Orange France offers Internet Satellite Service with NordNet

Orange, through its subsidiary NordNet, is launching a new "Internet Satellite Pack" for EUR 34.90 per month, including the dish. The bi-directional satellite link delives speeds at up to 2 Mbps. There is a 2 GB per month data cap. Orange said this service enables it to reach 100% broadband internet coverage in mainland France. The company claims 98.4% of the country's population is able to get ADSL service. http://www.orange....

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France Telecom Acquires Data & Mobiles for M2M Services

France Telecom has acquired Data & Mobiles, a French company specializing in Machine-to-Machine" (M2M) telemetry. The company's on-board devices and application platform is currently used for tracking a fleet of some 20,000 vehicles in France. Financial terms were not disclosed.France Telecom said the Data & Mobiles acquisition strengths furthers Orange Business Services goals to provide real-time business solutions for companies in France and internationally. http://www.orange....

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Global Crossing Signs Voice Patent License with Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing

Global Crossing has settled patent litigation proceedings and signed a licensing agreement with Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing, L.P. As part of the agreement, Global Crossing will purchase a nonexclusive license under a comprehensive portfolio of patents that Katz owns relating to interactive voice applications. The nonexclusive license covers services offered by Global Crossing in the Group Conferencing Field of Use including collaborative and conferencing services delivered through automated systems and live agents. Other terms of the...

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Corning Unveils Ultra-Bendable Multimode ClearCurve Fiber

Corning unveiled a new ClearCurve ultra-bendable multimode optical fiber for use in data centers and enterprise networks. Corning said its ClearCurve multimode fiber is the world's first laser-optimized multimode fiber to withstand tight bends at or below 10 mm radius with substantially less signal loss than traditional multimode fiber. This new fiber allows designers, installers and operators of enterprise networks -- including local area networks,...

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NDS Shareholders Approve Privatization Deal

The shareholders of NDS have approved a scheme under which all of its issued and outstanding NDS A ordinary shares would be cancelled, and approximately 67% of the issued and outstanding NDS B ordinary shares (held by News Corporation) would be cancelled, in each case, for per share consideration of $63.00 in cash. Completion of the transaction is expected to take place in early February. http://www.nds....

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Glimmerglass Claims New World Records in Data Transfer Rates

Glimmerglass claimed a new data transfer world records for its role at the Supercomputing Conference 2008 (SC08) recently held in Austin, Texas. An international team led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) High Energy Physics (HEP) group and the Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR), with partners from around the world, set new records for sustained data transfer among storage systems over wide area networks.Glimmerglass...

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Boingo Launches WLAN Roaming with China Telecom

Through a partnership with China Telecom, Boingo Wireless is adding 10,904 hotspots to the Boingo Roaming Network in the Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Shanghai. These locations are the first three of the 18 provinces and three municipalities that will be added to the Boingo network. http://www.boingo....

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STMicroelectronics and Paratek Develop Tunable RF

Paratek and STMicroelectronics have entered into a strategic relationship to supply RF tunable products to mobile wireless markets. The two companies have been cooperating to advance the next generation of Paratek's ParaScan materials technology for high-volume manufacturing and to jointly develop tunable products that improve Total Radiated Power (TRP) for mobile phones, leading to longer battery life and fewer dropped calls. Initial production will take place at STMicroelectronics' fabrication facility in Tours, France by the end of 2009.http://www.paratek.com...

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Veraz Expands its SIP Media Gateway Line

Veraz Networks has expanded its line of media gateways for bridging the gap between TDM and IP networks. The new I‑Gate 4000 EDGE SIP Gateway (GW) enables Service Providers to offer SIP trunking services that their business customers can use to interconnect existing PBXs to remote offices, teleworkers, and local and long-distance PSTN services. The gateway can be scaled from single PBX sites to multi-tenant buildings and industrial parks with multiple...

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Ericsson to expand Zain Madagascar network

The Zain Group has selected Ericsson to expand the core network and the GSM radio access network in Madagascar. The upgrade is centered upon deploying Ericsson's Packet Core Network, including both SGSN and GGSN nodes, and Ericsson's Mobile Softswitch Solution. Rollout of the first phase of the project has already begun. Ericsson will also provide a range of associated professional services including systems integration, network deployment, field...

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Saudi Telecom Optimizes Network to Handle Hajj Pilgrimage Crowds

Saudi Telecommunications (STC), in partnership with Nokia Siemens Networks, has successfully handled another year of the holy Hajj pilgrimage, a two weeks long event includes millions of visitors and results in a huge increase in mobile traffic. The companies said preparing for the Hajj from a network perspective involves dedicated teams for planning, optimization, and implementation. First, line maintenance and network monitoring teams must be...

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Thomson Launches HD Set-Top Box with Cable Modem

Thomson introduced a new high-definition digital set-top-box (STB) with integrated DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS cable modem. The DCI704 is also the first product in the 700 Series to feature a new compact and ecological design capable of less than one watt power consumption in deep standby mode.The DCI704 has a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) output for high definition output. It decodes MPEG-4 AVC video streams as well as classic MPEG-2 broadcasts....

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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to Re-Examine TiVo Patent

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has granted a petition from DISH Network and EchoStar to re-examine the software claims of TiVo's '389 patent, which are the subject of TiVo's current motion for contempt. DISH and EchoStar said the PTO has now found that there is a "substantial new question of patentability as to the software claims in light of prior patents that appear to render TiVo's '389 patent invalid as obvious.". http://www.dishnetwork....

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Ubicom Raises $7 Million, Names New CEO

Ubicom, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $7 million in new funding for its families of 32-bit embedded communications and media processors. The company's IP series of processors employ unique, multithreaded architecture, software-controlled interfaces, and hardware accelerators to achieve superior processor performance and efficiency at low power consumption. Target applications include wireless routers, access points, broadband access devices, security VPN routers, networked media players and other embedded devices.All major...

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Genachowski Seen as Likely Pick for FCC Chairmanship

Julius Genachowski emerged as President-elect Barack Obama's likely choice to become chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to various news reports. If confirmed, he would replace outgoing FCC Chairman, Kevin Martin.Mr. Genachowski, who served as technology advisor to the Obama campaign, holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School (1991), where he studied with Barack Obama.During the Clinton administration, Genachowski served as council to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt. Later, he co-founded LaunchBox Digital, a venture capital firm.Genachowski...

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Matisse Networks Awarded Patent for Optical Burst Receiver

Matisse Networks, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, has been awarded a patent (U.S. Patent No. 7,436,920 B2) on optical burst receiver technology that provides key functionality for optical burst switching. The patent covers an innovation on receiving optical burst transmissions using a charge pump PLL with loop stabilization to improve the reliability and performance of the receive function of the optical burst transponder."This patent is an important achievement for Matisse, as it protects a part of the core intellectual property...

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China Approaches 300 Million Internet Users

China's online population has reached 298 million, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), up by 42% in the past year. About 91% of these are using a broadband connection. In addition, there are now 13.57 million Web sites registered using .cn, the Chinese domain name. http://www.cnnic.net.cn/en/ind...

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