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Netgear this week announced a new “smart” switch aimed at small and medium businesses that features Quality of Service (QoS) and port trunking. The 24-Port Smart Switch with Gigabit Ports (model FS526T) is a layer 2 switch with 24 10/100 Mbps ports and two 10/100/1000 Mbps copper Gigabit Ethernet ports. Netgear said the switch is […]

SRA International will design, develop and implement a new information system to allow the U.S. Copyright Office to improve its public services and deliver more services electronically. The contract has an estimated $8.9 million over 52 months if all options are exercised. The Copyright Office is re-engineering all major business processes to replace paper-based systems […]

T-Mobile Hotspot continues to rollout Wi-Fi service to Borders Books & Music Stores, saying this week it added locations in Hawaii, Rhode Island, Utah, New Hampshire, Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, Kansas, Iowa, and Maine. The service is now in 330 Borders Cafe locations. They expect to be in all 420 Borders in time for holiday […]

exMailit.com of Vancouver, British Columbia, is announcing today that it will be acquiring all the issued and outstanding shares of Cirond Netwoks, Inc. to acquire the company. In addition, exMailit.com will provide 250,000 restricted treasury shares to the company’s controlling share holder, the parent company Cirond Technologies, Inc. exMailit.com provides an e-mail-to-mail service that allows […]

Sharp Systems of America on Thursday gave a wireless facelift to its Actius AV18 notebook computer. The Actius AV18P replaces the original AV18, which was announced in June. The new model adds integrated 802.11b wireless networking support and lowers the price to $1,449. The 4.3-pound (with optical drive) notebook is identical in form to the […]

Corporate Expense Management solutions provider Concur Technologies Inc. on Wednesday announced a strategic alliance with ACL Services Ltd., a global provider of audit and data analysis technology, to launch a new fraud detection module that aims to reduce the incidence of travel and entertainment (T&E) expense fraud for Concur Expense customers. “The focus on corporate […]

Telecom equipment maker Ciena has landed network services provider Infonet as a customer for its core switch and delivery platform. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the order is significant. Infonet’s plan call for 30 CoreDirector systems across the network and MetroDirector K2 switches in 40 cities in the United States and Europe. Installation is […]

Fairfax, Va.-based government contractor Anteon International Corp. has landed two federal contracts worth $45 million. The largest of the deals is with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, where Anteon will provide a range of information technology and engineering services, development, and software support. Specific services will include network customer […]

Motorola this morning said its telecom equipment arm has won a $50 million network expansion for Nigeria’s state telephone operator. Under terms of the deal, Motorola will provide a 2G circuit core, packet core and base stations to expand M-Tel’s coverage. When work is completed later this year, the carrier will be able to offer […]

Enterprise ASP USi on Wednesday announced that it has appointed Stephen A. Mucchetti to the newly-created position of Chief Operating Officer. “With our continuing growth and success, as well as the increasing adoption of the ASP model, now is the right time to bring on someone of Steve’s stature who will provide us with the […]

SpectraLink of Boulder, Colo., has teamed up with Englewood, Colo.-based Expanets to sell its wireless phone systems to medium-sized businesses across the country. The company said Wednesday that Expanets would offer its NetLink Wireless Telephones and Link Wireless Telephone System (WTS) to its customers in vertical markets such as health care, retail and education. SpectraLink […]

Under a contract extension, Qwest will continue to run the backbone network connecting Montana’s 530 government and university facilities. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal to power the statewide network, called SummitNet II, was originally signed in 2000. The system supports integrated voice, data and video communications and has enough bandwidth to handle e-government […]