Amino Supplies IPTV Set Top Boxes for SES AMERICOM

Amino was awarded a multi-year set top box agreement to supply IPTV set-top boxes for SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME distribution service.Amino will provide its AmiNET130 set top box, a fully flexible standard and high definition, MPEG-2/4 AVC/H.264 capable device, to enable SES AMERICOM's end-to-end delivery of its IP-PRIME IPTV service to consumer homes throughout the U.S.http://www.aminocom.comSiemens Communications has supplied its Myrio IPTV middleware for integration with SES AMERICOM's IP-PRIME content distribution service.Other IP-PRIME partners...

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FCC Again Postpones Decision on AT&T + BellSouth Merger

The FCC will not vote on the pending AT&T + BellSouth merger at its open meeting scheduled for November 3rd. The item was unexpectedly deleted from the meeting's agenda after the two Democrat and two Republican commissioners apparently failed to reach agreement on possible conditions for the merger.This represents the third postponement of a scheduled FCC vote on the deal.The fifth FCC commissioner, Robert M. McDowell, recused himself from the...

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Singtel to Offer Bandwidth on Demand using Juniper/Siemens

SingTel has deployed Juniper Networks SDX Service Deployment System and E-series Broadband Services Routers to support the introduction of new premium IP services, including a new bandwidth on demand service. The deployment enables SingTel's customers to dynamically request and change their bandwidth metrics, throttling connection speeds from 125 Kbps up to as much as 25 Mbps.Siemens serves as SingTel's preferred partner for integrating its broadband IP infrastructure. http://www.juniper.nethttp://www.siemens.comhttp://www.juniper....

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Occam Announces Pricing of Follow-On Offering of Common Stock

Occam Networks announced the pricing of its follow-on public offering of 5,250,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $14.00 per share. Of the 5,250,000 shares, Occam is offering 3,750,000 shares and selling stockholders are offering 1,500,000 shares. The net proceeds to Occam from the sale of the 3,750,000 shares of common stock will be approximately $48.3 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. http://www.occamnetworks....

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WEGENER Debuts Transport Stream IP Multicaster

Wegener introduced a new product that allows IPTV operators to integrate satellite and local digital HD signals to their programming line up.The new DTV 720 Transport Stream Multicaster, which is based on WEGENER's professional line of video headend equipment, can be equipped with up to four ASI inputs to process live satellite feeds and up to internal 8VSB and QAM tuners for local off-air broadcast TV signals. can build up to sixteen IP multicast transport streams from ASI and 8VSB inputs, with each IP multicast transport stream containing one...

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XM Satellite and Cingular Announce Music Partnership

XM Satellite Radio and Cingular Wireless announced a partnership to stream 25 XM music channels to Cingular handsets. Beginning November 6, Cingular Wireless customers will be able listen to a variety of XM's commercial-free music channels through the XM Radio Mobile service for $8.99 per month.The XM Radio Mobile application was developed by MobiTV.http://www.cingular.comhttp://www.xmradio....

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Nokia Wins Packet Core Contract With Guangdong MCC

Guangdong Mobile Communications Corporation Ltd. (Guangdong MCC) awarded a GPRS packet core network expansion contract to Nokia. Nokia will supply Guangdong MCC with its complete GPRS packet core solution, consisting of Nokia Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN), Nokia Flexi Intelligent Service Node, and the Nokia Charging Gateway. Nokia will also provide network planning, implementation and integration services. The network will be serving more than 11 million data subscribers in the Eastern Guangdong province, expanded from Shenzhen to include DongGuan...

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BP Selects Tyco for Undersea Fiber Network

BP America will build an 800 mile undersea fiber optic system in the Gulf of Mexico to provide continuous broadband connectivity to the company's offshore oil and gas facilities. The system will allow greater operating flexibility, including the ability to continue producing safely for longer periods when hurricanes enter the Gulf and to return more quickly to production after storms pass.The project is valued at $80 million.The system will initially link seven of BP's deep water production facilities including Marlin, Horn Mountain, Na Kika, Thunder...

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MobiTV Adds $30 Million for Mobile TV Services

MobiTV, a provider of mobile and broadband television and music services, announced the second close of its Series C Funding with an additional $30 million investment and two new investors, Adobe Systems and Hearst Corporation, bringing the total round to more than $100 million.MobiTV is building out network-agnostic services leveraging Adobe platform technologies.The company said its primary goal is to build a mass-market service by supporting seamless...

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QUALCOMM Posts Q4 Revenue of $2.00 billion, up 28% YoY

QUALCOMM posted Q4 revenue of $2.00 billion, up 28 percent year-over-year and 2 percent sequentially. Net income was $705 million, up 30 percent year-over-year and down 3 percent sequentially. Diluted earnings per share were $0.42, up 31 percent year-over-year and even sequentially."We achieved record revenues, net income and operating cash flow. We shipped a record 207 million MSM chips in fiscal 2006 -- up from 151 million in fiscal 2005. As of September 2006, there were approximately 402 million subscribers using 3G CDMA-based networks worldwide...

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NEC Selects Centillium's Entropia VoIP Solution

NEC has selected Centillium's Entropia III VoIP media gateway solution to help power IP services for NGN and 3G wireless infrastructure deployments.Centillium's Entropia III system-on-chip solution provides wireline and wireless codec functionality, and also offers FMC and IMS capabilities.Integrating six SigmaPlus DSPs as well as four RISC network processors, the Entropia processor supports a 1,008 full feature VoIP channel density. The Entropia solution supports IMS Media Gateway Functions (MGF) for CDMA/3GPP2 or GSM/3GPP applications, along...

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JDSU Posts Revenue of $318 Million, Loss Narrows

JDSU reported net revenue for its first quarter of fiscal 2007 of $318.1 million and GAAP net loss was $(17.4) million, or $(0.08) per share. This compares to net revenue of $318.2 million and GAAP net loss of $(45.8) million, or $(0.22) per share, reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006, and to net revenue of $258.3 million and a GAAP net loss of $(67.0) million, or $(0.34) per share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2006. Fiscal 2006 first quarter results reflect a partial quarter contribution from the Communications Test and Measurement...

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Verizon Adopts Majority Voting Standard for Director Elections

The Board of Directors of Verizon Communications adopted a majority voting standard for the election of directors. Directors who consent to stand for re-election will tender their resignations prior to the annual meeting. If the number of shares voted "for" a director is less than the number of shares voted "against" that director, the independent members of the Board will decide whether to accept that director's resignation and will promptly disclose their decision.Verizon said that its bylaws previously provided that directors were elected under...

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Xilinx Appoints GM to Lead Advanced Platforms Group

Xilinx announced the appointment of Iain Morris as executive vice president and general manager of the advanced platforms group (APG), where he will lead divisional teams responsible for development and delivery of high-end solutions, building upon the company's flagship Virtex FPGA platform. Most recently, Morris was senior vice president with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), with responsibility for the digital media and pervasive computing group. http://www.xilinx....

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Oracle Acquires Stellent for Enterprise Content Mgt

Oracle agreed to acquire Stellent, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software solutions, through a cash tender offer for $13.50 per share, or approximately $440 million. Stellent's Universal Content Management helps companies deploy multiple line-of-business applications -- such as public Web sites, secure intranets and extranets, compliance processes, and marketing brand management -- and also scale the technology to support multi-site...

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SunRocket Hires Former QUALCOMM Exec

SunRocket has hired Rob Chandhok as Chief Product Officer (CPO) to drive product innovation and differentiation by extending the broadband VoIP service beyond the home. In addition Chandhok, formerly QUALCOMM's vice president of engineering and market development, will head up SunRocket's first West Coast office in San Diego, CA.As QUALCOMM's vice president of engineering and market development, Chandhok was responsible for the technical architecture...

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Nokia Opens Research Center in Palo Alto, California

Nokia opened a new research center in Palo Alto, California and announced a three-year agreement with Stanford University, to develop joint research projects on collaborative mobile computing and applications. Initially, Nokia Research Center Palo Alto will employ around 35 researchers and plans to expand to upwards of 100 researchers as new projects are established.Nokia Research Center Palo Alto will initially focus on four core areas:Context-aware content and communities, which could provide technology advancements in the areas of search, advertising...

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