Yahoo! Releases Fire Eagle for Location-based Services

Yahoo! released its Fire Eagle open platform for location-based mobile services. Fire Eagle is a network service that gives users a place to store and manage information about their location, and offers developers protocols for updating or accessing that information. Yahoo! said its goal with Fire Eagle is to help developers create Internet experiences that are geo-aware.For users, Fire Eagle acts as a simple interface for managing location information...

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WiMAX Forum Predicts Rapid Uptake in India

The WiMAX Forum projects that more than 27.5 million Indians will be WiMAX users by 2012. Additional data from this recent WiMAX Forum study estimates that approximately 70 percent of the forecasted WiMAX subscribers by 2012 will utilize mobile and portable WiMAX devices to access broadband Internet services.The WiMAX Forum plans to add an Indian certification lab to its existing network by the end of 2008 to stay ahead of the demand for products...

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Freescale Announces Cost Reduced Version of its GPON Chipset

Freescale Semiconductor introduced a cost-reduced version of its third generation PON device, which has been shipping in large volumes worldwide. The new MSC7104 integrates data path engine and Power Architecture technologies to provide high data forwarding throughput rates for the delivery of video and data broadband content to homes and small businesses. The device supports the G.984 GPON Encapsulation Mode (GEM) protocol and is compliant with ITU-T standards.The MSC7104 combines the high-speed networking capabilities of the PowerQUICC II Pro...

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MRV Develops All Optical 100 Gbps Cross Connect for Test Lab Automation

MRV COMMUNICATIONS has developed a new Optical Cross Connect 320 (OCC 320) physical layer switch based on a three-dimensional Microelectromechanical Systems (3D-MEMS) switching matrix. The 320-port, single-mode fiber-based OCC offers high-bandwidth network equipment manufacturers, carriers and enterprises an optimized, all-optical test lab solution able to support next-generation data rates to 100 Gbps.MRV said its "wire-once" technology of a physical layer switch turns the practice of manually configuring test topologies into a software process,...

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Dell'Oro: 10 GigE Switch Market Surpasses $600 Million in Q2

According to a recent market research report from Dell'Oro Group, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch market recently surpassed two major milestones: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch port shipments exceeded 250 thousand in the second quarter of 2008, while revenues exceeded $600 million in the quarter."Convergence towards Ethernet in the wiring closet and data center continues to drive consolidation in the market," said Alan Weckel, Senior Analyst at Dell'Oro Group. "End user demand for a wiring closet solution that's complete with Voice, Security, and wireless...

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NetApp's Quarterly Revenue Rises to $869 Million, up 26% YoY

NetApp reported quarterly revenue of $869 million, an increase of 26% compared to revenues of $689 million for the same period a year ago. GAAP net income was $38 million, or $0.11 per share1 compared to GAAP net income of $34 million, or $0.09 per share for the same period in the prior year. "Our new fiscal year got off to a good start, and our efforts to increase awareness and sales capacity in order to secure new customers are delivering results," said Dan Warmenhoven, chairman and CEO. "Despite economic uncertainty, customers have continued...

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Brocade Reports Quarterly Revenue of $365.7 million

Brocade reported quarterly revenue of $365.7 million, compared with $354.9 million in the preceding quarter and $327.5 million in the same period last year. GAAP net income was $20.3 million, compared with $91.4 million in the preceding quarter and $10.7 million in the same period last year.Some highlights for the quarter:Brocade achieved record revenue and double-digit annual growth in a typically slower period.The company achieved record quarterly revenue in its switch business, embedded blade switch product line and its Services Business...

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Alcatel-Lucent Extends Tender Offer for Motive

Alcatel-Lucent has extended its previously announced tender offer for all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Motive, Inc. until 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of Wednesday, September 10, 2008. The tender offer was previously set to expire at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of Tuesday, August 12, 2008.As of 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of Tuesday, August 12, 2008, approximately 27.0 million shares had been tendered into the tender offer and not withdrawn. http://www.alcatel-l...

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NitroSecurity Raises $10 Million for Enterprise Security

NitroSecurity, a start-up based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, secured $10 million in venture funding for its high performance, unified information security solution.NitroSecurity offers a suite of unified information security solutions that supplants the need for disparate products and services from multiple vendors. The company's product portfolio includes integrated solutions for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Log Management, Network Behavior and Anomaly Detection (NBAD), Database Activity Monitoring and Network Intrusion Prevention...

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Virgin Mobile USA Cites Trend toward Lower Priced Voice Messaging

For Q2 2008,, Virgin Mobile USA reported net service revenue of $291.4 million, a decrease of 5.9% versus the same period last year. Virgin Mobile USA's net service revenue for the first half of 2008 was $595.1 million compared to $632.1 million in the same period in 2007. The company said revenues in the first half of 2007 benefited from the launch of hybrid monthly plans, while second quarter 2008 revenues continue to be impacted by the effect of the current economic environment on prepaid customer usage, as well as by the industry-wide trend...

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GN Netcom Introduces Noise Blackout for Headsets

GN Netcom introduced a new generation of noise cancellation technology that reduces ambient sound without compromising voice quality. The new "Noise Blackout" technology, which will initially be available in the new Jabra BT530 Bluetooth device, applies a directional principle to noise cancellation, reducing only surrounding noise and not distorting the users' voice. The technology uses dual microphones to capture sound, intelligently filtering...

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Orange Launches Mobile Fleet

Orange Business Services has launched Mobile Fleet, a set of tools designed to increase the productivity and availability of fleets of vehicles and mobile workers within small and medium size businesses. The service, which is available in the UK, allows business to develop specialized Web-browser forms for use by PDAs in the field. It also provides real time traffic updates. provided by the RAC and Trafficmaster, with updates every three minutes. http://www.orange....

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