Adobe targets video with Flash Lite, new media player
By: By Rich Karpinski
Adobe put the focus on video at its developer conference this week with a new version of its Flash Light client for mobile devices and a new Internet video player...
Microsoft strikes back at ‘Office killers’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Seemingly beset on all sides by rivals attacking its multibillion-dollar Office business, Microsoft this week struck back with an online office services of its own—albeit ones that require users to have the desktop version of Office as well...
Nokia to buy Navteq for $8.1B
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is cementing its position in the mapping/location-based services space, announcing today an agreement to buy GPS-mapmaker Navteq for $8.1 billion in a cash-for-stock deal...
WiMAX World: Muni Wi-Fi far from deceased
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — Only two years after it made headlines as the hot new thing, municipal Wi-Fi is making headlines again — as a technology trend that is DOA. ...
WiMAX World: Clearwire warns of spectrum challenge
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — WiMAX providers such as Clearwire and Sprint Nextel are well-positioned to meet users’ broadband demands in the present and the immediate future, but regulators need to consider future spectrum needs and think twice about dividing available spectrum into smaller chunks in the name of promoting competition, said Scott Richardson, chief strategy officer for Clearwire, to a WiMAX World audience here today. ...
WiMAX World: Is WiMAX all things to all markets?
By: By Carol Wilson
CHICAGO — WiMAX is technologically and economically positioned to be all broadband things to most markets, Padmasree Warrior, chief technology officer for Motorola, told the WiMAX World audience today. ...
Upside and upstream in the EchoStar-Sling deal
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the wake of EchoStar’s announcement this week of a proposed acquisition of Sling Media, it is unclear how the deal might affect services such as AT&T’s Homezone that are offered in partnership with EchoStar. ...
WiMAX sweeping down the plains
By: By Carol Wilson
WiMAX is bringing the first broadband connectivity to rural communities in southeastern Oklahoma, Nortel Networks and three service providers announced today. ...
Verizon looks for SLA edge
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon is hoping to gain favor with business customers by offering service level agreements that include the edge of the network — even in places where it doesn’t own the local network. ...
Calix takes a gig to the home
By: By Ed Gubbins
Calix has added gigabit Ethernet interfaces to the subscriber side of its optical network terminals, or ONTs, aiming to give telcos a bandwidth boost with which to compete against cable broadband....
At Your Service: Verizon WebMail
By: By Rich Karpinski
Verizon needed a next-generation Web e-mail client to keep its broadband customers using its portal applications and content...
Study finds ISPs calm in the hacker storm
By: By Carol Wilson
Although the number of zombie computers able to launch network attacks is growing, ISPs are still generally optimistic about their ability to address security issues, a recent study of ISPs by Arbor Networks indicates...
Dolby has message for IPTV players
By: By Carol Wilson
Dolby Laboratories doesn’t sell anything directly to telecom service providers, but the well-known creator of high-quality audio technology is trying to get a message across to those who would offer IPTV...
AT&T aims for 10,000 IPTV installs per week
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T has reduced the average installation time for its U-verse IPTV service by 13% in the past month, according to Ralph de la Vega, the carrier’s group president of regional telecommunications and entertainment...
BT makes it easier to be green
By: By Carol Wilson
BT Global Services is making a commercial product out of parent company BT’s internal commitment to the environment, offering a service in the U.K. and the U.S. that assesses the amount of carbon dioxide emissions produced by corporate IT departments...
Speakeasy shops Best Buy success
By: By Carol Wilson
A week after Speakeasy announced higher-bandwidth services based on ADSL 2 links it purchases from Covad Communications, the Best Buy subsidiary is announcing more flexible pricing for its voice-over-IP service to accommodate small businesses and more VoIP phone choices as well...
Zimbra deal, Thunderbird plans put focus on open-source messaging
By: By Rich Karpinski
E-mail may not seem the hottest of areas, but two developments this week show there may yet be some room for innovation in the messaging market...
Windstream CEO: RLEC M&A on hold ‘til ‘08
By: By Ed Gubbins
Though further consolidation is needed in the rural telecom carrier space, it will probably have to wait until next year, when the credit environment improves, according to Jeff Gardner, CEO of Windstream, a large, rural telco...
Can Jack make VoIP Magic?
By: By Carol Wilson
With a snazzy name like Magic Jack and a price as low as $19.95 a year for unlimited service, a new voice-over-IP device is aimed at redefining what has been a troubled market...
Yahoo jumps on social networking bandwagon
By: By Rich Karpinski
Yahoo today opened up a private beta-test version of its social networking application, dubbed Mash, hoping it’s broad portal reach can allow it to play catch-up with leaders MySpace and Facebook...
Zombies threaten ISPs
By: By Carol Wilson
Zombie computers are the single biggest threat to ISPs, according to an annual security survey conducted by Arbor Networks, as compromised PCs are being used to spew out spam, launch distributed denial-of-service (D-DOS) attacks and perpetrate identify theft and phishing schemes...
RipCode transcodes long-tail on-demand video
By: By Sarah Reedy
RipCode, the Texas-based video equipment manufacturer, today announced the availability of its RipCode V4 video transcoding appliance, which delivers on-demand video content to any viewing medium, while reducing server hardware, storage and energy use. RipCode also released the name of its first client – MySpace, which recently completed a trial run with the company...
Carriers, mobile absent from top social networks list
By: By Rich Karpinski
Nielsen/NetRatings this week delivered its regular monthly list of top social-media sites, with Facebook and LinkedIn tabbed as the strongest gainers of users...
Verizon Wireless challenges 700 MHz rules in court
By: By Carol Wilson
In what could be the opening salvo in a long legal battle, Verizon Wireless has asked a federal court to set aside the Federal Communications Commission’s rules requiring open-access rules for one portion of the 700 MHz spectrum being auctioned beginning in January...
