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Submarine cables tie the world together

Submarine cables tie the world together

...John Pender in the 1860s, which oversaw the establishment of the first transatlantic cable. Given the vital role undersea cables have played in tying the... Read more

22 January, 2011 by Jon Yeomans
Alcatel-Lucent shows off undersea cable ship

Alcatel-Lucent shows off undersea cable ship

...Lucent's Greenwich factory — the same site where part of the first transatlantic cable was built in the mid-19th century. These days, the factory... Read more

27 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Cable failure hits UK Internet traffic

A fault in an undersea cable system linking Europe and the US has disrupted Internet and transatlantic telephone services across Britain Read more

26 November, 2003 by Graeme Wearden

AT&T fires up transatlantic cable

AT&T today said its transatlantic high-bandwidth TAT 12/13 Cable Network is ready for action this week after three years of work. Read more

2 October, 1996 by Arif Mohamed

Transatlantic Cable: Farewell to Ricochet

...its operations. I wrote about Metricom's Ricochet service some time ago (Transatlantic Cable: Something in the air http://www.silicon.com/a40837 ): it provided... Read more

15 August, 2001 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: Sign of the times

A billboard, the Bay Bridge and shattered dreams... Read more

20 June, 2001 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: Apple has problems - so what's new

Apple is having a bad year, reporting falling sales and its first loss for three years. Richard Baguley reports from Silicon Valley on the state of the Mac... Read more

18 January, 2001 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: My DSL Hell

DSL is the way of the future, but getting it installed sometimes requires the patience of a saint of old. silicon.com's US correspondent, Richard Baguley, offers a cautionary tale of the DSL blues from Silicon Valley Read more

30 August, 2000 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: The sound of dot-com failure

boo.com isn't the only company to hit the wall - plenty of US companies are failing because of cash problems. Our Silicon Valley correspondent Richard Baguley investigates the latest slew of dot-com collapses Read more

7 August, 2000 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: Tap, tap tapping on the net's door

While the RIP Bill has been hogging headlines in the UK, a new net tapping system is attracting attention in the US. Richard Baguley reports on the FBI's Carnivore. Read more

19 July, 2000 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: Greasy Palm

It's up, it's down, it's all over the goddamn place! Palm's latest IPO has shown how the Internet economy isn't always as easy to predict as you might think, says Richard Baguley Read more

15 March, 2000 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: The prince of hackers goes free

The "most-wanted cyberthief" in the US was released from prison late last month. Did he ever deserve to be there? Richard Baguley looks at the career of Kevin Mitnick Read more

9 February, 2000 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: Is Apple turning into Microsoft

The talk at MacWorld in San Francisco was of 'owning the OS' and taking over the world. Richard Baguley reports on Apple's latest bid for world domination... Read more

12 January, 2000 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable: Net access (and coffee) to go

In some ways, the US high-tech sector is well behind Europe. Our man in San Francisco, Richard Baguley, looks at why America has been so slow to go wireless... Read more

15 December, 1999 by Richard Baguley

Transatlantic Cable : The world's most expensive greetings card

News that Excite@Home has paid a not-so-small fortune for an online greetings card company has added grist to the mill of all those who think that Web outfits are over-priced. But there are even sillier sums being bandied around for models' eggs, as Richard Baguley investigates... Read more

27 October, 1999 by Richard Baguley

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