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The beauty of NOT being connected

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:46:00 EDT

Slydial, a new service from Mobisphere that connects you directly to a number’s voicemail account, thus ensuring there is no possibility of you talking directly to the person at the other end of that number.

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IPTV World Forum: How important is the user interface?

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:06:00 EDT

While most were eager to praise the value of a user interface-lift, Campbell maintained that the UI is not a deal-breaker for consumers.

Ericsson sees big boost in North American sales

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:31:00 EDT

While Ericsson’s overall earnings in the second quarter may have been dismal, North America was one of the lone bright spots for the world’s largest wireless infrastructure providers.

IPTV World Forum: Moving beyond the triple play

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:31:00 EDT

Aggressive discounting of the service bundle might have won subscribers to IPTV, but it won’t retain them.

Fiber broadband – it’s duh marketing!

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:16:00 EDT

Fiber broadband, and its alphabet soup of flavors -- fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP), -to-the-node (FTTN), to-the-whatever (FTTx) --always catches my attention. It’s interesting, it’s the next big thing, and it’s terribly misunderstood.

Tellabs seeks ‘pockets of optimism’ overseas

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:36:00 EDT

Tellabs vowed to push harder into overseas markets Tuesday as weakness in North America weighed on its second-quarter results.

Startup Berggi takes Web content mobile

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:27:00 EDT

Consumers simply right-click on the Web content they want to take mobile – whether it be text, audio or video – and that content gets sent to their mobile phone.

Oz upgrading to smartphone email

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:13:00 EDT

Email on the smartphone has traditionally been the domain of Research in Motion and Microsoft, but consumer email provider Oz believes their monopolies in the push email market are ending.

Startup Visenza targets SMB smartphones

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:13:00 EDT

After almost four months in beta trials, startup Visenza is preparing to come to market with a technology to connect small and medium-sized businesses and self-employed individuals with their corporate lives.

DPI: A scorned technology that’s thriving

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:01:00 EDT

Deep packet inspection (DPI) technology has been denounced in the halls of Congress, reviled by consumer protection groups as a means of invading privacy and singled out by net neutrality backers as proof that large Internet service providers are up to no good.

DPI: The good, the bad, the stuff no one talks about

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:23:00 EDT

Few technologies get their own Congressional hearings, but deep packet inspection is proving to be no ordinary technology. And even if the July 17th House Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing o

NSN: Infrastructure market to stay flat

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:14:00 EDT

Nokia’s earnings results led to a big sigh of relief in the industry as it reported numbers in line with expectations and projected a rosy forecast for the rest of 2008 for its handset business.

Soapstone hiring on eve of control plane launch

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Soapstone Networks’ control plane software, PNC, will become generally available this quarter, the company said today on its second-quarter earnings call.

New Opera browser takes on iPhone

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:35:00 EDT

Independent browser vendor Opera Software today released a beta of the new Opera Mobile 9.5, the first version generally available for download.

Verizon makes global billing simpler

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:16:00 EDT

In direct response to requests from its multinational customers, Verizon Business has created a Global Billing Report that enables top executives to see their total global telecom spending via an online tool that is provided at no additional charge.

AWS gains traction as Leap adds RAZR

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:27:00 EDT

The hottest-selling handset of all time now comes in a new flavor: AWS. Though the Moto RAZR has seen better days, Motorola is now making a tri-band phone for Leap Wireless’ Cricket Communications service

Aircell on board for in-flight LTE

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:35:00 EDT

Yet another CDMA operator has thrown in its lot with the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) camp, though it’s not among the traditional service providers

SkyMail LBS documents every step

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:46:00 EDT

With location now driving its value proposition, wireless technology provider Pacific DataVision (PDV) is aimed at making enterprise life so efficient and accountable that no action goes undocumented.

Telcordia: IP doesn’t have to mean best-effort

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:28:00 EDT

Telcordia this week debuted a new network management platform it believes can add true “five-nines” capabilities to IP networks – and it says it has customer trials at some of the world’s most security- and reliability-minded enterprises to prove it.

8x8 adds features to expand VoIP reach

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:50:00 EDT

8x8 today announced both a new hosted key system VoIP service and new plug-and-play phones, both intended to expand the reach of its business VoIP service.

Corrected: AT&T: Presto! More 3G capacity

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:43:00 EDT

Over the weekend hundreds of thousands new 3G devices suddenly appeared on the AT&T network. I’m referring to the new iPhone 3G, which sold out in many stores in a matter of hours last Friday

Sprint deploys Cisco’s IPoDWDM

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:29:00 EDT

Cisco Systems today announced both a major US customer for and enhancements to its IP-over- dense wave division multiplexing technology (DWDM) on its CRS-1 routing platform.

Intel releases laptop WiMAX platform (without the WiMAX)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Intel today took the wraps off of its long-anticipated Centrino 2 processor technology, the new laptop platform based on its Core 2 Duo chipset

Adtran navigates ‘constrained,’ ‘sluggish’ spending

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:38:00 EDT

While reporting solid second-quarter results today, equipment vendor Adtran acknowledged a tight spending environment in both the carrier and enterprise sectors.

Oracle/BEA reveal post-merger telco product lineup

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:56:00 EDT

Oracle this week unveiled new products and a combined product lineup coming out of its recently closed acquisition of BEA, focusing on a combination of BEA’s core platform and Oracle’s telecom applications.

Managing the myriad of devices on 4G

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:32:00 EDT

Mformation Technologies will have its work cut out for in the coming year. Sprint has selected its device management platform to handle activation, provisioning, diagnostics and management for on its Xohm network

JuiceCaster 6.0 takes video blogging mobile

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:54:00 EDT

Just one month after AT&T joined the Juice Wireless roster, the social networking provider is adding Alltel Wireless to its list of carriers now offering JuiceCaster 6.0

Snom brings next-gen VoIP to US

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:26:00 EDT

Despite concerns of a slowdown in enterprise voice over-IP spending, Germany-based VoIP provider snom is banking on the North American enterprise market embracing the next-generation of the technology

The Social Taboo Trio: Politics, Religion and Telecommunications

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:05:00 EDT

I’ve being around long enough to know that there’s no faster way to make enemies – or turn off readers – than to start talking politics.

Broadweave buying Houston FTTP network

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:46:00 EDT

A Texas bankruptcy court on Wednesday is expected to approve the sale of Eagle Broadband’s IPTV business to Canadian carrier Interworld Telecommunications and the sale of its Houston-area fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network to Broadweave Networks.