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Carrier executives pushed telecommunications as a powerful driver of economic growth at the NXTcomm trade show on Tuesday, and their progress reports on building out their own networks indicated they may be right. "Connectivity is, always has been and always will be the foundation for comm...

Mozilla hyped today's Firefox 3 launch with a 'Download Day' appeal to Firefox users to all come get the new version at once and shoot for a new Guinness World Record.  But some network difficulties handling that huge rush of traffic is keeping many visitors from helping Mozilla reach tha... More...

Philadelphia's mayor announced on Tuesday that the city's Wi-Fi network, previously scheduled to be shut down by its builder, EarthLink , has been saved by a group of private investors. The investors will finish building the network throughout the city and plan to work with nonprofit organization... More...

For many of us, running Linux as our full-time desktop OS sounds appealing, but there are always those one or two Windows-only programs that we simply can't do without. Sure, you can switch to Windows using a dual-boot system, or run Windows inside virtualization software such as VMware; but that me... More...

When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography onto the laptop. Last week, prosecu... More...

Google 's application-hosting service suffered an outage on Tuesday, highlighting one of the downsides of the new cloud computing services. Between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. West Coast time and again later in the day, a significant percentage of users trying to access the service were unable to do so, ... More...

Toshiba on Tuesday launched a new ultraportable laptop that it claims is the world's lightest, putting it in contention with vendors including Apple and Lenovo. The company said the full-featured Portégé R500-S5007V weighs just 2.4 pounds (1.08 kilograms), compared to Apple's M... More...

Mozilla's big plan on Tuesday to set a world record for downloads with the Firefox 3 browser hit a snag when its Web site would not work properly. Though the big "Download Day" was set to begin at 1 p.m. ET, Mozilla 's Web site was down or working sporadically all morning on the East... More...

After 15 years of "pain" and "despair," open-source developers on Tuesday celebrated the release of version 1.0 of the Wine emulation software by, you guessed it, opening a few bottles of wine. Wine allows Windows applications to run natively on other operating systems, includin... More...

As numerous vendors set up demonstrations of carrier Ethernet gear for this week's NXTcomm trade show in Las Vegas, an industry group strategized about how to clear the path for faster optical and Ethernet links than ever. On Monday, the Road to 100G Alliance formed a technical committee to fill i... More...

Prosecutors have dropped child pornography charges against a Massachusetts state employee after an investigation determined that his government-issued laptop was poorly configured and riddled with malicious software. Michael Fiola, former investigator with the Massachusetts Department of Industrial... More...

Sourcefire has chosen a Citrix Systems sales executive to be the company's new CEO. John Burris, who is currently head of worldwide sales and services at Citrix, will replace Sourcefire's current CEO, Wayne Jackson, effective July 14. Jackson, who had led the company from 2002 though its initial p... More...

I wrote last month that Mint.com planned to begin pulling investment account data into their free financial service Web site , which up until now tracked online checking, credit card and other accounts but couldn't look at your 401k, IRA or other investments. After getting my invitation e-mail ... More...

Google is heading to the PlayStation Portable and will have a place on the handheld's Cross Media Bar (XMB) menu, Sony said Tuesday. It will appear when users upgrade their PSPs to the version 4 firmware, which will be available "soon," according to Eric Lempel, director of the PlayS... More...

Imagine turning a movie into a game instantly, with the audience driving storytelling by defining the character. Advanced Micro Devices wants to make that possible in the future, with the company releasing new graphics chips that allow moviemakers and game developers to render three-dimensional im... More...

Just posted! Our new lens review of Tamron's latest baby, the SP AF 70-200mm F2.8 Di LD (IF) Macro. In the third of our epic four-part series of telezoom reviews, we take a look through the viewfinder using a lens said to inherit its 'product concept' from Tamron's highly regarded 28-75mm F2.8. S... More...

Microsoft and Nortel on Monday introduced a fully hosted unified-communications and collaboration service for carriers, the first entirely hosted carrier-grade offering to come out of an alliance struck between the companies two years ago. At the NXTcomm08 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft an... More...

Ghana is on course to meet and exceed telephone penetration targets for universal Internet access by 2012, according to Minister of Communications Benjamin Aggrey-Ntim. "In the relative short period since the development of our national ICT vision, Ghana has witnessed appreciable growth in th... More...

The U.S. International Trade Commission has rejected patent claims against Broadcom by GPS (Global Positioning System) vendor SiRF Technology. SiRF Technology claimed that Global Locate , which Broadcom acquired last year, had infringed two of its patents in GPS products. After a six-day trial ... More...

The world's largest mobile phone service provider on Monday signed a US$1 billion deal to buy a range of wireless networking and 3G (third generation mobile telecommunications) equipment from Alcatel-Lucent . The deal continues a long running relationship between the two companies and puts Alcatel... More...