Ericsson Updates its Employee Stock Compensation Plans

Ericsson's Board of Directors will propose a new Long-Term Variable Remuneration Program for consideration at the company's annual general meeting on April 22, 2009. The program comprises in total 27 million B-shares and is divided into three plans: (1) a Stock Purchase Plan embracing all employees, designed to award employees one Ericsson share for each share invested in under the plan, (2) a plan for up to ten percent of the employees selected as key contributors to receive a second matching share, and (3) a plan embracing the CEO and other...

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Skype Targets $1 Billion in 2011 Revenue

Skype is expected to more than double its revenue to over $1.0 billion in 2011.Skype is expected to more than double its revenue to over $1.0 billion in 2011. With more than 400 million registered users currently, Skype's metrics continue to accelerate as the company further establishes leadership in free and paid internet-based voice and video communications, with growth opportunities in core consumer, mobile, businesses and platform. Skype's leadership...

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ILS Selected to Launch ViaSat-1 Satellite in First Half 2011

International Launch Services (ILS) has been awarded a contract for the launch of the ViaSat-1 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems Loral and is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2011 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ViaSat-1 is a high capacity Ka-band spot beam satellite, which is expected to be the highest capacity of all current and planned North American satellites with 10 times the throughput of any other Ka-band satellite. ViaSat-1 will provide broadband Internet services to customers...

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Dell'Oro: Carrier IP Telephony Market Loses 20% of Value in Q4 2008

The carrier IP telephony market contracted 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the same quarter in 2007, due in large part to significantly lower sales in developing regions, according to a recent report published by Dell'Oro Group. Despite continued financial struggles and corporate restructurings, Nortel regained the market's top vendor position based on revenue in the fourth quarter with 13 percent market share. The report indicates...

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Epitiro Launches LTE Test Suite

Epitiro introduced a packet-domain test solution for UMTS long term evolution (LTE) device manufacturers and mobile network operators (MNO). The suite is comprised of LTELab and ISP-I TM LTE.Epitiro said its LTELab is designed to empower LTE cell designers and MNO product assessment engineers with the ability to test an LTE cell under real network stress. Over 200 simultaneous LTE-based broadband sessions can be established as can an unlimited number of other mobile voice and data sessions (2G, 3G, 3.5G, HSDPA). LTELab's ability to generate and...

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'We Need Broadband' Campaign Launched for Rural America

Colorado-based RidgeviewTel has launched a website that enables residents and businesses in communities under-served by broadband Internet access to register their location and desire for federal assistance under the Obama broadband stimulus plan.Only a name and address is required to map a potential subscriber's location. Ridgeview said the more locations mapped in a community, the more attractive it becomes for the $7.2 billion in grant dollars...

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Bell Canada Appeals Regulatory Decision

Bell Canada is asking the nation's federal government to confirm that investment in next-generation communications networks should be encouraged as a matter of policy by overturning a decision and companion order by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).Specifically, Bell Canada argues that a regulatory order issued in December (Telecom Decision 2008-117 and companion order Telecom Order 2009-111) threatens to slow...

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Google Readies Release of Voice Application

Google is preparing to launch a voice application that helps consolidate multiple phone lines and voice mailboxes into a single-box service. Google Voice, which is based on the GrandCentral service that Google acquired in July 2007, provides the user with a single phone number that will ring your home, work, and mobile phones, a central voicemail inbox that you could access on the web, and the ability to screen calls by listening in live as callers...

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Ericsson: Slowdown Not as Dramatic as 2001-2003

Despite similarities to the 2001--2003 market downturn, Ericsson does not anticipate a major slowdown for the mobile telecoms industry. The company cites several reasons: operator have significantly strengthened their balance sheets, growth expectations are more realistic and network utilization is materially higher. Ericsson also expects slowing GDP to cause less than proportionate declines in mobile and broadband revenue for several reasons:...

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M.I.T. Researchers Develop Fast Lithium Ion Battery

Researchers at the Mssachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a lithium ion battery with a unique surface structure that enables it to be fully-charged or discharged in 10 to 20 seconds compared to several minutes for a conventional battery. Furthermore, batteries with new surface structure do not degrade as much when repeatedly charged and recharged. This could lead to smaller, lighter and quickly-rechargable batteries for applications ranging from handheld electronics to electric cars. The work, led by Gerbrand Ceder, the Richard...

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