IoT

Mark Bonner can access a wireless LAN at his workplace. The only problem is, it

Toronto-based Falconbridge Ltd. prides itself on finding long-life ore bodies, but these days the mining company is also turning its attention to get as long a life as possible out of its communication equipment.

Nine Chinese operators and telecommunication equipment makers have formed an alliance to jointly develop mobile multimedia applications and standards, according to the official China Daily newspaper.

Intel Corp.'s South Africa unit Friday launched its Wi-Fi safari, which will see a nine-person team spend 12 days on safari in Botswana, Zambia and Namibia, while maintaining wireless communications with their respective offices back home.

The implications of the South African government's regulations on the telecommunications industry were under discussion last week at a two-day colloquium organized by the Independent Communications Authority (Icasa) and held at The Campus, Bryanston.

Enterprise IT executives attending this week's Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., got a peek at several forthcoming products for security, CM (content management), wireless, and SOAs (service-oriented architectures).

Tools designed to help companies converge voice and data networks onto the Internet Protocol, including a new version of an enterprise-class IP voice module that runs on Linux-based servers.

Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday signaled its commitment to the Intel Corp. processor architecture and carrier-grade Linux for telecommunications infrastructure.