Alcatel-Lucent to cut 1 000 jobs

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Alcatel-Lucent is naming enterprises as one of three markets it will focus on as it lays off 1 000 more workers and makes cuts in other areas in an attempt to turn the company around, states ITWorld.

The company had a net loss of 40 million euros last quarter, and says it will develop products to support use of the Internet by fixed and mobile devices, ensure QOS, privacy and the integrity of billing for Web services.

In addition to the 1 000 layoffs, Alcatel-Lucent will terminate half of its 10 000 consultants in an effort to create nearly US$1 billion in savings over the next year.

Microsoft entered the iPhone application market on Saturday, with the release of its Seadragon Mobile image browsing software, reports Information Week.

The application lets users easily navigate through image collections, and GPS aerial maps using the Apple iPhone's touch-screen interface.

To date, Microsoft has held off introducing applications for the iPhone, preferring instead to focus on its own Windows Mobile platform.

Delta Air Lines is expected to begin offering WiFi service to its passengers, says Cnet.

The wireless service, which will allow passengers to connect to the Internet via WiFi-enabled laptops, PDAs, or smartphones, will cost $9.95 on flights of three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours.

The airline is partnering with Aircell, which also supplies in-flight WiFi technology to other carriers, such as American Airlines and Virgin America.

The US government has won a restraining order preventing sellers of scareware to trade, as millions of people were caught out by the software that, once installed, issues false alerts about viruses and illegal porn, says The BBC.

Court papers submitted by the Federal Trade Commission show that the peddlers of the fake security software tricked Web sites into advertising their products as the fake security products the firms were peddling were: WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, ErrorSafe, and XP Antivirus.

Anyone clicking on an advert was taken to the Web pages run by the fake security firms, which then ran a "scan" looking for security problems and urged visitors to buy software to fix them.