Networking

Google, which rose to prominence on the basis of its highly popular search service, has been moving away from its core business at an increasingly swift rate.  read more »

Motorola will be split into two publicly traded companies in the first quarter of next year, with one focusing on handsets and home entertainment devices and the other on making enterprise communications gear, the company said Thursday.  read more »

For wireless customer care, Verizon Wireless came out on top for the second consecutive time in a J.D. Power and Associates semi-annual survey of 9,500 customers who contacted their carrier in the last six months of 2009.  read more »

An audit of Uganda's US$106 million national fiber backbone and e-government infrastructure project, which was contracted to Huawei Technologies of China, has brought to the fore inadequate supervision by the relevant government ministry and pricing anomalies on the part of the contractor.  read more »

If the U.S. Federal Communications Commission adopts broad new net neutrality regulations, the agency's authority to do so will be challenged in court, predicted Robert McDowell, a member of the commission.  read more »

The World Bank hailed its public-private partnerships in Africa at a forum this week, terming them key to removing regional connectivity challenges for land-locked countries.  read more »

The FCC's request for comments about transitioning from "circuit-switched network to all-IP network" could produce some interesting and maybe useful results, according to columnist Scott Bradner.  read more »

African governments are banking on renewed relations with China to spread communication networks into underserved and rural areas, but their use of condition-free Chinese loans for funding has raised concern in a continent rife with corruption and poor governance.  read more »

After just two months on the market, Windows 7 is accelerating the pace of corporate computer buying, market research firm ChangeWave said.  read more »

Google has created a new system to resolve DNS (domain name system) queries that the company claims will speed up Web browsing for end users, as well as make it more secure.  read more »