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SMBs Ditch Foreign Travel For Tech Alternatives

Bad news for airlines, as businesses cut back on expensive foreign travel and explore alternative communication technologies

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Virgin Dismisses BT Infinity Broadband Claims

BT claims its super-fast Infinity broadband is cheaper that Virgin Media, but Virgin points out you can't actually get the service yet

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Polycom and Siemens Team Up Over Video Conferencing

Siemens Enterprise Communications is to integrate Polycom's telepresence technology into its unified communications (UC) offerings

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Clinton To Call For Internet Freedom Following Google China Hack

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton will make a major policy speech that will make global Internet freedom an integral part of U.S. foreign policy

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Cisco Tests Space-Based Internet Tech

Cisco announced that it had successfully tested the first step in creating IP networking technology that can run in space

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NRO Warns Of Looming Shortage Of IPv4 Addresses

NRO warned that there is less than 10 percent of IPv4 addresses available, and has urged people to start deploying the next-generation Internet Protocol (known as IPv6)

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Review: Plantronics Voyager Pro UC Bluetooth Headset

The Plantronics Voyager Pro UC provides enables callers to use the same Bluetooth headset for both mobile phone and PC-based unified communications systems.

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UK Lags Behind Slovakia On Business Internet Access

UK businesses are lagging behind other European countries on Internet connectivity but, on the plus side, fixed broadband access is above the European average

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Manchester And York To Benefit From Fibre

Fibre optics networks are to be built in both Manchester and York, with the promise to deliver superfast broadband speeds

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Wireless Company Aruba Bids To Manage Wired LANs

Newest version of wireless management product controls client devices and wired networks – and multi-vendor equipment

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Skype Hires Sony Ericsson Exec As New Chairman

Skype has made Miles Flint, former president of Sony Ericsson Mobile, its new chairman

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Alcatel Lucent Vows To Boost Network Efficiency 1000-Fold

The Green Touch consortium, led by Alcatel Lucent's Bell Labs, promises it can cut the energy used by the world's data networks by a factor of 1000

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US FCC Questioned Over Net Neutrality Decision

The FCC faces tough questions about its legal authority to penalise Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer traffic from BitTorrent

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Intel’s Otellini Launches Netbook Appstore In 3D

Intel CEO Paul Otellini talked about an Atom-based smartphone and an online app store for netbooks in a 3D-enhanced CES keynote

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Tiscali Brand Binned By TalkTalk

It is the end of the line for Tiscali, after new owner TalkTalk called time on the Tiscali brand name

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Skype Offers High-Definition Video Calls

Skype has arrived in the living room after it announced that its VoIP client is to be embedded in a range of HDTVs

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WLAN Maker Meru Goes For IPO

Bucking the trend, WLAN maker Meru plans a stock market flotation in 2010 - but is the wireless LAN moving to the cloud?

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Telefonica To Acquire Jajah For £129 Million

Telecom giant Telefonica has dipped into its cash reserves to acquire small Silicon Valley VoIP provider, Jajah, for $207 million (£129 million)

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Glide Beats Chrome OS – And Turns IE Into An OS

Transmedia has stolen a march on Google's Chrome OS with Glide, which turns Internet Explorer into a browser OS with its own storage

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Users Risk Christmas Penalty From Too Much Online TV

An increasing number of people are watching their favourite TV shows online, but are risking a penalty for excessive downloading

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BT Targets Olympic Deadline For NGA Rollout

The rollout of superfast broadband is ahead of schedule and BT has said it should be installed in 40 percent of homes in time for the 2012 Olympic Games

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O2 Admits Data Network Failure

O2 has admitted responsibility for some iPhone users being unable to connect to the Internet over the past 48 hours, but has so far failed to resolve the problem

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Cisco Closes $2.9 Billion Starent Acquisition

Cisco has strengthened its credentials in the mobile Internet space after it closed on the acquisition of Starent Networks

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Snowed-In Workaholics Turn To Video Conferencing

Vendors push video conferencing as a way for dedicated workers to overcome hazardous weather conditions

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Mobile Web Browsing To Overtake PCs By 2014

Within five years more users will access the Internet using mobile devices than via desktop PCs, according to Morgan Stanley's 'Mobile Internet Report'

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Twitter Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army

Twitter was hijacked between 10pm and 11pm Pacific time on 17 December, and was replaced it by a screen which read: "This Website Has Been Hacked by Iranian Cyber Army"