05.02.2008
Bush to spend more than $1 B on Telecoms
The Fiscal Year 2009 Budget released by Bush Administration Monday included technology spending of $242 million to expand the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and $1.1 billion in "fundamental" information technology research.According to the budget documents the money for... |
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04.02.2008
Fourth undesea cable breaks in a week
The fourth international fiber-optic telecom cable to break in a week has cut several services in the Middle East region. The Qatar-UAE cable was cut between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das, disrupting Internet services. On Friday Flag Telecom, part of India`s Reliance... |
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04.02.2008
Has the juice gone out of Telecoms?
BusinessWeek writes the U.S. Telecom industry is losing juice, with the telecom services sector off 10% this year--more than the Dow, the S&P 500 and even the much-pilloried investment banking index. Wireless and broadband are sputtering because 80% of Americans now have a cell phone, and... |
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01.02.2008
Nokia Siemens and Ubiquisys jointly push femtocells
Nokia Siemens Networks and U.K.`s Ubiquisys are to jointly market a 3G femtocell system to mobile operators worldwide. The system will use Ubiquisys` ZoneGate intelligent femtocell and Nokia Siemens femto gateway open architecture. The alliance to aggressively jointly market femtocell technology is... |
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01.02.2008
Motorola surrenders its mobile business
Motorola has finally succumbed to investor demand and has announced it is prepared to "separate" its beleaguered mobile telephone division. That is code for "make us an offer" with analysts suggesting Motorola could get $20 billion for the handset business. There has been market speculation a... |
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31.01.2008
Mediterranean Sea cable cuts disrupt service
Two significant undersea cables were cut in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday, causing widespread Internet outage and service delays in Egypt, India and elsewhere, though much of the traffic on the cables was able to be rerouted. Though undersea cable damage hardly ever happens, the cause in both... |
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30.01.2008
AT&T renews partnership with Yahoo!
AT&T and Yahoo! renewed their long-standing partnership in an agreement that includes an undisclosed revenue-sharing arrangement. The companies have been working together since 2001, but have not redefined the partnership since AT&T completed its acquisition of BellSouth and takeover of... |
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30.01.2008
Service providers boost Foundry's earnings
Ethernet equipment vendor Foundry Networks posted a strong fourth quarter marked by an 84% increase in profit to $28.9 million and a 28% increase in revenue to $168.7 million. The growth was largely fueled by increasing sales to service providers, a market segment the company said now accounts for... |
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28.01.2008
Sprint files four more VoIP lawsuits
Emboldened by their success suing Vonage for patent infringement, traditional telcos are moving onto more lawsuit targets. Verizon Communications last week sued Cox Communications, alleging violation of eight patents, and now Sprint Nextel is suing four more companies--Paetec Holding, Nuvox,... |
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25.01.2008
SPOTLIGHT: Asterisk attracts telecom industry interest
Asterisk, the open source telephony software platform for IP PBXes, has become a big deal in the last year or so. As tends to happen now with open source efforts once there is a hint that they could hit critical mass, investors and established companies have started throwing real money at Asterisk.... |
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