The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should avoid adopting strict net neutrality rules that would limit broadband providers' flexibly to "address" illegal online file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America said in comments filed with the FCC on Thursday.
Microsoft kicked off its first quarter of fiscal 2012 with solid growth, reporting a 7 percent increase in revenue compared to a year ago, and a 6 percent increase in net income.
Groupon's China venture posted a net loss of US$46.4 million for the past nine months, generating only $2.1 million in revenue as it fights to gain dominance in the country's highly competitive group buying market.
As they imagine the Internet of 2020, computer scientists across the U.S. are starting from scratch and re-thinking everything: from IP addresses to DNS to routing tables to Internet security in general. They're envisioning how the Internet might work without some of the most fundamental features of today's ISP and enterprise networks.
China's largest search engine Baidu reported that net profit in the third quarter was up 80 percent year-on-year, as the company saw strong growth in website traffic, and benefited from improvements made to its online ad services.
In a move to broaden its offerings for the growing network intelligence and diagnostics market, telecom equipment manufacturer Net Optics recently announced the acquisition of network analytics software provider nMetric.
Despite the name change and hype around its dramatic release candidate and RTM version, the net significance of Microsoft's Lync 2010 release is that it brings the company's unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) platform up to par in some areas with competitors – though it doesn't slingshot past them, experts say.
Microsoft's efforts to improve healthcare IT networks haven't been limited to recent activities in the U.S. The company this week extended a comprehensive e-services framework it is developing for governments around the world, with new modules for helping them build better IT networks for social services.
AT&T Inc. Wednesday said that it activated more than 1.6 million iPhones in the first quarter, one reason the company's net income didn't fall even more than the 9% it reported.
The cash portion of Intel's legal settlement with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) could shave as much as US$800 million off Intel's net profit in the fourth quarter, according to investment banking firm Credit Suisse.
State Street Corp. began its green initiatives in earnest in 2003 and has been rolling them out systematically ever since. The process began by benchmarking energy and water use, emissions of greenhouse gases and recycling. Those became baselines for goals going out several years, beginning with the Boston-based financial services firm's Massachusetts operations and expanding throughout North America and Europe. This year, its Environmental Management System (EMS), the framework for its green program, will
United Microelectronics (UMC), the world's second-largest contract chip maker, reported its best quarterly net profit in two years on Wednesday due to strong chip sales.
T-Mobile USA suffered a net loss of 23,000 customers in the fourth quarter but gained 1 million smartphone users, which helped to increase the data revenue that the carrier pulled in from an average subscriber.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to approve a notice of proposed rulemaking on new net neutrality regulations. But what does that mean, exactly?
The U.S. government should advance an "ambitious" plan for universal broadband availability and should ensure that broadband networks are open to all content and applications, according to a new study on public information needs in the digital age.
job description: Enterprise-focused .Net developers write and maintain desktop and Web-based business applications, as well as extend and customize Microsoft platforms for customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and other areas. A well-rounded developer is also versed in testing and quality control. "When I hear '.Net developer,' I hear more than, 'They just write code,'" says Julie Yack, cofounder of Colorado Technology Consultants, a .Net custom development company.
Network World interviews Wim Sweldens, VP of Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, about finding common ground between carriers and the newfangled application and content providers who are bringing P2P and other services onto the market.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will move to create formal net neutrality rules prohibiting Internet providers from selectively blocking or slowing Web content and applications, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Monday.