China Telecom has selected Alcatel to upgrade its existing broadband DSL network to prepare for triple play service delivery.

The agreement was signed through Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel's flagship Chinese company. China Telecom is already the largest fixed telecommunication service provider in China, and will continue to expand with this recent partnership.

Microsoft plans to deliver Office 2007 later this year in a lineup of seven suites meant to deliver its most sophisticated business customers new features at higher prices, while still keeping users of its core word processing and spreadsheet apps in the fold.

Officially called 2007 Microsoft Office, the new productivity suite

Microsoft plans to include technology in both Windows Vista and XP to allow users to manage their passwords and identities across multiple websites, according to the company's chairman and chief software architect, Bill Gates.

Gates discussed Microsoft's plans for the technology, codenamed InfoCard, during a keynote at the RSA Conference 2006 in

An online message board dedicated to Indian and Pakistani cricket fans on the BBC Web site has been shut down after some users began posting racist and religious abuse, the broadcaster said on Wednesday.
 
Some contributors on BBC's Test Match Special South Asian board had written messages supporting the September

America Online Inc. in January had the best rate for shoppers becoming buyers out of the four top search engines, a Web analytics firm said Wednesday.

AOL Search's conversion rate at business-to-consumer e-commerce sites was 6.17 percent, followed by Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, 6.03 percent; Yahoo Inc., 4.07 percent; and Google Inc., 3.83

It turns out the McData-Cisco faceoff for Wal-Mart business in mid-2004 was just round one in an ongoing brawl that may not be over yet.
 
Each vendor so far has won a bid to place its director switches in the retail giant’s data center. McData won the first tussle despite

Advanced Thermal Chip Technologies said it has developed a thermal IC that overcomes reliability and performance problems along with cost and safety issues associated with conventional filament technology.

The chip consists of one or more third-party PTC (positive temperate coefficient) thermistors coated with a conductive metal and an adhesive that is thermally

A U.S.-based start-up firm unveiled a gateway Wednesday that links Cingular Wireless users to the Skype VoIP network, enabling cell phone callers to place and receive Internet calls.

"You don't need a PC anymore to use Skype," said Jacob Guedalia, CEO of iSkoot, in an interview from the GSM World Congress in

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Liquid crystal display supplier LG.Philips LCD has signed an agreement with Eastman Kodak Co. to jointly evaluate and develop active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) technology.

According to iSuppli Corp., LG.Philips (Seoul, South Korea) recently overtook Samsung as the leading LCD panel supplier. But other than demonstrating a 20.1-inch OLED

Microsoft has acquired MotionBridge for an undisclosed sum.

MotionBridge specializes in mobile search, a feature that Microsoft plans to incorporate as part of its Windows Live service. The space is "at least four or five years away from figuring out the right technology and business model," says Ovum analyst X.J. Wang, but "has