Cisco's bid for video conferencing rival Tandberg hangs in the balance as opposition to the deal grows
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Cisco's bid for video conferencing rival Tandberg hangs in the balance as opposition to the deal grows
The IT industry has ignored the availability of IPv6 addresses for too long at the risk of adding unnecessary risk and complexity to internet architectures, says Axel Pawlik, managing director of RIPE NCC.
Microsoft has refreshed its mobile search site (m.bing.com) and optimised it for touch-screen devices including the iPhone
Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin said Google did not try to buy Twitter in a surprise visit onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit
Cisco has found that video and other visual applications now constitute 30 percent of traffic running through service provider networks
Google may be about to challenge Apple, Spotify and several players in the digital music space by launching Google Audio
Tandberg continues to fluant its video conferencing expertise for smaller businesses after it unveiled its Profile 42” system for smaller conference rooms
Cisco has upgraded its highly successful ISR router family to better deal with growing technologies such as online collaboration and internet video
Microsoft has admitted that it will discontinue its Silverlight Streaming beta service, which will be replaced by a Windows Azure service
Google reports third-quarter profit of $1.64 billion ($1bn), a 27 percent boost from its profit of $1.29 billion in the third quarter of 2008
The UK operation of the online video service Joost, founded by the creators of Skype, has gone into administration, despite the company reportedly attracting more than $45 million in funding
Tandberg has not been distracted by its looming acquisition, after it expanded its video collaboration or conferencing suite with the launch of T1 Telepresence, aimed at smaller meeting groups.
CFO Patrick Pichette, during the recent Q3 2009 Google earnings call, reported that "YouTube will be very profitable in the not-too-distant future."
Google is expected to beat consensus estimates when it announces third-quarter financial results on 15 Oct.
Google boosts its Search Options to let users search results by past hour, specific date range, more shopping sites, fewer shopping sites, visited pages, not yet visited, books, blogs and news
The networking giant has made an offer of $3bn (£1.9bn) for its Norwegian rival in the market for video calls
Salesforce.com, SAP and several other companies have lined up to show off applications they created using the APIs from the open-source Google Wave platform.
The downtime for Gmail and Google Contacts last week was caused by high load to Google Contacts
Google has responded to Microsoft criticism that its Chrome Frame plug-in increases IE's attack surface
Video: Cloud-based applications do not play Russian roulette with security, says Eran Feigenbaum, stage magician and head of security at Google Apps
The Department of Justice said the Google Book Search settlement would violate class action, copyright, and antitrust law and said it should not be approved without changes
Microsoft's search engine, Bing, was used in 10.7 percent of U.S. online searches in August, according to a new report by research firm Nielsen
Google's Chrome team releases a stable build of the Web browser that incorporates the speed bumps and features introduced in August's Chrome 3.0.195.4 beta release
Google Fast Flip aims to accelerate the pace at which readers devour online news
Google leads Microsoft Bing and Yahoo in search results accuracy, page load speed, real-time relevance and usability, according to a crowdsourced software quality test from uTest
The SAPIR research project can find related pictures even if they haven't been indexed by humans - unlike traditional search engines such as Google and Bing
Google has promised to give Amazon and other books sellers a slice of the revenue from its controversial Book Search proposal to put books online
Dell is taking advantage of the performance, energy-efficiency and multimedia capabilities in Intel's “Nehalem” microarchitecture with the launch of two new desktops
The European Commission has called for a fresh approach to the digitisation of Europe's books following a meeting today to discuss Google's book deal
A new report has found demand from the likes of Samsung and Nokia may mean LCD screens are poised to the same way of CRT televisions