Coming Soon Video-On-Demand
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For most of the country's smaller, independent cable operators, the video-on-demand (VOD) vision has evolved into a "must-have" service for the rural, smaller markets, but with a "not yet" reality. The reality is that all of the necessary ingredients needed to deploy a quality VOD service remain out of reach for the majority of the...
Conquering a Culture of Indecision
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The single greatest cause of corporate underperformance is the failure to execute. According to author Ram Charan, such failures usually result from misfires in personal interactions. And these faulty interactions rarely occur in isolation, Charan says in this article originally published in 2001. More often than not, they're typical of...
Qwest Demands Users Accept New DSL Terms
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Claiming that it's just doing what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) now allows, Qwest is demanding that its DSL customers accept a new set of terms of service that, among other things, could forbid small businesses from offering their customers WiFi and could see home users fined $5 per e-mail if a hacker secretly hijacks...
Researchers Seek "Perfect" Mobile Storage
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A new type of static memory could well be the perfect storage device, promising the development of handheld devices with coin-sized drives that could store over 100 movies. The magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) technology would also offer numerous other advantages, including faster operation with 99 percent less energy consumption. ...
Arcor, Hansanet and QSC Announce Broadband Plans
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Germany's leading alternative fixed-line telco Arcor, part of the Vodafone Group, is planning to invest over 200 million euro this year on a high-speed fibre-optic network. Arcor expects to present its proposal to the German chancellor as it is willing to share the costs of constructing the national fibre-optic network with dominant...
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As Research In Motion (RIM) continues its patent battle with NTP, it's business as usual in other parts of the world where RIM continues its dominance. RIM and Dialog Telekom announced the launch of the BlackBerry wireless platform in Sri Lanka. Dialog will offer the BlackBerry Enterprise Server, the BlackBerry 7100g and the BlackBerry...
Alltel/Valor Restructuring Gets FCC Nod
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The proposed corporate restructuring and the transfer of landline network assets by Alltel Corporation to the Valor Communications Group was approved by the Federal Communications Commission, moving the proposed $9.1 billion transaction closer to its anticipated mid-2006 closing. The federal nod from the regulator's Wireline Competition...
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