PMC-Sierra Appoints Greg Lang as CEO

PMC-Sierra has appointed Greg Lang as its new president and chief executive officer. The position will become effective immediately upon the resignation of Robert Bailey as the company's president and CEO following the filing of the Company's first quarter 2008 financials next month. The Company's Board of Directors also elected Mr. Lang to serve as a director effective as of the next meeting of the Board. Mr. Bailey will continue as PMC-Sierra's...

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Yahoo! Debuts Voice-Enabled Mobile Search

Yahoo! unveiled a new version of its mobile search service, allowing users to initiate searches faster using text or voice. Yahoo! also plans to provide greater relevance through richer, more detailed search results by opening up Yahoo! oneSearch to publishers to integrate content, simplify search input with Search Assist and voice-enabled search, and make search instantly accessible on the idle screen of many phones. Open search results are expected...

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NextPoint Enhances Integrated Border Gateway, Adding PDIF and Tunnel Termination Gateway

NextPoint announced a number of mobility enhancements to its Integrated Border Gateway (IBG) including Packet Data Interworking Functionality (PDIF) and Tunnel Termination Gateway (TTG) capabilities -- key capabilities enabling seamless handoffs in Wi-Fi FMC or femtocell services deployed by mobile operators.NextPoint's IBG, which consolidates Session Border Controller (SBC) capabilities with Security Gateway (SeGW) in a single ATCA-based platform,...

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Monsoon Multimedia Offers TV Place-Shifting for the Nokia Internet Tablet

Monsoon Multimedia announced HAVA support for the Nokia N800 and N810 Internet Tablets (updated with the latest operating system), and the upcoming Nokia N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition, allowing customers to view and control their home TV from anywhere in the world over WiMAX or WiFi. Users can control the TV source (whether cable or satellite, receiver or DVR, standard or high definition) connected to the HAVA device they have installed in their home.Monsoon said an upcoming version of the HAVA PC Player application will also enable the Nokia...

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Alcatel-Lucent Enhances Long-Haul Microwave for TDM-Ethernet Migration

Alcatel-Lucent has enhanced its long-haul microwave solution, the Alcatel-Lucent MDR 8000, to support operators' migration from time division multiplexing (TDM) to Ethernet transport over wireless transport networks. The platform provides mobile backhaul and long-haul trunking serving various markets, including homeland security, defense, utility and energy infrastructure, and transportation. With this new release, MDR-8000 features dual Gigabit Ethernet ports and 32 DS1 circuit interfaces, and allows dynamic reallocation of capacity in-service...

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AT&T U-verse TV Tunes Into Flickr

AT&T launched an Online Photos service from Flickr for its AT&T U-verse TV customers. Users can watch slide shows and browse their online photos from flickr.com on their U-verse TV screens. Flickr is Yahoo!'s photo-sharing service.http://www.att....

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Aircell Receives FAA Approvals to Launch Inflight Broadband

Aircell received two critical FAA approvals, clearing the way to launch its in-flight mobile broadband service over the U.S. Aircell is now the first and only communications operator to receive approvals from the FAA to provide air-to-ground (ATG) in-flight mobile broadband for U.S. domestic flights. The two FAA approvals received include a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC), permitting installation and operation of the company's ATG network on...

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Telstra Deploys Ericsson's Blade-based Mobile Softswitch Solution

Telstra is deploying Ericsson's Mobile Softswitch Solution based on blade technology. Telstra started this transformation in 2007 when it became the first operator in the world to implement a common GSM-WCDMA Mobile Switching Center-Server (MSC-S) pool network, which is now in full commercial service. Commercial implementation of the next-generation Mobile Softswitch Solution using the new MSC-S Blade Cluster has just started.Ericsson said the new blade design will also reduce the energy use of the softswitch by up to 60 percent per subscriber....

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Tellabs discontinues current GPON activities focused on Verizon

Citing economic reasons, Tellabs announced that it will discontinue current GPON activities focused on Verizon. Tellabs said the decision serves the best interests of both companies and their respective stakeholders. It will continue to be a multi-product and services supplier to Verizon. Tellabs also noted that it will continue its current access strategy, including BPON and GPON.http://www.tellabs....

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EXFO to Acquire Brix for US$28.5 million

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering agreed to acquire Brix Networks, a provider of converged service assurance solutions, for US$28.5 million in cash and an additional earn-out based upon the achievement of bookings levels exceeding US$16 million in the 12 months following the closing date of the transaction. Total purchase price could reach US$37.5 million.Brix Networks, a privately held company headquartered near Boston, specializes in IP service...

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Vlingo Secures $20 Million including Yahoo! Investment, for Mobile Voice Interface

Vlingo, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., secured $20 million in Series B financing for its voice-recognition technology. The funding round was led by Yahoo!, which just announced a voice-enabled version of Yahoo! oneSearch that leverages Vlingo's technology. Additional investors include Charles River Ventures and Sigma Partners. The voice-enabled version of Yahoo! oneSearch supports unstructured, open-ended voice searches that allows the...

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Verizon Plans to Offer 1,000 HD VOD Titles This Year

Verizon announced availability of HD VOD service in parts of eight more states where FiOS TV is available, including California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. The company began offering HD VOD last December in Florida, Indiana, western Pennsylvania and Virginia. FiOS TV customers in New York and Oregon will receive HD VOD in the coming weeks.Verizon also announced plans to offer more than 1,000 high-definition video on demand titles this year. Its VOD library currently includes 10,000...

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