Motorola Unveils "Carbon Neutral" Mobile Phone Made from Recycled Plastic

Motorola introduced the first mobile phone made using plastics comprised of recycled water bottle. The MOTO W233 Renew is described as "the world's first carbon neutral phone." Through an alliance with Carbonfund.org, Motorola offsets the carbon dioxide required to manufacture, distribute and operate the phone through investments in renewable energy sources and reforestation. The phone has earned Carbonfund.org's CarbonFree Product Certification...

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Broadcom Supports Adobe Flash in DTV and STB Designs

Broadcom has added support for Adobe Flash into its latest digital television (DTV) and set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms. The collaboration paves the way for rich Flash based entertainment experiences on televisions that offer viewers new options for accessing web content on their TVs.Specifically, Adobe Flash Lite 3 software is now supported in the Broadcom BCM3549, BCM3556, BCM7400 and BCM7405 SoC solutions. Broadcom DTV and STB platforms with integrated Adobe Flash support are expected to be available to manufacturers in the...

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Motorola Supplies WiMAX Devices, Infrastructure in Portland

Motorola supplied the WiMAX infrastructure and with its USBw 100 adaptor and its CPEi 150 devices for Clear's service rollout in Portland, Oregon. The Greater Portland area is served by cell sites that utilize Motorola's WAP450 Diversity Access Point product. The WAP450 utilizes a tower top power amplifier and base control unit housed in a small outdoor cabinet linked with fiber optic cable creating a very compact cell site configuration significantly smaller than traditional cellular infrastructure products that offer only a fraction of the capacity...

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Samsung Introduces “Green�? SSD for Enterprise, Data Centers

Samsung Electronics has developed a 100 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive for use in servers for applications such as video on demand, streaming media content delivery, Internet data centers, virtualization and on-line transaction processing.The new performance-optimized 100GB Enterprise SSD can process IOPS (input/output per second) more than 10 times faster than the fastest 15K rpm SAS HDD available for transactional data workloads, with a random...

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Ixia Cuts Financial Guidance

Ixia trimmed guidance for its fourth fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2008. Total revenues are expected to be in the range of $40.5 to $41.5 million, below the company's previous guidance of $44.0 to $48.0 million. Ixia said fourth quarter 2008 revenues were impacted by lower than expected bookings from service providers in North America and Europe while bookings from government accounts were seasonally down from the immediately preceding third quarter. Fourth quarter 2008 sales to Ixia's largest account, Cisco Systems, are estimated to be approximately...

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NetScout Raises 2009 Guidance

NetScout, which offers network and service assurance solutions, said GAAP revenue for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31 will be in the range of $71 million to $72 million with GAAP net income per diluted share between $0.16 and $0.18. For the 2009 fiscal year ending March 31, NetScout is raising its outlook for GAAP revenue to a range of $266 million to $274 million with GAAP net income per diluted share between $0.44 and $0.54, and non-GAAP revenue to a range of $278 million to $286 million, with non-GAAP net income per diluted share...

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RMI and NetLogic Collaborate on Content Inspection Solution

RMI has collaborated with NetLogic Microsystems on an SMB secure wireless gateway reference design for small and midsize business (SMB) systems. The design features RMI's multi-core, multi-threaded XLS Processor and NetLogic Microsystems' NLS045 content processor for advanced protection against cyber security attacks, such as viruses, intrusions, malware and spam for SMB systems. The SMB secure wireless gateway reference design is available now from RMI, and includes a full design kit, including schematics, gerbers, board layout files, and a...

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One Minute Video: What is DOCSIS 3.0?

One Minute VideoWhat is DOCSIS 3.0?.Presented by Irvind S. Ghai, Texas Instrume...

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Apple's iTunes Moves to DRM-free Format

All four major music labels -- Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group and EMI, along with thousands of independent labels, are now offering their music in iTunes Plus, Apple's DRM-free format. Apple also announced more flexible pricing, which had long been sought by the music labels.iTunes now boasts a catalog of over 10 million songs, over 30,000 TV episodes and over 2,500 films including over 600 in high definition video. http://www.itunes....

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RipCode Raises $12.5 Million for Mobile Transcoding

RipCode, a start-up based in Dallas, Texas, raised $12.5 million in new venture financing for its video delivery technology for mobiles. RipCode's On-Demand and Real-Time Stream Transcoding appliances are designed to optimize end-user viewing experience while reducing operational cost and complexity for content providers and network operators. Unlike many of the encoding solutions available in the market today that are powered by general purpose...

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NEC Magnus Supplies 4 Million VDSL Access Lines with Ikanos

Ikanos Communications and NEC Magnus Communications, which sells and installs telecommunications and electronics equipment,., announced the deployment of the world's largest VDSL network. Together, the companies have shipped more than four million central office and customer premises equipment products which are enabling delivery of higher bandwidth services to the growing number of VDSL subscribers across Japan.As a result of NEC Magnus' advanced product line, Japan's service providers have been able to hasten rollouts and accelerate return on...

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Clearwire Launches WiMAX in Portland -- up to 6 Mbps Downlink

Clearwire officially launched its "Clear" WiMAX service in Portland, Oregon promising up to 6 Mbps download speeds for customers with residential modems and up to 4 Mbps download speeds for mobile Internet customers. Home Internet service plans start at $20 per month, while mobile Internet plans start at $30 per month, or customers can purchase a day pass for $10. Additional savings are available for customers that purchase both home and mobile Internet services or that sign up for a two-year service agreement. Clearwire also launched a series...

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Motorola Showcases Femtocell + Picture Frame Design

Motorola's "KeepMeConnected" Femtocells - CDMA 9100 Series has been selected as an honoree of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering Awards. The CDMA Femtocell 9100 Series includes a SIP-based soft phone and provides enhanced mobile phone coverage inside the home. The device allows users to have a single, basic land line service (using VoIP) for both land line and mobile phones, even if they are using a mobile...

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ICO Wins $631 Million Court Judgment in Case Against Boeing

The Los Angeles Superior Court awarded a judgment of$631,067,767.00 to ICO Global Communications in its lawsuit against The Boeing Company and its Boeing Satellite Services International subsidiary. The judgment consists of compensatory damages of $371 million and punitive damages of $236 million, which the jury awarded in October 2008, plus pre-judgment interest. Beginning January 2, 2009, post-judgment interest will accrue on the full judgment amount at the rate of 10% per annum (simple interest), or $63,106,777.00 per year. Based on available...

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ICO and Alcatel-Lucent Demo integrated Satellite-/Terrestrial Network

ICO Global Communications (ICO) and Alcatel-Lucent will be demonstrating the world's first fully integrated satellite-terrestrial network being used to deliver mobile video and interactive two-way communications services during the International Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas. The network is supporting ICO's mobile interactive media service, ICO mim, which delivers live television, interactive navigation and two-way communications...

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Motorola Launches IPTV Storefront Engine for Service Providers

Motorola released a new version of its Communications Convergence Engine (CCE) that features an IPTV "storefront" for helping network operators to simplify the process of marketing and bundling IPTV, Internet and physical goods. Motorola CCE Storefront 1.0 enables IPTV operators to create rich, personalized, on-demand experiences for subscribers as well as the ability to offer new bundled services which include multimedia content. The resulting "storefront...

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