Plaxo breaks down social network walls
By: By Rich Karpinski
On most social network sites today, your personal data can get in, but it can't get out. To that end, a group of early social network users, vendors and developers last week posted the first draft of what they are calling a Bill of Rights...
Moto cell phone chief promises improvements
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Motorola’s new head of the handset business Stu Reed today said that Motorola will be making significant changes in its terminals business in an effort to regain lost market share, streamline production and return to profitability...
Verizon, FairPoint under regulatory scrutiny
By: By Carol Wilson
FairPoint and Verizon officials remain optimistic that the $2.7 billion deal that merges Verizon’s Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont operations into FairPoint will be approved by regulators, despite public complaints and controversy concerned the merger plan announced last January...
In the Spotlight: MetaSwitch’s John Lazar
By: By Tim McElligott
Every once in a while, you have to take a breath and count your blessings. MetaSwitch CEO John Lazar tallied his up recently and didn’t stop until he reached 500. That’s the number of softswitch and gateway deployments his company has. Here’s what he had to say about this first of what he expects to be many milestones...
Microsoft delivers Office via the Web
By: By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft this week launched new software that lets customers “install” all of its Web-based office applications with a single click...
U.K. gets PC TV service
By: By Carol Wilson
A new service will launch in the U.K. this month that enables users to get premium broadcast channels and video-on-demand content on a PC, using a virtual set-top box that comes with full personal video recorder capabilities...
Nokia under ITC investigation
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In what may well be rehash of the heated intellectual property battle between Qualcomm and Broadcom, Nokia has found itself the target of a U.S. International Trade Commission investigation into the technology used in its 3G handsets...
Fujitsu takes rural telcos optical
By: By Tim McElligott
Fujitsu Network Communications announced two deployments of its optical gear with rural independent operating companies this week...
Tellabs moves ONTs indoors
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs has introduced an optical network terminal (ONT) designed to be deployed inside customer homes, Chief Executive Officer Krish Prabhu said during an investor conference this week...
Analysis: Wi-Fi aside, iPod Touch not built for communications
By: By Rich Karpinski
Every new device launch these days brings with it at least some anticipation over whether it will be the device to route around traditional carrier networks using Wi-Fi, VoIP or other “bypass” technologies. The latest candidate: the new Touch version of the Apple iPod...
Cisco, Adobe partner to bring “any stream to any screen”
By: By Sarah Reedy
Cisco and Adobe Systems announced today that Cisco’s Content Delivery System (CDS) now supports Adobe Flash streaming capabilities in addition to traditional progressive delivery...
Apple cuts iPhone prices, unveils new iPods
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple today announced it is cutting prices on the 8-gigabyte iPhone by $200 and discontinuing the 4-gigabyte model...
Palm cans Foleo tablet
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Palm is canceling the launch of the Foleo companion, a tablet computer designed to synch with Palm smartphones, right before its expected launch...
Harmonic debuts new encoder, wins DirecTV
By: By Sarah Reedy
Video solution provider Harmonic today introduced the Ion AVC encoder, the latest in its family of DiviCom compression solutions...
Social network user ‘Bill of Rights’ emerges
By: By Rich Karpinski
A group of early social network users, vendors and developers today posted what they are calling a “Bill of Rights”, demanding that users be granted greater control over the personal information they contribute to social network sites...
Microsoft ships Flash competitor Silverlight
By: By Rich Karpinski
Microsoft Tuesday released the final version of Silverlight, a new browser plug-in supporting streaming audio, video and graphics...
U-verse cracks 100,000 mark
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T said today its U-verse IPTV service has now cracked 100,000 subscribers, based on additions of 97,000 this year, as the service expands geographically and is marketed more aggressively. AT&T is installing about 1000 U-verse customers daily, according to a company spokesman...
Sycamore reports a loss as CFO departs
By: By Ed Gubbins
Sycamore Networks today reported a loss for its 2007 fiscal year despite tremendous revenue growth. The optical switch vendor also announced the resignation of its chief financial officer, Richard Gaynor...
Ixia appoints ex-Nortel exec
By: By Tim McElligott
Ixia, a provider of IP performance test systems, announced the appointment today of ex-Nortel vice president Atul Bhatnagar to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer...
iPhone leads U.S. smart phone sales for July
By: By Sarah Reedy
Apple’s iPhone outsold all “smart” phones in the United States during July -- its first month of sales -- and equaled the sales of the most popular feature phone, LG’s Chocolate, according to research from iSuppli...
FCC OKs local, long-distance integration
By: By Carol Wilson
AT&T and Verizon are now free to merge their in-region local and long-distance operations under an order issued by the Federal Communications Commission just before the Labor Day weekend...
Google files for SMS payment patent
By: By Rich Karpinski
Fresh on the heels of a slew of new Google Phone rumors, the search giant has filed for a patent that would let users send mobile payments via SMS text message...
Motorola wins Iridium court fight
By: By Ed Gubbins
Motorola prevailed today in a lawsuit filed by creditors of satellite provider Iridium...
MetroPCS makes bid for Leap
By: By Kevin Fitchard
MetroPCS today said it is proposing a merger with Leap Wireless, forming what it claims will be the fifth nationwide cellular operator...
KT launches nationwide VOD
By: By Sarah Reedy
Korea Telecom, Korea’s largest broadband provider, today announced the commercial launch of its video-on-demand service, Mega TV...
Verizon Business attacks billing complexity
By: By Carol Wilson
Before its acquisition by Verizon, MCI was known to have a complex set of operating systems — the legacy of a series of acquisitions that had never been fully integrated. ...
SeaChange reports loss, optimism
By: By Sarah Reedy
SeaChange International expects to be profitable in 2008 despite a fall in revenue in the second quarter. Compared to last year, second-quarter revenue was down 3% to $44.2 million. Following a $1 million profit a year ago, the company reported a net loss of $8 million for this year's second quarter, attributing the loss mainly to severance costs and charges related to capitalized software licenses. ...
MetaSwitch feeling its oats with 500th deployment
By: By Tim McElligott
MetaSwitch took stock of its success this week by putting nice round numbers on some key metrics. Its softswitch and media gateway systems topped the list, having exceeded 500 deployments. ...
Ciena surfs runaway optical growth
By: By Ed Gubbins
Ciena reported continued growth today with expectations for more to come, buoyed by seemingly insatiable demand for increased network capacity and an ongoing transition from legacy network architectures to Ethernet and IP....
Alltel shareholders approve buyout
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Alltel shareholders on Wednesday overwhelming approved the private equity buyout of the country’s fifth-largest wireless operator, leaving only FCC approval as the final hurdle for Alltel to go private....
