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Vodafone, Skype Develop Mobile VoIP Solution
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Vodafone and the leading peer-to-peer VoIP provider, Skype, have developed a mobile VoIP solution, Starfish, which enables consumers to make mobile calls over the internet. According to reports on the La Tribune website, Vodafone is undecided as to whether to offer the service for fear of cannibalising its regular mobile phone business. ...
Yodio: Podcasts with a Purpose
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Hoping to become a recording star? Yodio wants to help. The Seattle-based startup is offering an integrated, one-stop digital audio publishing service and marketplace--a Web community anyone can visit to self-record, produce and buy/sell personal audio recordings (i.e., podcasts). In a world where personal communication can be ...
Nokia Files Complaints Against Qualcomm
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ESPOO, Finland -- Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of mobilephones, said today it has filed complaints against wireless technology company Qualcomm Inc. in Germany and the Netherlands. The complaints request declarations that Qualcomm's European patents are exhausted in respect of products sold in the ...
Will WebEx Change Cisco?
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Cisco Systems Inc. is acquiring WebEx Communications Inc. as part of its goal to lead the next generation of business communications, but the hefty $3.2 billion buy would sit alongside other acquisitions that analysts say have languished. Yesterday, Cisco agreed to buy WebEx in a $3.2 billion cash deal set to close by ...
Ericsson to Triple EDGE Data Speeds
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Ericsson will use the EDGE Evolution standard to boost current GSM network speeds up to 1 Mbps. Ericsson committed to prepare the software upgrade by 2009. EDGE Evolution is an improvement in data performance over GSM networks that will increase speeds up to 300%, as well as improve coverage, latency and spectrum efficiency. With ...
Disgruntled Alcatel-Lucent Workers Converge In Paris
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Thousands of European Alcatel-Lucent workers marched through Paris yesterday to protest the company's restructuring plan, which calls for thousands of job losses on the continent. Job losses and job relocations are on the front burner in France nowadays because of the presidential election set for April and May. Union ...
Survey: SAN Extension on the Rise
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SAN extension, largely left for dead several years ago, shows signs of renewed growth. According to the 2007 Enterprise User Survey on Storage Area Networks Storage Transport Services, published this week by Heavy Reading, 136 enterprise IT managers worldwide report growing interest in SAN extension and other ...
Broadcasters Increasing Use of Addressable Advertising
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- National TV networks and local broadcasters are increasing their use of addressable advertising products, and are also expanding their plans for addressable advertising on their Internet portals, reports In-Stat. With the explosion of video, especially broadcast TV programming, flooding onto the Internet, ...
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