Even without factoring in productivity increases, Cisco found companies were still coming out ahead when researchers compared the savings from hardware, telecommunications and support with the additional costs of BYOD.

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North American sales were impacted by certain project delays and a winding down of U.S. stimulus spending on optical cable in support of telecommunications infrastructure projects.

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The blogs had a field day on Monday with the question of whether Google's plan to stash its content close to the telecommunications networks violates its support for one of theological underpinnings of the Internet age, namely net neutrality.

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The Broadband Commission for Digital Development was established in 2010 by UNESCO and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), with the support of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to promote the adoption of broadband-friendly practice and policies.

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Based on Golden-i, Motorola Solutions (MSI) is producing its HC1 modular head mounted computer that offers connectivity and support to industries like defense, utilities, telecommunications, aerospace, and aviation industries that are fieldwork heavy.

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Scheduled to be released in the second half of 2013, the new HP ProLiant Moonshot servers will support emerging web, cloud and massive scale environments, as well as analytics and telecommunications.

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All told, the response matches that of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which wrote a letter to the Librarian of Congress in support of extending the exemption last year.

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The Obama Administration would support a range of approaches to addressing this issue, including narrow legislative fixes in the telecommunications space that make it clear: neither criminal law nor technological locks should prevent consumers from switching carriers when they are no longer bound by a service agreement or other obligation.

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