ADVA Optical Posts Q4 Revenues of EUR 60M, Topping Expectations

ADVA Optical Networking reported Q4 2009 revenues of EUR 59.6 million, up from EUR 56.8 million in Q4 2008 and EUR 58.1 million in Q3 2009, and slightly above guidance of between EUR 54 million and EUR 59 million. IFRS pro forma operating income, excluding special charges, amounted to EUR 3.1 million in Q4 2009 or 5.2% of revenues, also above guidance of between -1% and +4% of revenues. This compares to a Q4 2008 IFRS pro forma operating income of EUR 0.1 million or 0.1% of revenues, and to Q3 2009 IFRS pro forma operating income of EUR 2.0 million...

Read More

IBM Researchers Create Nanophotonic Avalanche Photodetector

Researchers at IBM published details on a nanophotonic avalanche photodetector that leverages the "avalanche effect" in Germanium, a material currently used in production of microprocessor chips. Analogous to a snow avalanche on a steep mountain slope, an incoming light pulse initially frees just a few charge carriers which in turn free others until the original signal is amplified many times. Conventional avalanche photodetectors are not able to...

Read More

Facebook and Twitter Access via Mobile Browser Skyrockets

Over 30 percent of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010, up 8.3 points from 22.5 percent one year ago, according to newly published figures from comScore. Access to Facebook via mobile browser grew 112 percent in the past year, while Twitter experienced a 347 percent jump."Social networking remains one of the most popular and fastest-growing behaviors on both the PC-based Internet and the mobile...

Read More

Open Identity Exchange to Issue Digital Credentials

A new Open Identity Exchange (OIX) has been established with the goal of building trust in the exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors. With initial grants from the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) and Information Card Foundation (ICF), OIX has been approved as a trust framework provider by the United States Government to certify online identity management providers to U.S. federal standards for identity assurance.Google,...

Read More

Panda Security Collaborates on Shutdown of Massive Mariposa Botnet

The Mariposa botnet, a massive network of 13 million infected computers designed to steal sensitive information, has been shutdown and three suspected criminals accused of operating the botnet have been arrested by Spanish law enforcement. According to IT security firms Panda Security and Defence Intelligence, Mariposa stole account information for social media sites and other online email services, usernames and passwords, banking credentials, and credit card data through infiltrating an estimated 12.7 million compromised personal, corporate,...

Read More

Verizon Opens Medical Data Exchange

Seeking to accelerate the adoption of electronic health records, Verizon Business has launched an information technology platform that enables the digital sharing of physician-dictated patient notes. The Verizon Medical Data Exchange provides a way for medical transcriptionists to share digitized patient notes detailing patients' care and treatment with doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. Verizon Business developed the platform...

Read More

Sandvine Cites New Service Provider Customers in EMEA

Sandvine has won six new service provider customers for its broadband network manager solution.Three of the customers are DSL service providers, two are cable network operators and one is a mobile broadband service provider. Five of Sandvine's new customers come from the rapidly growing Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region, and one from the Asia Pacific region. http://www.sandvine.comhttp...

Read More

Sumitomo and JDSU Demonstrate Error-Free 100GE Traffic Transmission

Sumitomo Electric Industries and JDSU have demonstrated error-free transmission using IEEE-compliant 100GE optics -- an important milestone for the feasibility of pluggable optics for 100GE. This achievement included transmitting and receiving Ethernet traffic at 100GE through a Sumitomo LR4 100GE CFP Multi-Source Agreement (CFP MSA) compliant optical module using the JDSU Optical Network Test instrument (ONT).http://global-sei.com/http://www.sedi.co.jp...

Read More

Equinix Earns LEED Certification for Silicon Valley Data Center

The Equinix SV2 International Business Exchange in Silicon Valley has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The company conducted an expansion and green retrofit of the facility in mid-2009. The retrofit, which included the installation of air-side economizers, fans incorporating variable frequency drives (VFDs) and LED light fixtures and occupancy sensors, has resulted in more than four million kWh in energy savings annually, and will pay for itself in under...

Read More

DT Launches DeutschlandLAN Converged Enterprise Service

Deutsche Telekom launched a new converged service for enterprise customers in Germany, called DeutschlandLAN.DeutschlandLAN is based on the Ericsson Business Communication Suite (BCS), which consists of IP telephony, mobility, collaboration and multimedia conferencing applications for smart phones, PCs and IP-based desktop phones. The IMS-compliant solution scales to serve 250,000 subscribers and can be extended if required. Deutsche Telekom plans...

Read More

RSA -- Cloud Computing to Turn the Way Security Is Delivered Inside Out

"Something is holding back the full realization of this cloud vision. And that - in a word - is security," stated Art Coviello, President of RSA, The Security Division of EMC, in a keynote address at the RSA Conference in San Francisco . "With 51% of CIOs* citing security as their greatest concern surrounding cloud computing, security has not kept pace with the evolution to the cloud reflected in today's increasingly virtualized and hyper-extended...

Read More

Skype Launches on Nokia Smartphones

Skype and Nokia jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian. A Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform is now available for free in the Ovi store. This enables Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G). It is now downloadable for free from the Ovi Store, Nokia's one-stop shop for mobile content.Skype will soon introduce this client to Symbian...

Read More

Microsoft Advances its End to End Trust Vision with U-Prove

Microsoft is continuing to develop its End to End Trust vision by releasing a community technology preview of its U-Prove technology. This enables online providers to better protect privacy and enhance security through the minimal disclosure of information in online transactions. Microsoft is providing core portions of the U-Prove intellectual property under the Open Specification Promise, as well as releasing open source software development kits...

Read More

Qatar Telecom Secures Capacity on Intelsat 15 to Expand International Services

Qatar Telecom (Qtel) signed a multi-year capacity contract on Intelsat's recently-launched Intelsat 15 satellite (IS-15), located at 85º E. Qtel will utilize the capacity to expand its international connectivity and provide a portfolio of services for its wholesale and enterprise customers in the Middle East.Intelsat is now host the three leading telecommunications providers in the Middle East on its network. http://www.intelsat.comhttp...

Read More

IBM Extends its Security Initiatives

IBM outlined a number of new security initiatives saying its new approach will focus on securing critical services rather than on the past emphasis on securing network assets. The goal will be to deliver integrated service management - tools that provide can provide a "command center" view into a client's operations and potential areas of risk as infrastructure evolves to cloud computing.As part of these initiatives, the company is launching the IBM Institute for Advanced Security to help clients, academics, partners and other businesses more...

Read More