Decision opens way for 287 rural communities to get broadband from three big phone companies, while urban subscribers get rebate
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A Duke University experiment inadvertently uncovered a bug in Cisco Systems Inc.’s Internetwork Operating System XR, which is used on carrier grade routers such as CRS 1. A Renesys Corp. official said it affected 3,500 prefixes and caused some Cisco routers to corrupting Duke’s experimental data
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Nortel Networks Corp. paid $340 million when it bought Shasta Networks Inc. in 1999. Now it has negotiated a stalking horse agreement to sell the Shasta, data packet network and multi service switches for US$39 million.
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Sales might beat the research company’s forecast for 2010, an analyst says, a comeback from a dismal 2009
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Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, Newfoundland is installing an emergency notification system using products from Mitel Networks Corp. and Benbria Corp. It would let staff send out alerts to phones, computers and the paging system in case someone is on a shooting rampage or there’s a fire or hazardous materials spill.
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KPMG surveyed 300 Canadians and found eight per cent have made purchases from retailers using their mobile phones. Fewer than one in five feel comfortable using their wireless devices for financial transactions
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The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission issued a policy requiring new media broadcast undertakings to start reporting their revenues and spending next year. Rogers Communications Inc., Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. and the Canadian Independent Music Association react
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The new standard appears to leave largely untouched several issues where companies are looking for more guidance from the PCI Council, say industry analysts.
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Big Blue didn’t take kindly to an analyst’s report on migrating from the Lotus Notes/Domino platform. But Gartner says it reflects customer queries
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Skype reveals some of its business worries in SEC filing, which include Apple’s ability to alter its terms of inclusion into its app store
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