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Report: Worldwide VoIP Market Grew to $20.7 Billion; Strong Demand Continues

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:53:00 +0100

Infonetics Research released its biannual VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers report, which tracks business and residential/SOHO voice over IP services and includes a North America Business VoIP Services Leadership Matrix that analyzes and ranks the top service providers in the VoIP business services market.

The report shows that demand for residential and business VoIP services continues to grow even as spending in other communication areas tightens. For the first half of 2009, the worldwide VoIP services market grew to $20.7 billion. Residential VoIP services remain healthy, comprising the majority of worldwide VoIP services revenue, and subscribers are up 14% from the end of 2008.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 11/11/2009

Empirix VoIP Monitoring Now Avaya Compliant

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:29:00 +0100

Empirix, a provider of VoIP monitoring solutions, announced that its products are now compliant with key contact center solutions from Avaya.

The Empirix Proactive Communications Assurance solution is now compliance-tested by Avaya for compatibility with Avaya AuraTM Communication Manager on Avaya S8700 servers with MCC1 Media Gateways and Avaya Proactive Contact with PG230RM.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 11/11/2009

Compuware Expands SaaS Portfolio With Gomez Acquisition

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:00 +0100

Compuware, software and consulting provider, announced it has completed its acquisition of Gomez, one of the two major forces in web application monitoring services that has a leading SaaS solution for desktop/laptop web application monitoring.

“This is a very interesting and potentially game changing move in both the end user experience monitoring and the application performance management (APM) markets,” Jean-Pierre Garbani wrote on the Forrester Blog for Vendor Strategy Professionals.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 11/11/2009

Taking Technology to Higher Level: Interview with Manoj Bhoola, Country Manager at HP

editor@biz-news.com (Samuel Mungadze, Johannesburg) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:35:00 +0100

Does your organisation need technology products, solutions and services that drive innovation and rapidly scale up or down to meet changing times?

Well, look no further than HP, the world's largest technology company, says Manoj Bhoola, Country Manager, HP Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking, HP Enterprise business.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 10/11/2009

ZiiLABS Introduces 1080p Blu-ray Quality Handheld Media Processor

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:19:00 +0100

ZiiLABS announced the ZMS-08, its 3rd generation media-rich applications processor that brings 1080p Blu-ray quality H.264 decode to low-power devices.

ZMS-08 delivers the low-power, high performance processing required of next-generation connected devices such as web tablets, netbooks, connected TVs, video conferencing systems and home media hubs.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 10/11/2009

Sky Takes Mobile TV to iPhone and iPod touch

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:40:00 +0100

UK’s largest mobile TV service is now available for iPhone and iPod touch.

Sky announced the availability of the Sky Mobile TV App on the App Store. The company has created a dedicated app for the service specifically for iPhone and iPod touch. The app allows users to stream live TV via WiFi and the channels available include all Sky Sports channels, Sky Sports News, Sky News, ESPN and At The Races.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 10/11/2009

Skype and eBay Settle with Joltid

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:42:00 +0100

Skype and eBay announced they has reached a settlement agreement with Joltid and Joost N.V. that gives Skype ownership over all software previously licensed from Joltid.

It also ends all litigation currently pending against the investor group and eBay at the closing of the acquisition (the investor group led by Silver Lake had previously entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Skype from the company).

As part of the settlement agreement, Joltid and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis will join the investor group, contributing Joltid software and making a significant capital investment in exchange for a 14 percent stake in Skype.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 09/11/2009

Epson Develops World's First 4K HTPS TFT Panel for 3LCD Projectors

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:35:00 +0100

Epson announced that it has developed the world's first 4K-compatible high-temperature polysilicon (HTPS) TFT liquid crystal panel for 3LCD projectors.

Measuring 1.64 inches diagonally, the new panel supports displays with resolutions up to 4096 × 2160 pixels.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 09/11/2009

In The Era Of Virtualization: Interview with Richard Gilder, CEO of Intercept

editor@biz-news.com (Luis Sandoval) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:42:00 +0100

The cloud has been a popular computing term for 2009 and going into 2010 will likely see the rise of that term as content become more accessible from multiple location as opposed to being locked down by local storage.

Intercept is a virtualization company within the UK specializing in desktop virtualization, server virtualization, application virtualization and storage virtualization. A very large part of their business is based in the cloud. Majority of our clients seek virtual hosting for their enterprise computers. They basically help develop a system allowing generic access, via the cloud, to any application that a company has.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 06/11/2009

Running Web 2.0 Campaign: Interview with Ben Self, Founding Partner of Blue State Digital

editor@biz-news.com (Luis Sandoval) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:37:00 +0100

Blue State Digital claims itself to be “the leader in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking, constituency development for nonprofit organizations, political candidates and causes, and corporations.” Though just starting in 2004 they've been able to acquire an impressive clientele list to include President Obama, Walmart, Alliance for Climate Protection and Communication Workers of America.

When asked what separates their products and services from the rest, found partner Ben Self had this to say, “the thing that I think makes it really interesting and important is that it has been rigorously tested through our analytics department.”

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 06/11/2009

Report: Looking Forward to Ultra-High Definition TV

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:16:00 +0100

While the market for High-Definition TV has hit the mainstream, the industry has already started speculating about the commercialization of Ultra-High Definition (UHD).

UHD formats provide between four and sixteen times the resolution of Blu-ray or 1080p high definition as well as 22.2 multichannel three-dimensional sound.

The In-Stat report says the rising popularity of high resolution digital cinema will expose consumers to high resolution content. Then, early UHDTVs will be made available to provide a digital cinema high resolution viewing experience in the home.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 05/11/2009

Vordel Introduces Cloud Service Broker to Manage Multi-Domain Services

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:17:00 +0100

Vordel, a provider of governance products for Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), released the Vordel Cloud Service Broker that aggregates and manages multi-domain services.

The Multi-Domain Registry (MDRR) aggregates together services across domains. These domains include not only Cloud providers such as Amazon and Google, but also local on-premises services, and business partner services. In this way, all of the services on which a business depends are managed in one place.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 05/11/2009

Best Buy Brings On-Demand Entertainment to Its Customers

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:40:00 +0100

Best Buy and Sonic Solutions announced a strategic relationship that will result in a new Best Buy customer offering in its line-up of digital entertainment products.

The new on-demand movie and entertainment service will be powered by Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow.

The software required to access CinemaNow's video library will be included on all the Web-connected devices sold in Best Buy's more than 1,000 U.S. stores.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 04/11/2009

Motorola Becomes a First-Mover Again

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:29:00 +0100

“Android provides differentiation today, but may not tomorrow,” says recent Canalys report on Motorola’s market strategy.

During its Q3 earnings call on 29 October, Motorola’s Co-CEO Sanjay Jha announced the company’s quarterly profit of $12 million, up from a $397 million loss a year ago.

Canalys claims the quick rollout of DROID following the CLIQ demonstrates that the company is moving in the right direction, having suffered from portfolio stagnation following the earlier tremendous success of the RAZR.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 04/11/2009

VOIPFUTURE First to Monitor Multiple GB/s Links at Full Line Rate

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:08:00 +0100

VOIPFUTURE, a vendor of Next Generation Technology (NGT) for the analysis and diagnosis of voice quality in VoIP networks, claims the company’s Smart Monitoring Probes are the first to monitor multiple GB/s links at full line rate.

RTP Monitoring Probe generates detailed diagnostics for every 5-second of a call stream. The company says this innovative voice quality evaluation technology provides precise information about individual in-call quality as well as network-wide service status.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 04/11/2009

Mobile Security Solutions: Interview with Alain Rollier, President of AXSionics

editor@biz-news.com (Samuel Mungadze) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:42:00 +0100

A paradigm shift in information communication technology is set to address security threats and concerns in Africa and the world at large, a senior official has said.

In an interview, AXSionics founding president, Alain Rollier, said his company was bringing a new innovative security system aimed at addressing insecurity in technological business with respect to mobile phones, computing and financial sector (banking).

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 03/11/2009

AFCOM Survey: Most Data Centers Not Ready for Cyberattack

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:18:00 +0100

Significant findings of AFCOM’s 2009/2010 Data Center Trends survey reveal that though threat of cyber terrorism is real, it is not being adequately addressed by the world's keepers of the most confidential financial, military and personal data.

Survey also reveals that despite hype around cloud computing, only 14.9 percent of data centers have deployed cloud solutions to date - and it shines a new light on the fate of mainframes.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 02/11/2009

HDI 100-inch Laser-Based 3D HDTV Reached the Manufacturing Stage

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:45:00 +0100

HDI announced it has entered into a manufacturing agreement to mass produce 100-inch Laser-Driven 2D/3D Switchable Dynamic Video Projection Televisions.

HDI's 2D/3D switchable system delivers 2D image with a 50% greater resolution than today's digital cinemas, and derives its “greater-than-high” definition stereoscopic 1920 x 1080p "3D" image quality from two RGB laser-illuminated Liquid Crystal on Silcon (LCOS) micro display imagers.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 02/11/2009

Apple Updates Apple TV with 3.0 Software: More HD Content to Be Sold

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:46:00 +0100

After months of speculations whether Apple will release completely new Apple TV device making it a high-end media center for our living rooms or rather leave it, more or less, as it is (means without all the latest true HD capibilities, IP streaming, Blu-ray, live TV ability, HD recorder, 1080p support, etc.)… we still don’t know the answer.

The company introduced new Apple TV 3.0 software that gives us not more than a redesigned main menu - which is said to give a faster access to the content, possibility to watch iTunes Extras and enjoy iTunes LP in fullscreen and listen to the internet radio (including stations in high-quality HE-ACC formats).

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 30/10/2009

Intel and Numonyx Announce a Breakthrough in PCM Technology

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:13:00 +0100

Intel and Numonyx, a provider of memory technologies, announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a 64Mb test chip that enables the ability to stack, or place, multiple layers of PCM arrays within a single die.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 29/10/2009

Gladinet Launches Cloud Gateway for Cloud-Hosted Desktop

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:23:00 +0100

After pioneering the concept of integrating a wide range of cloud services on a PC desktop with its introduction of Cloud Desktop earlier this year, Gladinet, the ubiquitous cloud storage client, rolled out Gladinet Cloud Gateway v1.0 and Cloud Desktop v1.3.

If Cloud Desktop turns the Internet into a virtual PC, Cloud Gateway is its file server. Built on the same open platform as Cloud Desktop, the Gateway connects individual desktops to cloud storage through one access point.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 29/10/2009

Google Enters Navigation Market

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:26:00 +0100

It is now official and will completely change the mobile and PND navigation market. Google announced Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 devices.

It comes with 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting, but unlike most navigation systems, the Navigation was built from the ground up to take advantage of the phone's internet connection, as Google claims.

The first phone to have Google Maps Navigation is Motorola’s Droid. It hits the U.S. market next week (Nov. 6th) for $199 on contract.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 29/10/2009

OSRAM Sets a Milestone in Developing OLED Technology

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:08:00 +0100

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors has set an important milestone in developing OLED technology. The OLED prototypes that OSRAM has developed as part of a research project are large transparent light sources only a few hundred micrometers thick.

Thanks to new technology these organic light emitting diodes do not need separate encapsulation and can be made incredibly thin in any layout.

The transparent test samples have a luminous area of 210 cm² and are already showing the enormous potential of OLED light sources.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 28/10/2009

Sipera SLiC Makes Smartphone VoIP and UC Secure and “Business Ready”

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:42:00 +0100

After demonstrating how easy it was to eavesdrop and record VoIP calls made over an unsecured WiFi network on the iPhone using open source software called UCSniff, Sipera Systems, which offers real-time Unified Communications (UC) security, released the Sipera Secure Live Communications (SLiC) mobility solution.

The company claims Sipera SLiC is the industry’s first security solution enabling enterprises to “tame” the smartphone, permitting employees to use VoIP, UC, cloud telephony, and other low-cost and feature-rich communications applications on mobile devices with complete security and privacy.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 28/10/2009

Interview with Robert Lang of TechTour Web & Mobility Summit

editor@biz-news.com (Luis Sandoval) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:33:00 +0100

TechTour is nonprofit organization that puts on many events and they either have a country focus or they are industry focus, but both welcome investors, startups, and innovators to come together. Each of them repeat themselves every 3 or 4 years providing a cycle between each event and summit.

"More specifically, the Web & Mobility Summit, which takes place on November 18-19, 2009. It is during these events that we pull together a committee from the industry, venture capitalists, and business angels," said Robert Lang, President of the TechTour Web & Mobility Summit, in an interview with Biz-News.com.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 28/10/2009

Texas Memory Systems Sets New SPC-1 Records for Flash Storage Performance

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:28:00 +0100

Texas Memory Systems announced that its RamSan-620 Flash Solid State Disk (SSD) has submitted a record setting SPC-1 Result.

Launched in August, the RamSan-620 produced 254,994.21 SPC-1 IOPS with Average Response Time of 0.72 milliseconds all from a 2U rack-mount chassis and delivers its performance at a cost of only $1.13 per SPC-1 IOPS.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 27/10/2009

Netflix Coming to PlayStation3

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:46:00 +0100

Sony and Netflix – the two of the fastest growing home entertainment brands in the U.S. – are joining forces to make movies and TV episodes from Netflix available to be streamed instantly to TVs via the PlayStation3.

The streaming via the PS3 system will begin next month at no additional cost to Netflix members in the United States who have a PS3 system.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 27/10/2009

Application Stores as a Great Opportunity for Mobile Navigation

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:06:00 +0100

Application stores are presenting a new, significant channel for the promotion and distribution of mobile applications in EMEA.

In recent report Canalys analyzes how important will this channel become for navigation applications, and what opportunities does it present.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 27/10/2009

IP Becomes More Attractive to SMB's: Interview with Jeff Howe, President of Allworx

editor@biz-news.com (Luis Sandoval) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:53:00 +0100

In the world of communication services and VoIP technology there are a lot of companies out there providing services to large businesses and enterprises.

What seems to lack is the company that serves the SMB's as a provider of similar services in both an easy to use and affordable package.

In a conversation with President of Allworx, Jeff Howe, he explains why they've focused on the SMB market,”If you look at IP as an industry all together there are a lot of moving parts right now. For example, from a pure industry perspective, a lot of the key features for the SMB space from a lot of our other competitors are typically missing.”

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 26/10/2009

Mobile Internet in Africa: Interview with Jose Henriques, Vodacom

editor@biz-news.com (Samuel Mungadze, Johannesburg ) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:53:00 +0100

Mobile internet is no longer luxury in Africa as it has become a valuable tool of global development, this according to Jose Henriques, Vodacom executive head of internet services.

Henriques was speaking to Biz-News.com in Johannesburg last week during the Mobile Web Africa conference whose focus was looking at ways of harnessing the potential of internet and applications on mobile devices.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 26/10/2009

Web & Mobility Summit – Debate the Hot Issues and Network with VCs, Business Angels and ...

editor@biz-news.com ( ) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:40:00 +0100

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The 25 selected Start-ups, to be announced at the Summit itself, will come from some of the strongholds of the European scene, such as mobile social networks, mobile publishing, adserving and gaming, as well as Ecommerce, E-business, payment and billing.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 26/10/2009

iSuppli Reports Strong DRAM Market Growth

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:41:00 +0100

The DRAM industry in the second and third quarters of 2009 posted the strongest sequential growth in revenue and pricing seen in at least five years, indicating that the recent market rebound is real and is likely to continue into 2010, according to iSuppli.

“The continued increase in prices comes as another indicator that the DRAM market is emerging from what has been a long and painful slump,” said Mike Howard, senior analyst, DRAM, for iSuppli.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 23/10/2009

Research Forecasts Flat Panel Display Industry Slowdown in Q4, Recovery in 2010

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:55:00 +0100

According to the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly Worldwide FPD Forecast Report, global flat panel display revenues for 2009 will be $87.6B, down 15% Y/Y from 2008.

The major reason for the decline is erosion in large-area TFT LCD panel prices compared to 2008, despite the fact that the TFT LCD market started to recover in Q2’09.

Other research from iSuppli says small and medium LCD suppliers are preparing for a Q4 slowdown.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 23/10/2009

Phillips Launches Wireless HDTV Box in the U.S.

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:01:00 +0100

Philips confirmed U.S. retail availability for its much-anticipated Wireless HDTV Link, introduced in September at IFA 2009 in Berlin.

HDTV Link uses innovative technology to wirelessly deliver high-definition TV picture quality (up to 1080p) without ruining the aesthetics of the home.

It transmits HD signal up to 75 feet away from the TV without signal loss or degradation, making it possible e.g. to stream devices like a Blu-ray player to a TV from the other side of the room.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 23/10/2009

Nokia Sues Apple for Infringement of Nokia GSM, UMTS and WLAN Patents

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:37:00 +0100

Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in Delaware, alleging that Apple's iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.

Nokia says the ten patents in suit relate to technologies “fundamental” to making devices which are compatible with one or more of the GSM, UMTS (3G WCDMA) and wireless LAN standards.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 22/10/2009

Young Entrepreneur Brings Openmoko to Africa

editor@biz-news.com (Samuel Mungadze, Johannesburg) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:53:00 +0100

INTERVIEW. A young entrepreneur in South Africa has teamed up with Openmoko to distribute the Neo Freerunner to Africa.

Nyasha Mutsekwa spoke to Biz-News.com at the sidelines of Mobile Web Africa conference in Johannesburg of his mission.

The Neo Freerunner is an open-source phone, which allows developers and enthuasists alike access to the source code and hardware schematics to customize the device to their hearts content.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 22/10/2009

Transformational Impact of Server Virtualization on IT Infrastructure

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:15:00 +0100

A recent IDC survey investigating server virtualization deployments in vorious organizations reveals that the technology is transforming server, storage, and networking infrastructure and even more so the way their datacenters are and will be built and managed.

The survey also suggests that many users are pushing their virtual server environments to the limits, which is causing several problems, such as virtual server sprawl and storage I/O bottlenecks.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 22/10/2009

Panasas Announces the World's Highest-Performance File Storage System

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:46:00 +0100

Panasas intoroduced the ActiveStor Series 9 parallel storage system, which is believed to be the highest-performance file storage system in the world, as the company claims.

Unlike single-dimensional storage solutions, which offer either high-bandwidth performance or optimized IOPS, the ActiveStor Series 9 uses multiple storage technologies in a synchronized architecture to produce both.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 21/10/2009

T-Mobile to Offer First 3G BlackBerry with Voice Calling over Wi-Fi

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:28:00 +0100

RIM announced the upcoming availability of the BlackBerry Bold 9700 with Wi-Fi Calling from T-Mobile.

It will be the first 3G-powered BlackBerry available through T-Mobile USA, and also the first smartphone from RIM that includes built-in support for both 3G connectivity and voice calls over Wi-Fi, according to T-Mobile.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 21/10/2009

Smartphone Faces Security Threat

editor@biz-news.com (Samuel Mungadze) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:17:00 +0100

INTERVIEW. The pervasive nature of the mobile world has made it difficult to successfully curb security threats on smartphones and other mobile devices offering internet access, says Alain Rollier, founder of AXSionics.

In an interview with Biz-News.com this week, Rollier gave a detailed account of how security threat on mobile devices was shifting from the traditional devices that offer Internet Access.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 21/10/2009

Collecting Testimonies of Violence Using Mobile Internet

tomek@biz-news.com (Samuel Mungadze, Johannesburg) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:32:00 +0100

INTERVIEW. Kenya has taken a leading role in Africa by embarking on effective use of Mobile Internet to expose acts of political violence, murder and torture, Ory Okollo the founder of Ushahidi.com told Biz-news.com

In an interview on the sidelines of Mobile Web Africa conference in Sandton recently, executive director of Kenya’s Ushahidi, Ory Okolloh, said her organization was primarily established to expose crisis situations to empower Africa.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 20/10/2009

VideoWeb Introduces World First Hybrid HDTV Satellite Receiver

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:23:00 +0100

VIDEO INTERVIEW. VideoWeb has developed a receiver that combines HDTV broadcasting, internet TV and numerous internet applications in a single unit.

Doris Kucera, Press Officer of VideoWeb gave Biz-News.com reporters a short introduction to the company as well as a live demonstration of Plus X Award-nominated WidoWeb S500.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 20/10/2009

What Do Consumers Do With Their Phones?

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:40:00 +0100

A recent Canalys consumer study looked at what features consumers are using on their phones. The main conclusions pointed out by Canalys are that customers on SIM-only contracts consume more data than their pre-paid counterparts, the use of data services is limited outside of smart phone owners, social networking on mobile phones remains a relatively small, but growing service and that many consumers will look for navigation services on their next mobile phone.

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Originally appeared on Smartphone Biz-news.com on 19/10/2009

StromPhonie Powerline Telephone Technology from AGFEO

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:03:00 +0100

VIDEO INTREVIEW. The StromPhonie is an integration into the Powerline technology within AGFEO Telephone Systems and therefore does not require any telephone wire installation. With the aid of IP based ASIP (AGFEO System IP) technology system phones can be connected to the telephone system by using the standard 230 Volt mains socket.

Lars Husemann, Product Manager for AGFEO gave us a short introduction to the company’s star products and a demonstration of the StromPhonie system.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 19/10/2009

Large-Sized LCD Panel Business Becomes Profitable Again

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:37:00 +0100

After a year of losing money or generating zero return, the global large-sized LCD panel business returned to profitability in the third quarter, according to iSuppli’s latest research.

Analysts say the main reason LCD panels have not been profitable for so long is the market’s extreme state of oversupply, which resulted in LCD panel pricing that was below manufacturing costs.

LG Display was the world’s largest seller of large-sized LCD panels in the second quarter of 2009, accounting for 25.3 percent of shipments.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 19/10/2009

Telairity Intoduces Hot-Switchable HD/SD H.264 Encoder

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:26:00 +0100

The BE8500, a H.264/AVC video encoder capable of hot-switching between a high-definition or standard-definition video source, was introduced by Telairity at HD World.

The 1-RU BE8500 works either as a full-featured HD encoder or as an SD/SDI encoder. It auto-senses whether the video source is SD or HD, and enables users to switch live between the two video formats without powering down. Switch-over conversion is virtually instantaneous, enabling a smooth transition for live or live on tape programming.

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Originally appeared on HDTV.biz-news.com :: Latest HDTV Business News on 16/10/2009

Kolmisoft Releases Free Version of VoIP Billing and Routing Platform MOR

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:51:00 +0100

Kolmisoft, a creator and developer of all in one solution - softwich with billing and routing functionality, has released a free community edition of its platform MOR focused on the startups and entrepreneurs who are willing to start a VoIP business, the company announced.

The free version has the same features and functionality as the commercial edition, just limited to ten concurrent calls.

Running on Asterisk, MOR easily handles even 300-500 simultaneous calls on a single server, the company claims.

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Originally appeared on VoIP Biz-News.com on 16/10/2009

Barracuda Launches Integrated Local and Cloud-based Backup Solution in Europe

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:07:00 +0100

Barracuda Networks announced the European launch of its Barracuda Backup Service, a local and cloud-based data backup and disaster recovery solution.

It combines the Barracuda Backup Server for restoration on the local network with the Barracuda Backup Service, a cloud-based backup service hosted by two data centres in Europe.

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 16/10/2009

IBM Delivers First Integrated Solid State Drive Support

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:35:00 +0100

IBM announced that its storage virtualization offering, the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC), “is now faster, more scalable, and delivers the industry’s first integrated Solid State Drive support.”

SVC is a storage virtualization system that complements server virtualization technologies and enables a single point of control for storage resources (both IBM and non-IBM arrays) to support “improved business application availability, better IT infrastructure flexibility, and greater resource utilization.”

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 15/10/2009

IBM Delivers First Integrated Solid State Drive Support

tomek@biz-news.com (Tomasz Czech) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:35:00 +0100

IBM announced that its storage virtualization offering, the IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC), “is now faster, more scalable, and delivers the industry’s first integrated Solid State Drive support.”

SVC is a storage virtualization system that complements server virtualization technologies and enables a single point of control for storage resources (both IBM and non-IBM arrays) to support “improved business application availability, better IT infrastructure flexibility, and greater resource utilization.”

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Originally appeared on Storage.biz-news.com :: Latest Storage Business News on 15/10/2009