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French telecoms technology provider Alcatel and US equipment firm Lucent Technologies on Sunday announced a merger agreement, creating a US$33 billion dollar giant in global telecommunications.
Telco iiNet is investigating problems with its popular Internet telephony service which have seen some customers lose signal in mid-call.
Frustrated by expensive delays in receiving market prices, Australia's largest futures broker has dumped an existing Internet link to its partners in Chicago and opted for a new data link from ATT.
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Yahoo continues to struggle behind Google in the US but in Australia, it's a slightly different story -- NineMSN, the partnership between Kerry Packer's PBL and Microsoft, remains a major stumbling block for the online giant.
CTO Charles Giancarlo wants to prove wrong the critics who say Cisco has lost the drive that turned it into a 1990s superstar.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
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