The Venice Project Enters Beta of its Web-TV

The Venice Project, an Internet TV start-up backed by the founders of Skype, began accepting beta testers. The project is not a file-sharing application or a video download service. It will use P2P streaming technology to deliver a variety of video content over the Web. Encrypted content would be provided directly by the owners. The Venice Project owners have said they are working within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) framework.http://www.theveniceproject.c...

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picoChip and Kineto Team in UMA-Enabled Femtocell Market

Kineto Wireless and picoChip, a start-up specializing in software defined radio technology, are developing a UMA-enabled femtocell reference design. The reference design, based on picoChip's single-chip solutions, and Kineto's UMA client software will enable 3G femtocells to overcome network integration barriers to accelerate mass market adoption.Femtocells are low-cost cellular access points for mobile operators looking to provide enhanced, in-building 3G coverage within homes and small businesses.http://www.kineto.comhttp://www.picochip....

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NXP Chip Drives Multimedia-Enabled Navigation Devices

NXP Semiconductors announced a solution for low-cost, portable GPS devices with advanced multimedia capabilities. The solution builds on NXP's Nexperia mobile multimedia processor and includes software solution for GPS, along with ALK Technologies' CoPilot navigation software.Whereas traditional GPS solutions require hardware GPS baseband processors, NXP said its approach utilizes swGPS Personal running on the PNX0190 multimedia processor to efficiently perform GPS calculations. By eliminating the GPS baseband silicon, NXP's solution delivers a...

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Microsoft Releases Beta of Office Communications Server

Microsoft released a private beta of its enterprise voice communications server, Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 to 2,500 testers. Office Communications Server 2007, the successor to Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005, is part of Microsoft's unified communications portfolio. Microsoft said Office Communications Server 2007 allows companies to integrate VoIP into existing telephony infrastructure. Users will be able to instantly...

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Gomez and Limelight to Validate Digital Media Delivery

Gomez Inc. announced a reseller partnership with Limelight Networks, the high performance content delivery network for digital media. The deal provides Limelight customers with a new way to independently verify the service they receive from Limelight. Using Gomez Inc.'s web application experience management services, Limelight's customers can now precisely document and validate the performance benefits of Limelight's digital media delivery services and ensure the best experience possible for their customers.Under the partnership, Limelight will...

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Cingular Expands Support for Good Mobile Messaging

Cingular Wireless is now supporting Good Mobile Messaging to enterprises using Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes using a number of new smartphones, including the recent introductions of the Cingular 8525, BlackJack, Nokia E62, Cingular 3125, Palm Treo 680 and HP iPAQ hw6920.Cingular became the first carrier to sell Good Mobile Messaging directly to its customers in May 2005. Since then, Good-Cingular activations have grown more than 300 percent. Thousands of enterprises are running Good Mobile Messaging on the Cingular network today, including Deloitte,...

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KT Deploys Firetide Wireless Mesh for Weather Net

KT completed the first phase of installing Firetide's wireless mesh networking gear covering portions of Jeju and Woo islands off the southern coast of Korea. The mesh network spans a large geographical area, covering 204 square kilometers, or 80 square miles, and replaces a legacy network provided by KT for the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) to monitor weather systems in the region. The mesh networks provide a fully wireless infrastructure...

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Motorola Cites Sales of MicroTCA System Products

Motorola announced $1 million in sales for its MicroTCA system product. The companies will integrate Motorola's MicroTCA core communications server technology into development systems to serve markets such as telecom access, military communications and diagnostic equipment for the healthcare industry."The availability of communications servers based on open standards such as MicroTCA is accelerating the shift from the old supply chain model -- where OEMs supplied everything from boards to fully integrated applications -- to a model with systems...

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Level 3 to Provide Voice Services to MTS Allstream

MTS Allstream, one of Canada's leading national communication solutions providers, awarded a three-year contract to Level 3 Communications' Wholesale Markets Group to provide expanded U.S. voice termination services to Allstream. Level 3 already provides MTS Allstream with data services.http://www.level3....

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John Chambers: It's a New Game

The networking industry is undergoing fundamental change, said John Chambers, Cisco's CEO, as service providers transition from being simple plumbers to "total experience providers." Quad-play will be the rule everywhere and basic transport is already becoming a low-margin commodity. Anyone operating in this environment will need new business plans, new engineering processes and an extensive set of partners.Speaking at the company's annual analyst meeting in San Jose, Chambers highlighted some of the macro-trends on show at last week's ITU Telecom...

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