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Enterprise chief says Nortel customers hit 'pause button'
By Jim Duffy
LAS VEGAS -- Nortel enterprise customers have pressed "a pause button" in purchasing gear from the company, the chief of Nortel's Enterprise Solutions group acknowledged this week. Read story

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05/21/09

Today's most-read stories:

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  2. Holographic meetings, gestures as mouse clicks
  3. Web attack that poisons Google results gets worse
  4. Enterprise chief says Nortel customers hit 'pause button'
  5. Where the IT jobs are: 10 American cities
  6. Inside the bad-ass world of military research projects
  7. IPhone security, part 2
  8. NDC: Cloud computing
  9. Cisco unveils a grab bag of wireless LAN products
  10. Expect more from WAN optimization than just optimization


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