Shrinking Radios
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Anyone old enough to remember the mobile phones of the 1980s can recall heavy shoebox-sized devices that were almost impossible to hold with a single hand. Modern phones are much smaller and lighter, of course. But just how small can radios--which is what mobile phones really are--get? Last year, Hewlett-Packard...
Managed Services Go Competitive, Continue To Target Large Enterprises, SMBs
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According to new research from TelecomWeb news break's sister program "InfoTrack for Enterprise Services (IES)", large systems integrators and managed-service providers are beginning to move below the first tier of medium business, and they are meeting competition from myriad providers. The newest edition of the IES...
Motorola Virtually Promotes Headset
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In what might be called a worldwide publicity stunt, Motorola held what it called its first virtual global press conference today to announce its latest Bluetooth headset, the MotoPure H12 using its CrystalTalk audio-enhancing technology. The press conference featured Motorola spokespeople in Libertyville, Il., London's...
Service Creation and Management Find Common Ground
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Talk about silos. Does it make sense for the creation and management of services to exist in different parts of the telecom brain? Getting IP service creation right is the one play that will save the telecom service provider from annihilation by hip Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Facebook, or so the story...
Google Plans Lack Substance: Analysts
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As much of the technology sector goes ga-ga for Google after this week's announcement of the Android open software initiative, industry analysts are excited, but many aren't yet sure exactly what to make of it. With the free Linux-based, open-source Android operating system, Google aims to speed the development of...
Operators Flock to Femto Forum
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The Femto Forum Ltd. announced the addition of more than 30 member companies today, a move that significantly grows its ranks from a handful of startups to include major operators and equipment vendors. This week's announcement shows there is growing momentum behind femtocells, the tiny base stations that improve voice and...
HDS Thin Provisioning Seen as Large Enterprise Boost
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HDS has extended existing thin provisioning on its Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) series to encompass attached external arrays from other vendors. Just who will really use this, and why? At least one analyst says there's a solid market out there. "There are many candidates. They're definitely larger ...
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