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NEC Taps GENBAND for SFR's Femtocell Deployment
GENBAND Inc.'s G9 Converged Gateway (News - Alert) will power a femtocell solution that NEC is going to supply to French telecom company SFR. The femtocell solution includes a compact, indoor femtocell access point as well as the supporting femtocell gateway, which aggregates and connects potentially millions of the access points to the operator's core network.
www.genband.com
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Comcast (News - Alert) Brings 4G to Seattle
A 4G broadband wireless service is now available from Comcast
in Seattle and the surrounding area. The service, called High-Speed 2go, is being bundled with one or more of Comcast's
Internet, phone and television products. A wireline and wireless "Internet Fast Pack" offer is available for $49.99 per month for one year; the bundle includes 12mbps home Internet
service, a Wi-Fi router for mobility and extended coverage in the home, and mobile 4G service with download speeds up to 4mbps. Users can also choose the Fast Pack Nationwide service,
which provides 4G service as well as 16mbps PowerBoost wireline capabilities, for $69.99 a month.
www.comcast.com
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Hillary Clinton Has Harsh Words for Those Who Censor, Attack the Internet
Following the hubbub around Google's (News - Alert) threats that it may pull the plug on its Chinese search engine in the wake a cyber attack,
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently emphasized
the importance of an uncensored Internet for all, around the globe. Clinton was quoted in reports as saying: "A new information curtain is descending across much of the world. We stand for a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas." She called on the carpet such countries as China, Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia, each of which has a history of censoring the Internet and/or harassing bloggers. She said those involved in cyber attacks should be punished and condemned by the international community.
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Dell' (News - Alert)Oro: Mobile Infrastructure Revenue Dropped 10% in 3Q09
A recently published report from Dell'Oro Group reveals mobile infrastructure revenues declined 10 percent in the third quarter of 2009, to $9 billion. The steep decline is attributed to fewer 3G deployments
in China during that period. And although 3G spending in China was expected to be low for the rest of 2009, the report indicates
that heavy spending by China Unicom (News - Alert) and China Telecom is expected to resume this year for both WCDMA and CDMA.
www.delloro.com
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CTIA: Spectrum (News - Alert) Use Should Indeed be Examined
Wireless industry association CTIA is behind the FCC's move to issue a public notice on uses of spectrum to gather the facts in an effort to ensure "the U.S. wireless industry remains the world's most competitive and innovative." The group says the notice is a logical outgrowth of CTIA's (News - Alert) recent filings suggesting that the commission should consider reallocation of spectrum. According
to the CTIA, at least another 800 MHz is required within six years to meet the increasing consumer demand for mobile Internet,
mHealth, smart grids, and a number of other wireless uses.
www.ctia.org
www.fcc.gov
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ALU Addresses Holistic Application Creation, Management
helping network operators and developers more easily enable and create new applications that are manageable, reliable, scalable and secure. The Application Exposure Suite allows service providers and enterprises to accelerate application innovation by outfitting them with a simple way to expose various APIs to the developer community. The Open API Service, meanwhile, is being sold primarily to application developers, which can use the service's Web-based portal at http://developer.openapiservice.com to access network enablers such as SMS, location and more. Transformation services are a collection of professional services around integration of multivendor networks and applications; migration to IP-based networks; and the automation of processes.
www.alcatel-lucent.com
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Bing Goes Temporarily Silent
An internal configuration change to Bing caused Microsoft's (News - Alert) main search Web site to go down for about 45 minutes last month, in
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what some say could adversely affect the service's reputation. Those visiting the site on one Thursday evening got a browser error message,
according to reports. Microsoft commented on the outage both on Twitter and via a blog by Satya Nadella (News - Alert), senior vice president
of the online services division, who wrote, in part: "As soon as the issue was detected, the change was rolled back, which caused the site to return to normal behavior. Unfortunately the detection and rollback took about half an hour, and during that time users were unable to use bing.com."
www.bing.com
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Hearst Launches Skiff E-Reader
A Hearst Corp. company called Skiff LLC plans to launch a complete
e-reading solution that includes the Skiff Service platform, Skiff Store and Skiff-enabled devices. Sprint and semiconductor company Marvell (News - Alert) are key partners in this project. Skiff, formerly known as FirstPaper, specializes in the delivery and presentation of newspaper and magazine content.
www.hearst.com
www.marvell.com
www.sprint.com
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Deloitte (News - Alert): Mobile VoIP Positioned for Strong Growth
Businesses continue to find appeal in mobile VoIP, which is expected
to reach tens of millions of users by the conclusion of 2010. That's the sentiment expressed by Deloitte in its predictions for 2010. The research firm expects the mobile VoIP sector to be worth £18 billion ($29.2 billion) by 2013. Deloitte attributes the appeal of mobile VoIP to the range of services and features it offers, including as examples its one-to-many call capabilities, broadcast voicemail, and voice-to-text features. The firm says all of the above will be commonplace in mobile VoIP going forward.
www.deloitte.com
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Road Runner Mobile Comes to Dallas
Time Warner (News - Alert) Cable has brought 4G mobile to Dallas. Road Runner Mobile customers in North Texas will be able to access
the Internet at speeds of up to 6mbps. Road Runner Mobile
will launch in Austin and San Antonio early this year, and TWC expects to expand the service to Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro, N.C., as well as Honolulu and Maui, Hawaii, in the future.
www.timewarnercable.com
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Berg Insight: Mobile Entertainment is Ready for Takeoff
Analyst firm Berg Insight predicts brighter prospects for the mobile entertainment industry in the future. People are ready to make most of the entertainment services offered on handheld
devices, but the challenge before service providers is to properly adapt their products to the mobile medium, according
to the research firm, which operates from the Swedish city of Gothenburg. The first challenge facing content producers is to ensure that their products are easy to find and sold through channels consumers feel confident using.
www.berginsight.com
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Electricity 16% of Energy in 2009, says TechNavio
Advancing technologies and proliferation of wide ranging electrical and electronic gadgets are driving up the consumption of electricity
at a high rate, TechNavio Insights says. According to the market research firm, electricity in North America made up 16 percent of the total energy consumption in 2009 as compared to 9 percent about 20 years ago. "The efficiency of a traditional electric grid is only around 33 percent," according to a report from the company. "However, with the implementation of some advanced technologies,
the efficiency can be improved to around 60 percent."
www.technavio.com
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Verizon Business (News - Alert) Offers Toll-Free Capabilities via Local Numbers
The magic of IP has enabled Verizon Business to offer a more cost-effective solution to customers that want local phone numbers that offer toll free-type functionality and can tie into their offices anywhere. Verizon VoIP Inbound with Local Originations, in addition
to providing a local number, can deliver customer calls to either traditional or IP-based contact centers; reroute traffic in the event of unforeseen service interruptions; and enable businesses to respond to spikes in customer service demand by allowing them to balance traffic across the network. The company has been offering
contact center services for many years, but they have always been tied to more costly toll-free service.
www.verizonbusiness.com
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