Berners-Lee: Web to Go from WWW to GGG
By: By Rich Karpinski
Tim Berners-Lee, generally credited with inventing the World Wide Web, has jumped on the “social graph” bandwagon, proclaiming the concept of detailing and sharing data across a social network of friends as the next leap forward in computer networks...
NCTA, TiVo team on HD DVRs
By: By Sarah Reedy
Cable companies ramped up their presence in the home today with the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s announcement that it will introduce a new external adapter to enable TiVo digital video recorders to access switched digital cable channels without a set-top box...
Qualcomm, Nokia skirmish heats back up
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Qualcomm and Nokia are back in the courtrooms, this time in Britain, battling over the same patents the two companies failed to reach licensing agreements over last summer...
CDMA sees worldwide growth in Q3
By: By Sarah Reedy
CDMA penetration reached more than 420 million subscribers worldwide in the third quarter of 2007, representing a growth of 20 million net subscribers in the quarter, the CDMA Development Group (CDG) said today...
Router start-up Anagran beefs up sales staff
By: By Ed Gubbins
Shortly after naming a new chief executive officer, edge router start-up Anagran is bolstering its sales ranks...
Nokia Siemens greens up its radio gear
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia Siemens Networks has jumped on the green bandwagon, introducing today a base station kit it claims will reduce energy consumption at the cell site by up to 70%...
IBM targets carrier SOA, Web 2.0
By: By Rich Karpinski
IBM this week rolled out new products focused on helping service providers leverage Web 2.0-style technologies to more rapidly design and deploy new services...
Voice on social networks off to slow start
By: By Rich Karpinski
First came a wave of service launches, as voice-over-IP providers tried to catch the social networking wave by embedding their services into popular social networks like Facebook. Now comes the first wave of results, and the numbers aren’t pretty...
SEC threatens Sycamore with civil action
By: By Ed Gubbins
Investigators at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have recommended that the SEC take civil action against Sycamore Networks regarding that company’s stock option grant procedures and accounting...
Privacy and security fail in UK again
By: By Tim McElligott
For the third time in three months and at the beginning of the identity theft’s busiest season, lax security procedures in Great Britain have led to the mishandling and loss of personal information by government officials...
AT&T has HSUPA upgrade in 220 markets
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Over the last two months, AT&T has gradually introduced data cards embedded with high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) technology, but so far the actual launch of its HSUPA network has been nowhere to be seen...
Mobile phone market grows smarter in Q3
By: By Sarah Reedy
Consumer handset sales in the United States reached 38 million units in the third quarter of this year, with smartphones accounting for 11% of those sold, according to a report released today by the NPD Group. Smartphone sales are up from 4% in the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 163% year over year...
Wi-Fi moving beyond the laptop
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what’s more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo...
Texas FTTH provider OEN goes dark
By: By Ed Gubbins
Optical Entertainment Network is mum on why it is discontinuing all services. Calls placed to the company’s offices are met only by a prerecorded message stating that all services are being discontinued “due to circumstances beyond our control.”...
AT&T takes Napster mobile
By: By Sarah Reedy
AT&T’s music downloading store will officially be open for business on Friday. AT&T is taking Napster, the online downloadable music service, mobile on its latest music phone, the SLM by Samsung...
AT&T acquires pay-per-call provider
By: By Sarah Reedy
In a move to bolster its advertising business, AT&T announced today that it will acquire Ingenio, a privately held provider of Pay Per Call search and directory technology...
EarthLink backs away from muni Wi-Fi
By: By Kevin Fitchard
EarthLink’s municipal Wi-Fi business is in tatters, and the Internet service provider itself may pull the plug on the business before too long. On Friday EarthLink Chief Executive Officer Rolla Huff said the company is looking for strategic alternatives to its muni Wi-Fi business...
Microsoft puts a price on Musiwave
By: By Tim McElligott
Openwave Systems has agreed to let its Musiwave unit go to Microsoft for $46 million. After discussions last week, Microsoft also said will take on approximately $4 million in debt...
Surprising news about e-book bestsellers
By: By Joan Engebretson
It’s been 10 years since electronic books arrived on the scene, enabling readers to download full-length text of best sellers to their personal digital assistants—and these e-books have been quietly gathering a following...
Internet could clog networks by 2010, study says
By: By Sarah Reedy
User demand for the Internet could outpace network capacity by 2010, according to a study released today by Nemertes Research...
Verizon field-tests 100 Gb/s FTTP transport
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon successfully completed its first field test of a 100 gigabit per second optical transmission on Friday, the company announced today, just days after trumpeting a 40 Gb/s deployment elsewhere...
Nokia on Google
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Don't expect to find Google's new Android platform on a Nokia phone soon, if ever...
Small telcos feel merger pressure
By: By Ed Gubbins
In the wake of major-carrier consolidation, merger activity among small and regional telcos is escalating and should continue next year...
Bringing HD video to SMBs
By: By Ed Gubbins
LifeSize leads a down-market charge with low-cost videoconferencing...
At your service: TalkPlus
By: By Rich Karpinski
Convinced of the power of voice over IP (VoIP) to deliver more than just cheaper minutes, Jeff Black, CEO of TalkPlus, and team created an application and service to bring advanced call management to smartphones...
HD showdown
By: By Sarah Reedy
With the holidays approaching, high-definition television sets will top many consumer wish lists, bringing the total of HDTV-owning households to more than 30 million...
40G at last for Verizon
By: By Carol Wilson
The long-anticipated move to a 40 Gb/s backbone network arrived last week for Verizon Business...
Web ads find unwanted attention
By: By Rich Karpinski
The Web advertising business is all about attracting eyeballs. But this time thanks to new, uber-aggressive approaches to better targeting Web ads it may have attracted the wrong kind of attention...
Privacy concerns grow
By: By Carol Wilson
Technology that enables service providers to know more about what their customers are doing online is constantly improving...
Targeted advertising could offer new value
By: By Sarah Reedy
The traditional model of advertising is slowly beginning to give way to addressable ads that viewers want to see...
