Sony BMG, Warner Music invest in mobile music technology
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Sony BMG and Warner Music Group today said they have invested in a Chinese mobile music download firm to develop their own wireless music download service to counteract illegal services and rampant piracy in the Chinese and Asia Pacific markets...
Consumers want more personalized, searchable video, says survey
By: By Carol Wilson
A new survey, released earlier this month, indicates consumers are willing to trade some privacy in order to get more personalized content, and they are looking for better ways to locate video content. ...
Alcatel-Lucent issues Q4 warning
By: By Dan O'Shea
Alcatel-Lucent won't report quarterly earnings for the first time as a combined company until Feb. 9, but already the new megamerger in town has issued a warning that fourth-quarter 2006 revenue will be lower than Alcatel's 2005 figure--and that new cost-cutting measures may lie ahead...
Start-up stokes multimedia subscriber management
By: By Carol Wilson
Start-up companies are fairly rare in telecom equipment these days, but one new firm believes it has carved out a niche in providing subscriber management for multimedia services, including fixed/mobile convergence...
A wild scramble for Web television
By: By Carol Wilson
It's no longer a matter of if or when Web-based video is coming to the TV set in your living room, but how and from what company. As a flood of announcements...
Start-up targets SMS for FMC
By: By Carol Wilson
In an era of consolidation, start-ups have become rare but Stoke, a venture capital-funded newcomer, is nonetheless going bravely where it thinks no one...
Video networks get social
By: By Carol Wilson
Personalized video takes a new twist when social networking comes to the TV set...
Details emerge in Motorola’s Tut merger
By: By Ed Gubbins
A single top-tier U.S. carrier played a large, influential role in the merger negotiations between Motorola and Tut Systems, regulatory filings revealed this week. Clues suggest that carrier could be Verizon Communications...
AT&T Unity unifies wireless, wireline calling plans
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T today unveiled what it’s calling the largest calling community in the U.S., offering free unlimited domestic calling to 100 million of its wireless and wireline subscribers nationwide. The plan is the first salvo in AT&T’s approach to competition following its merger with BellSouth, and the consolidation of the ownership of Cingular Wireless....
Nortel, Microsoft unveil first fruit of collaboration
By: By Ed Gubbins
The chief executive officers of Nortel Networks and Microsoft shared a stage in New York Wednesday to unveil the first fruits of the broad partnership they announced six months ago aimed at enterprises. They also described what lies ahead for the duo...
Microsoft makes overtures to rural market
By: By Tim McElligott
Orlando. Microsoft’s general manager of the communications sector at Microsoft, Harry Patz, addressed approximately 600 members of the rural service provider community today at the OPASTCO Winter Meeting with a singular message: We want to partner with you....
Zodiac targets “T-commerce”
By: By Carol Wilson
Zodiac Interactive today announced new interactive television applications that enable consumers to search for local businesses and place orders using a standard remote control...
Carrier Ethernet beginning to dominate
By: By Carol Wilson
Metro Ethernet and cellular backhaul are hot investment areas for service providers, as they continue to converge their data services onto Internet Protocol backbones, according to the latest report from Infonetics, “Service Provider Plans for IP/MPLS: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific.”...
AT&T’s Lindner paints optimistic picture
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is very optimistic about its immediate future and that includes its U-verse IPTV service, Chief Financial Officer Rick Lindner told the Citigroup 17th Annual Global Entertainment Media and Telecommunications Conference today...
Net neutrality back on the table
By: By Carol Wilson
U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) today put the issue of Net neutrality back on the Congressional agenda with a measure they called the Internet Freedom Preservation Act...
Linda Beck becomes New Edge chief
By: By Carol Wilson
Linda Beck is taking over as only the second person to lead New Edge Networks, but the EarthLink veteran hopes to bring unique expertise to the competitive service provider....
CES: TV, Internet becoming one
By: By Carol Wilson
Based on the frenzy of activity at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it won’t be long before it’s hard to separate TV content from Internet content...
A Telephony Podcast: Interview with John Giere, CMO of Alcatel-Lucent
The recently completed merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies created a new communications technology powerhouse. John Giere, chief marketing officer of Alcatel-Lucent, discusses the implications of the merger and the direction of the new company...
CES: Verizon launches Vcast TV, FiOS 2.0
By: By Carol Wilson
In a major press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and in a Webcast, Verizon today announced the first live TV broadcast service for mobile phones as well as the next generation of its FiOS TV service – promising to leave cable “in the dust” with its new video prowess....
In the spotlight: Siemens’ Harald Braun
By: By Carol Wilson
Harald Braun brings a high-level energy to any conversation about telecom. As President of Siemens Communications Networks Division, he’s also looking at the big picture, and to kick off 2007 he came up with his own list of seven major trends. He spoke with Editor-at-Large Carol Wilson on his “Seven for 2007” list...
Level 3 completes Broadwing buy
By: By Carol Wilson
Level 3 announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Broadwing but is not providing details until its fourth-quarter earnings are released in February...
EarthLink’s Betty succumbs to cancer
By: By Carol Wilson
Garry Betty, the man who led EarthLink through its transformation from a popular Internet service provider to a multimedia operator in voice, wireless, business services and data, died Tuesday due to complications from cancer...
US Signal adds Milwaukee
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service provider US Signal today announced plans to extend its Midwest fiber optic backbone to Milwaukee, building a metro ring in that city, as well as to new access points in suburban Chicago...
USA not in IPTV Top Ten
By: By Ed Gubbins
The United States is not among the 10 countries with the most IPTV subscribers in the world, new data from Dittberner revealed...
Quakes curtail connectivity from Taiwan
By: By Tim McElligott
Users of voice services and Internet access in Asia and between Asia and the U.S. felt the impact of yesterday’s 6.7 to 7.1 magnitude earthquakes and aftershocks that struck southern Taiwan and damaged undersea cables connecting the countries...
