Pointed post on TeleGeography, looking at capacity on the transatlantic run - the route that keeps the Internet alive for the UK.
According to new projections from TeleGeography’s Global Bandwidth Forecast Service, bandwidth requirements will grow 33 percent (CAGR) between 2008 and 2015. At this rate, trans-Atlantic capacity will be exhausted by 2014, and cables providing diversity [...]

No, not strangling them, just reducing their download speeds. Today’s article on the BBC site:
BT Broadband cuts the speed users can watch video services like the BBC iPlayer and YouTube at peak times.  A customer who has signed on to an up to 8 megabit per second (MBPS) package can have speed cut to below 1Mbps. A [...]

As more businesses make use of “free” / open source software to build commercial products, friction between the communities is inevitable. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software, particularly the GNU operating system and variants (including Linux).
Last year the FSF filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco, specifically around [...]

Mitel has announced the  Mitel Series X, building on the Mitel Communications Director software. This new fixed-mobile convergence capability in their IP Communications Platform allows users to set up simultaneous ringing to multiple phone lines and enables PBX functionality from remote phones.
“Mitel’s Series X software provides location independence for employees, enabling a true ability to ‘work where you are.’ This allows [...]

So, after IBM Declines to buy Sun, Oracle has stepped in to the fray (via CNet News). Oracle President Safra Catz said in a statement:
 
 We expect this acquisition to be accretive to Oracle’s earnings by at least 15 cents on a non-GAAP basis in the first full year after closing. We estimate that the acquired business will [...]