Cisco Umi Puts Telepresence in Living Room -- $599 + $25/Month

Cisco introduced an HD 1080p telepresence system for the home.Cisco ūmi, which includes an HD camera, a console and a remote, is a premium home telepresence system that aims for pristine video and audio quality over broadband connections. It connects to existing HD sets via HDMI and lets users set-up calls, record calls and send pre-recorded video messages. The units feature dynamic resolution scaling based on available bandwidth (1080p, 720p, and...

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Neutral Tandem's Ethernet Exchange Network Grows to 14

Following the completion of its merger with Tinet last week, Neutral Tandem has launched eight additional Ethernet Exchange Points of Presence (PoPs), bringing all 14 of its previously announced Ethernet Exchanges to market. Following the launch of the company's initial six Ethernet Exchanges in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, LosAngeles and New York, the company has now completed, ahead of schedule, the deployment of eight additional markets including Denver, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington D.C."We...

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MetroPCS Picks Tekelec for Signaling Evolution to LTE

MetroPCS Communications has chosen Tekelec to provide SIGTRAN, SIP and Diameter session management as well as Number Portability and Performance Management solutions. The suite of solutions, including Tekelec's Diameter Signaling Router (DSR), will be deployed to support the company's 4G LTE roll out, which is the first commercial 4G LTE network in the US.Tekelec said its Diameter Signaling Router (DSR) creates a Diameter signaling core that relieves...

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Russia's Vimpelcom Bids to Become Fifth Largest Global Operator

Russia's Vimpel-Communications has struck a deal with Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris to acquire Weather Investments S.p.A, which owns 51.7% of Orascom Telecom (Egypt) and 100% of Wind Telecomunicazioni (Italy).Under the deal, Weather shareholders will contribute to VimpelCom their shares in Weather in exchange for a consideration consisting of 325,639,827 newly issued VimpelCom common shares, US$1.8 billion in cash and certain assets that will...

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Sprint ID Offers Mobile Users Packages of Apps/Content

Sprint introduced a new concept that packages Android applications and premium online content to help improve the mobile experience of its smartphone users.For consumers, Sprint ID is a way to rapidly customize certain Android devices with packages of apps, wallpaper, ringtones, etc. For businesses, Sprint ID offers the potential to rapidly customize employee smartphones with pre-selected business applications, forms and settings.Sprint has teamed...

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Verizon Debuts M2M Management Center

Verizon is launching Machine to Machine Management Center to help enterprise customers monitor wireless devices over the Verizon Wireless network. Customers can access an integrated dashboard to manage network connections, self-service device management, and other key elements of machine to machine connectivity. The new portal is a product of nPhase, LLC, the joint venture established last summer between Qualcomm Incorporated and Verizon...

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Kingston Now Shipping 32GB microSDHC Card for Mobiles

Kingston Digital will begin shipping its first 32GB microSDHC Class 4 card for use in smartphones. The card is capable of storing nearly 29,000 photos, over 6,000 songs and more than 2,000 minutes of video. http://www.kingston....

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Ericsson Engaged in LTE Trial with Rogers in Canada

Rogers Communications has launched an LTE technical trial in the Ottawa area with Ericsson Canada. The technical trial will initially use recently auctioned AWS spectrum. Rogers is also working with Industry Canada to secure a development license to use 700 MHz spectrum for the trial. http://www.rogers....

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Motorola Launches Lawsuits Against Apple

Motorola Mobility filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) alleging that Apple's iPhone, iPad, iTouch and certain Mac computers infringe 18 of its patents. Motorola said these patents include wireless communication technologies, such as WCDMA (3G), GPRS, 802.11 and antenna design, and key smartphone technologies including wireless email, proximity sensing, software application management, location-based services and multi-device...

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Verizon Wireless Confirms LTE in 38 US Cities This Year

Verizon Wireless confirmed that it is on track to launch commercial LTE service in 38 major metropolitan areas, covering more than 110 million Americans, by the end of 2010. The company is also on track to launch LTE service in 60 commercial airports across the country.At a press conference at CTIA in San Francisco, Lowell McAdam, president and chief operating officer of Verizon, said the network launch would be "unprecedented" in that it will cover...

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TELE2 Russia Picks Ceragon for Wireless Backhaul

Ceragon Networks announced a multi-year agreement for microwave systems with TELE2, Russia. With this agreement, Ceragon is helping TELE2 subsidiaries in Russia to build out multiple high-capacity, carrier-grade networks to backhaul voice and data traffic for mobile telephony and broadband internet access. Shipments relating to this agreement are already underway. With 17.3 million customers in 37 regions, TELE2 Russia is the fourth largest mobile operator in the country. http://www.ceragon....

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Sprint Wholesale -- Bandwidth Capacity, Cable VoIP and Wireless MVNOs

An interview with Brian Vos, VP, Service Management, Sprint Wholesalehttp://www.convergedigest....

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