Verizon taps ‘Webtop’ vendor Laszlo for new e-mail client
By Rich Karpinski
Verizon has tapped Web application vendor Laszlo Systems to build a new branded Webmail application for its FiOS fiber-to-the-home customers—and eventually all of its broadband Internet users...
VTap takes Web video browsing mobile
By Sarah Reedy
A new service from Veveo aims to make it easy for mobile users to browse the Web’s videos on their handsets...
Verizon Business targets retail, branch offices
By Carol Wilson
Verizon Business is going after retail outlets, branch offices and other smaller remote locations of large corporations with new managed service offerings that extend the reach of services already used at headquarters and larger offices...
Amedia Networks evicted
By Ed Gubbins
With only a handful of employees left, equipment vendor Amedia Networks has been evicted from its Eatontown, New Jersey, offices for failing to pay its rent...
NTP takes carriers to court
By Kevin Fitchard
Fresh off its record win over Research in Motion, push-messaging patent-holder NTP is setting its sights on bigger fish, or whales rather. This time it’s taking on the giants of the telecom industry, suing AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint...
New AT&T campaign one step forward
By Carol Wlison
AT&T’s new marketing initiatives are one step forward toward creating a more mobile identity for a brand once considered the stodgy bastion of the telecom establishment, said one of the advertising executives charged with creating that identity...
Former Qwest exec joins private equity firm
By Sarah Reedy
Barry Allen, retired executive vice president of operations for Qwest Communications, announced today he has been named a senior advisor to Providence Equity Partners...
UBS: Tellabs’ merger prospects cool
By Ed Gubbins
Despite recent reports of merger discussions, Tellabs is unlikely to be acquired by another telecom equipment vendor any time soon, according to UBS Investment Research...
Apple sells 1M iPhones
By Kevin Fitchard
Apple’s price slashing of the iPhone last week sent sales of the smartphone over the 1 million-unit mark on Sunday, allowing Apple to claim a highly successful launch for its first wireless product...
Google targets enterprise with Apps
By Rich Karpinski
Making office-style apps available over the Web is one thing. Getting large enterprises to bet their business on them is quite another. Recognizing this reality, Google said it will work with IT consulting firm CapGemini to deliver Google Apps to enterprise desktops...
Muvee and Orca bring Live Photos to IPTV
By Sarah Reedy
A picture may be worth 1000 words, but when not presented well, it is practically worthless. This is the logic behind Muvee’s automatic movie-making application Live Photos, now available over IPTV platforms in partnership with middleware provider Orca Interactive...
Optical equipment startup raises $45M
By Ed Gubbins
Matisse Networks has closed a $45 million funding round, bringing the optical networking equipment startup’s total funding to $80 million...
Revenue leakage: Are carriers raising white flag?
By Tim McElligott
A survey conducted by Analysys Research and commissioned by revenue assurance provider Subex Azure revealed last week that fraud has contributed to a global increase in lost revenue for carriers...
Optical sector OK as wireline spending stalls
By Ed Gubbins
Compared with last year, spending by North American wireline carriers was down more than 5% in the second quarter and down nearly 7% in the first half of this year, according to Ovum-RHK...
Google phone rumors hit new heights
By Rich Karpinski
Ready for a new phone? As currently rumored, the Google "GPhone" -- new details of which turned up in a series of reports online last week -- not only signals a new entrant in the wireless market but a potentially market-changing one...
Nokia looks beyond hardware
By Kevin Fitchard
Nokia's launch of the Ovi mobile Internet services portal has prompted questions such as "Will Nokia kill the service provider?" from IMS Research, and statements such as "Nokia is placing a very large bet in a very high-profile way" from Ovum...
Adderton vows return
By Kevin Fitchard
Peter Adderton isn't done with the mobile industry not just yet. The founder of Amp'd Mobile and Boost Mobile is aiming to take up where he left off...
IPTV captivates Europe
By Carol Wilson
More than 60 IPTV services were available in Europe at the end of the second quarter of 2007, according to Screen Digest Television Intelligence...
Plaxo breaks down social network walls
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Tim McElligott
Fujitsu Network Communications announced two deployments of its optical gear with rural independent operating companies this week...
Tellabs moves ONTs indoors
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 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 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 Sarah Reedy
Apple today announced it is cutting prices on the 8-gigabyte iPhone by $200 and discontinuing the 4-gigabyte model...
