» Campus connects 'face to face'
Hosted videoconferencing system brings experts to the classroom and the boardroom.

» Verizon Wireless Completes Purchase of Centennial Communications Assets in Parts of Louisiana and Mississippi
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless today announced it has purchased from AT&T certain operating assets of Centennial Communications Corp. in Louisiana and Mississippi for $235 million.  The transaction was agreed to last year by Verizon Wireless and AT&T and s

» Frost & Sullivan Predicts Smartphones to Account for 54 Percent of Asia-Pacific Device Sales by 2015
SINGAPORE, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Growth in the Asia-Pacific smartphone market is expected to skyrocket in the coming years and by 2015, Frost & Sullivan forecasts that 54 percent of all devices sold in the region will be smartphones, up from only five percent in 2009. (Logo: http://photos.prne

» HP offers $1.6 billion for 3Par, exceeding Dell's offer

Hewlett-Packard has offered to buy 3Par, a vendor of virtualized storage systems, for $1.6 billion in cash, topping a bid of $1.2 billion made by Dell last Monday. HP made its offer in a letter to 3Par CEO David Scott on Monday morning.

The offer will force 3Par's board to reconsider its merger agreement with Dell as the HP offer is a "superior proposal," HP's executive vice president and chief strategy and technology officer, Shane Robison, wrote in the letter. Robison said that HP would be a better fit for 3Par than would Dell, as both are Silicon Valley companies.

» Researcher told Microsoft of Windows apps zero-day bugs 6 months ago

Microsoft has known since at least February that dozens of Windows applications, including many of its own, harbor bugs that hackers can exploit to seize control of computers, an academic researcher said Sunday.

At least 19 of the bugs can be exploited remotely, Taeho Kwon, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California Davis, said in a paper he published in February and presented last month at an international conference.

» Time waits for no one: 'leap seconds' may be cut
The International Telecommunications Union is may eliminate leap seconds from the time scale used by most computer systems, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

» Leading Telecom Trade Groups Sign Strategic Cooperative Agreement
TIA and the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO) announced that the two organizations have signed a friendship agreement that is designed to enhance the benefits each trade group offers to its members.

» Consumers Achieve Significant Savings When Ordering Verizon's High-Value Broadband Bundle
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon phone customers waiting for just the right time to add broadband service to their household need wait no more.  Starting immediately, those customers can add 768 kilobits per second (Kbps)-to-1 megabit per second (Mbps) Verizon High-Speed Internet (HSI)