Peter Sayer

Cisco Systems Inc. wants businesses to aggregate storage network traffic and other services over the same wide-area fiber connections, and sees itself moving increasingly into the video post-processing market, a vast consumer of bandwidth.

Visitors to the 3GSM World Congress here in France this week are being given a taste of future Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) Blackberry devices.

Two French mobile phone operators are offering public WLAN (wireless LAN) access around the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes this week, as a prelude to rollout of broader services later this year.

Intel Corp. has chosen Centrino, the Italian word for a lace table centrepiece or doily, as the brand name for its forthcoming wireless computing technology, it announced Wednesday.

British mobile phone manufacturer Sendo Holdings PLC has filed suit against Microsoft Corp. in a U.S. federal court.

In closing arguments Monday, prosecutors called for a suspended sentence and payment of police costs for Jon Lech Johansen, the 19-year-old Norwegian charged with using and distributing DeCSS, a program that can be used to break the digital copy-protection mechanism of DVDs.

Search engine company Google Inc. is testing an online shopping price comparison service, Froogle, and has introduced beta versions of two other search tools, Google Webquotes and Google Viewer.

Heads of state in Europe, North America and Japan will be invited to sign an international treaty banning hate speech online at a meeting of the Council of Europe next January.