Networking

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa will be remembered for the droning soundtrack provided by the vuvuzela, a long plastic horn that has divided opinion among spectators. Now you can get it on your iPhone.  read more »

Twitter's persistent and disruptive service outages entered a second week, as the company scrambles to bring its site availability back to acceptable levels.  read more »

More mobile users are selecting mobile VoIP services  read more »

So is Federal Communications Commission really going to place common carrier restrictions on Internet service providers? Well, yes, but not too many of them.  read more »

Executives from Verizon and AT&T explained the LTE plans of their companies during a Web conference sponsored by the GSM Alliance.  read more »

We've heard a lot about how the Federal Communications Commission's national broadband plan aims to provide 100 million U.S. households with 100Mbps broadband connections so far, but precious little on how it will affect enterprise users.  read more »

Google, which rose to prominence on the basis of its highly popular search service, has been moving away from its core business at an increasingly swift rate.  read more »

Motorola will be split into two publicly traded companies in the first quarter of next year, with one focusing on handsets and home entertainment devices and the other on making enterprise communications gear, the company said Thursday.  read more »

For wireless customer care, Verizon Wireless came out on top for the second consecutive time in a J.D. Power and Associates semi-annual survey of 9,500 customers who contacted their carrier in the last six months of 2009.  read more »

An audit of Uganda's US$106 million national fiber backbone and e-government infrastructure project, which was contracted to Huawei Technologies of China, has brought to the fore inadequate supervision by the relevant government ministry and pricing anomalies on the part of the contractor.  read more »