DSL vendors are using a variety of methods such as bonding several copper lines, creating virtual ones and using advanced noise cancellation to increase broadband over copper to several hundred megabits per second.At the Broadband World Forum in Paris, Nokia Siemens Networks became the latest vendor to brag about its copper prowess. It can now transmit speeds of up to 825Mbps over a distance of 400 meters, it said on Monday.
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Ozzie's 'doomsday' memo warns Microsoft of post-PC days
Departing Microsoft executive Ray Ozzie's just-published memo is a "doomsday-ish" missive that calls on the company to push further into the cloud or perish, an industry analyst said today.Ozzie, who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft's chief software architect in 2006, is leaving the company , although Microsoft has not disclosed the date of his departure.
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Java conflicts brew between Oracle and JCP insiders
Oracle's handling of the JCP (Java Community Process) is under fire from some insiders, who do not see a level playing field in Java technology standardization.
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IBM boosts BI offering with Cognos 10
IBM is rolling out a major new update to its Cognos BI (business intelligence) platform that includes new features for collaboration, statistical analysis, and mobile devices like the Apple iPad.
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Canonical Ubuntu splits from Gnome over design issues
Canonical is changing the default interface on the next release of Ubuntu from Gnome to Unity, a new open source project that focuses on simplified interface and three dimensional displays. Canonical made the switch for the next release of its Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, because of increasingly divergent views of how a desktop interface should look and operate, according to Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth.
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Rapleaf says it has fixed privacy issue with Facebook
A company that compiles profiles of Internet users for targeted advertising said it is no longer passing user identifiers used by Facebook and MySpace to advertising networks due to privacy concerns. Rapleaf, a company based in San Francisco, acknowledged the issue, which was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal series of stories concerning data collection and online privacy.
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25 new IT companies to watch
The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market.
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Adobe launches aggregation service
With the introduction of InMarket, which will allow developers to upload their applications once and sell them across many online stores, Adobe Systems hopes to grab a share of revenue for applications downloaded to smartphones and tablets, the company said on Monday.
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