QUALCOMM Announces $1.1 Billion Stock Repurchase

QUALCOMM announced that it has repurchased and retired approximately 29 million shares of common stock during July and August 2007 for approximately $1.1 billion under its $3.0 billion stock repurchase program. Approximately $1.5 billion remains authorized for repurchase in future periods, net of put options outstanding, under the stock repurchase program announced on May 22, 2007.http://www.qualcomm.comSince fiscal 2003, QUALCOMM has returned approximately $6.3 billion of capital to stockholders, including approximately $2.3 billion in dividends...

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Spreadtrum Announces AVS Audio/Video Decoder Chip

Spreadtrum Communications, a wireless baseband chipset provider based in Shanghai, announced the commercial release of its AVS audio/video decoder chip. AVS is the audio and video coding- decoding standard independently created by China. Spreadtrum said its new SV6111 product includes all of the decoding functions required by the AVS standard, while at the same time supporting MPEG-2 specifications. The device supports real time decoding in both high definition and standard definition modes, and contains key functions designed to support both...

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AT&T Adds Big Ten Football to U-Verse Line up

AT&T announced the availability of the Big Ten Network football coverage across all U-verse markets. The Big Ten Network will showcase more than 400 live events, original programming and conference football games in standard and High Definition (HD). http://uverse.att.com/uconn...

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Fujitsu Launches Transmitter Modules for W-CDMA Mobile Phones

Fujitsu Media Devices (FMD), a leading manufacturer specialized in devices for mobile phone equipment, introduced three compact, high-performance transmitter modules for high power efficiency for W-CDMA mobile phones. The modules serve Band I, Band II and Band V. FMD is also planning to develop transmitter modules for Bands IV and VIII in an effort to further strengthen its product lineup.FMD said its use of a proprietary duplexer and filter enables an optimal design and the world's highest level of power efficiency (27%). The transmitter modules...

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Yahoo! Offers Email-to-SMS Connectivity

Yahoo! has enhanced its email service with the ability for users to send real-time text messages to mobile recipients. Through this service, users in the U.S., Canada, India and the Philippines can send messages to a mobile phone number directly from their e-mail account. Simultaneously, Yahoo! Mail accounts can receive text messages from mobile phone users. http://www.yahoo....

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Ikanos Signs Development Pact with European OEM

Ikanos Communications announced a $1.6 million strategic non-exclusive development and feasibility study agreement with a leading European original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that supplies solutions that deliver triple play services. Ikanos said this extension of the parties' relationship leverages the OEM's extensive DSL and networking system expertise, sets forth a time line that is compatible with Ikanos' next generation design cycle, and explores highly integrated, low-power architectures for next generation, multi-mode VDSL2/ADSLx products...

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Sprint Awards Samsung New York Deal For XOHM

Sprint Nextel selected Samsung Telecommunications America to support the rollout of its mobile WiMAX network in the New York metro area.Samsung was previously awarded the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Providence, R.I., markets. The New York award is part of an extensive, multi-year supply agreement, and encompasses New York City, Nassau-Suffolk and Jersey City, N.J. It also includes northern and central New Jersey the Newark,...

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies Universal 802.16e–2005 for Germany's VSE NET

VSE NET, a regional telecommunications service provider based in Saarbrücken, Germany, selected Alcatel-Lucent for a commercial universal WiMAX network - based on the 802.16e--2005 standard (also known as Rev-e) - in the Saar region. The network will support high-speed Internet access and VoIP and other data services with transfer rates of up to 6 Mbps. In the initial stage of the deployment, wireless broadband will be made available to residential...

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ECI Supplies Optical and Broadband for Vietnam's Viettel

Viettel, a network operator in Vietnam, has selected ECI Telecom's optical and broadband access solutions to expand its nationwide network. Specifically, ECI has supplied its XDM Multi-Service Transmission Platform (MSTP), BroadGate (BGTM) Multi-Service Provisioning Platform (MSPP), and Hi-FOCuS Multi-Service Access Node (MSAN) platform in an IP DSLAM configuration. The project is being implemented by ECI's business partner in Vietnam, Ntegrator. Viettel is building a new, long haul DWDM network with a capacity of 40 channels of 10 Gbps using ECI's...

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Intellon to Provide HomePlug for DIRECTV

Intellon announced that its HomePlug 1.0 with Turbo powerline communications IC will provide "No New Wires" connectivity for DIRECTV's Video On Demand service that is scheduled to launch this fall.DIRECTV On Demand will offer customers access to thousands of titles, including movies, music, popular television shows and more, through their DIRECTV Plus HDDVR. DIRECTV customers who sign up for the new service will have access to a HomePlug-enabled surge protector and a HomePlug powerline-to-Ethernet adapter, manufactured by TII Network Technologies....

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Akamai Pushes HD Internet Video

Akamai Technologies is now delivering HD quality video content for its customers via its distributed edge delivery network with servers in more than 750 cities worldwide. For the Internet, Akamai said it is making the HD web possible by continuing to refine the infrastructure required to bring the HDTV experience to online audiences. HDTV is defined as pixel resolution of 1080i, 1080p or 720p. A 2-hour feature-length movie would need to be encoded...

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South Korean Online Portal Deploys Force10

DAUM Communications, the second largest Internet portal in South Korea with 55 million users throughout Asia, has deployed Force10 Networks' TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers and S50 data center switches in a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. Force10's TeraScale E600 supports up to 633 Gigabit and 112 Ten Gigabit Ethernet ports per system. Additionally, the high density and robust routing functionality of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series combined with its high performance switching features allow DAUM to simplify its architecture by collapsing...

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OFS Introduces Fiber-to-the-Multiple Dwelling Unit Solution

OFS introduced a new solution for installing fiber within Multiple Dwelling Units (MDUs) using in-building PON or point-to-point fiber topologies. The solution features OFS' bend-optimized AllWave FLEX ZWP fiber.OFS said its solution helps to cut installation time, space, and labor cost up to 50%http://www.ofsoptics....

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Verizon Offers "Lifetime" Price for DSL

Verizon will offer a "lifetime" pricing for customers who order its Verizon High Speed Internet service online with a connection speed of up to 768 Kbps with a two-year commitment. Under this plan, the customer will pay $14.99 a month for as long as they subscribe to the same price-for-life plan. The same plan applies to Verizon's 3 Mbps service, which is available online for $27.99 a month. http://www.verizon....

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Verizon Business and SAIC Target Passive Fiber-to-the-Desktop Integration

Verizon Business and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a leading systems integrator for the U.S. government, are working on a new converged solution that combines Verizon's single fiber passive optical network technology with SAIC's system and technical service integration capabilities. This fiber-to-the-desktop solution would use either a broadband passive optical network (BPON) or gigabit passive optical network (GPON) architecture, with no active electronics, repeaters or other equipment needed to boost the signal for seven...

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