UAE's du Rolls out Dual-Carrier HSPA+ for 42 Mbps

du, which serves the United Arab Emirates, has rolled out dual-carrier HSPA+ service, offering top peak speeds of 42 Mbps. Technology partners for du's deployment include Huawei and Qualcomm. At launch, 98% of the populated areas in the UAE will enjoy coverage of the HSPA+ service. du expects to begin selling the first dual-carrier HSPA+ data modems soon."We recognize that mobile data is the new frontier, and we firmly believe that high-speed...

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PLX to Acquire Teranetics for 10GBASE-T Silicon

PLX Technology, a supplier of I/O interconnect silicon, agreed to acquire Teranetics, a start-up focused on 10GBASE-T silicon, for 7.4 million shares of PLX valued at approximately $27.6 million, cash of approximately $1.0 million and two promissory notes aggregating approximately $6.9 million. PLX will also assume or repay approximately $18 million of Teranetics corporate obligations, including indebtedness, transaction expenses incurred by Teranetics...

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AT&T Declares Quarterly Dividend, Adds to Board

AT&T declared a quarterly dividend of $0.42 a share on the company's common shares. In addition, the company appointed Matthew K. Rose to its board of directors. Mr. Rose is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC (BNSF), a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. http://www.att....

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Dept. of Justice Reaches Settlement with Silicon Valley Firms

The U.S. Department of Justice reached a settlement with six Silicon Valley firms -- Adobe Systems, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar -- that prevents them from entering into no solicitation agreements for employees. The department said that the agreements eliminated a significant form of competition to attract highly skilled employees, and overall diminished competition to the detriment of affected employees who were likely deprived of competitively important information and access to better job opportunities. http://www.justice....

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Ericsson Acquires Additional CDMA Assets from Nortel

Ericsson will acquire Nortel's Multi-Service Switch business (MSS), which includes CDMA-related R&D and services capabilities, for US$65 million in cash.Ericsson said the acquisition gives it access to a strong product portfolio and installed base in the data segment while ensuring the supply of the MSS platform for the recently acquired CDMA and GSM units.The announcement follows the completion of the auction process initiated by Nortel, and...

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Italtel Announces Management Shift

Italtel announced the appointment of Umberto de Julio as its new Chairman, replacing Roberto Quarta; and the appointment of Stefano Pileri as its new CEO. Italtel also announced the approval of a 341 million euro bank financing and a 70 million euro capital increase. The capital increase of 70 million euro, which was supported by Telecom Italia and Cisco, is part of the debt re-financing scheme approved at the end of July by the pool of lending...

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Vodafone Global Enterprise Opens in Singapore

Vodafone Global Enterprise has opened a new Regional Office in Singapore in a bid to further enhance the delivery of managed communications services to multinationals in Asia Pacific. The company said its new Singapore office will complement its existing presence in the Indian, Australian, Japanese, New Zealand and Hong Kong markets to provide unparalleled coverage and service levels in the Asia Pacific area. Vodafone Global Enterprise noted that...

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Extension Planned for Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION) Cable

Less than one year after the inauguration of the LION submarine cable (Lower Indian Ocean Network) linking Madagascar to the rest of the world via Réunion Island and Mauritius, an agreement was reached to build a 3,000-km extension to Kenya via the island of Mayotte. The project is being conducted by a consortium of France Telecom-Orange and its subsidiaries Mauritius Telecom Ltd, Orange Madagascar and Telkom Kenya Ltd, along with carrier companies...

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Video: Silicon MEMS Timing Replaces Quartz

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