Microsoft Adds Unified Communications Tools for Lotus Notes/Domino Users

Microsoft introduced new tools for helping IBM Lotus Notes/Domino customers transition to its new unified communication and collaboration capabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. These resources include a new suite of tools for managing transitions of IBM's directory, messaging and application solutions, as well as new templates for SharePoint Products and Technologies.

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RealNetworks to Offer Free Streaming of Independent Full-Length Movies

RealNetworks' Film.com division introduced a new "Movie of the Week" feature, which includes free streaming access to full-length movies along with information, interviews, and background on the movie and its creators. Film.com will showcase established and up-and-coming filmmakers and their films throughout 2007.

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AT&T Unity Calling Plan Combines Wireline with Wireless Minutes

AT&T has launched a new "Unity" calling plan that lets customers call or receive calls for free from any AT&T wireless and wireline phone numbers nationwide without incurring additional wireline usage fees or using their wireless minutes. To sign up for a new AT&T Unity plan, a customer needs to subscribe to AT&T wireless service and unlimited AT&T local and long distance wireline services. The bundle includes both unlimited local and long distance plans and an AT&T Unity wireless plan.

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ClearSight Enhances its VoIP Network Analysis

ClearSight Networks released enhanced features for its Analyzer product line, providing deeper analysis of VoIP performance issues and ease-of-use for monitoring and visualization of live network environments.


ClearSight Analyzer 6.0 evaluates live network traffic and then presents a real-time assessment of network performance in a ladder diagram display of packet flows. The main screen presents a comprehensive overview of the network, and hyperlinks are used to drill down to see more detailed information. The company said this visual approach enables VoIP service providers to quickly identify problems and drill down to resolve these problems in real time. Engineers can troubleshoot application, network, client, and server problems without having to decode packets manually.



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UK's Eton College Replaces ATM with Extreme Networks

The renowned boarding school Eton College will replace its legacy ATM network with an advanced Ethernet network infrastructure from Extreme Networks and supplied by partner Data Integration. All pupils have laptops connected to the network throughout dormitories and the school will implement wireless LAN access points. Eton College also needed the flexibility to control access on both a PC-by-PC and user-by-user basis cost effectively connecting all 400 buildings owned by the school in a single LAN. http://www.extremenetworks.com

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TI Gilles Delfassy to Retire from Wireless Unit

Texas Instruments announced that Gilles Delfassy, senior vice president and head of TI's wireless terminals unit, will retire. He has been at the helm of the company's successful wireless terminals unit since its inception in 1995, growing it into a multibillion dollar operation. Under his guidance, TI became the world's leading supplier of semiconductors for wireless handsets.



Effective immediately, TI has promoted Greg Delagi to senior vice president and leader of the operation, which develops semiconductors for cell phones. Delagi has presided over the launch of the industry's first 1-gigahertz DSP and the new DaVinci family of hardware and software for video applications.

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Netopia and Ubiquisys Partner on FMC Residential Gateways

Netopia and Ubiquisys announced a partnership to accelerate the development of the femtocell market.



Femtocells are cellular access points for mobile operators looking to provide enhanced 3G mobile coverage within homes and small businesses.



Ubiquisys offers a "ZoneGate" cellular access system that sits on a customer's home network, behind a broadband gateway.



The companies noted that mass-market femtocell adoption will require advanced service activation and management technology. To deliver such a system, Ubiquisys is enhancing its ZoneGate access point to support the TR-069 specification and is working with Netopia to create a zero-touch, fully managed software solution that utilizes Netopia's NBBS TR-069 platform. NBBS is a standards-based management system that supports the DSL Forum's TR-069 specification for the remote management of customer premises equipment.



The ZoneGate access point will be shipped to customers with an active SIM card. Once connected to a customer's home network, the access point will first authenticate with the wireless carrier, and then connect to the Netopia NBBS management server hosted by the mobile operator. Based on the customer's service profile, the appropriate configurations will then be automatically downloaded to the access point. Finally, the access point will be tuned to the optimal settings for the particular home environment, and the customer's individual account will be activated. This all occurs without the intervention of either the mobile operator or the customer.

http://www.netopia.com

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Hawaii IPTV Launches with NeuLion

A new "Hawaii IPTV" service has launched over the Web using NeuLion's iPTV platform. The service will deliver a variety of Hawaii programming, in real-time and on-demand, directly to subscription and pay-for-view consumers anywhere in the world with a broadband connection. The set top box costs $150 and the monthly service fee is $15.

http://www.tvfromhawaii.com/final/http://www.neulion.com

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Space Systems/Loral to Build Intelsat 14

Intelsat selected Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) to manufacture Intelsat 14, a new, high-power C- and Ku-band fixed satellite service (FSS) satellite that will carry 40 C-band and 22 Ku-band transponders across four different beams, covering the Americas, Europe and Africa. Financial terms were not disclosed.



Intelsat 14 is the first satellite awarded to SS/L in 2007. The company received seven satellite awards in 2006 from a wide variety of customers, including FSS operators, direct-to-home and satellite radio service providers.

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Motorola Post Q4 Results

Motorola reported Q4 2006 sales of $11.8 billion, up 17% compared to fourth-quarter 2005 sales. Net earnings in the fourth quarter of 2006 were $0.25 per share, including $0.04 per share from discontinued operations and $0.21 per share from continuing operations, which includes special items. The company will trim about 3,500 jobs. Motorola now expects full year 2007 sales of between $46 billion and $49 billion.



"As I said earlier this month, we are disappointed with our fourth quarter operating earnings performance. However, the company generated strong revenue growth and met or exceeded our goals in many areas during the quarter. I am confident that we remain well positioned for continued growth and success," said Ed Zander, chairman and CEO.



Some highlights of the quarterly report:

• Mobile Devices segment sales were $7.8 billion, up 19 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. Shipped a record 65.7 million handsets -- an increase of 47 percent compared to the same period in 2005 -- making it the No.2 player in the global market with an estimated 23.3 percent global market share.



• Networks & Enterprise segment sales were $3.0 billion, up 6 percent compared with the year-ago quarter.



• Connected Home Solutions segment sales were $980 million, up 39 percent compared with the year-ago quarter. Motorola noted quarterly and annual record-shipment milestones of digital entertainment devices and modems, and said it set record IP network infrastructure sales, including shipments to Comcast, Time Warner, NET (Brazil) and Starhub. Shipments are underway of IP digital entertainment devices for the AT&T U-verse digital video service deployment.

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