Online gaming more popular than videos, social networks
By: By Rich Karpinski
Playing games remains the most popular category of online applications, even as video downloads and social networking surge...
Bug Labs banks on DIY desire
By: By Rich Karpinski
Open source revolutionized the software industry, but can it have the same impact on the low-margin, outsourced-manufacturing-driven world of hardware devices?...
The cost of not collaborating
By: By Carol Wilson
Service providers are always touting the benefits of more effective communication among employees, including better collaboration and greater efficiency...
DirecTV to offer broadband over powerline
By: By Ed Gubbins
Satellite video provider DirecTV plans to offer voice and high-speed Internet service over electric power lines in a partnership with Current, a provider of broadband-over-powerline (BPL) technology...
Standards body streamlines SOA work
By: By Rich Karpinski
A key standards body defining specs for building service-oriented enterprise applications last week shuffled the deck by creating six new committees to oversee the development of SOA standards...
LightEdge uses Actelis to displace T-1s
By: By Carol Wilson
Managed service provider LightEdge Solutions said today it is deploying Actelis Ethernet-over-copper products to offer voice, data and network service bundles to small to mid-sized businesses in six Midwestern and Southwestern states...
WiMAX looms as muni network option
By: By Carol Wilson
Wireless access in general, and Wi-Fi technology in particular, has been very attractive to municipalities wanting to improve broadband communications for multiple reasons. But as more cities discover Wi-Fi's limitations, they are also looking at other wireless options, namely WiMAX. Read the latest in this series of special reports...
Global Crossing gets mixed results in Q2
By: By Mark Donahue
Global Crossing reported second-quarter results today that saw the service provider suffer a net loss despite higher revenues...
EarthLink unwires Corpus Christi
By: By Carol Wilson
Today at 10:30 a.m., the wires will be cut in Corpus Christi, as EarthLink announces the completion of the citywide Wi-Fi network there. What began as a city-run network to enable more efficient reading of gas meters now becomes a privately owned network, as Corpus Christi’s city government becomes both the anchor tenant and the fiber network provider to EarthLink’s wireless Internet access service...
Cisco touts collaboration, Web 2.0 as earnings rise
By: By Rich Karpinski
Cisco reported strong fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, and boosted its guidance for the year, driven by emerging video, collaboration and Web 2.0-style applications that CEO John Chambers said are increasing the demands placed on enterprise and carrier networks...
Microsoft Silverlight scores with MLB
By: By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft rolled out its first high-profile deployment of a Web site based on its Silverlight rich media platform this week at MLB.com...
Google adds ads to Map mashups
By: By Rich Karpinski
Google has quietly released new functionality for its Google Maps API that lets developers add AdSense text ads to Google Maps they create...
After profits tumble, Sprint sees better days
By: By Carol Wilson
Sprint Nextel saw its second quarter profits fall 95% over the second quarter of 2006, but Sprint Nextel Chairman and CEO Gary Forsee emphasized the company’s position for growth in addressing industry analysts...
Smoothstone adds call routing to IP services
By: By Rich Karpinski
Smoothstone IP Communications, a provider of converged IP services for mid-sized enterprises, this month will unveil new tools to enable its users to control how calls are routed and queued over its network...
AT&T expands U-verse to Oklahoma City
By: By Mark Donahue
AT&T announced the launch today of its U-verse service for parts of the Oklahoma City area...
NXTcomm draws 15,000+
By: By Carol Wilson
NXTcomm officials will release their audited attendance numbers next week, showing that the first-ever event in Chicago in June drew 15,273 people in total, 8202 of which conference and exhibit attendees...
Muni Wi-Fi: Its limitations
By: By Carol Wilson
The recent spate of criticism regarding municipal Wi-Fi networks falls into two different categories: technology and business case. Read part three of this special report on muni Wi-Fi...
AT&T pledges IPTV network overhaul in BellSouth territory
By: By Ed Gubbins
AT&T today announced plans to bring its U-verse video broadband service to South Carolina, a state formerly in BellSouth territory...
Study claims telcos can overtake cable
By: By Carol Wilson
A new consumer satisfaction study by the Cloes Fornell International Group reports that consumers say they will consider a service bundle sold by a telecom company over one sold by a cable company, and casts some doubts on whether the first-mover benefit is as significant as conventional wisdom would dictate...
EarthLink posts Q2 loss
By: By Mark Donahue
EarthLink reported a second-quarter loss today as its revenues fell to $312.2 million--down 6% compared to the same period last year--linked largely to a drop in subscribers and the company’s ailing joint wireless venture, Helio...
AT&T posts second-quarter gains
By: By Mark Donahue
Buoyed by wireless and IP-based services growth, AT&T reported second-quarter revenues of $29.5 billion—up from the $15.8 billion it posted in the same period last year. But the numbers reflected only a small taste of what could (or could not) come from iPhone sales...
AT&T expands Video Share to 160 markets
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T announced today that it has expanded its Video Share product to 160 markets, up from the three announced in June, enabling its wireless users to share live video while on a voice call...
Google makes $4B pledge to 700 MHz
By: By Carol Wilson
Google said today it has promised to spend a minimum of $4.6 billion in bidding for spectrum in the FCC’s upcoming 700 MHz auction – provided the commission agrees to Google’s version of auction rules...
Muni Wi-Fi: Proceed with caution
By: By Carol Wilson
Even as U.S. municipalities, small and large, continue to plan and build out municipal Wi-Fi networks, new independent research is challenging the return on investment those cities will reap, as well as the wisdom of assumptions being made about economic development benefits...
Sprint to buy ZTE WiMAX CPE
By: By Carol Wilson
ZTE USA and Sprint Nextel today announced they have signed a master purchase agreement under which ZTE will supply its WiMAX PC cards and home networking gear to Sprint for its national WiMAX rollout...
