Zayo plans broadband success in the boonies
By: By Carol Wilson
Two telecom industry veterans are banking on growing demand for bandwidth in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities to launch a new broadband services company that will take competition where it doesn’t exist today and attempt to bring profits to struggling fiber-based operations....
Nokia launches music, games store
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia is back in retail services, but this time it’s tackling much more than ringtones and wallpaper. ...
SeaChange faces commoditization threat
By: By Sarah Reedy
Middleware provider SeaChange International is facing an “interesting intersection,” according to Paul McWilliams, editor of Next Inning Technology Research, a subscription service focused on semiconductor and technology stocks....
Savvion identifies process 'killers'
By: By Tim McElligott
Business process management is not a new concept. However, software company Savvion, based in Santa Clara, Calif., thinks it’s high time service providers gave it a second look — and analysts seem to agree....
EarthLink scaling back, not leaving muni Wi-Fi
By: By Carol Wilson
EarthLink is not exiting the municipal Wi-Fi business, but it will no longer invest in building out Wi-Fi networks on its own, in hopes of signing up consumer customers, the company’s CEO, Rolla Huff, said today. ...
Nokia opens door to mobile Web services
By: By Rich Karpinski
Almost lost among the slew of devices Nokia launched this week was word of a new portal platform, dubbed Ovi, that the vendor will use to launch mobile Web services, including gaming, social networking and more....
Plaxo aims to consolidate online identities
By: By Rick Karpinski
Plaxo, best known for its address book synch services, is targeting a major problem on the social Web with new software that allows users to more easily exchange personal data between different social networks....
Moto sues Aruba
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The wireless industry’s appetite for patent litigation has spread into the wireless local area network switch sector. ...
Verizon narrows packet/optical search
By: By Ed Gubbins
Verizon isn’t casting a wide net in its search for a packet optical networking platform, according to one Wall Street analyst....
Cinea’s digital watermarks hit STBs
By: By Carol Wilson
Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby known for digital watermarking technology, said today it will announce two major deals at the IBC show next week in Amsterdam that will position its technology in the consumer distribution space....
Yahoo! first Web mail service to add SMS
By: By Rich Karpinski
Yahoo! went live today with new Yahoo! Mail Web service, most notably adding free, real-time text messaging built right into the e-mail Web interface....
Sprint rewards Samsung with NYC WiMAX build
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Samsung revealed today that Sprint has awarded it the coveted New York City WiMAX contract — a market Sprint officials said it would give to the vendor with the best network performance....
SysMaster, Verimatrix partner for IPTV security
By: By Sarah Reedy
SysMaster Corporation, an IPTV, voice-over-IP and wireless solutions provider, announced today it has partnered with Verimatrix, an IPTV content protection technology supplier, to improve content security over public networks. ...
Akamai: HD over the Web is here
By: By Ed Gubbins
Akamai Technologies’ customers are now delivering high-definition video over the Internet, the content delivery equipment vendor announced today....
Surviving — and thriving — in VoIP wholesale
By: By Carol Wilson
For all the discouraging talk about voice-over-IP pure-play problems, there are companies succeeding in the space in some unusual ways, such as Momentum Telecom. ...
Nokia, Samsung gain handset share from Motorola
By: By Kevin Fitchard
The second quarter saw a definite shift in handset sales as phone makers continued to gain ground at rival No. 2 manufacturer Motorola’s expense, according to research from Gartner...
Sony brings TV to PlayStation
By: By Sarah Reedy
Sony announced its latest device, PlayTV, Wednesday at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany...
Xfone acquires Texas carrier
By: By Ed Gubbins
Competitive carrier Xfone has agreed to acquire West Texas carrier NTS Communications for $42 million...
Free online television enters IPTV industry
By: By Sarah Reedy
FreeTube, a recent IPTV venture, brings Internet users more than 500 television channels – as the name suggests – for free. Slated to be a technological and sociological experiment, this online television site offers viewers with a modem, Web browser and several common plug-ins the ability to watch a variety of channels using IP streaming technology...
Perimeter joins USA.NET
By: By Carol Wilson
Perimeter Security, a software-as-a-service company that provides managed security to businesses and operates as a wholesaler to service providers, announced today it has merged with USA.NET, a provider of secure e-messaging...
Nokia teams with Microsoft for Live apps
By: By Kevin Fitchard
In a pairing of the world’s two biggest smartphone rivals, Nokia and Microsoft today said they are cooperating to build a suite of specially designed Windows Live services for Nokia phones...
Optical transport market hits five-year high
By: By Ed Gubbins
The optical transport equipment market in June reached its highest quarterly revenue level in more than five years, according to Dell’Oro Group...
Google eyes ‘AdWords for video’
By: By Rich Karpinski
Google turned tiny text ads into the Web’s billion-dollar bonanza. Can it do the same thing for Web video?...
Virgin launches social networking
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Virgin Mobile is launching an array of social networking portals, targeting specific communities and interest, over its mobile Internet service using technology from Intercasting...
Quigley, D’Amelio leave Alcatel-Lucent
By: By Ed Gubbins
Alcatel-Lucent today announced the departure of the two top executives that were chief operating officers before the company’s merger...
Broadband growth slowing
By: By Carol Wilson
Broadband additions slowed in the second quarter of 2007, but DSL claimed more than half of the new adds, according to a report released by the Leichtman Research Group...
Google crashes Grand Central “one-number-for-life” promise
By: By Rich Karpinski
As Google prepares to provide one of its first telecom-related Web services, courtesy of recent acquisition Grand Central, the search giant stumbled out of the box...
Tellabs adds native Ethernet switching to ROADM
By: By Ed Gubbins
Tellabs is adding native Ethernet switching and aggregation to its 7100 reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM), the company announced today...
VZW to revamp VCast music with MTV, Real
By: By Kevin Fitchard
Verizon Wireless, Viacom’s MTV and RealNetworks are partnering to create a digital music service that will span three major media: television, the Internet and the mobile network...
AT&T tops Ethernet market, but slipping
By: By Carol Wilson
A new Vertical Systems reports shows an ever-more-competitive Ethernet marketplace, as AT&T lost ground and Cox Communications became the first cable company in the top four U.S. Ethernet providers...
