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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