CommunicationsDirect News Daily Update - December 07, 2007

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Portugal Telecom Demands Compensation for Monopoly-Era Investments

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Portugal Telecom is demanding financial compensation from the Portuguese telecoms regulator, Anacom, for the investments it made in the country's telecoms network while still a monopoly player. In a landmark case that could have radical implications for the entire telecoms sector across Europe, Portugal Telecom is asking for...

Fixed/Mobile Convergence

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Fixed/mobile convergence (FMC), which first took hold in Europe, began trickling into the U.S. market this year with deployments by Cincinnati Bell and T-Mobile. There are obvious financial and operational benefits to deploying FMC services, but the technology is still in flux, where it fits into the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) ...

Convergence, Open Environments Push Professional Services Take-Up

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According to the just released "InfoTrack for Enterprise Services -Professional Services Report, November 2007," convergence and IP telephony (IPT), wireless, Internet, video, instant messaging (IM), intelligent PDAs and converged applications combined with the migration of proprietary voice systems and presence servers to...

Cisco, Nortel Tee Off in Telepresence

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Even if "immersiveness" isn't a real word, it's the very thing two communications equipment giants -- Cisco Systems Inc. and Nortel Networks Ltd. -- use to judge their respective offerings in the field of telepresence, where video conferencing meets reality TV. The goal in a telepresentation, as our reporters have...

Microsoft's Wireless Keyboard Hacked

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European researchers have hacked the 27Mhz radio-based wireless keyboard. Max Moser and Phil Schrodel, researchers with Swiss-based Dreamlab Technologies Ltd. and remote-exploit.org , have written a proof-of-concept for capturing and decrypting keystrokes from Microsoft Corp.'s wireless keyboards. The POC lets an attacker...

Microsoft Adds to Virtualization

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Microsoft has been busy piecing together in recent weeks new features and alliances intended to simplify virtualization in Windows, including broader interoperability, as well as validation of third-party apps in Windows Server environments. The vendor has recently struck interoperability agreements with Novell, XenSource, and...

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