Google tweaks mobile tools for iPhone -- again
By: By Rich Karpinski
It’s Apple week in the tech world, what with the MacWorld conference taking center stage in San Francisco. Today, Google announced an update to its online applications that optimizes them for running on Apple’s iPhone...
MetaSwitch gets cash infusion
By: By Carol Wilson
Data Connection Ltd., the parent company of softswitch maker MetaSwitch, is getting its first large infusion of cash from private equity firm Francisco Partners, and its partner firm, Sequoia Capital, to expand its successful North American operation into the global stage...
New Edge brings CoS to ADSL
By: By Carol Wilson
New Edge Networks is keeping its promise to bring a better quality ADSL service to small to mid-sized businesses, announcing today it will introduce class-of-service offerings that allow customers to tag and prioritize services over ADSL lines...
MegaPath adds ADSL 2+
By: By Carol Wilson
Competitive service provider MegaPath today announced its ADSL 2+ offering, which it is delivering using the Covad Communications service footprint. ...
Rivulet CEO Ed Kennedy on fine-tuning IP networks
By: By Ed Gubbins
Earlier this week, former Tellabs executive Ed Kennedy was named chief executive officer of Rivulet Communications, a new equipment startup aimed at improving service quality in IP networks...
Qwest charts different video course
By: By Carol Wilson
While AT&T and Verizon aggressively deploy video services via their U-Verse and FiOS TV offerings, respectively, Qwest Communications is pursuing a very different video strategy...
CES: Digital home on display
By: By Sarah Reedy
Microsoft wasn’t the only company at the Consumer Electronics Show that prominently featured the connected home. In Las Vegas this week, the digital or connected home was on display widely, and new levels of simplicity, connectivity and convergence were the focus of many companies’ announcements and plans. ...
Verizon COO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon Communications is not seeing the same slowdown in consumer markets that AT&T reported this week, according to Denny Strigl, Verizon’s chief operating officer...
Ex-Tellabs exec Ed Kennedy now CEO of Rivulet
By: By Ed Gubbins
Break time is over for Ed Kennedy. The former president of Tellabs’ North America division, who was once considered a likely candidate to become Tellabs’ chief executive, is now leading a new telecom equipment start-up. ...
Level 3’s Crowe sees new market emerge
By: By Carol Wilson
Admitting his company “stubbed its toe” this year, Level 3 Communications Chairman and CEO James Crowe told the CitiGroup’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference today that the emerging IP optical and IP wireless markets are what “we’ve been planning on and hoping for, for a number of years” and Level 3 is ready to compete successfully...
Citizens CEO: No consumer ‘softness’ here
By: By Ed Gubbins
Citizens Communications is not seeing the same economic “softness” in residential markets that AT&T reported yesterday, according to Maggie Wilderotter, Citizens’ chief executive officer, who spoke late yesterday at the same investor conference...
Ciena antes up Ethernet for packet optical game
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena is beefing up the Ethernet capabilities on its CN 4200 multiservice transport platform by adding Layer 2 Ethernet aggregation and switching, ratcheting up Ciena’s strength in the packet optical networking space...
Exclusive: Insight Research doubles outlook on OSS spending
By: By Tim McElligott
The telecommunications industry has put its troubles behind it, according to Brenda Belkin, senior analyst at Insight Research...
CES: XStreamHD takes the theater experience home
By: By Sarah Reedy
LAS VEGAS--Although high-definition DVD suffered from the news that Warner Brothers will only be providing content in BluRay format this year, the HD market in general was in fine shape at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas...
CES: Comcast unveils ’08-model cable competitor
By: By Sarah Reedy
In what was the first keynote from a cable company executive in the Consumer Electronic Show’s history, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the audience that the cableco is now the fourth largest residential phone service provider in the United States, surpassing Embarq in subscribers...
CES: FCC chair sets hard date for DTV transition
By: By Kevin Fitchard
FCC’s Kevin Martin says broadcasters will leave 700 MHz in 2009; implies the commission may consider EchoStar-DirecTV merger if they change business model...
Google, Facebook unite for social network standards
By: By Rich Karpinski
Competitors Google and Facebook look for common ground to allow users to control identity and content online; whither telecom industry?...
AT&T CEO decries consumer market slowdown
By: By Ed Gubbins
Addressing an investor conference today, Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chief executive officer, complained of a current slowdown in the company’s consumer business but expressed optimism that its enterprise business would be less affected by the same overall economic trends...
CES: Enter mobile TV technology No. 3
By: By Kevin Fitchard
If FLO and DVB-H weren’t enough, a new mobile TV broadcast technology has emerged on the already crowded scene...
CES: Yahoo CEO announces software development platform
By: By Sarah Reedy
As the world is becoming more open, interoperable and social, everything is going mobile, and the future becomes about making the Web experience simpler and more efficient for its more than one billion users to manage their online and offline lives, Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo told Consumer Electronics Show attendees today...
CES: Samsung says femtocells will go nationwide in 2008
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung’s femtocell pilot with Sprint wasn’t just an early fluke. A Samsung executive said today the Korean vendor has completed trials with several North American CDMA operators ...
CES: Microsoft celebrates IPTV success, adds apps
By: By Sarah Reedy
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Bill Gates kicked off the Consumer Electronics Show this week with encouraging news for skeptical IPTV followers...
What Nokia Siemens will acquire next
By: By Ed Gubbins
With two acquisition announcements in the last three months, Nokia Siemens Networks is clearly in M&A mode, though its next move is anyone’s guess...
NextWave restructures
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Would-be wireless carrier-turned-vendor NextWave is reorganizing, taking all of the various acquisitions its made over the last three years and putting them into two business units focused on mobile infrastructure and mobile devices...
Broadband business wireless firm expands to NYC
By: By Carol Wilson
Its nickname is humble – BOB Broadband – but a new wireless service provider has lofty ambitions for providing wireless services to large businesses, particularly those in financial services, using licensed spectrum...
Motorola unveils stand-alone Mobile TV player
By: By Kevin Fitchard and Sarah Reedy
Motorola today took the wraps off what amounts to a mobile digital video recorder--a stand-alone large-screen handheld that renders live mobile broadcast video but can time-shift, pause and record content according to users’ wishes...
Fujitsu wins Verizon packet optical bid
By: By Ed Gubbins
Fujitsu Network Communications appears to have won a prized contract to supply Verizon with packet optical transport equipment, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
Analyst: BT’s 21CN rollout may be slowing
By: By Ed Gubbins
British Telecom may have slowed spending on its 21st Century next-generation network initiative recently, according to Simon Leopold, an analyst with Morgan Keegan...
Online ads make their way into videos
By: By Sarah Reedy
ScanScout co-founder and president Waikit Lau shared with Associate Editor Sarah Reedy the keys to the company’s success moving forward as more and more videos go online...
Huawei sells first U.S. phone to MetroPCS
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Deal marks first appearance of a Huawei handset in North America, but Huawei still has catching up to do match ZTE...
