Net neutrality, Alcatel-Lucent style
Network World interviews Wim Sweldens, VP of Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, about finding common ground between carriers and the newfangled application and content providers who are bringing P2P and other services onto the market.
Challenges with innovation, the Facebook generation
Imagine you're the CEO of an old-line technology corporation with 120 years of telecommunications experience, and 80,000 employees scattered across the world. Furthering innovation is a given, but you also have to identify technologies that will resonate with consumers -- not to mention building sustainable business models around them. This is the world that Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen inhabits.
Alcatel-Lucent to serve mobile ads to wireless customers in Germany who opt in
Users get free minutes or texts in return
Alcatel-Lucent will team with HP to sell telecom products
Telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent and IT vendor Hewlett-Packard plan to jointly market their products to businesses looking for converged IT and communications systems.
Wall Street Beat: IT sales down but analysts hike estimates
IT and communications bellwethers Sprint, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Symantec this week reported sagging quarterly sales, but analysts, impressed by cost controls and hopeful that a bottom to the tech market has been reached, raised estimates on share price valuations and earnings of some vendors.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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