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Telecom Group OTE May Sue Siemens
FRANKFURT – OTE, Greece’s largest telecom group and partly owned by Deutsche Telekom, may sue Siemens for damages over alleged overcharging, German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. OTE has contacted lawyers in Germany and Greece to examine and prepare all necessary steps, which include a claim for damages, the paper said in a preview of an…
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Harris Under Fire in Census Mobile Debacle
Don’t worry, Americans: You will be counted as part of the 2010 U.S. census—just not as efficiently as planned, thanks to the meltdown of a major mobile computing implementation that was supposed to bring the huge data-collection project into the wireless age. The goal was to make participating in the census as easy as signing…
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VARs Need to Adjust VOIP Focus
VOIP is hot. It’s hard to find anyone to argue that. Solution providers are doing a brisk business especially in the SMB space wooing clients over to IP telephony. The latest figures from the Dell’Oro Group show VOIP adoption jumping 30 percent year over year among SMBs. But the driving force behind many of those…
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NAC: Not So Fast
The network access control market has come a long way in a relatively short time—since 2000 or so—but it still has a long way to go before it hits mass adoption. Before the technology becomes a hot-selling commodity, two things need to happen: A single set of industry standards must emerge, and solutions must become…
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Cisco Veterans Unveil Network Security Startup
In 2006, five security, systems and networking experts with a combined 40-plus years of experience at Cisco Systems formed a network security startup and took aim at the access management market. Now, two years later, that startup—Rohati Systems—has stepped out of the shadows with a high-speed appliance that relies on user entitlements to control access…
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Sybase iPhone Software Ready Soon
Sybase Inc plans to soon start selling software that lets businesses securely distribute e-mail to the iPhone, which could help the popular device gain use among business clients. The program for Apple Inc’s iPhone will be released before the end of this year, John Chen said on Monday at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and…