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Monday, 19th December 2011

Big Answer: Hedy Lamarr Biography

David Strom reviews the biography of Hedy Lamarr, The First Geek Movie Star. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch every story that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of…

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Alcatel-Lucent 10/40GbE Switch Throttles Up the "Carrier Cloud"

We've talked here before in ReadWriteWeb about the so-called "carrier cloud" concept being developed by Alcatel-Lucent. Think about the level of interconnectivity your enterprise data center would need to present voice and multimedia data to customers at carrier speed, while at the same time transferred to a cloud platform that's scalable and…

Infrastructure Scott M. Fulton comments

Social Bookmarking

Quora Begins Looking More Like Delicious

Today the Q&A site Quora announced the debut of boards, which function a lot like stacks do on social bookmarking site, Delicious. Boards organize information around a specific topic, making it simpler for users to follow related content. You can collect similar questions that are already up on Quora and grab links from outside the sites…

Social Alicia Eler comments

AT&T Drops T-Mobile Acquisition

The nightmare is over. Or, hopes and dreams have been crushed. Really, it depends on what side of the argument you fell on but, as of now, it is moot: AT&T and T-Mobile have dropped their $39 billion merger bid and will remain two separate, unaffiliated companies. The competition will rejoice. Sprint, in particular, comes off as a big winner…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

HBO Go Still Shuns Cord Cutters

Fans of HBO's unique selection of premium content will be thrilled to learn that the channel's mobile app, HBO GO, will now be available to even more subscribers. Well, they'll be thrilled as long as they already subscribe to HBO via their cable or satellite provider. Customers of Time Warner Cable and Cablevision will soon join most other…

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