CIO editorials
IPhone to Hit Scandinavia, No Info on 3G
Apple continues its aggressive iPhone distribution expansion, with several Scandinavian countries on the schedule now to get the coveted smartphone.
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Via Releases Laptop Design As Open Source
Via Technologies released the hardware design for a low-cost laptop with WiMax support under an open-source license on Tuesday, a move intended to make customization easier and shorten design cycles for system makers.
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Infineon CEO to Quit Over Strategy Disagreements
Infineon's president and CEO, Wolfgang Ziebart, will resign June 1 over differences of opinion on the "future strategic orientation" of the company, the company said late Monday.
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Vodafone CEO Sarin Steps Down, to Be Replaced By Colao
Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin will step down from the top job at the mobile operator in July, the company said Tuesday.
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Vodafone CEO Sarin to Step Down
Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin will step down as head of the mobile operator, the company said Tuesday.
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RIM Says it Can't Provide E-Mail Interception in India
Research In Motion (RIM) has said it is unable to give the Indian government access to messages sent by its enterprise clients over the BlackBerry service.
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Deutsche Telekom Seeks Investigation of Call Data Abuse
Deutsche Telekom has asked the public prosecutor in Bonn to investigate allegations that its security staff misused call data records on a number of occasions in order to track contacts between board members and journalists, according to company sources.
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IBM Offers Translation Services From India
IBM has set up a Language Translation Services Center in Pune in western India that will translate documents from French, German, Italian and Spanish to English.
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Merger Talks Fail Between India’S Bharti and MTN in Africa
Merger talks between Indian telecommunications company, Bharti Airtel, and MTN Group of South Africa fell through after disagreement on the structuring of the merger.
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UK's Tranquil PC Taking Orders for Atom-Based Home Servers
Tranquil PC, a computer maker in the U.K., is taking orders for two home servers based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor, formerly called Diamondville.
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China Announces Telecom Restructuring, Clearing Way for 3G
China announced a restructuring plan for the country's fixed-line and mobile operators on Saturday, a final step towards the long-awaited release of 3G (third-generation) mobile licenses.
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Most Retailer Breaches Are Not Disclosed, Gartner Says
While nearly half of U.S. retailers have been hit with some kind of information security attack, only a small percentage of them have actually reported breaches to their customers, research company Gartner reports.
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Facebook Pushes Ahead with Profile Redesign
Facebook will roll out a dramatic redesign of its member profile interface next month and much attention is being paid to the details and to how end users and developers will react.
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Developers: Facebook Redesign Risky but Needed
Facebook's major overhaul of its core member profile pages is a risky but necessary move for the world's second-largest online social network, according to several developers of popular applications for the site.
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SF's BART in Talks for Full Wi-Fi Rollout
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, is negotiating with a startup for a Wi-Fi network that would provide fast Internet access to riders throughout its 104-mile (167 kilometers) regional rail system.
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Does the US Need a New Broadband Policy?
Ken Hubbard worries that broadband speeds in the U.S. aren't adequate for the next wave of Web content.
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Broadband Policy: the Connected Nation Model
In recent debates over whether the U.S. should have a more comprehensive broadband policy, one group claims significant success: Connected Nation.
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Broadband: How the US Stacks Up
Groups calling for a more robust broadband policy in the U.S. say the county has fallen behind in several key statistics.
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Nigerian Government Sounds Alarm on Nitel
The deterioration of the telecommunications infrastructure owned by Nigerian Telecommunications (Nitel) has the federal government worried.
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