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(Telecompaper) In the first nine months of this year, Swisscom's net revenue fell by 1.8 percent to CHF 8.93 million and its EBITDA dropped 1 percent to CHF 3580 million. On the basis of constant exchange rates, net revenue decreased slightly by 0.3 percent, while EBITDA remained virtually unchanged with plus 0.1 percentage points. Swisscom´s Italian subsidiary Fastweb increased revenue in local currency by 10 percent, unable to offset a drop of CFH 220 million in Swiss revenues, due the ongoing price erosion. Excluding one-off items such as the adjustment of depreciation periods as well as charges in the previous year related to the termination of long-term leasing agreements, Swisscom+s net profit is on a par with the prior-year level and including one-off items, the net profit for the first nine months grew by 16.6 percent to CHF 1.534 billion. Swisscom's DSL customer base grew by 4.5 percent year-on-year to 1.798 million on 30 September of this year and the customer base for its IP

The Conficker and Taterf computer worms are still going strong a year after they made their first appearances, U.S. experts say.

The top music labels would have lost confidence in Qtrax a long time ago if not for Jay Berman, the former RIAA chief, who is representing the music service.

The web has been marking Remembrance Day with Microsoft's search engine Bing displaying a picture of a poppy field.

(Telecompaper) Italtel and ECI Telecom have signed a partnership agreement for the sale and customization of optical transport systems for metropolitan networks and access platforms for voice, data, IP video and fixed/mobile convergence. Under the terms of the deal, network equipment group Italtel will serve as preferred vendor and system integrator for ECI Telecom technology in the building of integrated communication networks for service providers, communications providers and utility companies in the quadruple-play access and transport markets. Italtel thus becomes one of ECI's global partners. The contract covers the integration and customisation, at the customers' premises, of ECI's Multi-service Access Node (MSAN) Hi-FOCuS, and the metro edge BroadGate line of products. The Hi-FOCuS supports voice, data and video over one, converged IP platform, while the BroadGate line is a multi-service provisioning platform for transporting data streams over fibre optic in metropolitan network

One of most sophisticated computer hacking rings in the world has been broken, claims Acting U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates.

iPhone owners can now get their hands on some Wallace & Gromit comics through the iPhone App Store.

Microsoft's search engine is getting improved preview results as well as some new health information licensed from Wolfram's Alpha.