Under the Spotlight?Telecom Italia's Management Waiting Game
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The Italian telecoms giant, Telecom Italia, has been plunged into a waiting game as its controlling shareholder consortium, Telco, debates the choice of a new chairman and chief executive officer for the group. Since Telco wrapped up its takeover of a controlling 23.6% stake in the Italian giant in October, speculation has been rife...
Ericsson, Telkomsel Deploy Solar-Driven Macro Base Station in Indonesia
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Ericsson today announced its latest effort in low-energy telecommunication solutions, a solar-driven and energy-efficient main-remote GSM base station deployed in conjunction with leading Indonesian mobile operator Telkomsel. The deployment will provide macro coverage in the untapped areas of Sumatra and will address mobile...
Software Makes Camera Phone Photos Legally Admissible
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Camera phones are being used to document a variety of different situations, including vehicles involved in accidents, structural deficiencies in buildings and the physical condition of valuable objects--to name but a few examples. But a photo can't be used as legal evidence unless its owner can irrefutably prove that the image ...
T-Mobile Offers IPhone Without Contract
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BERLIN -- Deutsche Telekom AG's mobile unit said Wednesday it would offer Apple's iPhone without a contract to comply with a court injunction, but consumers that opt out of a two-year contract will pay more than twice as much for it. T-Mobile will start selling the phone for 999 euros ($1,477) immediately as well as...
IBM Upgrades Its UC Portfolio
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IBM has beefed up its Rational, WebSphere and Tivoli products, coming up with a set of offerings it says will let telecommunications carriers, equipment providers and application developers use service oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 technologies to create, deploy and manage voice, video and data services. The IBM...
Wi-Fi Moving Beyond the Laptop
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The Wi-Fi Alliance has seen a record surge in new devices certified under its banner in the last year, but what's more interesting than just sheer volume is the types of devices seeking the Wi-Fi logo. What was a purely laptop and PC networking driven industry is now starting to trend toward handheld consumer devices like...
Euro Scorecard: Another 'A' for Telefonica
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With Thanksgiving coming up, half of the U.S. is either already on vacation or on autopilot. Therefore, it seems like a good time to turn our attention to Europe and deliver the carrier scorecards for the third quarter of 2007. Europe clearly has positioned itself as the telco TV center of the world. (See IPTV Growth Gets Euro...
RIM's Touching New BlackBerry Plans
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Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is said to be preparing a whole new "9000-series" operating system and device platform to take on Apple Inc., Google, and others in 2008. The 9000-series is described by Carmi Levy, an analyst at AR Communications Inc. , as "the future of the BlackBerry franchise," a complete...
Fortisphere Gets $10M
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Secretive stealth-mode startup Fortisphere picked up $10 million in funding today to bankroll its efforts to manage multiple virtual machines.The Series A round, which was led by Fairhaven Capital Partners and Globespan Capital Partners, will be used to develop the vendor's soon-to-be-launched Virtual Essentials...
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