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Digital media and communications technology are doing far more than enabling consumers to access new forms of content. They are actually driving a social renaissance that is creating unprecedented opportunities for the advertising industry to execute its core aims in powerful new ways. PricewaterhouseCoopers calls this opportunity...
Wireless Sensors Promise Safer Skies
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Machine to machine (M2M) communications is poised to make air travel safer. Researchers at Purdue University, working with the U.S. Air Force, have created tiny wireless sensors that are tough enough to survive the harsh conditions inside jet engines. The sensors are designed to detect when critical bearings are close to...
Faster, Cheaper Broadband Not Enough
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U.K. broadband customers are paying less and getting higher speeds, but they are still not happy, according to the latest J.D. Power and Associates 2007 U.K. Broadband Internet Service Provider Satisfaction Study. The study shows customers are upset that the average hold time on customer service calls is 17 minutes. In...
AT&T Turns To VCAT For Ethernet Over Sonet
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AT&T has become one of the first major carriers in the world to use the technique of Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) on its Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) in order to dish up faster Ethernet to businesses and broadband wholesalers on its metropolitan area networks. In addition to the use of VCAT, AT&T also said that it...
Palm Expects Higher Losses
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Palm has announced lowered second-quarter expectations, saying that losses will be higher than it previously anticipated. The Treo maker attributed the increased losses to delayed product cycles. The company said it now expects sales to tally between $345 million and $350 million for the quarter; Palm earlier had predicted sales...
Cisco Confirms AT&T Core Win
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Cisco Systems Inc. announced today that AT&T Inc. has chosen the CRS-1 router for its core network. AT&T's previous core IP equipment supplier, Avici Systems Inc., exited the router business back in April. Light Reading reported then that AT&T would choose Cisco as its new core router supplier. News of...
Poll: Nationwide WiMax Unlikely in 2008
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Only 22 percent of Unstrung readers believe the United States will have a nationwide WiMax network deployed next year. That's one striking result from the latest Unstrung poll, following hard on the heels of the dissolution of the Clearwire LLC and Sprint Nextel Corp. WiMax deployment deal. That separation is indicative of the...
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