Alcatel-Lucent’s Revenue Drops, but Operating Loss Shrinks

Posted on 30 July 2010

Alcatel-Lucent’s second-quarter revenue fell 2.4 percent year on year, dragged down by slow sales in fixed-line network equipment and terrestrial optical networks, but the company reduced costs, cutting its operating loss by two-thirds compared to a year earlier.
For the full year, the market for telecommunications equipment and related services will grow, by up to 5 [...]

Qualcomm Finalizes Indian Partners for LTE Joint Venture

Posted on 30 July 2010

Qualcomm has finalized initial shareholders for its LTE (Long Term Evolution) services venture in India, it said on Friday.
Qualcomm will have a 74 percent stake in the venture, while two Indian companies — Global Holding Corporation and Tulip Telecom — will hold 13 percent each. The deal still requires government approval, Qualcomm said.
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Android App Data Theft: Advantage Apple?

Posted on 29 July 2010

Mobile security firm Lookout embarrassed Android by revealing that a popular wallpaper app was sending sensitive user data to a mysterious Website in China.
The discovery, on its face, looks like an argument for Apple’s restrictive iPhone App Store. Certainly, the store’s approval process has an extra layer of security that the Android Market does not, [...]

Security

DOD Prohibits Removable Storage Devices To Stop Worm

Posted on 03 July 2009

“Lockdown” must be the Department of Defense’s middle name. As a worm seems to be making its way through the military’s computers, the DOD has responded by banning flash drives, CDs, and just about everything else that can store data and be moved from one machine to another.
DOD Prohibits Removable Storage Devices To Stop [...]

Software & Applications

Coder, your days are numbered

Posted on 03 July 2009

Programmers care about languages. Opinion on the topic is generally divided into two schools of thought. One holds that a good programmer will be versed in a selection of different languages, to be better equipped to handle a variety of coding styles and challenges. The other school maintains that the best way to remain marketable [...]

Storage

Back Up Those Digital Photos Dad

Posted on 03 July 2009

Earlier today I received an email from a good photographer friend of mine. She was asking me about a new online back up service that I was not familiar with after having almost lost a hard drive at 4am this morning.
As a photogeek, but even more as a geek dad, the importance of photo [...]

Wireless

Aruba invents virtualised remote access

Posted on 03 July 2009

Aruba Networks has announced a new family of branch office wireless access points it says can be used to build a cheap but powerful remote access system based on virtual principles.
Dubbed the ‘virtual branch office’, the system uses software-upgraded versions of the company’s current range of data centre-based hardware controllers connected to one of [...]