SingTel Offers Mobile LIVECam Home Surveillance Device

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) launched its Mobile LIVECam, a home surveillance device that ties into the carrier's 3G service.The Mobile LIVECam is a 0.3 megapixel camera comes equipped with a SIM card and users simply place it at their selected location. They can then dial in to the camera's assigned number from wherever they are using their 3G mobile phone in order to view the images. The device allows the user to remotely pan, tilt...

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Telstra Wholesale launches Carrier Grade Ethernet

Telstra Wholesale recently launched a new Carrier Grade Ethernet service that offers a resilient, scalable network with a broad range of bandwidth choices. Telstra Wholesale has already sold Carrier Grade Ethernet to one local ISP and they have been able to link metropolitan services and international IP traffic gateways via one platform.The Carrier Grade Ethernet service offers wholesale customers three resilience options.Wholesale Carrier Grade...

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PAETEC to Acquire Allworx for Phone System

PAETEC Holding Corp. agreed to acquire Allworx, a privately held company, in a $25 million all-cash acquisition. Allworx develops, designs, markets, and sells a complete phone and network system. Its portfolio includes integrated PBX/Key telephone and network systems and VoIP telephones with a series of advanced communications software options, such as conference calling and call queuing. Based in East Rochester, N.Y., Allworx primarily uses Value Added Resellers, or VARs, as its sales channel.PAETEC said the acquisition will enhance its offerings...

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IBM and BroadSoft Exceed 100 Clients

IBM and BroadSoft now have over 100 telecom service providers using the IBM BladeCenter with the BroadWorks VoIP platform. The companies began offering their combined solution 18 months ago.The IBM BladeCenter HT, introduced earlier this year, extends the BladeCenter family to meet stringent NEBS3/ETSI requirements for telecommunications carrier grade deployments. http://www.broadsoft.com http://www.ibm....

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FCC Grants AT&T's Forbearance Petition for Broadband Services

The FCC granted a forbearance petition from AT&T under which the carrier sought a regulatory relief of its broadband infrastructure and fiber capabilities. This relief provides AT&T with more flexibility with regard to its existing packet-switched broadband telecommunications services and its existing optical transmission services. The regulatory relief is similar to that granted to Verizon in March 2006.Under Title II of the Telecom Act,...

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House Judiciary Committee Supports Continued Moratorium on Internet Taxes

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted to support the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007 out of committee, which would extend the moratorium on Internet taxation established in the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act until 2011. The full House and Senate must now take up the bill. The current net tax ban expires at the end of the month. http://www.house....

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BEA Systems Rejects Oracle Bid at $17/Share

Oracle proposed to acquire BEA Systems for $17.00 per share in cash, representing a 25% premium over the previous day's closing price of $13.62 and values the company at $6.7 billion. Oracle said the proposed merger with BEA would accelerate the development of a world-class suite of middleware for business applications.BEA Systems' Board of Directors reviewed the bid and rejected it, saying the proposal significantly under-values BEA Systems.http://www.oracle.com http://www.beasys....

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Fujitsu and Navini Demo Beamformed Mobile WiMAX

Navini Networks and Fujitsu Microelectronics America (FMA) demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability of "Smart WiMAX" technology -- the conjunction of smart beamforming with Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO) on a Mobile WiMAX (802.16e) network. The companies estimate Smart WiMAX systems will provide a doubling of system capacity, while offering up to twice the coverage of simple WiMAX networks in a fully mobile setting.The demonstration, the first in the industry between two different vendors, took place in Navini's test facility in Richardson,...

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