Reporter Notes: Google I/O - 900 Million Androids, Richer Services

Google showed off dozens of innovations that advance its mission "to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." Key themes of this year's Google I/O event in San Francisco include the massive growth in Android and Chrome OS in raw numbers and adoption of APIs, a more unified experience between core Google services, further evolution of its core search, and rapid growth in its cloud resources.  On the communications...

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Cisco Delivers Solid Results, Sales Hit $12.2 Billion

Cisco reported third quarter net sales of $12.2 billion, net income on a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis of $2.5 billion or $0.46 per share, and non-GAAP net income of $2.7 billion or $0.51 per share. "Cisco is executing at a very high level in a slow, but steady economic environment. We are especially pleased with our ninth consecutive record revenue quarter. We are starting to see some good signs in the US and other parts...

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EU Opens Anti-dumping, Anti-subsidy Investigation into Huawei, ZTE

The European Commission is considering an anti-dumping and an anti-subsidy investigation concerning imports of mobile telecommunications networks and their essential elements from China. Products that could be included consist of radio access network elements and mobile network core platforms. The EC said its has not yet launched the investigation in order to allow time for negotiations towards an amicable solution with the Chinese authorities. China...

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Mellanox to Acquire Kotura for Silicon Photonic Interconnects

Mellanox Technologies agreed to acquire privately held Kotura, a developer of advanced silicon photonics optical interconnect technology, for a total cash purchase price of approximately $82 million. Both the Mellanox and Kotura boards of directors have approved the deal. Kotura holds over 120 granted or pending patents in CMOS photonics and packaging design.  The company has made a number of ground breaking innovations in optical interconnects...

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VMware to Announced Cloud Infrastructure Service on May 21

On May 21, VMware executives Pat Gelsinger and Bill Fathers will unveil a new cloud service that will seamlessly extend your data center to the cloud. http://www.vmware.com/now.html?scr=WWW_vCHS_US_HPHero_PatGelsinger In March 2013, Mware outlined its top three growth priorities: Redefining Infrastructure -- The Software-Defined Data Center  VMware is aiming to extend virtualization to all areas of the data center – network, security,...

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Successful Launch for 4th Next Gen GPS Satellite

The fourth Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-4 satellite for the U.S. Air Force was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. GPS IIF-4 is the fourth in a series of next generation GPS satellites and will join a worldwide timing and navigation system utilizing 24 satellites in six different planes, with a minimum of four satellites per plane positioned in orbit approximately 11,000 miles above...

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Orange Fab Backs its First Class of Start-ups

Stéphane Richard, Chairman and CEO of Orange, welcomed the first six finalists selected by the new Orange Fab, a three-month accelerator program that supports U.S.-based start-ups. The first class of Orange Fab's accelerator program includes:  AlephCloud (Content Control and Privacy for the Cloud),  http://www.alephcloud.com/ Fenix international (Power for 600M off-grid mobile customers),  http://fenixintl.com/ Phone...

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Acacia Raises $20 million for 100G Modules

Acacia Communications raised $20 million in new venture funding for its coherent OIF-compliant AC100 modules. Acacia designs, manufactures and sells leading-edge optical transponder modules for coherent 100G and above.  The company is headquartered in Maynard MA and has an office in Hazlet, New Jersey. It was founded by Mehrdad Givehchi, Benny Mikkelsen and Christian Rasmussen. Summit Partners served as the lead investor, with existing investors...

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Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) Picks Ericsson for Evolved Packet Core

Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has selected Ericsson's SSR 8000 family of Smart Service Routers to upgrade its Evolved Packet Core (EPC) networks in western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  Financial terms were not disclosed. The deployment will support LTE and prepare the network for Voice over LTE. As part of the agreement, Ericsson will also provide systems integration, design and managed services, extending the scope of the existing...

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Deutsche Telekom Picks NetCracker for Fixed Network Billing

Deutsche Telekom awarded a long-term contract to NetCracker for the ongoing support and maintenance of the billing solution for its fixed network in Germany. In addition, DT is using NetCracker’s Telecom Operations and Management Solutions (TOMS) suite to provide an end-to-end, next-generation solution that encompasses Order Management and OSS. Leveraging these NetCracker solutions and services enables DT to support new business models and reduce...

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