Dutch Parliament Approves Landmark "Cable Network Unbundling" Bill
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Dutch parliamentarians yesterday voted to approve a proposal that forces domestic cable companies to share their networks with rivals, triggering what could become a global strategy for regulating the cable industry. In a move that would greatly appease the country's dominant telecoms company KPN, a majority of legislators voted ...
T-Mobile and Radiokomunikace Launch DVB-H Trials
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The Czech Republic's number-two mobile operator T-Mobile Czech Republic has launched trials of the Digital Video Broadband Handheld (DVB-H) technology in co-operation with telecoms company Radiokomunikace. The new offering will be called 'TV in Your Pocket' and will comprise 10 TV channels, including CT24, EuroNews, ...
Government in China Issues Technical Standard for Mobile Broadcasting Content
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China has issued a technical standard for broadcasting multimedia content such as television programmes to mobile devices, the Wall Street Journal reports. The newspaper quoted a statement by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television as saying the home-grown standard "is very important for the growth of our ...
Enpower ENP680: An Entry-Level Laptop
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While everybody would love to own a high-end laptop featuring plenty of power and the latest networking bells and whistles, real world financial concerns force most of us to seek lower priced, less capable machines. But trading off features against cost requires a careful balancing act. After all, cutting away too many ...
Deutsche Telekom to Create New Service Units
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BERLIN - Deutsche Telekom AG announced Tuesday that it will set up new service units in an effort to improve efficiency, and also said it has no new job cuts in the pipeline beyond existing plans to cut 32,000 staff. The Bonn-based company said it would hire around 4,000 additional staff for call centers and customer service ...
Japan's Security-lock Cellphone Knows When Owner Strays Too Far
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TOKYO -- A new mobilephone in Japan locks automatically when its owner moves too far away and can be found via satellite navigation when it goes missing. The P903i from NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile carrier, comes with a small black card about the size of a movie-ticket stub that works as a security key by connecting wirelessly ...
BT Group Says it Bought Counterpane to Expand its Services
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LONDON -- BT Group PLC, the former British state phone monopoly, said Wednesday it bought Counterpane Internet Security Inc., a provider of managed networked security services, as it seeks to expand its professional services business. Financial details were not disclosed. Counterpane currently monitors 550 networks worldwide ...
Sprint Picks San Diego for First Rev A Launch
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Sprint Nextel customers in San Diego will be the first to experience the carrier's commercial EV-DO Revision A service, which is available today. Sprint, which previously announced an aggressive Rev A rollout for this year, also unveiled other markets where Rev A will be available before the end of 2006, with coverage ...
New Handset Company Targets Motorola, Nokia
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NEC Corp. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., using its Panasonic brand name, have created the joint cellular-handset company agreed on this summer as the companion to a larger joint venture that includes Texas Instruments. The partners are calling their joint venture Esteemo, a name that was 'coined from a ...
T-Mobile Pilots WiFi/Cell Service
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With little fanfare, T-Mobile USA has launched its long-anticipated dual-mode WiFi-cellular service, known as 'HotSpot@Home' in a pilot program aimed at residential customers in Seattle. The pilot, which got underway yesterday, marks a milestone in the company's drive to make good on CEO Robert Dotson's pledge to ...
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