NDS to Go Private with Support from News Corp., Permira

NDS announced plans to become a privately-held company. News Corporation and the Permira Newcos will acquire all issued and outstanding NDS Series A ordinary shares, including those represented by American Depositary Shares traded on NASDAQ, for the previously announced per share consideration of $63 in cash. The consummation of the transaction would result in NDS ceasing to be a public company, and the Permira Newcos and News Corporation owning approximately 51% and 49% of NDS, respectively. Approximately 67% of the NDS Series B ordinary shares...

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JAJAH's IP Telephony to Use Intel's Remote Wake

JAJAH's Internet telephony application will utilize Intel's newly-announced Remote Wake technology. This energy efficient capability turns the home PC into an 'always available' communications hub for the first time, with Intel Remote Wake technology enabling the home PC to "wake up" from energy efficient sleep mode to accept phone calls.With JAJAH's telephony support, the computer has direct access to JAJAH's IP-telephony network, enabling the PC...

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Ipanema Names Former Cisco Exec as President of Worldwide Operations

Ipanema Technologies, which specializes in application traffic management systems for wide area networks, has appointed Reza Mahdavi as President of Worldwide Operations. Mahdavi joins Ipanema after 14 years at Cisco, initially as head of global and strategic partners, then president of emerging and developing countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and, most recently, as vice president of corporate affairs in San Jose, California.Ipanema's...

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Ofcom: UK Consumers Paying Less but Getting More

In 2007, people in the UK spent an average of 7 hours and 9 minutes a day using an array of communications services (TV, Internet, mobiles, landlines or radio) -- up by 6 minutes from 2002. However, people paying are less for these services, according to Ofcom's latest annual report into the UK's £51 billion communications industry. Mobile and Internet use has increased by the greatest amount. Between 2002 and 2007, time spent talking and texting...

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Xelerated Raises $23 Million for Carrier Ethernet Silicon

Xelerated, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California and Stockholm, Sweden, raised $23 million in series C funding for its high-end Carrier Ethernet ASSP-based chipsets, closed a $13 million funding round. Xelerated recently announced its HX300 family of network processors and the industry's first programmable Ethernet switches to the fiber access market. This new family of products feature integrated traffic management and fully-programmable Ethernet...

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Pando to Leverage Intel's "Remote Wake" for P2P Content Delivery

Pando Networks, which specializes in commercial P2P content delivery services, will leverage Intel's newly announced Remote Wake technology for its P2Pcontent delivery service. Intel's Remote Wake technology makes the personal computer an always available extension to content distribution networks. Pando Networks said the combination of secure content delivery services and Intel Remote Wake will offer content providers and consumers more choice...

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Nortel Acquires Pingtel for Unified Communications

Nortel has acquired Pingtel, a developer of software-based unified communications solutions, for an undisclosed sum. The assets were acquired from Bluesocket Inc, an enterprise mobility solutions provider. Pingtel employees will be integrated into Nortel's Billerica, Massachusetts facilities.The deal brings Pingtel's existing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) relationship with Nortel in-house. Pingtel will also add new software capabilities...

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Intel Releases xHCI Draft Spec for USB 3.0 Architecture

Intel released the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The xHCI draft specification provides a standardized method for USB 3.0 host controllers to communicate with the USB 3.0 software stack.xHCI describes the registers and data structures used to interface between system software and the hardware, and are developed to be compatible with the USB 3.0 specification being developed by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group. Intel is making the draft...

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OIF Pursues DP-QPSK for 100 Gbps Long Haul DWDM

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has identified Dual-Polarization - Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DP-QPSK) as a modulation technique for integrated photonic components. With a number of possible modulation techniques available to use at 100G. The OIF said identifying a specific modulation technique gives the industry a starting point to design hardware and reduce development risk."We have selected an implementation approach supported by...

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