PR Inside - ROME (AP) - Egyptian telecommunications mogul Naguib Sawiris is under investigation for alleged corruption in a probe over the 2005 acquisition of Italian mobile phone operator Wind SpA, Italy’s financial police said Thursday. The probe concerns
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Bush calls surveillance bill an ‘urgent priority’
International Herald Tribune - said again that renewing the surveillance legislation is “a very urgent priority,” and that it must include controversial provisions that would shield telecommunications companies from wholesale lawsuits over their assistance in monitoring the phone
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Students Slow To Embrace Text Alerts
CBS News - Just 15 percent of the roughly 28,000 students have requested text message alerts or cell-phone calls during emergencies. “I found out about it a long time ago and never signed up,” said Kaitlin Foley, a first-year student at Missouri from Omaha, Neb.
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dBusinessNews.com - DSL line drivers; video and high-performance operational amplifiers; data converters; interface ICs; analog switches and multiplexers; cross-point switches; voice-over-IP devices; and ICs for military, space and radiation-hardened applications. For

Q&A: Mio.TV’s Jenny Alonzo
Consumer Electronics Net - It features a whole line of channels with Hispanic interest that are integrated with desktop applications, social networking user-generated content, voice over IP and much more.

Transition Networks Expands Ethernet Switch Portfolio
dBusinessNews.com - Four priority queues ensure minimum delay for voice over IP or multimedia networks. Non-blocking 16Gbps architecture assures rapid packet delivery while the 8,000 MAC address table provides swift lookup and packet forwarding. The MIL-SM4004TG can be

CNN Money - Mibtel index was up 0.11 pct to 26,359 points and the S&P/Mib up 0.29 pct to 34,532. Volume traded was an estimated 4.348 bln eur. FORTHCOMING EVENTS Today -Italy Dec big company employment (10.00 am) -Fastweb FY, forecast net loss 9-145 mln eur -Telecom
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Siemens announces job cuts of 3,800 at its corporate telecom unit
CNBC - MUNICH, Germany - The industrial conglomerate Siemens says it is cutting 3,800 jobs worldwide as it streamlines its operations. The company’s chief financial officer, Joe Kaeser, said Tuesday that the cuts are designed to speed up the Munich-based
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Eco Survey Predicts India’s FY08 GDP To Slow Down To 8.7% In FY08
RTT News - The contribution of the construction sector increased to 10.8%, while that of telecom to 11.4%. There was 13.9% growth in the financial services comprising banking, insurance and business services in 2006-07.
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