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IPV4 hoarders can strike it lucky
Psst, guv', want to buy an IPV4 address? Nah, fell off the back of a lorry, didn't it... If you've been sitting on a little nest egg of IPV4 addresses it could be time to cash in. Late last week Nortel offloaded 666,624 precious addresses to Microsof... Opinion
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Resellers! Upsell Royal Wedding tat and keep your margins up
Network Noisewonders why it isonly mobile phone companies that are rushing out ill-advised Royal Wedding paraphernalia? The picture shows anAvaya Flare desktop video device, tragically unadorned with a bad watercolour of Prince William. Get onto it, ... Opinion
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Alcatel hops on Royal Wedding tat bandwagon
Last month we brought you news that mobile phone accessory outfit Proporta was launching a lovely Royal Wedding themed iPhone case... Well, now low-end mobile phone outfit Alcatel - a JV between Alcatel-Lucent and China's TCL - has gone one better an... Opinion
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Comic Relief for networking channel
It's good to see that the channel was out in force last Friday, raising money for Comic Relief. Staff at business comms provider Daisy threw themselves into the spirit of things, with staff at its Essex-basedServassure division (pictured) coming to w... Opinion
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Cisco should buy EMC if only to save it from Oracle
As vendors such as Cisco, Dell, HP and IBMplough headlong into the data centre like runaway trains, the industry is seeing a growingnumber of bidding wars for storage networking companies. And naturally this dynamic market attracts plenty of speculat... Opinion
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ScanSource is on the road to Hull
Avaya, Panasonic and ShoreTel distie ScanSource is expanding its UK footprint into the north of England with the addition of a demo and training centre at its branch office in Hull, which 'til now had dealt with the firm's barcode contracts. ScanSour... Opinion
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Wi-Fi security luddite? The ICO is coming for you!
The Information Commissioner's Office today published new guidance for home Wi-Fi security after a YouGov report found that 40% of home users did not understand how to manage the security settings on their networks. The survey alsofound that in spite... Opinion
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Avaya, Cisco, Juniper named to ethical companies list
Ethisphere, a think-tank specialising in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability, has named Avaya, Cisco and Juniper Networks to its 2011 rundown of the world's most ethical firms. This is the fifth year t... Opinion
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Time to rally behind core Cisco business, says Comstor
Cisco distie Comstoris speaking up forits vendor partnerafter John Chambers used his keynote at the recent New Orleans partner summit to reaffirm the vendor's commitment to its core switching and routing business. Talk in the industry was beginning t... Opinion
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Networkers count cost of Japanese earthquake
Millions of people across Japan are this evening counting the cost of a major earthquake and tsunami, which struck the northern part of the country just before 6am GMT on Friday. As is usual these days, thanks to the ubiquity of the social network, t... Opinion