XO to Sell Wireline Assets to Carl Icahn, Enter Wireless Broadband Business

XO Communications will sell its national wireline telecommunications business for $700 million in cash and use the proceeds to become a leading provider of fixed broadband wireless services to businesses and service providers. The company said it has entertained several bids over the past few months for its wireline assets and that the winning bidder was Elk Associates LLC, an entity owned by XO's controlling stockholder, Carl Icahn. XO currently is one of the largest holders of fixed wireless licenses in the 28 GHz-31 GHz spectrum range covering...

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Devicescape Launches Secure Wireless

Devicescape Software introduced a Secure Wireless Client 1.0 (SWC) for consumer electronic devices. The embedded software package helps office and consumer electronics manufacturers bring Wi-Fi client devices such as converged mobile handsets, digital cameras and digital televisions to market quickly. Devicescape said its Secure Wireless Client 1.0 can be used in fixed-mobile convergence, where handsets can switch between Wi-Fi and cellular, depending on the available network. Additionally, with SWC, OEMs have technology that gives end users that...

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Siemens Invests in Idiro for Data Mining in Wireless

Siemens Acceleration in Communications made an equity investment in Idiro Technologies, a start-up based in Dublin, Ireland. Siemens was joined in this first round of funding by Enterprise Ireland, the state development agency focused on backing innovative Irish companies.Idiro has developed a new data mining approach for Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) that allows them to gain knowledge about inter-user behavior. The platform can handle huge amounts of activity data. In a second step, Idiro uses so-called Social Network Analysis (SNA) to further...

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NEC Tests HSDPA with Vodafone in Japan

NEC completed field trials of its High Speed Download Packet Access (HSDPA) platform with Vodafone K.K. in Japan. During the trial, Node-Bs and radio network controllers (RNC) based on NEC's HSDPA were tested, including high-speed Internet access among HSDPA-based 3G mobile terminals, consecutive data transmission and handover in a HSDPA service environment and flexible and variable change in transmission speed."The success of this trial highlights NEC's confidence in the performance of its commercial HSDPA system. Delivery of our HSDPA to commercial...

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Trust Digital Raises $9 Million for Mobile Security Software

Trust Digital, a start-up based in McLean, Virginia, raised $9 million in Series B funding for its enterprise mobile security software solutions.Trust Digital's software resides at the edge of the network where Smartphones and mobile devices have access to corporate information. The policy-based software helps corporations eliminate the regulatory and financial risks associated with the accidental or malicious disclosure of data. The software secures all forms of data resident on mobile devices at all times, independent of the method of data transfer...

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Time Warner Cable Selects RAD's Pseudowire for TDM over Metro Ethernet

Time Warner Cable has deployed RAD Data Communications' TDMoIP pseudowire technology to support its metro Ethernet service in its Houston, Texas market.RAD's IPmux family of TDMoIP gateways enable customers to take advantage of Time Warner Cable's Ethernet services while providing integrated support for existing TDM services over the same Ethernet transport network. RAD's IPmux family supports TDMoIP pseudowires -- the ability to transparently transport TDM circuits such as T1 and T3 across Ethernet, IP or MPLS networks. Cellular BackhaulOne of...

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Ericsson to test HSDPA with Vodafone in Tokyo

Ericsson successfully upgraded Vodafone K.K.'s commercial network in central parts of Tokyo to support High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), as specified in Release 5 of the 3GPP standard, in order to test HSDPA with Vodafone K.K.'s live network. The software and hardware in the HSDPA-enabled base stations supports downlink bit-rates up to 3.6 Mbps and uplink rates up to 384 Kbps; however, this capability has not been enabled for Vodafone K.K. customers at this time.The two companies have been jointly performing lab trials of pre-commercial...

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Performance Technologies Names CEO

Performance Technologies named Michael P. Skarzynski as President and CEO, replacing Donald L. Turrell who earlier this year announced his interest in a leadership transition in order to pursue his personal interests.Michael Skarzynski most recently served as a senior advisor to Hudson Abel Partners, LLP, an investment bank in New York. For the previous six years, Mr. Skarzynski has led as CEO, two ventures -- Xebeo, an IP broadband switch acquired by UTStarcom, Inc., and Predictive Networks, an application service provider offering a business...

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Festoon Plug-in Adds Video to GoogleTalk

Santa Cruz Networks launched a Festoon update enabling Google Talk users to see who they are talking to and to share applications. The company already offers a similar plug-in for Skype that has more than 2.75 million downloads and more than 40 million video call user minutes. Festoon is available for no charge thanks to sponsors. http://www.festooninc....

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