Google, Microsoft join free 411 party
By: By Rich Karpinski
Service provider revenues are under attack from all quarters, and 411 directory assistance can be added to the list...
Pondering the business of FMC
By: By Kevin Fitchard
It's not a question of whether Verizon follows Sprint and T-Mobile down the fixed/mobile convergence path, it's just a question of when and how, according...
Q&A: In-Stat's Michelle Abraham
Michelle Abraham, analyst for In-Stat, talks with Associate Editor Sarah Reedy about a key trend in Internet TV and what telco service providers are doing about it...
Cisco social network strategy emerges
By: By Rich Karpinski
Cisco Systems’ social network strategy--fueled by acquisitions of two small social network vendors earlier this year--has started to emerge, with a surprising focus on consumer entertainment...
Verizon Wireless adds over-air updates
By: By Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless is launching InnoPath’s firmware over-the-air (FOTA) update technology, the companies said this week, phasing the technology into new phone launches throughout the remainder of the year and 2008...
Skype brings VoIP to MySpace
By: By Rich Karpinski
Skype and MySpace this week announced plans to bring free voice-over-IP calling to the social networking site...
Occam board to give CEO M&A incentive
By: By Ed Gubbins
Amid a wave of investor disappointment, Occam Networks’ board of directors hope to amend the employment contract of the company’s chief executive, Bob Howard-Anderson, to remove any disincentive he might have to sell the company...
FTTH data under renewed scrutiny
By: By Ed Gubbins
Two weeks after the FTTH Council announced the number of fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in North America had topped 2 million, another analyst is openly questioning the validity of those numbers...
Agilent teams with Teradata on customer analytics
By: By Tim McElligott
Another example of the renewed interest in business intelligence and analytics comes in the form of a contract Agilent Technologies inked with a Tier 1 North American mobile operator and the introduction of a new comprehensive reporting application for handset revenue analytics...
Nokia boosts shipments, market share
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia’s handset shipments rose to 111.7 million units in the third quarter, and its enterprise devices unit posted an operating profit for the first time...
Covad teams with McAfee on security
By: By Carol Wilson
Covad Communications is partnering with security technology company McAfee to offer its small to mid-sized business customers a managed security service to protect against hackers, spam, spyware and other threats...
AT&T says ‘no’ to Conn. cable franchise
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T is fully prepared to cut off service to more than 7000 U-verse customers in Connecticut and stop all video service in that state rather than file for a statewide cable licens...
Apple relents on iPhone third-party apps
By: By Rich Karpinski
After months of worrying that third-party iPhone apps would “take down” AT&T’s network or leave users perplexed as to how to use the device, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said an iPhone software development kit (SDK) would be made available by February...
Angry Occam investors call for management’s ouster
By: By Ed Gubbins
Filing restated financial reports for recent years this week, Occam Networks claimed to have put its long restatement process behind it. But investors on the company’s quarterly earnings conference call late Wednesday unleashed a barrage of scathing criticism...
Microsoft places VoIP bet
By: By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft this week delivered a slew of new software products delivering unified communications capabilities to enterprise users via IP-based networks...
In the Spotlight: Michael Inouye, In-Stat
By: By Sarah Reedy
In-Stat analyst Michael Inouye shares his thoughts on the changing nature of online video and the unbundling of the television experience as a whole...
Microsoft TV signs first U.S. indie
By: By Carol Wilson
Microsoft TV, the preferred brand of many larger telecom incumbents worldwide, has signed its first U.S. independent telco customer, nTelos...
AT&T, EchoStar speculation swells
By: By Sarah Reedy
There is a 65% chance that AT&T will buy EchoStar’s DISH Network satellite TV service within the next 12 months, according to Citigroup analyst Jason Bazinet in a research report published today...
Oracle engaged in battle again
By: By Tim McElligott
No one expected Oracle’s proposed $6.7 billion acquisition of BEA last week to go any smoother than other Oracle acquisitions, but no one expects a company to turn down a 25% premium, either...
Adtran blames flat third quarter on two customers
By: By Ed Gubbins
Adtran blamed sequentially flat third-quarter revenue on two major carrier customers that significantly cut spending in the quarter...
AT&T 3G delays weigh on Ericsson
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Ericsson today warned that its third-quarter sales and operating profit would be lower than expected due to lessened spending on infrastructure and software, a shortfall analysts pinned directly on AT&T’s slow deployment of its UMTS network...
AT&T to sue over Conn. video franchise
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T will file a lawsuit challenging the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control’s decision not to grant the company a statewide video franchise for its U-verse service, a company spokeswoman confirmed today...
Google, Microsoft join free 411 party
By: By Rich Karpinksi
This week both Google and Microsoft rolled out free 411 services, or at least free until they eventually add locally targeted voice-based advertising to the mix...
Motorola jumps back into the Symbian fold
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola has reconciled its differences with the Symbian operating system, taking a 50% stake in UIQ Technology, the Sony Ericsson-owned developer that builds user interfaces on Symbian software...
Nortel settles SEC fraud case for $35M
By: By Ed Gubbins
The same day that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit alleging accounting fraud at Nortel Networks, the equipment vendor agreed to settle the case for $35 million, the SEC said today...
Eagle Broadband sheds IPTV STB business
By: By Sarah Reedy
Nighthawk Systems today announced that it has purchased the IPTV set-top box business assets of Eagle Broadband for $4.75 million...
Telephony LIVE: Innovation wins out for award winners
By: By Carol Wilson
DALLAS--One service provider made lemonade out of service interval lemons, and another figured out a way to make fixed/mobile convergence real for its customers. All six winners of the first annual Telephony Innovation awards are finding new ways to solve customer problems...
Motricity buys InfoSpace mobile unit
By: By Kevin Fitchard
InfoSpace today said it is selling its mobile services unit to Motricity for $135 million in cash, making a leaner Web services company focusing on online search...
Infinera to raise more funds
By: By Ed Gubbins
Infinera is looking to raise more than $100 million in a new public offering of stock, the company announced late last week...
