Two investment consulting companies laid out objections to Cisco's US$3 billion offer for Norwegian videoconferencing vendor Tandberg on Friday, saying in an open letter to Cisco and a press interview that the bid undervalues Tandberg.

Cisco Systems may be laying the groundwork for dropping its US$3 billion offer for videoconferencing vendor Tandberg despite the emphasis it has placed on video as the future of communications.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled US$3.4 billion in grants to update the nation's electrical grid, but the benefits could reach to the broadband sector as well, one community broadband adviser said.

Cisco Tuesday announced its second multibillion dollar deal this month: a definitive agreement to acquire Starent Networks, a provider of IP-based mobile infrastructure for carriers, for about $2.9 billion.

Wednesday's collapse of the on-again, off-again, US$23 billion deal between South Africa's MTN and India's Bharti Airtel -- which occurred after the complex proposal attracted much intervention from political leaders and unions -- had as much to do with matters of national pride and politics as anything else.

A Nokia tervei között szerepel, hogy pénzügyi szolgáltatásokat nyújt mobiltelefonjain keresztül. Egyes modelleken már előre installált a fizetési kliens.

A New York-i Rendőrség közel 1 millió dollár értékben vásárol írógépeket a következő három évre - PC-k helyett ezeket használják majd az irodákban.

EMC on Monday increased its offer to acquire storage vendor Data Domain from US$1.8 billion to $2.1 billion in its latest effort to shove aside original bidder NetApp.

EMC on Monday moved to head off NetApp's proposed acquisition of data de-duplication vendor Data Domain, offering about US$1.8 billion compared with NetApp's May 20 bid of $1.5 billion.

Két QWERTY-billentyűzetes, Push-mailt támogató készülék járt a nonstop Mobilnál, laptársunk pedig részletes bemutató videót készített róluk.

The European Commission Wednesday found Intel guilty of antitrust violations in the market for PC microprocessors and fined it ?1.06 billion (US$1.44 billion).

Oracle plans to stay in the hardware business following its planned US$7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems, CEO Larry Ellison has said, adding more detail to earlier statements made by the company.

Cisco Systems' revenue for its third fiscal quarter fell 17 percent from a year earlier, while net income plunged 21 percent to US$1.3 billion, or $0.23 per share.

A PC is no bargain when it doesn't do what you want, Apple spokesman Bill Evans told BusinessWeek journalist Arik Hesseldahl, who writes BW's Byte of the Apple column.

Microsoft has had few critics more vocal than Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy. With their companies set to merge in a blockbuster US$7.4 billion deal announced Monday, is it time for Microsoft to worry?

Aki nem képes kezelni a hagyományos billentyűzetet, annak a magas árú segédeszközök mellett már egy újabb, jóval olcsóbb megoldás is a rendelkezésére áll.

The Australian Government will establish a new public company to build the next-generation National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia.

Windows 7 is the first Microsoft OS developed away from the watchful eye of Bill Gates, and the technical leaders who built it had to adjust to life at the company without its cofounder and former chief software architect, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.

Gates vagyonának "csak" 31 százalékát vesztette el, ami elég volt az első hely visszaszerzéséhez a Forbes éves listáján.

Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is planning to spend a few billion U.S. dollars over the next three to five years to build a digital city with the latest technologies added to make it a healthy, clean place to live, the chairman of the company said Wednesday.