Disney Teams With Sprint on Wireless Service

The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) will create a the first national U.S. wireless phone service specifically designed for families. The Disney Mobile service, which is slated to launch next year, will use the Sprint Nationwide PCS Network.Disney will be responsible for all aspects of the service, including product development, distribution, marketing, customer relations, billing and other business operations.The newly formed Disney Mobile business unit is part of Walt Disney Internet Group and will be led by Senior Vice President and General...

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Pannaway Raises $15.6 Million for Convergence Platforms

Pannaway Technologies, a developer of converged broadband voice, video and data platforms, completed a $15.6 million E round of funding from private investors. The company plans to use the funding to move forward with expansion into emerging markets, which include Department of Defense, municipalities, multi-tenant units (MTU), and multi-dwelling units (MDU). Pannaway said its R&D efforts will include new SIP-based calling feature development and enhancements to its Broadband Access Manager for end-to-end ADSL2+ services provisioning. The...

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Australian Research Net Deploys Juniper

The Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) will deploy Juniper Networks' M320, M40e and M20 routing platforms on its new AARNet3 backbone. AARNet connects Australia's universities, research institutions, education and other related organisations. In 2004, AARNet delivered almost 1 petabyte (1024 terabytes) of traffic, and APL expects traffic growth to continue to exceed 50% per year for several years.http://www.juniper.nethttp://www.aarnet.edu...

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QUALCOMM Refutes Broadcom's Antitrust Claims

Responding Broadcom's recently filed antitrust complaints, QUALCOMM said the claims are "without merit", noting that it has granted more than 130 licenses to its essential patents to a broad range of companies. QUALCOMM further claims that it has the most extensively licensed portfolio in the cellular industry. The company also said the WCDMA market is highly competitive with many companies selling commercial WCDMA chipsets and that it has supplied only a small percentage of the WCDMA chipsets sold to date. http://www.qualcomm.c...

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Tiscali Deploys Netcentrex for Residential VoIP

Tiscali Italia has deployed Netcentrex' MyCall solution to deliver residential broadband IP telephony services. Financial terms were not disclosed.The new Tiscali "Voce" combines telephony and Internet services in a single package and is available to all Tiscali ADSL subscribers. Tiscali Voce offers two types of monthly subscriptions and one 'pay-as-you go' tariff plan: 'Tiscali Voce Forfait' for 600 minutes of communication for EUR 9.95 per month, "Tiscali Voce flat" for unlimited calling in Italy for EUR 19 per month and "Tiscali Voce Free,"...

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LG Licenses Palm OS

LG Electronics has licensed the Palm operating system (OS) for the development of future smartphones. http://www.palmsource.com http://www.lge....

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Japan's UCOM Leverages Ikanos 100 Mbps Chipset

UCOM, a subsidiary of Japan's USEN Group, will deploy 100 Mbps services based on Ikanos Communications' Fx 100100 chipsets. The Ikanos' symmetrical 100 Mbps chipset is designed for FTTx and multi-dwelling units (MDU) applications. Versions are available for use in Optical Network Units (ONUs), Optical Line Terminals (OLTs), Subscriber Located Equipment (SLE) and Optical Network Terminals (ONTs). http://www.ikanos.c...

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Softbank Selects UTStarcom's GEPON

Softbank BB awarded a contract to UTStarcom to expand its existing Gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (GEPON) network in support of its Hikari fiber broadband service. Financial terms were not disclosed.UTStarcom's GEPON solution complies with the IEEE802.3ah standard and includes an Optical Line Termination system (OLT) for deployment at the Central Office (CO) as well as an Optical Network Unit (ONU) for deployment at the customer's premises. The solution includes Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching and routing functionality. http://www.ut...

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Softbank Deploys UTStarcom's mVision IPTV System

Softbank BB has deployed UTStarcom's mVision end-to-end IPTV system to support its new "BBTV" IPTV service, which launched on July 1. The service initially offers subscribers 28 channels of live broadcast television and 5,200 movies on demand. Softbank BB's triple play service will be available in several service tiers, with pricing starting at 4540 Yen, approximately US$40.00 per month. UTStarcom's mVision system is a unicast/multicast distributed system that scales to support millions of users and hundreds of thousands of content hours. It supports...

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Intel and Corning Develop Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

Intel and Corning are partnering to develop ultra low thermal expansion (ULE) glass photomask substrates required for Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Current lithography tools use a 193nm wavelength of light to create transistors as small as 50nm. EUV lithography will use a 13.5nm wavelength of light. The joint development program is expected to enable chip production using EUV technology starting in 2009. http://www.intel.com http://www.corning....

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Intel Forms Online Film Distribution Partnership

Intel is forming a new digital entertainment company focused on distributing premium movies directly to consumers over the Internet. The new ClickStar venture is partnership between Intel, actor Morgan Freeman and producer Lori McCreary. The service will let consumers access, pay for and download first-run, pre-DVD-release films and artist-created entertainment channels over the Internet to Intel's digital home entertainment devices.ClickStar will be led by former Sony Pictures executive Nizar Allibhoy. The company said it is working with top...

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Verizon Fios Signs Content Deal with TBS

Verizon signed a programming- distribution agreement with Turner Broadcasting System to carry TBS, TNT, CNN, Headline News, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), CNN International, CNN en Español and Boomerang on the forthcoming Verizon Fios service when it launches later this year. Also included is TNT in HD, providing a broad range of dramatic programming in HDTV format, such as series, sports, movies and TNT Originals. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.verizon.com/Verizon previously announced video programming agreements...

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Nickelodeon Moves Video Programming to the Internet

Nickelodeon, a leading producer of children's television programming, launched a broadband video service allowing kids to watch full-length shows online. The new "TurboNick" service, which is available at available on Nick.com, features up to 20 hours of new programming every week, allowing kids to watch programming clips and full length episodes ranging from 30 seconds to 22 minutes in length. Since July 1st, TurboNick has already delivered 1.25 million streams. Advertisers that are initially featured on TurboNick include Topps, General Mills,...

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France Telecom and Microsoft Outline Partnership

France Telecom and Microsoft outlined a partnership to co-develop consumer products and services that will leverage France Telecom's strategic NeXT initiative. In a presentation by Didier Lombard, Chairman and CEO France Telecom and Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft, the companies announced the first two initiatives in this strategic partnership.First, France Telecom and Microsoft will cooperate on a next-generation service platform to enable the aggregation...

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