Competition in Belgian telephony market ineffective, says EU

Ex-Cisco exec Ullal lands at data center start-up

Arista Networks taps Jayshree Ullal as CEO

Zain Group’s quarterly profits up 7 percent

CAZ tax proposal calls for reduction in import duty

Could economy cause IT pros to crack?

CIOs dealing with economic crisis by doing more with less are experiencing more stress on the job, survey says

London gears up for most wired Olympics ever

Click fraud at 16 percent as scammers resort to botnets

Africa Banking Corporation to employ BankWorld software

Opera Mini usage surges in Africa

P2P legislation forcing university IT to get tough on piracy

Compliance with new P2P legislation proving costly for IT teams at the nation's colleges and universities

Amazon opens up beta of Windows Server, SQL Server on EC2

Gmail activation problem in Apps finally solved

‘Magic’ mirror shows product info as shoppers try on clothes

EDS sacks 75 staff following HP buyout

Microsoft says Windows flaw could bring worm attack

Buffalo’s 1TB LinkStation Mini

Sun denies co-founder leaving company

Andy Bechtolsheim will stay in part-time role

NCC tasks operators with curbing fake products

An IBM user group’s final message: ‘pwrdwnsys *immed’

Jonathan Heiliger, technology ops VP at Facebook

System Center Virtual Machine Manager

How to save yourself from your kids online

Ex-Cisco exec drawn to start-up Arista’s software architecture

$400 per 10G port is fine, but Ullal's big on Arista's operating system

Others angling for Apple/AT&T’s smartphone riches

Big profits spark big competition for device sales, third-party applications

A24 Media partners with Kenyan TV stations

Corporate fraud, in-flight Wi-Fi, R&D tax credit, more

Avaya readies unified communications application server

Avaya SIP Application Server eases UC/business applications integration

IT skills that shine in uncertain times

Research firms identify in-demand IT skill sets and forecast potential IT salary increases in 2009

GTV launches prepaid subscription scratch cards in Kenya

Network start-ups hurt as venture capital dries up

IPO dry spell contributes to lowest investment total in a decade

Seagate’s 1.5TB Barracuda drive

Microsoft earnings beat the Street

Company adjusts projections for coming months

Sun tussles with startup over noted systems designer

Microsoft CFO outlines plan to weather economic crisis

Attack code for critical Microsoft bug surfaces

Verizon expands 10Gbps Ethernet offerings

Carrier offers Ethernet Virtual Private Lines, Ethernet LAN services

New CEO makes changes at VMware