AnchorFree Secures $6 Million for Free Wi-Fi Services

AnchorFree, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, announced $6 million in Series A funding to support its rapid growth and proliferation of free wireless internet access (Wi-Fi). AnchorFree provides consumers with access to 10,000 free Wi-Fi hot-spot locations. AnchorFree, through its recent acquisition of MetroFreeFi and its success in global unification of Free Hotspots, gives customers free access to an "open" community made up of hot spots, ISP providers, and its own proprietary network. The company's products enable revolutionary ad targeting...

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Fujitsu and Cisco Deliver XR 12400 Routers for Japan

Fujitsu and Cisco Systems released co-branded "Fujitsu and Cisco XR12400" series (four models) routers specifically designed for the Japanese market. The products are delivered through the companies' strategic alliance, which was announced in December 2004. Like the "Fujitsu and Cisco CRS-1" Carrier Routing System, which was introduced in May 2005, the new series runs on the next-generation Cisco IOS XR operating system. Offering highly secure virtualization, continuous system operation and multi-service scalability, the Fujitsu and Cisco XR 12400...

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Windows Live Local 3.0 Adds Real-time Data Feeds

Microsoft announced the third release of Windows Live Local, the company's online local search and mapping service, adding real-time traffic flow and incident reporting, new social networking tools that enable users to save and share their favorite local experiences, and productivity enhancements from extending the Windows Live Local experience into Microsoft Office Outlook and Windows Live Messenger. The service is also expanding its beta release to the U.K. and a limited version to Canada.Standard aerial imagery for the U.K. has been licensed...

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QUALCOMM Files New Patent Case Against Nokia

QUALCOMM commenced patent infringement litigation in the United Kingdom against Nokia. The company cited infringement of two patents by Nokia in the United Kingdom in relation to mobile devices which are capable of operating in accordance with the GPRS and/or EDGE standards but not having a capability to operate with CDMA technology.http://www.qualcomm....

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Bell Canada Selects Nominum/Sun for Next-Gen DNS

Bell Canada has selected a joint Sun-Nominum solution to build a next generation, scalable and resilient Domain Name System (DNS). The joint solution uses the Nominum Foundation Caching Name Server for DNS on Sun Fire x64 servers powered by AMD Opteron processors.Nominum CNS includes advanced security features to help prevent cache-poisoning attacks and is ready to support cryptographically-signed zones as the adoption of DNS Security Extension...

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Mobile Satellite Ventures Accelerates Satellite-Cellular Plans

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) and its joint venture partner, MSV Canada, announced an agreement with Boeing to accelerate the deployment of its two North American satellites, which will form the backbone of its satellite-cellular wireless communications network.The agreement will move up, by approximately eight months, the construction, launch and operations of each of the two North American satellites, with the launch of the U.S. satellite scheduled for mid-2009 and the Canadian satellite in early 2010. These two new satellites will replace...

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Scientific Atlanta Supplies HD Encoding for World Cup Broadcast Center

Scientific Atlanta's systems will provide high-definition (HD) encoding and delivery of video to German national broadcaster ARD/ZDF during the upcoming World Cup. Scientific Atlanta announced in 2005 that its iLYNX video adaptation platform had been chosen to support live video feeds from 12 German football stadiums to an International Broadcast Center (IBC) in Munich for distribution to soccer fans around the world.The new video transport project will use additional iLYNX systems to connect three ARD/ZDF regional broadcast centers with the IBC...

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Avaya Selected for U.S. Army Base Upgrade Contract

Avaya has been named one of 10 companies selected to participate in a $4 billion U.S. Army project that will overhaul voice and data communications infrastructures of U.S. Army bases worldwide.The Infrastructure Modernization (IMOD) contract will support the Army's Installation Information Infrastructure Modernization Program (I3MP) with a single integrated communications system to seamlessly integrate voice, data, inside/outside cable plant and transmission products and services. Under the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for...

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XM Satellite Radio Sees Lower Subscriber Growth

XM Satellite Radio lowered its subscriber and financial guidance for 2006, projecting that it will end 2006 with 8.5 million subscribers, resulting in subscriber revenues of $835 million and EBITDA loss (excluding stock-based compensation, other income/expense, equity in net losses of affiliates, and loss from de-leveraging transactions) of $235 million.The revised guidance of 8.5 million subscribers represents growth of more than 40 percent over the course of the year. The revised subscriber guidance leads to a reduction in subscriber revenues...

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SIRIUS Satellite Radio Reaffirms 2006 Subscriber Guidance

SIRIUS Satellite Radio confirmed its guidance of more than 6.2 million subscribers by year-end 2006, representing an 87% increase over the company's subscriber base at the end of 2005. The company continues to expect to add more than 2.8 million net subscribers during the year.http://www.sirius....

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Zeugma Systems Raises $13.5 Million

Zeugma Systems (pronounced "zoogma"), a start-up based in Vancouver, British Columbia, raised US$13.5 million in venture financing for its work developing a telecommunications system for next generation, high speed broadband networks. Product plans have not been disclosed.The financing was led by new investor San Francisco-based Granite Ventures and syndicated by Ventures West and Yaletown Venture Partners, both founding institutional investors, as well as by GrowthWorks Capital Ltd., manager of the Working Opportunity Fund and by company insiders....

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AT&T Launches "WildBlue" Broadband Satellite Service

AT&T began selling satellite-based broadband Internet access service, powered by WildBlue, to rural customers across its 13-state territory.Rural satellite-based broadband subscribers will have three service packages to choose from, with prices ranging from $49.95 to $79.95 per month, and broadband speed options ranging up to 1.5 Mbps downstream and up to 256 Kbps upstream.Service options will initially be available in most rural AT&T service areas in the following states: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Kansas, Nevada, Oklahoma, and...

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TiVo Reaches 4.4 million Subs, Seeks DVR Differentiation

TiVo reported total subscriptions as of April 30, 2006 of slightly more than 4.4 million, which represents 33% growth in the subscription base during the past year. TiVo-owned subscription gross additions were 91,000 for the quarter, compared to 104,000 in the first quarter of last year. This is the second sequential quarter showing a trend in which the percentage of new subscriptions compared to a year ago have improved (third quarter of last year was 23% below the prior year's third quarter; fourth quarter of last year was 20% below the prior...

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Freescale Names Ericsson Exec to Head its Wireless and Mobile Group

Freescale Semiconductor named Dr. Sandeep Chennakeshu senior vice president and general manager of its Wireless and Mobile Solutions Group. Chennakeshu most recently served as head of Ericsson Mobile Platforms. Previously, Chennakeshu served as chief technology officer of Sony Ericsson and president of Sony Ericsson USA and chief technology officer of Ericsson Mobile Terminals. He joined Ericsson in 1994 from General Electric (GE) Corporate Research and Development where he headed a research team. He holds 71 patents.http://www.freescale....

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ECI Telecom Names Former Alcatel CTO to Board

ECI Telecom appointed Dr. Niel Ransom to its Board of Directors. Until 2005, Ransom filled senior managerial positions at Alcatel. In his most recent position he served as its worldwide Chief Technology Officer as well as a member of Alcatel's Executive Committee. Prior to Alcatel, Dr. Ransom served as Senior Director for the Advanced Technology Systems Engineering Center of BellSouth, responsible for expanding its offerings into PCS wireless, IP, video entertainment, and advanced intelligent networks. He started his career at Bell Labs. http...

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Yahoo! Connects with iBasis for PC-to-Phone Calling

iBasis is among the suite of providers delivering termination services for calls from the U.S. to international markets for the Yahoo! Messenger with Voice service. The interconnection with iBasis enables Yahoo! Messenger with Voice to offer its customers high quality PC-to-Phone calling over iBasis' global VoIP network at very competitive rates. The interconnection with iBasis includes use of iBasis' "PremiumCertified" international routing product, which is specifically designed to deliver the highest quality of service for retail traffic,...

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Guangdong Telecom Selects Redback's SmartEdge Routers

Guangdong Telecom, the largest subsidiary of the China Telecom Group, has selected Redback's SmartEdge routers to expand their consumer and business broadband network for next gen services, including IPTV. Financial terms were not disclosed.Redback's SmartEdge routers will be used to service-enable the carrier's existing xDSL and Ethernet access networks. By providing a centralized service control point, Guangdong Telecom is able to offer the same advanced next generation services to all their customers regardless of the access technology being...

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Occam Adds Brian Strom to Board

Occam Networks announced that Brian Strom has been elected to the company's board of directors. Strom served as president and CEO of SureWest Communications from 1993-2005. He has also served as chairman of US Telecom from October 2003 to October 2004 and as chairman of the California Communications Association (CalCom) from February 2001 to February 2002.http://www.occamnetworks....

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Sourcefire Secures $20 Million for Network Intrusion Prevention

Sourcefire, a start-up based in Columbia, Maryland, secured $20 million in late-stage funding for its popular "Snort" network intrusion prevention. The company's network defense system unifies intrusion and vulnerability management tools.The new funding was led by Meritech Capital Partners. All previous Sourcefire venture investors, Sierra Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital, Core Capital Partners, and Inflection Point Ventures also participated in the round.http://www.sourcefire....

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