Vodafone Germany Deploys Ericsson's Power-Saving Equipment
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Vodafone Germany is set to deploy Ericsson's new Base Transceiver Station (BTS) Power Savings feature as it aims to make its operations more environmentally friendly. In a statement, Vodafone Germany said the software upgrade, scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007, is expected to reduce energy usage and corresponding...
Vonage and Nortel Settle Patent Dispute
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Vonage and Nortel have announced that they have settled their patent litigation. Under the deal, Nortel and Vonage will get access to three of each other's patented technologies, which support emergency calling and 411 (directory services). Vonage is also freed from paying Nortel for allegedly unauthorised past use of its...
Remote Symptom Reporting Promises Improved Care
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Cancer patients could some day help their physicians provide better care by reporting symptoms via a Web-enabled laptop, mobile phone or similar device. Doctors have traditionally relied on information provided by cancer patients during office visits as their primary means of assessing symptoms and side effects. Yet potentially...
RIM Shares Rise, No Sign of Slowing Down
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This week Research In Motion announced strong Q3 results, despite fears of slowing corporate technology spending. Shares of RIM shot up 12% as the market opened this morning, after the BlackBerry maker announced profits twice that of the same quarter last year. RIM reported $1.67 billion in sales for the third quarter, 22% higher...
Huawei Sells First U.S. Phone to MetroPCS
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Chinese juggernaut Huawei has made its first appearance in the North American handset market, announcing today that one of its CDMA phones is now being offered by MetroPCS. Huawei follows close on the heels of fellow Chinese competitor ZTE, which last week announced its own deal with Metro to sell a CDMA handset. The two Chinese...
2007 Top Ten: Technologies to Watch
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There's no point in dwelling on the successes and failures of the past for much longer. It's time now to look ahead at some of the technologies our editors think will be white hot in the coming months: 10. GPON and WDM PON Carriers are already starting to look beyond GPON to WDM PON. Neither will be deployed in a large...
2007 Top Ten: Wireless Stories
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This has been a groundbreaking and tumultuous year in the wireless industry. The last 12 months have seen the growing dominance of tech companies like Apple Inc., the potential for breaking down the cellular "walled garden" in the U.S., the fading of the citywide mesh wireless dreams, and much more. Join us as we run...
Most Memorable Storage Quotes of 2007
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It's been a year of memorable words from the lips of buyers, suppliers, and hangers-on in the storage industry. Here are a few of our favorites, in descending order of impact: No. 10: "It looks like ZFS was a conscious reimplementation of our WAFL filesystem, with little regard to intellectual property rights." ...
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