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Orange aims to improve GSM coverage for businesses Mobile phone operator Orange plans to offer a business version next year of the mobile-over-DSL technology it already offers consumers. Jajah cries foul over eBay's block Web-site buttons from Internet telephony startup Jajah that allowed eBay buyers and sellers to initiate phone calls have been banned by eBay, a move that Jajah charges is unjustified. October 4, 1:05 p.m. PDT Microsoft gears up for OCS launch Microsoft will launch a frontal assault on enterprise telephony when it launches OCS (Office Communications Server) 2007 later this month but plans to win over most customers bit by bit over the next few years. October 3, 5:13 p.m. PDT Skype CEO steps down Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom has handed over his CEO title to become non-executive chairman of the board of directors of this eBay unit, whose impact on its parent company remains an open question. October 1, 11:23 a.m. PDT Verizon Business adds to SLAs Verizon Communications' Business unit has expanded its service-level agreement (SLA) options, allowing customers to invoke their SLAs on the last mile of their network connection, even in cases where Verizon doesn't own those pipes. September 24, 8:12 a.m. PDT From big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtualFrom big iron to white boxes, Nationwide goes virtual While many IT shops see virtualization as a question of adopting EMC's VMware on servers running Windows or Linux, Nationwide Insurance has adopted the technology for both x86-based and mainframe-hosted servers. After all, notes Buzz Woeckener, the company's zLinux/Unix server manager, virtualization was invented for mainframes.  September 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Cisco fleshes out Microsoft cooperation Cisco's highly publicized cooperation with Microsoft on unified communications will focus on sharing presence information as well as on voice mail, Web conferencing, and other areas, a Cisco executive said Tuesday. September 19, 10:13 a.m. PDT Fear of insider threats hits home The more money that companies spend on securing their IT operations from external attack, the more it seems they become aware that the potential threat posed by their own employees remains their most significant risk. September 18, 10:42 a.m. PDT Sprint launches Airave home cellular base station to boost signals Underdog mobile operator Sprint Nextel quietly rolled out an emerging technology on Monday to give customers a strong cellular signal and flat-rate calling at home. September 18, 5:50 a.m. PDT T-Mobile buys wireless operator SunCom for $2.4 billion Expanding its U.S. turf, T-Mobile USA announced Monday that it will buy SunCom Wireless Holdings for $2.4 billion in cash and assumed debt. September 17, 7:58 a.m. PDT Best of open source in networking If we had to pick the most significant trend in networking today, the VoIP phenomenon might well top the list. And open source is playing no small part. While enterprises remain reluctant to rip out their tried-and-true PBXes, open source VoIP -- usually in the form of Asterisk -- is capturing business communications one small business or branch office at a time. Sooner or later, enterprises too will catch the open source VoIP bug. The cost savings and flexibility are too compelling to resist. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Introducing the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies Not too long ago, open source meant starving developers; scant documentation; an ugly, outdated Web site; and software that lived in perpetual beta. Now open source software is becoming big business. “Now hiring” is a common sight on project home pages, and .org and SourceForge sites that used to point straight to source code archives are redirected to .com URLs that celebrate the commercial success of what started out as collaborations among unpaid coders of like mind. September 10, 3:00 a.m. PDT Flag Telecom awards $1.5 billion contract to Fujitsu Flag Telecom, an international provider of bandwidth owned by Reliance Communications Ltd. in India, has awarded a US$1.5 billion contract to Fujitsu Ltd. for the construction of Flag's next generation network (NGN) submarine cable. September 4, 5:41 a.m. PDT Unified communications: Here at last? While Todd Sharp is driving down the highway between Charlotte and Atlanta, a new sales order triggers a lookup for the customer phone number and salesperson (that would be Todd) assigned to it. The system then polls Siemens OpenScape UC (unified communications) software and checks Todd’s presence status, discovering that he’s working remotely and available only on his cell. OpenScape kicks off a VoIP call to Todd’s cell phone and, using a text-to-speech engine, reads the sales order over the phone. It then prompts Todd to press 1 to autodial the customer. Minutes after the order arrived, Todd is thanking the customer from his car. September 4, 3:00 a.m. PDT Tata to aid India's telecoms expansion India's largest outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has landed a US$140 million contract from India's large state-owned telecommunications services provider, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., for the deployment of next-generation networks in the country. August 30, 7:15 a.m. PDT Update: Microsoft plans unified communications as a service Microsoft is working on a "service in the sky" for unified communications, an executive said Tuesday at the VoiceCon conference in San Francisco. August 21, 10:22 p.m. PDT Skype offers more details of 'perfect storm' outage The situation that prevented millions of people from accessing Skype's Internet telephony service late last week was a "perfect storm" and should not reoccur, the company said Tuesday. August 21, 5:42 a.m. PDT Microsoft, others scramble for spotlight at VoiceCon Microsoft has licensed its RT Audio Codec for IP (Internet Protocol) voice calls to major hardware vendors including Intel, Texas Instruments, and Polycom, the company is set to announce Tuesday at the VoiceCon conference. It joins several vendors using the event as a showcase for IP telephony advancements. August 21, 4:19 a.m. PDT Google struggles with phone number 'for life' Google's GrandCentral Communications is finding it tricky to keep its promise to provide its clients with a single phone number "for life." August 20, 4:08 p.m. PDT Skype users don't buy outage explanation eBay's explanation for last week's failure of its Skype communication service has left many users still wondering what caused the worst outage in Skype's five-year history. August 20, 3:11 p.m. PDT SMB technology: Replacing in-house software with applications in the cloud In the near future, there's only one way to go for SMBs when it comes to purchasing business software -- and that's out of house. Whether it's full-on SaaS (software as a service), where users access all facets of the application through a browser, or a hosted product (including hosted Exchange, where only the server component is off-site and users employ a standard desktop client such as Outlook), either model is simply too cost-effective for SMBs to ignore. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Processors: Dividing chips into many virtual cores The current approach taken by x86 CPUs -- to stuff as many processor cores and as much cache memory as will fit on one chip -- will prove impossible to scale beyond a certain point. And adding more, big, hot processor cores may not be the best fit for server roles that call for managing large workloads over long periods of time. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Pundits on parade: What’s next in tech You’ve heard of Christmas in July, that classic advertising gimmick designed to lure shoppers into stores despite the oppressive heat and humidity. We’ll, we’ve got New Year’s in August, which invites you to stay indoors and read “The next big things in IT” -- 15 predictions about the future of technology. August 20, 3:00 a.m. PDT Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project Network security specialist Sourcefire announced Friday that it has acquired ClamAV, an open-source gateway anti-malware project whose technologies are used in the products of a number of other vendors. August 17, 8:58 a.m. PDT Skype VOIP problems may continue throughout the day Skype is still trying to restore service to millions of its customers almost 24 hours after they began to experience problems logging in to the VOIP service. August 17, 5:15 a.m. PDT China Mobile's growth increasingly reliant on rural areas Rural China is an important source of new subscribers for China Mobile, underscoring just how saturated the market for cellular phones has become in Chinese cities. August 16, 8:59 a.m. PDT Web designers settle phone cramming complaint A group of interrelated businesses will pay more than $1.2 million to settle charges alleging that they charged for unwanted Web site services on the phone bills of small businesses and nonprofit groups, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday. August 15, 8:57 a.m. PDT Qwest names telecom veteran as new CEO Qwest Communications International has named telecommunications industry veteran Edward Mueller chairman and CEO, replacing the retiring Richard Notebaert. August 13, 6:21 a.m. PDT Profit tumbles, pressure rises at Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is feeling the heat of competition big time. Europe's largest telecommunications service provider on Thursday reported its fifth consecutive profit slide, caused by intense price pressure and a steady exodus of traditional telephone customers that was not fully offset by its growing broadband business. August 9, 6:17 a.m. PDT Vodafone decides to hang onto Verizon Wireless Vodafone Group has decided to keep a 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless in a move to retain a toehold in the important U.S. mobile phone market. August 8, 7:18 a.m. PDT Verizon Wireless to acquire Rural Cellular for $2.7 billion Verizon Wireless has agreed to acquire Rural Cellular, a mobile telephone service provider focused on rural areas in the U.S., the companies announced Monday. July 30, 7:38 a.m. PDT Verizon revenue, net income up on Fios strength Verizon Communications reported net income of $1.7 billion for the second quarter of 2007, up slightly from a year ago, fueled largely by increases in data and wireless revenues. July 30, 6:53 a.m. PDT Amp'd is latest mobile niche casualty Mobile operators that target niche groups and resell minutes and bits from larger carriers are finding the going rough with the latest casualty a much-hyped contender that may shut down next week. July 27, 3:15 p.m. PDT Nothing sure but death and the Internet tax debate As a federal ban on discriminatory and access taxes on the Internet approaches a Nov. 1 expiration date, Congress is once again embroiled in a question that comes up every three or four years: To what degree does the Internet merit special federal protection from state and local tax collectors? July 27, 5:15 a.m. PDT Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent deepen mobility partnership Alcatel-Lucent plans to extend enterprise security into cellular networks through its own fixed-mobile convergence systems and Aruba Networks' "follow-me" security technology as part of a planned joint venture. July 26, 12:30 p.m. PDT Google, Sprint team on WiMax mobile services As part of its strategy to increase its presence in as many Web-enabled mobile devices as possible, Google has agreed to collaborate with Sprint Nextel to offer a range of Internet services to users of the U.S. operator's planned new WiMax network. July 26, 7:54 a.m. PDT Strong iPhone sales boost AT&T earnings Profit and sales jumped in the second quarter at AT&T as the U.S. communications giant signed up more wireless customers, including new iPhone users, and sold more Internet services to enterprises. July 24, 7:13 a.m. PDT High-fidelity VoIP Not so long ago, I wrote an article on Asterisk and open source VoIP in general. In my discussion with Mark Spencer, the founder of Digium and the Asterisk project, he recommended Polycom as the phone vendor he would choose for an Asterisk deployment. In the same article, I profiled Summer Bay Resorts, which runs Asterisk across multiple call centers and hundreds of agents, all with Polycom phones. You might think Polycom is onto something. July 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Rapid growth seen for India's mobile market New research has confirmed that India's mobile phone market is set for a period of fast growth, with revenue from cellular services expected to jump by more than 18 percent each year for the next five years. July 18, 6:22 a.m. PDT Powerful earthquake disrupts Japan communications A powerful earthquake that struck northern Japan Monday morning has caused disruption to communications services in the country. July 16, 4:25 a.m. PDT Greek spying case uncovers first phone switch rootkit A highly sophisticated spying operation that tapped into the mobile phones of Greece's prime minister and other top government officials has highlighted weaknesses in telecommunications systems that still use decades-old computer code, according to a report by two computer scientists. July 12, 7:42 a.m. PDT SK Telecom denies Sprint Nextel bid talk South Korea's SK Telecom denied on Tuesday a local newspaper report that it is preparing a bid for Sprint Nextel. July 10, 5:58 a.m. PDT Two days after iPhone launch, AT&T EDGE goes down iPhone users across the U.S. were complaining Monday that AT&T's wireless data network was down. July 3, 4:46 a.m. PDT T-Mobile to launch nationwide converged Wi-Fi, cell service T-Mobile USA planned to launch its converged Wi-Fi and cellular service nationwide Wednesday, following the introduction of the service late last year in Seattle. June 27, 6:59 a.m. PDT European Commission pushes Germany on telecom access The European Commission asked the German regulatory authority, the Federal Network Agency, Monday to do more to ensure a level playing field in the market for high-speed optical fiber connections to the home or office. June 25, 9:49 a.m. PDT ITC denies stay on Qualcomm ban The U.S. International Trade Commission has denied a request by Qualcomm to stay an ITC ban on the importation of some Qualcomm chips and cell phones into the U.S. while the company continues its appeal in a patent infringement case filed against it by Broadcom. June 22, 8:31 a.m. PDT T-Mobile, Truphone: disconnected over VOIP A U.K. startup specializing in offering Internet telephone service via certain Nokia Wi-Fi enabled cellphones is making few friends with mobile operators, signalling tension ahead in the high stakes mobile phone industry. June 19, 9:48 a.m. PDT Nokia becomes latest Kyte.tv investor Nokia Corp. is the latest investor to inject capital in a new venture for sharing pictures and videos on the Web. June 12, 11:29 a.m. PDT Ex-Alcatel exec pleads guilty to bribery A former Alcatel executive has pleaded guilty to paying more than $2.5 million in bribes to secure a telephone contract with Costa Rica's state telecommunications agency, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday. June 8, 5:05 a.m. PDT EU gives final OK on law to cut roaming costs The European Union's 27 governments gave the final OK Thursday to a law that will slash the cost of using a mobile phone abroad by around 70 percent, the German government said. June 7, 6:33 a.m. PDT IBM borrows Power6 design for telephony chips IBM is pulling out the heavy artillery in its quest to build custom chips for both telephony backbone and handheld wireless devices, announcing a processor family built with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology that is usually reserved for server processors. June 5, 8:01 a.m. PDT Users may have to take Nortel-Avaya call An acquisition of Avaya by Nortel might help the buyer expand its enterprise telephony business and pare down a crowded industry, but the deal could be tough for customers. May 30, 2:24 p.m. PDT Will enterprises hang up on desk phones? Enterprise desktop phones face growing competition from wireless handsets, but they aren't going the way of the typewriter just yet. May 25, 5:07 p.m. PDT Microsoft says licensing protects customers A top Microsoft executive promoted the company's licensing of network security protocols at the Interop trade show on Wednesday, but not before taking time out during a keynote address to defend the company's patent licensing program for open-source software. May 23, 2:15 p.m. PDT Telephony vendors line up behind Microsoft If Microsoft is muscling in on enterprise telephony vendors' turf, most of those companies right now are just trying to get along. May 22, 4:53 a.m. PDT Supreme Court ends Baby Bell antitrust suit The U.S. Supreme Court Monday said that similar business practices by local telephone companies did not constitute monopolistic activity, ending an antitrust lawsuit. May 22, 4:27 a.m. PDT Alcatel-Lucent reports employee data lost or stolen A CD containing personal information about thousands of Alcatel-Lucent employees and their dependants has been lost or stolen, the company said on Thursday. May 18, 4:17 a.m. PDT NTT DoCoMo to invest $10M in China venture fund NTT DoCoMo plans to increase its investment in Chinese venture companies, the company said Tuesday. May 15, 5:45 a.m. PDT Vonage appeal cites Supreme Court patent ruling In its appeal of a jury verdict in the patent infringement case brought against it by Verizon, Vonage has turned to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that some analysts see as making it easier to invalidate patent claims. May 10, 9:00 a.m. PDT Europe warns Germany over telecom law The European Commission Wednesday sent the German government a final warning over the telecom law it passed last year in breach of European rules. May 2, 9:59 a.m. PDT Update: Vonage files to vacate patent ruling Internet based phone company Vonage says a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court this week has given it new life in a crippling lawsuit with telecommunications giant Verizon. May 1, 3:06 p.m. PDT Mobile roaming a thorny issue for EU lawmakers Lawmakers gathered in Brussels Tuesday failed to hammer out an agreement on a law that would slash the cost of mobile-phone roaming in Europe, and planned to take up the issue again next week. April 24, 8:30 a.m. PDT Do-not-call registry proposed for India Indian telephone subscribers may soon get some relief from telemarketing calls -- the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed a National Do Not Call (NDNC) registry. April 23, 10:03 a.m. PDT India tops 200 million telephone subscribers India had 206.8 million telephone subscribers as of March 31, up by 47 percent from a year ago. Mobile telephone connections took the dominant share, as fixed line subscribers dropped in number. April 23, 5:59 a.m. PDT AT&T wants Telecom Italia stake AT&T Inc. announced Sunday its intention to take an indirect stake in Telecom Italia S.p.A. April 1, 9:02 p.m. PDT IPv6 to power the 'city of the future' The city of Harrisonburg, Virginia, will experience a wide variety of new Internet-based services, such as mobile-phone commerce and clear Internet video, with the rollout of citywide IPv6, people working with the city said Wednesday. March 28, 12:44 p.m. PST Microsoft gets into VoIP ... and confuses us Impenetrable questions I've been pondering: The difference between acute dyslexia and the way Linux programmers name their software. How Apple Store sales personnel differ from those at the Clearasil human testing lab. Whether the proliferation of Law & Order: X and Ebola virus outbreaks are somehow connected. The difference between Office Communications Server and Microsoft Response Point. March 28, 3:00 a.m. PST Dell division will design Web 2.0 datacenters Dell on Tuesday announced it has launched a division to design customized datacenters for companies that rely on servers to run their businesses, such as Web 2.0 firms or Internet search engines. March 27, 1:01 p.m. PST Broadcom says Qualcomm violated duty to standards group A U.S. jury ruled that a failure by Qualcomm Inc. to disclose two patents to a video standards group means the company waived its rights to enforce the patents, which are now part of the H.264 video compression standard, Broadcom Corp. said Thursday. March 23, 4:09 a.m. PST Microsoft to release VOIP server beta on Monday Microsoft will open up beta versions of its unified communications server and client software to the public for download on Monday, a senior company executive said Wednesday. March 21, 12:45 p.m. PST Another Microsoft-Alcatel patent flap to be probed The U.S. International Trade Commission is going to investigate allegations by Microsoft of patent infringement by the French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent. March 21, 4:16 a.m. PST Open source VoIP makes the business connection Nearly three years since Jon “maddog” Hall predicted that “VoIP using an open source solution, such as Asterisk, will generate more business than the entire Linux marketplace today,” open source VoIP for the enterprise remains a wild frontier. SMB uptake has been considerable, as open source VoIP’s promise of control and cost savings make it a natural fit. But when it comes to large-scale implementations, open source voice has yet to get most enterprises to listen. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Case study: Asterisk proves its worth Despite Digium’s current positioning of Asterisk for the midmarket, plenty of large-scale implementations speak to the scalability and versatility of the open source IP PBX. One such rollout — that of Summer Bay Resorts, a time-share vacation property company — provides ample evidence that if the phone is the lifeblood of your business, Asterisk is more than up to the task. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Your Web site’s secret weapon Kenexa, a global provider of talent-hiring and-retention services and software, had a serious customer-satisfaction problem. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST VoIP’s mad scientist Some stories are a labor of love. “Open Source VoIP Makes the Business Connection” is one of them. The love, in this case, originates with Senior Contributing Editor Paul Venezia. March 19, 3:00 a.m. PST Skype gains business reviews, expertise marketplace Skype has released a new version of its Internet telephony and instant messaging software that adds a feature to let users create business reviews and another one to sell expertise as the eBay subsidiary promotes interaction among its users. March 15, 2:38 p.m. PST Verizon rolls out nationwide WAN service Verizon Business on Monday rolled out a nationwide WAN service, allowing large organizations to use Ethernet to connect offices spread across the U.S. March 12, 2:00 p.m. PST Avaya adds IP phones, gateways, SIP Aiming to let enterprises do more with their IP (Internet Protocol) telephony systems and keep them available when a network goes down, Avaya introduced new software, phones, and a gateway at this week's VoiceCon Spring conference. March 8, 6:04 a.m. PST More IT war stories Off the Record, the real-world slice of life that graces the last page of InfoWorld, is one of our most popular columns. I know this from reader surveys and from all the e-mail I receive about it. As reader Roland Sickenberger put it recently, “It’s my favorite part of the magazine, kind of like a ‘Dilbert come to life’ thing.” March 5, 3:00 a.m. PST Deutsche Telekom to expand mobile phone business The T-Mobile brand could soon be coming to a market near you. As part of a strategy to revive profits, Deutsche Telekom intends to expand its T-Mobile cellular business in markets in which the German telecommunications group is already offering fixed-line services and possibly in entirely new markets, the company said Thursday. March 1, 8:15 a.m. PST India first with phones using a single Qualcomm chip An Indian mobile phone operator is the first to deploy mobile phones based on a single-chip CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) platform from Qualcomm Inc. The operator, Tata Teleservices Ltd., is offering Motorola Inc.'s Motofone F3c for 1,699 Indian rupees (US$38). March 1, 2:29 a.m. PST BT gets phone licenses in India BT Group has been granted licenses to provide national and long-distance services in India as it seeks to carve out a bigger piece of the country's burgeoning telecoms market. February 21, 7:31 a.m. PST Are roaming fee cuts a smokescreen? While mobile operators claim to be cutting the cost of roaming, their efforts are just a smoke screen and have no appreciable effect on charges overall, a European consumer rights group has said. February 21, 5:32 a.m. PST Fring aims to cut cellphone costs with VOIP Avi Shechter, co-founder and CEO of Fringland (Fring), could be on to something big with the launch of a cheap Internet-based phone service that runs over mobile networks. But the Israeli entrepreneur could also be in for the fight of his life with mobile phone network operators determined to protect their cash-cow voice business from virtual service providers. February 16, 7:30 a.m. PST T-Mobile CEO: VOIP will have no major impact Don't expect new mobile phone services based on the Internet Protocol to become nearly as prevalent as those running over PCs. That's the view of Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile International, one of Europe's largest mobile phone operators. February 13, 8:25 a.m. PST Curse of the call center I was working for a small chain of electronics retailers in New Orleans when the head office in Memphis decided that we needed to replace our call center. Business had been expanding rapidly, and our home-grown call system was overwhelmed. We took bids from all the big telephony vendors for turn-key call centers, but in the end the top brass decided that it would be cheaper if we rolled our own. February 13, 3:00 a.m. PST ISP head convicted in E-Rate fraud A U.S. federal jury convicted the former owner and president of ATE Tel Solutions Inc., a telecommunications and Internet service provider, on seven of nine counts of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the E-Rate program, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. February 12, 9:24 a.m. PST LOLing all the way to the bank Maxime Seguineau helped found enterprise messaging firm Antepo in February 2000, just as reality was puncturing the hype-filled bubble of the dot-com craze. Back then, IM was mostly for teens and college students, who used free, online chat networks by AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo to keep in touch. Seguineau saw past the crazy colors of ICQ, the cartoonlike appeal of AIM, and the incomprehensible shorthand of IMers, to IM’s promise for the enterprise, which he dubbed “availability based communications,” now called “presence.” February 12, 3:00 a.m. PST NTT DoCoMo comes close to 5Gbps in 4G trial NTT DoCoMo came close to hitting another data transmission milestone in its research into next-generation cellular telephone systems during an experiment conducted in Japan on Dec. 25 last year. February 9, 5:23 a.m. PST Memo to AT&T: Get with the times I don’t often use this column to share warnings about companies whose business practices leave me (and others, no doubt) feeling used and abused. But one can only take so much. So, here goes. February 8, 3:00 a.m. PST Verizon enters India's long distance market Verizon Business, a unit of U.S. communications service provider Verizon Communications, has applied for a license to provide international long-distance services in India. The move reflects Verizon's recognition of the growth potential of Asian markets, Verizon Business said Wednesday. February 7, 7:32 a.m. PST ITU, GSMA collaborate on developing markets Two global telecommunication organizations have agreed to collaborate in boosting mobile phone access in developing countries. February 6, 6:07 a.m. PST Vodafone's emerging markets drive growth Vodafone Group had almost 200 million customers by Dec. 31, but continues to face challenges in the competitive and saturated European market. January 31, 5:04 a.m. PST TeleFlip delivers e-mail to any mobile phone The team behind TeleFlip not only hopes you'll use their free service, which allows mobile phone users to receive e-mail on any cell phone, but that you'll also change your terminology from "I'll e-mail you that address" to "I'll flip you that address". January 30, 3:00 a.m. PST Women in technology: A call to action A quick scan of almost any IT department -- from the trenches to the corner office -- confirms it: Women who embrace technology as a lifelong career remain a rare breed. To be sure, opportunity for women in technology has advanced in the past few decades, as have education initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field, but for every woman rising to prominence or embarking on a profession in IT, there seems to be another opting out of her career in technology. January 29, 3:03 a.m. PST Back to school: Getting girls into IT Despite the success of various education initiatives in the past several years, there’s little doubt that the shortage of women in technology begins on the playground. As such, many industry leaders and experts believe the long-term solution to the gender imbalance in IT lies in women technologists going back to school -- way back, to high schools and even elementary schools to mentor young girls, who too often give up on math and science at an early age. January 29, 3:02 a.m. PST Activism provides competitive advantage for IT Encountering another woman working in technology was a rare event for me when I started out in IT many years ago. In the years since, women have made significant strides, sometimes against great odds, proving their mettle as both tech execs and engineers. January 29, 3:01 a.m. PST Gender crisis in IT You don’t need a degree in statistics to recognize that IT is a men’s club. Just walk the floor of any tech conference or, in all likelihood, your own office — XY chromosomes everywhere you look. January 29, 3:00 a.m. PST Update: Wireless boosts AT&T's quarterly earnings AT&T reported a 17 percent increase in profits for its latest quarter, citing a substantial increase in new wireless subscribers and wireless service revenues. January 25, 9:32 a.m. PST African telecom gateway costs to come down The cost of acquiring international gateway licenses by private mobile service providers in Africa is likely to come down following the intervention by the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), according to senior government officials. January 23, 12:31 p.m. PST > Telecom |
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