OK, I apologise for the head-line, but it was just there to be typed. You know you industry is in a mess when it is permanently in the WSJ. Yesterday is was Sun and IBM, today it’s Nortel and Nokia Siemens Networks.
Nokia Siemens Networks, seeking a bigger foothold in the U.S. market, has offered to buy large pieces of Nortel [...]

I’ll admit that this is on the edge of the network topic, quite literally, but it has been such a long time coming that I have to post on its arrival. Much of the mobile world is out in Barcelona this week at Mobile World Congress. There will be a sea of announcements, but this is [...]

While some may have concerns about surveillance in the UK - The Internet, Surveillance Society, Databases and The Cloud - things are in a much worse state elsewhere. ZDNet has a story about Vodafone’s battle with the Egyptian authorities.
 
Vodafone’s global head of content standards, Annie Mullins, told a Westminster eForum event on Wednesday that following food riots at Egyptian [...]

I have to confess to being a little irked at the fact I can’t contact anyone in hospital - the no mobiles rule and premium rate phone lines made for NHS bashing headlines in their time. However, it would be wrong to think that wireless and hospitals don’t mix. Last week I spent some time with the [...]

Wireless vendor Aruba Networks has put out three reference guides. They are aimed at network integrators, but would be interesting reading for people focussed on large wireless LAN deployments. The three guides are:

Campus Wireless Networks Validated Reference Design v3.3: addresses enterprise, higher education, healthcare and other typical campus deployments involving thousands of users spread across [...]