Network World Canada Staff

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Lost Packets: Networking news and trivia

As more and more multi-media content makes its way onto mobile devices, so does the call for a ratings system to control the type of content that goes on them. The cell phone industry group, CTIA, has developed a two-tiered rating system that categorizes content offered by cellphone providers as either

Lost Packets: Networking news and trivia

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the organization responsible for handing out the Daytime Emmy Awards, has announced it will create an award category honouring original content produced for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices.

Lost Packets: Networking News and Trivia

To help visitors overcome the language barrier during the 2008 Olympics, Chinese services company CapInfo has made a Motorola flip-phone speak Chinese. Using GPRS technology, the handset will be a guidebook containing text, images and videos about historic sites and directions to those sites as well as other places like hotels and restaurants.

Lost packets: Networking news and trivia

The next generation of cell phones won

Lost Packets: Networking news and trivia

The running of the iBooksWhen the Henrico County school system in Virginia decided to sell 1,000 iBook laptops for US$50, it turned into a...

Lost Packets: Networking news and trivia

Shi Tao, a 37-year-old journalist with Contemporary Business News in China

Lost Packets: Networking news and trivia

When we pull into a parking spot, we

Cisco separates switching processes

Cisco Systems, Inc. is upgrading software on its Catalyst 6500 switches to enable individual processes on the devices to run separately, allowing customers to reboot processes without taking the entire switch offline.

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