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Blew It: Ericsson Has to Pay $AU304 Million Fine for Violating a Bribery Deal With the Feds
Swedish multinational tech giant Ericsson pleaded guilty this week to bribery and agreed to pay the Department of Justice $US206 ($AU304) million dollars. Federal prosecutors accused Ericsson of engaging in a long-running international corruption scheme that involved bribing government officials, falsifying records, and failing to put in place proper account controls. Ericsson had a chance…
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Europe’s Biggest Mobile Tech Show Still Thinks It’s Going to Happen
In the pantheon of tech shows, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is Athena-level — way up on the list but not quite as big or brash as the Zeus-like Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But now it’s acting more like the fun-loving Dionysus and claiming, this early in our post-vaccine world, that the show…
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Telstra Is Spending Millions To Develop Australia’s 5G Mobile Networks
Australia’s 4G networks are only getting faster. But it’s the future beyond 4G that equally concerns Telstra, so it’s playing an active role in ensuring that the next big leap forward in mobile networking is one that suits Australia and Telstra’s Australian customers — and it’s spending money to do so.
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Bluetooth Is Named After A Medieval King Who May Have Had A Blue Tooth
Bluetooth was never supposed to be called Bluetooth. Back in 1996, a consortium of companies — Intel, Ericsson, Nokia, and later IBM — decided to create a single wireless standard. Each company had been developing their own short-range radio technologies, but all the names they came up with sucked. Then, along came an obscure Scandanavian…