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Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. on Thursday stressed there were no problems with its network during the elections earlier this week, allowing a smooth transmission of data from regional offices to main servers in Manila.

A new group of New South Wales police officers graduated on May 3 from the Police Force Academy at Goulburn.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 is the 58th annual Eurovision Song Contest and takes place in Malmo, Sweden.

Tom Wheeler, nominated to become the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pledged to divest stakes in AT&T Inc, Dish Network Corp, Google Inc and dozens of other tech and telecoms companies if he is confirmed.

A plan by Internet retailing giant Amazon.com to build at least one warehouse in Florida has been scrapped, with the company unable to reach an agreement on when it would have to start collecting state sales taxes, an official in Gov.

A number of Wall Street firms are hoping to cut back on at least some of the popular features offered by Bloomberg LP - moves that could crimp the data distributor's bottom line.

Sprint Nextel Corp. completed a $480 million deal with U.S. Cellular Corp. on Friday that brings Sprint as many as 420,000 new Midwestern customers and a stronger wireless network.

Chief executive for five years, Colao has said only that he has an "open mind" on Vodafone's 45-percent stake in the U.S. operator, whose majority owner, Verizon Communications according to the consensus.

Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, on Friday said it has appointed Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent adviser on its privacy and data standards.

Bloomberg LP, the financial news and information service, says it's appointing Samuel Palmisano, the former CEO of IBM, as an independent advisor on its privacy and data standards.

With Clearwire Corp. shareholders voting on whether to accept the $2.2 billion offer from Sprint Nextel Corp.

SAP chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner takes the stage to bust myths about HANA, its in-memory database technology.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has made job creation his top priority since coming into office, has rejected a proposed deal to bring major Internet retailer Amazon to the state.

Lawyers for JPMorgan Chase & Co. are asking financial news and data company Bloomberg LP to turn over any records it has of reporters looking up the log-in and usage data of JPMorgan employees.

Roona Begum, the 18-month-old girl from Tripura whose head had swollen to the size of a huge balloon, underwent a life-saving surgery on Wednesday The toddler, who suffered from a rare medical condition - Hydrocephalus, was admitted to Fortis Memorial Research Institute in Delhi last month for surgery.

Australia is working on a legally binding ban on the controversial geoengineering technique known as ocean fertilization, Agence France-Presse reports Wednesday.

Daniel Luke Zwerus, 31, from Halls Head was today remanded in custody until his next court appearance later this month.

A plan to eliminate landline phone service in western Fire Island is scheduled to be voted on by the state Public Service Commission Thursday amid concern it could leave people on the barrier island unable to make calls if a storm knocks out electrical power.

Once again, the Police & Fire Pension Fund has done its work in secrecy. This time, it teamed up with the mayor's administration behind closed doors to hammer out pension reform - or "retirement reform," as the city is strangely calling it.

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, South-east Asia's largest telecommunications operator, posted on Wednesday a 33 per cent fall in fourth quarter net profit, hurt by a one-time loss arising from the sale of its stake in Pakistan's Warid.