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JDS Uniphase Corp. is adding to its growing list of test technology acquisitions with the $40.6 million cash purchase of the Network Tools Division of Finisar Corp.

Bell Canada wants to reach more young people and tech-savvy consumers with its newly acquired The Source electronics stores that will sell Virgin Mobile phones and offer services like the Internet.

BlackBerry Onyx to come with a trackpad - new... Bell has officially announced the BlackBerry Tour 9630! The Tour is the latest BlackBerry device and it operates on both EVDO and HSPA high speed networks globally.

Communications company Cogeco Inc. announced a 10% increase in third-quarter profit Friday, driven by Canadian cable and radio growth.

Share + Jul 10, 2009 2:51 pm US/Eastern PORTLAND, Maine Troubled phone company FairPoint Communications says it has fixed some billing and customer service problems in northern New England in recent months but has more to do in some other areas.

A common complaint about the BB Tour is that it doesn't have Wi-Fi. Well, Sprint Nextel has revealed that it plans to add Wi-Fi to the BlackBerry Tour starting in 2010, and will begin to require that all its future smartphones come with Wi-Fi. Sprint didn't say exactly when this requirement will be reflected across its entire line-up of devices, ...

London Olympic officials on Friday replaced bankrupt Canadian technology sponsor Nortel Networks with Cisco for the 2012 Games, a move that will cost organizers $19.4 million in revenue.

A spokeswoman for Cisco Systems said this afternoon that a stock analyst's report wrongly implied that the company had started a new wave of layoffs.

Growing competition from new smartphones carved into Research in Motion's June sales, according to a report to clients issued Wednesday by Piper Jaffray's T. Michael Walkley.

There is no doubt about the fact that Apple are doing well with their online application store, over a billion downloads in under a year is a pretty impressive figure.

It's report card season on Wall Street and investors are bracing for bad news. With the April-to-June quarter over, this is the time when companies could come out with warnings that their earnings will fall short of expectations.

Verizon Wireless has laid off 50 workers in Arkansas who were part of the former Alltel Corp., which Verizon acquired in January.

FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. today announced that RCN Corporation withdrew its proposal to acquire FiberNet for $12.50 per share of FiberNet common stock.

Sprint Nextel Corp. has reached a long-rumored deal worth as much as $5 billion to outsource its network to Ericsson , which will take on 6,000 Sprint employees.

Corning Inc. announced today that its Gorilla glass was selected as the protective cover glass for Samsung UltraTOUCH mobile phones.

British telecommunications provider BT PLC is indefinitely shelving plans to target online advertising to individual customers by using Web monitoring techniques that have drawn privacy complaints.

The Associated Press Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 11:24AM EDT S wedish wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson ERIC-Q on Wednesday announced it has struck deals worth $1.7-billion with China Mobile CHL-N and China Unicom CHU-N to provide second- and third-generation mobile communication equipment and services.

Ned Hooper, who joined Cisco Systems 11 years ago through an acquisition, will now look for new deals in an expanded role at the communications gear giant.

AT&T Inc. said Wednesday that it expects to close on its $944 million acquisition of wireless and broadband service provider Centennial Communications Corp.

FairPoint Communications has asked Maine regulators to be relieved of more than $845,000 in penalties imposed for poor wholesale service to local phone carriers.