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- West Africa ready to join rest of broadband world
France Telecom is leading construction of a $700 million submarine fiber-optic cable link that will provide reliable broadband service to 20 West African nations -- 18 along the coast plus Mali and Niger -- through a link with Europe. The 1.92-terabit-per-second capacity, which is upgradable to 5.12 Tbps, will be shared by the carriers funding the project in association with the African governments. The Guardian (London)
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- Netflix puts website redesign through tests
Netflix has begun testing an overhaul of its website aimed at making it easier for customers to cull through the often unwieldy movie and television titles that can be streamed. The redesign splits the films and TV categories and adds dozens of subcategories in replacing the current engine, which offers recommendations to users when they first open the streaming part of the site. Los Angeles Times (tiered subscription model)
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- McAfee takes a page from telecoms for cloud-security upgrade
McAfee is debuting upgrades to its cloud-security platform that will focus more attention on partnering with communications providers and in adopting some of the service-level offerings traditionally unique to the telecom space. Among the changes, the security provider is bolstering its McAfee Cloud Security Platform with a monthly billing platform and service-provisioning tools from Parallels Inc. Light Reading
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- Panelists call for more overlap between health IT and telehealth
Panelists at the American Telemedicine Association conference in San Jose, Calif., said telehealth technology needs more bridging with electronic medical records and other health care IT. "Telemedicine is the answer to so many challenges we face in 10 years in health care," said Carl Keldie, chief marketing officer of Corizon. Healthcare IT News
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- Western Digital debuts family of Wi-Fi home-networking routers
Western Digital is introducing a line of dual-band wireless routers for home networking designed to handle heavy data usage associated with online video. The company is offering its My Net routers in three flavors, with capacities ranging from 600 to 900 megabits per second and built in FasTrack technology for ensuring uninterrupted access. All Things D
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- Cisco says OpenFlow for Nexus 3000 is off the table for now
Cisco Systems has stepped back from a plan to provide developers OpenFlow access to its Nexus 3000 low-latency data-center switch, saying it will start by limiting the inclusion of the protocol to its campus switches, starting with the Catalyst 3750-X and 3560-X. Earlier this week, Cisco announced that it is adding software-defined-networking capabilities to a number of its switching products, with an emphasis on the open-source specification. Light Reading
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- Skype calls on new ad units to monetize video chats
Skype is debuting new ad units that run beside the video conversation window in an effort to better monetize the free video-call service. Skype hopes the new units will inspire online conversations about the advertised brands. The so-called Conversation Ads, which run only on the Windows platform, will target users with demographic information that is not personally identifiable. MediaPost Communications/Online Media Daily
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