Staccato and Fujitsu Develop UWB-Enabled Camera

Fujitsu has developed a digital still camera platform incorporating wireless USB chipset from Staccato Communications. The platform uses the world's first single-chip all-CMOS, Multiband-OFDM Alliance (MBOA) --compliant PHY module based upon the Fujitsu 0.11 micron semiconductor process. It also includes Staccato's MBOA MAC that provides rapid device discovery, fast stream establishment, QoS and efficient use of spare capacity in a decentralized architecture. Staccato and Fujitsu are jointly demonstrating the system in the Wireless USB Community...

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Tekelec Moves HQ from California to North Carolina

Tekelec is moving its corporate headquarters from Calabasas, California, to Morrisville, North Carolina. Over the past year, the number of Calabasas-based employees has been reduced from about 145 to 40 people as Tekelec aligned its manufacturing operations with its business units and expanded the use of contract manufacturing. "During the past year, our company's revenue grew more than 50%, we greatly expanded our global business and we completed several major acquisitions that increased our capabilities to provide integrated communications solutions...

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America Online Launches its Consumer Internet Phone Service

America Online rolled out its AOL Internet Phone Service in 40 cities across the U.S., saying the enhanced VoIP service would provide current and new AOL members with an easy-to-use choice for integrating all of their voice, e-mail and instant messaging communications needs. For the AOL Internet Phone Service alone, current AOL members can choose from three price plans with introductory offer rates: Local Plan: $13.99 per month for the first three months for unlimited local and regional calls and $0.04 per minute for long distance calls anywhere...

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ZTE to Open R&D in Pakistan

ZTE announced plans to open R&D facilities in Islamabad, Pakistan as part of its growing presence in international markets. The new office will be the 12th R&D centre created by ZTE around the world and comes less than a month after the company announced similar plans in India.ZTE said its already has more than 10% of the fixed line market in Pakistan, while its wireless products are also increasing their penetration. Last December, ZTE built Pakistan's first NGN (next generation network) while a CDMA WLL (wireless local loop) network...

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Nortel Invests in India's Sasken for R&D Outsourcing

Nortel has invested US$10 million in Sasken Communication Technologies Limited, an Indian company specializing in telecom R&D outsourcing. Sasken has been a supplier to Nortel since 1991 and is currently focused on supporting Nortel's GSM and enterprise communications solutions. Sasken will also play a major role in training, technical support and other engineering services in Nortel projects in India. Sasken employs over 2,000 staff and has facilities in Bangalore and Pune, India and has offices in Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Sweden, France,...

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Ericsson Supplies IMS to Telefónica

Telefónica selected Ericsson's IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to support IP telephony and IP Centrex to business users. Thedeployment will start during the spring. Financial terms were not disclosed.The IMS based IP Centrex functionality hosts a complete set ofpersonal and group services, with the addition of multimedia supportsuch as video telephony, conference calling, sharing of documents andweb pages (collaboration), presence management, instant messaging,e-mail integration and support for remote workers. http://www.ericsson....

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Ericsson Completes Testing with NTT DoCoMo

NTT DoCoMo completed interoperability testing of Ericsson's WCDMA/GPRS platform U100. Tests have been performed in DoCoMo's laboratories followed by fully completed field tests in DoCoMo's live FOMA network. http://www.ericsson....

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Zyxel Offers Palm-Sized Firewall

ZyXEL Communications announced its ZyWALL P1 Personal Internet Security Appliance, a small, lightweight, plug-n-play firewall and VPN device for mobile computer users. The portable device, which has an MSRP of $299, is equipped with a 10/100Mbps Ethernet WAN and LAN ports and can be powered by the USB port. It integrates a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall and also includes ICSA-certified IPSec VPN client support. Network administrators...

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Tiscali Chooses ECI for Pan-European IP/MPLS Upgrade

Tiscali International Network selected the Enstara platform from ECI Telecom to upgrade its international IP/MPLS backbone. The announcement was made today by ECI and their partner, Chiaro Networks, the developer of the Enstara infrastructure-class IP/MPLS platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.Tiscali International Network's IP/MPLS backbone spans Europe and the United States with approximately 120 POPs. The company delivers IP Transit, Remote Peering, clear channel and Voice services to the wholesale market of carriers and ISPs.The deal...

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BT Passes 5 Million Broadband User Milestone

BT has connected its five millionth wholesale broadband customer, beating a target set by the company a year ahead of schedule. Broadband is now one of the fastest growing consumer products of all time in the UK, with a higher take up rate than televisions, CD players, video recorders or mobile phones. More than 95% of UK homes and businesses are now connected to broadband-enabled central offices (exchanges) and that figure will reach 99.6% by this summer, putting the UK ahead of any other G7 country in terms of DSL availability.The five million...

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Deutsche Telekom Mourns Death of T-Systems' CEO

Deutsche Telekom announced the unexpected death of Konrad R. Reiss, the CEO of T-Systems.Konrad R. Reiss was named a member of the Deutsche Telekom Board of Management and Chairman of the T-Systems Management Board in January 2003. He was the founder of two companies, which he later sold to Cap Gemini. Within the Cap Gemini group he assumed various management positions until he joined the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler Services AG in 2000. In 2001, he founded BlueChipBusiness Laboratories and two years later, he was named to the Deutsche...

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MSN Messenger Reaches 155 Million Users

Microsoft released Version 7.0 of its MSN Messenger client. The company said it now has more than 155 million registered users who collectively exchange more than 2.5 billion instant messages (IMs) every day. MSN Messenger 7.0 is available worldwide in 26 languages and introduces improved video, voice and personalization features. These include:PC-to-PC video conversation -- the free MSN Video Conversation service, powered by Logitech technology, connects people with one-click synchronized audio and video, and offers full-screen video viewing....

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VeriSign Completes Acquisition of LightSurf

VeriSign completed its LightSurf, a provider of multimedia messaging and interoperability solutions for the wireless market, for $270 million in stock.Operators and service providers offering the LightSurf solution today include Sprint, Bell Mobility, Kodak, Rogers Wireless, Microcell, Telecom New Zealand, Iusacell, and Qwest.LightSurf was founded in 1998 by Philippe Kahn, who founded Borland in 1982 and was CEO of the company for 12 years. In 1994 Philippe co-founded Starfish Software, which was acquired by Motorola in 1998.http://www.verisig...

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Exar Acquires Assets of Infineon's Optical Networking Product Line

Exar has entered into a definitive agreement with Infineon Technologies North America Corp. in which Exar has agreed to acquire for cash a significant part of Infineon's Optical Networking(ON) Business Unit. The acquisition includes assets relating to the multi-rate TDM framer products, Fiber Channel over SONET/SDH, Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), as well as certain intellectual property for Data over SONET products. The transaction is expected to close shortly.http://www.exar....

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CA to Acquire Concord Communications

Computer Associates (CA) agreed to acquire and Concord Communications, (NASDAQ:CCRD), a provider of network service management software solutions, in an all-cash transaction valued at $17 per fully diluted common share, or approximately $330 million. CA will also assume approximately $20 million in net debt from Concord for a total purchase price of $350 million.Concord, which is based in Marlboro, Massachusetts, offers Business Service Management (BSM) software that reduces IT downtime, improves capacity planning, and optimizes service level management....

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Nokia Announces Dividend, Stock Repurchase

Nokia's Board of Directors agreed to distribute a dividend of EUR 0.33 per share for 2004. The company's Board also confirmed its previously announced plan to repurchase Nokia shares under a up to a maximum of EUR 5 billion or so that a maximum of 443.2 million Nokia shares be repurchased. In addition, the company announced that all the current members of the Nokia Board of Directors were re-elected.http://www.nokia....

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