Union Ratifies Contract for AT&T Mobility Southeast

AT&T Mobility announced that wireless employees in its Southeast Region (CWA District 3) have voted to ratify a four-year agreement with the Communications Workers of America. The agreement covers about 11,200 CWA members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. http://www.att....

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Intel's 22nm "Knights Corner" CPU to Scale to 50 Cores

Intel unveiled plans for new supercomputing silicon based on a Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture that will create platforms running at trillions of calculations per second while retaining the benefits of standard Intel processors.The first product, codenamed "Knights Corner," will be made on Intel's 22-nanometer manufacturing (nm) process and will use Moore's Law to scale to more than 50 Intel processing cores on a single chip. The CPU is...

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GENBAND Completes Acquisition of Nortel's Carrier VoIP Division

GENBAND completed its acquisition of substantially all assets of the Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions Business (CVAS). The deal combines GENBAND's next-generation media, session and security gateway technologies and Nortel's softswitch, media gateway and application technologies. The combined company will have products deployed with over two-thirds of the world's top 100 service providers and will cover broad markets including fixed,...

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Skype's iPhone App Runs over 3G

Skype released a new version of its iPhone application that enable calling using the 3G connection. Skype-to-Skype calls are free until the end of 2010, after which the company plans to introduced a monthly fee. Pricing details have not been disclosed. Operator data charges still apply.Skype said is able to achieve near CD-quality sound for Skype-to-Skype calls over 3G using the iPhone because it leverages a wideband audio (SILK) codec. This is...

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NSN and Partners Test Smart Grid in Helsinki

Helsingin Energia - a public utility of the City of Helsinki, ABB - and Nokia Siemens Networks will jointly develop, test and install a smart grid in the new Kalasatama district of Helsinki. The project will create sustainable, high efficiency electric power distribution and services based on modern communication, information and energy technologies. The consortium partners envision a smart grid based on industry-wide standards supporting a stable,...

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Avaya to Sell Stake in AGC Networks to Essar

Avaya has agree to sell its approximate 59% ownership interest in AGC Networks Ltd. (formerly Avaya GlobalConnect) to affiliates of the Essar Group for approximately US$44.5 million.AGC Networks, established in 1986, is a converged communication solutions provider focused on the India and Australia markets. The Essar Group is a multinational conglomerate spanning steel, oil & gas, power, communications, shipping ports & logistics, construction and minerals. Its communications group is focused on the customer care and acquisition market...

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TD-LTE Call Completed from Shanghai to Taipei

A high resolution live video call has been completed between TD-LTE devices connected to separate TD.-LTE networks. The call occurred between China Mobile's pre-commercial TD-LTE network for the Shanghai World Expo and National Chiao Tung University's (NCTU) TD-LTE trial network in Taipei, set up by Nokia Siemens Networks. The company provided all the necessary TD-LTE equipment including core network and multiple base stations, along with the corresponding...

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