MIPS Technologies Positions Android for Digital Home

MIPS Technologies is working to position the Android OS for digital home applications such as set-top boxes, digital TVs, mobile internet devices (MIDs), home media players and VoIP systems. The company is making the source code for running Android on the MIPS platform publicly available. and has initiated an Early Access Program for a small group of key customers who will have access to specific hardware and code optimizations before they are publicly...

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Dell'Oro: Service Provider Router Market to Resume Strong Growth in 2011

The worldwide service provider router market will resume strong growth in 2011, as global economic conditions improve and new product and new infrastructure investment cycles begin to ramp, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. After a steep market decline this year, the router market is forecast to grow minimally in 2010, and then bounce back with double-digit growth rates from 2011 through 2013. Dell'Oro Group predicts that the service...

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Google to Acquire On2 for Video Compression

Google will acquire On2 Technologies, a leading developer of video compression technology, in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $106.5 million.On2's video compression codecs are used in a range of desktop and mobile applications and devices. On2 customers include Adobe, Skype, Nokia, Infineon, Sun Microsystems, Mediatek, Sony, Brightcove, and Move Networks. The company is based in Clifton Park, New York. "Today video is an essential...

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Alcatel-Lucent Supplies IP/MPLS for Cox Business Ethernet Services

Cox Business has selected Alcatel-Lucent's IP service router products and services to support Ethernet-based solutions for its business and carrier customers.  The deployment is based on the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router. Cox Business is currently the fourth largest provider of business Ethernet services in the U.S. based on customer ports, according to industry research and analysis firm Vertical Systems Group. Financial terms were not...

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Portugal's Sonaecom Launches 21 Mbps HSPA+ with Huawei

Portugal's Sonaecom has launched a commercial HSPA+ mobile broadband service using Huawei's platform. The deployment uses 64 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) in the air interface to achieve a downlink data rate of up to 21.6 Mbps. To enhance Sonaecom' s existing UMTS network, Huawei provided an end-to-end solution with HSPA+ networks and customized mobile broadband modems. A technology trial was successfully carried out in June 2009....

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Verizon Business Rolls Out Next-Gen Managed Security Services Platform

Verizon Business launched commercial services over its next-generation managed security services (MSS) platform. The company said its newly enhanced and proprietary State and Event Analysis Machine (SEAM) is designed to go beyond first generation threat and vulnerability tools to safeguard corporate networks by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and prioritizing threats across the extended enterprise -resulting in better visibility, enhanced...

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Cisco Posts Revenue of $8.5 billion, Down 18% YoY

Cisco reported fourth quarter net sales of $8.5 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $1.1 billion or $0.19 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $1.8 billion or $0.31 per share. Revenue was down 18% compared to the same quarter a year earlier."Cisco delivered very solid quarterly and annual results in a challenging economic environment, as we continued our focus on disciplined execution and our customers'...

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