SyChip and SanDisk to Offer Secure Digital (SD) WLAN Card for PDAs, Digital Cameras

SanDisk, the world's largest supplier of flash data storage products, is planning to launch a new line of SanDisk Connect SD wireless products to enable Wi-Fi connectivity in digital cameras, cellular phones, PDAs, Point of Sale (POS) terminals and other handheld devices. The products will use SyChip's WLAN NIC design, which is based on the Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) standard. The companies said the Secure Digital card is an ideal form factor for the wireless LAN because of its small size, low power consumption and ability to be removed...

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STMicroelectronics and SpaceBridge to Develop ICs for Two-Way Satellite Services

STMicroelectronics and SpaceBridge Semiconductor will develop a family of highly integrated broadband wireless modem chips and low cost integrated two-way set top box solutions for the two-way satellite consumer market. The planned devices are targeted to provide speeds up to 155Mbps -- more than 20 times faster than ADSL and cable modems -- for delivering broadband wireless access, HDTV and interactive television capability. ST and SpaceBridge will collaborate on the design and development of the new chip set family, which will be manufactured...

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klocwork Raises $9 Million for Software Intelligence

klocwork, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California and Ottawa, Ontario, raised $9 million in Series B private equity financing to support its "software intelligence" solutions. The company is building automated software that analyzes a system, extracts information directly from the source code, identifies defects, productivity bottlenecks, stability problems, and takes corrective action. U.S. Venture Partners led the round, and Cisco Systems, Inc., and Duke University, became new investors. Pequot Ventures added to its original investment....

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Jordan Telecom Selects Alcatel DSL platform and Multiservice Switch

Jordan Telecom will connect 65 geographically dispersed educational sites throughout the country with a network based upon the Alcatel 7300 ASAM and Alcatel 7470 Multiservice Platform (MSP). To date, Alcatel has secured 100% of the ADSL market in Jordan. The first ADSL contract was awarded to Alcatel in July 2000. Since then, Alcatel has expanded the network several times. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.alcatel.comJITCO, which is a holding company consisting of France Telecom (88%) and the Arab Bank (12%), acquired 40% of Jordan...

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Avaya Issues Preliminary Financial Results

Avaya said preliminary results for its recently completed first fiscal quarter indicate revenues in the range of $1.060 billion to $1.070 billion and a loss of between $0.08 and $0.10 per diluted share from ongoing operations. The company said it ended the quarter with a cash balance of $650 million, an increase of more than $50 million sequentially from the fourth fiscal quarter of 2002 due primarily to continued improvements in the management of accounts receivables. Full results are expected on 21-January-2003. http://www.avaya....

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3Com Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit against D-Link

3Com announced a lawsuit against D-Link alleging that certain of D-Link's network interface card products infringe upon 3Com Ethernet patents. The company said "these patents are the result of 3Com's long history of leadership in the field of computer networking, starting with its founding by Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe in 1979."http://www.3com....

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Microsoft and Thompson Expand Digital TV Agreement

Thompson agreed to expand the integration of Microsoft Embedded software, such as the Windows CE operating system, into a range of its RCA and RCA Scenium digital television sets. The companies said their common vision is to the position the PC and TV as complementary appliances whose shared technologies can lead to enriched and expanded consumer capabilities. Thomson's most advanced high-definition television sets already utilize the Windows CE operating system to offer such features as TV browsing of broadband Internet content. http://www....

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NETGEAR Debuts Wireless ADSL Modem Gateway

NETGEAR introduced a new broadband Internet gateway featuring an integrated ADSL modem, 802.11b wireless router, four-port 10/100 switch, and SPI firewall. The unit has an estimated MSRP of $249. http://www.netgear....

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DISH Network Builds Interactivity into DBS Service

EchoStar Communications is now offering 14 interactive TV channels to 5 million DISH Network households in the US. The interactive channels offer "on-demand" access to news, weather, entertainment, sports and other information by selecting options with the remote control. Echostar is also offering on-line billing and account management through the service. OpenTV provides the backend software. http://www.dishnetwork....

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D-Link Debuts VideoPhone That Operates on a TV

D-Link introduced a broadband appliance that delivers IP videoconferencing (H.323 protocol) to a TV set via a broadband connection. D-Link's i2eye DVC-1000 VideoPhone, which will be priced at $299, features an adjustable tilt/focus camera lens and integrated microphone. It is capable of streaming video at up to 30 frames per second. It does not require a PC to operate and is configured using a setup wizard displayed on the television screen. Standard RCA type audio/video cables connect i2eye to a television or VCR. A standard telephone handset...

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Tahoe RF Semiconductor Targets Wireless Designs

A team of engineers formerly with IBM Microelectronics' Wireless Division has formed a new radio and analog integrated circuit design company, Tahoe RF Semiconductor. The new start-up will offer services ranging from front-end circuit design and simulation all the way to back-end layout, DRC/LVS, post-layout simulation and fully packaged fabrication management using Cadence software. The company said its recent experience includes an entire WCDMA wireless chipset with analog baseband filters, 2GHz direct down conversion receiver, dual transmit/receive...

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Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi ZONE Global Brand for Public Hotspots

In an effort to create a globally recognized brand for public access services, set a minimum quality standard and to improve users' ability to find Wi-Fi enabled locations, the Wi-Fi Alliance has launched a "Wi-Fi ZONE" global brand initiative. Locations that participate in the Wi-Fi ZONE program will be allowed to display the Wi-Fi ZONE logo. The Wi-Fi Alliance will also provide a Web service to help users locate the hotspots. http://www.weca....

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Isocore Announces GMPLS - Phase 1 Interoperability Testing

Isocore, which runs an independent internetworking lab in McLean, Virginia, will undertake the first carrier-driven Generalized Multi Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) interoperability testing in February. The tests will focus on GMPLS-RSVP, with specific attention on basic protocol functionality consistent with connection management and survivability operations. It will also include OIF UNI interoperability. Subsequent phases will exercise greater protocol capabilities based on more elaborate and complex operational requirements from carriers....

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Vendors Publish Web Services Reliability Specification based on SOAP

A group of vendors, consisting of Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle, Sonic and Sun Microsystems, published a Web Services Reliability (WS-Reliability) specification working draft aimed at providing more reliable transport for Web services. WS-Reliability is a specification for open, reliable Web services messaging - including guaranteed delivery, duplicate message elimination and message ordering - enabling reliable communication between Web services. The reliability features are based on extensions to the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), rather...

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Agreements Reached on Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM)

Major progress was reported in the development of standards for Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM). At its meeting this week in Vancouver, the IEEE 802.3ah Task Force reached consensus on critical issues for point-to-point copper and point-to-multi-point optical networks, enabling the whole standard to move forward in the standardization process. Notably, an agreement was reached to adopt the G.SHDSL proposal as the copper specification to provide an Ethernet solution that would address local loop lengths of 2,700 meters (approx. 9,000 feet). ...

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