Verizon taps ‘Webtop’ vendor Laszlo for new e-mail client
By: By Rich Karpinski
Verizon has tapped Web application vendor Laszlo Systems to build a new branded Webmail application for its FiOS fiber-to-the-home customers—and eventually all of its broadband Internet users...
Verizon Business targets retail, branch offices
By: By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business is going after retail outlets, branch offices and other smaller remote locations of large corporations with new managed service offerings that extend the reach of services already used at headquarters and larger offices...
Google targets enterprise with Apps
By: By Rich Karpinski
Making office-style apps available over the Web is one thing. Getting large enterprises to bet their business on them is quite another. Recognizing this reality, Google said it will work with IT consulting firm CapGemini to deliver Google Apps to enterprise desktops...
Plaxo breaks down social network walls
By: By Rich Karpinski
On most social network sites today, your personal data can get in, but it can't get out. To that end, a group of early social network users, vendors and developers last week posted the first draft of what they are calling a Bill of Rights...
Google phone rumors hit new heights
By: By Rich Karpinski
Ready for a new phone? As currently rumored, the Google "GPhone" -- new details of which turned up in a series of reports online last week -- not only signals a new entrant in the wireless market but a potentially market-changing one...
IPTV captivates Europe
By: By Carol Wilson
More than 60 IPTV services were available in Europe at the end of the second quarter of 2007, according to Screen Digest Television Intelligence...
The climb on uncertain ground
By: By Carol Wilson
The competitive landscape is still shifting, even as bandwidth demand grows and consolidation continues...
Verizon, FairPoint under regulatory scrutiny
By: By Carol Wilson
FairPoint and Verizon officials remain optimistic that the $2.7 billion deal that merges Verizon’s Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont operations into FairPoint will be approved by regulators, despite public complaints and controversy concerned the merger plan announced last January...
Microsoft delivers Office via the Web
By: By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft this week launched new software that lets customers “install” all of its Web-based office applications with a single click...
U.K. gets PC TV service
By: By Carol Wilson
A new service will launch in the U.K. this month that enables users to get premium broadcast channels and video-on-demand content on a PC, using a virtual set-top box that comes with full personal video recorder capabilities...
Cisco, Adobe partner to bring “any stream to any screen”
By: By Sarah Reedy
Cisco and Adobe Systems announced today that Cisco’s Content Delivery System (CDS) now supports Adobe Flash streaming capabilities in addition to traditional progressive delivery...
Harmonic debuts new encoder, wins DirecTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Video solution provider Harmonic today introduced the Ion AVC encoder, the latest in its family of DiviCom compression solutions...
Social network user ‘Bill of Rights’ emerges
By: By Rich Karpinski
A group of early social network users, vendors and developers today posted what they are calling a “Bill of Rights”, demanding that users be granted greater control over the personal information they contribute to social network sites...
Microsoft ships Flash competitor Silverlight
By: By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft Tuesday released the final version of Silverlight, a new browser plug-in supporting streaming audio, video and graphics...
U-verse cracks 100,000 mark
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T said today its U-verse IPTV service has now cracked 100,000 subscribers, based on additions of 97,000 this year, as the service expands geographically and is marketed more aggressively. AT&T is installing about 1000 U-verse customers daily, according to a company spokesman...
Motorola wins Iridium court fight
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola prevailed today in a lawsuit filed by creditors of satellite provider Iridium...
KT launches nationwide VOD
By: By Sarah Reedy
Korea Telecom, Korea’s largest broadband provider, today announced the commercial launch of its video-on-demand service, Mega TV...
Zayo plans broadband success in the boonies
By: By Carol Wilson
Two telecom industry veterans are banking on growing demand for bandwidth in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities to launch a new broadband services company that will take competition where it doesn’t exist today and attempt to bring profits to struggling fiber-based operations....
Akamai: HD over the Web is here
By: By Ed Gubbins
Akamai Technologies’ customers are now delivering high-definition video over the Internet, the content delivery equipment vendor announced today....
Sony brings TV to PlayStation
By: By Sarah Reedy
Sony announced its latest device, PlayTV, Wednesday at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany...
Xfone acquires Texas carrier
By: By Ed Gubbins
Competitive carrier Xfone has agreed to acquire West Texas carrier NTS Communications for $42 million...
Google eyes ‘AdWords for video’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Google turned tiny text ads into the Web’s billion-dollar bonanza. Can it do the same thing for Web video?...
Broadband growth slowing
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadband additions slowed in the second quarter of 2007, but DSL claimed more than half of the new adds, according to a report released by the Leichtman Research Group...
AT&T tops Ethernet market, but slipping
By: By Carol Wilson
A new Vertical Systems reports shows an ever-more-competitive Ethernet marketplace, as AT&T lost ground and Cox Communications became the first cable company in the top four U.S. Ethernet providers...
Gaming consoles to drive media adapters
By: By Ed Gubbins
Home videogame consoles will play a large role in driving the market for digital media adapters (DMAs), the devices that allow users to send audiovisual content to their televisions and stereos, according to a new report from ABI Research...
