United States
Friday, June 8th, 2007 |
DECT (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephony) is a relatively new cordless telephony standard in the United States, but it has been successfully deployed in Europe from last 10 years.
not like Wi-Fi, which operates in unlicensed frequency band in the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz bands but DECT operates in a licensed band (1,920 MHz to 1,930 MHz).
Siemens product announcement is a significant move towards some vendor providing an alternative to Vo-Fi (voice over Wi-Fi) in the home.
Siemens Home and Office Communications Devices this week said it is delivering an array of cordless phones–including VoIP models–based on DECT standards.
Siemens new Gigaset phones include models E450, S450 and S455, as well as new integrated VoIP devices, the S450 IP and the SX762 WLAN DSL gateway.
On the VoIP side, the S450 supports both regular telephone and IP-based service. The SX762 WLAN DSL gateway includes a wireless Internet router, an integrated ADSL2+ modem, a USB 2.0 host port, two analog phone interfaces and four Ethernet ports for networking PCs.
All the products will be shown off next week’s NXTcomm show in Chicago that begins on June17th 2007.
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007 |
Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.
For Fon, which has forged similar agreements with ISPs across Europe, the deal will boost its credibility with U.S. consumers.
For Time Warner Cable, which has 6.6 million broadband subscribers, the move could help protect the company from an exodus as free or cheap municipal wireless becomes more readily available.
Fon was founded in Spain in 1995 on the premise that people shouldn’t have to pay twice once at home, then again in a coffee shop — for Internet access. At first, the company offered software that let members, called Foneros, turn Wi-Fi routers into shared access points, but it took hours to get up and running. (more…)
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007 |
Oracle Corp. has filed a suit today against SAP alleging violations of U.S. fraud legislation, unfair competition and civil conspiracy.
Oracle filed the lawsuit against SAP, its SAP America division and its TomorrowNow subsidiary in U.S. Federal District Court in the Northern District of California. Details of the complaint can be found here. TomorrowNow provides third-party maintenance and support in large part for Oracle applications drawn from its PeopleSoft, Siebel and JD Edwards product families.
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Friday, February 16th, 2007 |
Reuters have today reported that New York inhabitants who carelessly cross the street listening to an iPod or talking on a cell phone could soon face a $100 fine.New York State Sen. Carl Kruger says three pedestrians in his Brooklyn district have been killed since September upon stepping into traffic while distracted by an electronic device. In one case bystanders screamed “watch out” to no avail.
Kruger says he will introduce legislation on Wednesday to ban the use of gadgets such as Blackberry devices and video games while crossing the street. (more…)
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Friday, January 19th, 2007 |
The security and reliability of electronic voting systems continues to worry many election experts and security researchers. During the 2006 midterm elections, a combination of ballot problems and the lack, on e-voting machines, of an obvious warning for voters who failed to vote in a race led to massive undervoting in Sarasota County, Florida, and likely gave the election to Vern Buchanan, a Republican representative. According to Securityfocus.com today
The U.S. federal agency in charge of government technology standards approved on Thursday the accreditation of two laboratories to perform certification of election computers. (more…)
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 |
Symbian are not that popular in US mobile market, they rank on third position and have rather small market share,this is entirely different to the global mobile market share, where Symbian has over 80% monoply.
The Main reason for this is that Nokia dont have many good CDMA phones that are needed for Verizon Wireless and Sprint wireless carriers. Apart from that the GSM wireless carriers from USA which are Cingular and T-Mobile often force Nokia to release particular phones to USA market, they control demand and supply. (more…)
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 |
FCC has approved AT&T’s proposed acquisition of BellSouth. This approval has finally come after AT&T offered a few more concessions to consumers, such as network neutrality, in order to break the 2 vs. 2 voting stalemate at the FCC. The deal is worth US$85 billion.
This approval clears the way for AT&T to start the re-branding of US wireless carrier Cingular, which it jointly owns with BellSouth and will now have complete ownership of.
While the finer details of the re-branding plan have not yet been made clear, the AT&T website states that it will happen in early 2007.
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006 |
According to AP resource, the India’s second-largest software company, Infosys Technologies Ltd., said Monday its planned inclusion on the Nasdaq-100 will help it become a mainstream stock in the United States and boost its global profile.
The company will be added to the U.S. stock exchange’s elite grouping when the market opens on Dec. 18. “This is one more step in our global journey,” Nandan Nilekani, the chief executive officer of Infosys, told reporters in Mumbai.
Although the United States is the company’s biggest market, Nilekani said he expects to attract more European companies seeking to become more competitive. (more…)
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Monday, December 11th, 2006 |
There’s no doubt that the LG Chocolate is this years hottest and famous mobile phone brands. LG has followed its style on various other handsets including the 3G LG KU800, and the LG U830 depicts its features and coolness. The LG U830 will be 3G clamshell phone, which is exclusive to the Hutchison 3 network.
The LG U830 is an HSDPA device - this means that it has access to 3’s 3.5G data network (where available). There’s a whopping 180Mb of internal memory (although it doesn’t seem to be expandable), a 2 megapixel main camera with a subcamera for video calling, a large 2.2″ 240×320 pixel display, a multimedia player and stereo Bluetooth. There’s an email client and web browser too. (more…)
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Monday, December 11th, 2006 |
Windows Vista is going to create over 100,000 new jobs and drive more than $70bn in revenues for the IT industry, this is stated in a research commissioned by Microsoft .
A report conducted by IDC is concluded to believe that the launch of Vista will drive “significant economic growth” in the US during the product’s first year of shipment.
“Our research indicates that Vista will infuse new energy into the market in its first 12 months of availability, driving important job and economic growth through new industry revenues,” said John Gantz, chief research officer and senior vice president at IDC, and author of the study. (more…)
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