I’m now running OS X 10.5.6 on two of my three eligible Macs (the fourth is a 12-inch PowerBook G4), and so far, I couldn’t be happier. I haven’t run into any nasty compatibility issues or really disastrous bugs (although Finder once auto-quit and restarted when […] Read more »
I’m still not sold on the whole netbook subsidy deal, but if you are and you want AT&T to provide 3G connectivity to your mobile computer, this is good news. In April, the carrier was testing subsidized netbooks in Atlanta as well as my Philadelphia backyard. […] Read more »
We’re no rating agency here at GigaOM, but Om and I got together this week to figure out our coverage priorities for the coming months — let’s call it a spring cleaning — and decided there are five companies that we’re just not going to spend […] Read more »
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Nortel, the bankrupt telecommunications gear maker, said today it will lay off an additional 3,200 workers worldwide over the coming months — bringing its total workforce down to 25,000. The Canadian company, which filed for bankruptcy in January, said last November that it would cut 1,300 […] Read more »
Radware, a maker of application delivery equipment, wants to buy a business unit of bankrupt gear maker Nortel Networks. The unit in question is known as Alteon; it makes application switching and WAN optimization products for the data center. Nortel bought Alteon for $7 billion back […] Read more »
Today Ericsson reported a 31 percent drop in its fourth-quarter profits to 3.9 billion kronor ($465 million), announced 5,000 job cuts and said its core telecommunication equipment business was still unaffected by financial turmoil. Ericsson saw a large loss in its handset unit, but demand from […] Read more »
Updated with confirmation, comment from Nortel: In a sign of just how deep the troubles of the troubled telecommunications industry currently run, The Globe and Mail is reporting — and Nortel Networks has now confirmed — that the equipment maker plans to file for bankruptcy, perhaps […] Read more »
Today beleaguered telecommunication equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent said it would cut 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion) in costs between now and 2010. It plans to do this by laying off 1,000 managers, 5,000 contractors and cutting costs in areas such as R&D and real estate. While this […] Read more »
According to the Wall Street Journal, telecommunications equipment maker Nortel is talking to lawyers about its strategy, including filing for bankruptcy. This is grim news for the vendor and the industry at large. Nortel has a lot of debt ($4.5 billion as of the last quarter), […] Read more »
Today Nortel named two of the customers deploying its new 40G optical long-haul network equipment, begging the question, Why the heck do we need those bandwidth caps? The short answer is, we don’t. Read more »
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After a few quarters of nonchalant statements that the sub-prime mortgage crisis and rising oil prices weren’t going to affect the tech stocks, the bloom is off the rose. The lowered sales forecasts and lackluster quarters are trickling in, and the trend for wireless companies is […] Read more »
Anyone questioning the need for more fiber or wireless backhaul, or even 4G wireless broadband, need only look at a recent survey from IDC that finds that a constant connection is becoming the expected norm for almost a fifth of the world’s population. Sure, the study […] Read more »
SAI: Hulu Household: Why I Got Rid of Cable The Inquirer: 5 New Fabs for $14.7B EETimes: Nokia, Techs Drop as TI Points to 3G Weakness ArsTechnica: Norton Places Big Bet on Mac Virtualization Vulnerabilities Light Reading: Charter Gets Nibbles EWeek: Nortel Rolls out 40 Gigabit […] Read more »
SAI: About.com CEO Scott Meyer Booted FT: Apple and ZTE Join Ranks of Top 10 Mobile Phone Manufacturers NYTimes: Some Fear the Scope of Nortel is a Liability ArsTechnica: Patent Reform Coalition Aims to Abolish Software Patents Wired: QTrax CEO Addresses Miscued Launch, Says Service Will […] Read more »
Data Center Knowledge: Microsoft Considering Iowa Data Center Ars Technica: Net Neutrality Bill Poised to Surface in House Light Reading: China Mobile Joins LTE Threesome BusinessWeek: Rupert Murdoch’s New Startup Incubator Marketwatch: Nortel Sees 4G as Opportunity to Leapfrog Rivals The News Market: Google Asks U.S. […] Read more »
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