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Posted by communicationsdirect_daily on January 7, 2008, 6:44 pm
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The CommunicationsDirect Daily Update
For January 07, 2008
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Motorola Launches Latest Product Lines
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/28448?11228
Following a bruising 2007 when a lack of innovative new handsets
and targeting lower-margin markets lost the gains made in market
share by the RAZR handset range in previous years, Motorola - now
led by new chief executive Greg Brown - has unveiled its latest
product lines at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). New
handsets...
Telecom Italia Set to Sell Alice French Unit
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/28447?11228
Telecom Italia is set to sell its Alice internet unit in France
and has mandated investment bank Calyon to sell the
assets. According to reports in the French daily, Le Figaro,
Alice could be worth between 600 million and 650 million euro
(US$881 - 955 million) based on a similar valuation used for the
sale of Club Internet. ...
Fiber Speed via Copper
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/28446?11228
Telecom's land-based future may be in fiber, but there's still
plenty of life left in copper, claim Pennsylvania State
University researchers. Working with Nexans, a Paris-based cable
manufacturer, Penn State engineers have examined the possibility
of sending digital data at a rate of 100 gigabits per second over
short...
Don't Shake It: New Mobile Printing Technology to Show Up in Polaroid Printers
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/28445?11228
LAS VEGAS -- Once celebrated for cameras that made their own
prints, Polaroid Corp. plans to update the concept this year by
selling a portable printer for images on cellphones and digital
cameras. And like those old Polaroid instant-film cameras, the
new printers should have a wow factor: they require no ink,
because they...
Broadband Business Wireless Firm Expands to NYC
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/28443?11228
Its nickname is humble - BOB Broadband - but a new wireless
service provider has lofty ambitions for providing wireless
services to large businesses, particularly those in financial
services, using licensed spectrum. Business Only Broadband has
been operating in Chicago and this week announced its plans to
expand into New...
Rumor Du Jour: Vodafone Versus Best Buy In Carphone Bid
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/28440?11228
Rumor has it Carphone Warehouse -- Europe's largest retailer of
cellphones, the U.K.'s second-largest broadband provider with 2.5
million subscribers and a major VoIP provider -- is being eyed by
both Vodafone and Best Buy. Speculation says bidding could top $8
billion. With Carphone Warehouse shares surging on the rumors...
BT Adds to Its IPTV Options
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/28437?11228
BT Group plc added to its telco TV options today by announcing a
partnership with Microsoft Corp. that will see its BT Vision
services delivered via the Xbox games console, and a new set-top
box deal with Motorola Inc. Microsoft has been talking about
adding IPTV capabilities to the Xbox for about a year, and today
announced that...
Unstrung's Hot Picks at CES
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/28435?11228
LAS VEGAS -- CES -- Unstrung has arrived in Las Vegas for the
massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES). We'll be here all week,
avoiding the slots and reporting on everything from big carrier
iron to the weirder side of wireless. Here's a preview of what's
hot at CES this year. WiMax Mobile WiMax will make a New...
Firm Plans Storage Services Empire
http://communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/28432?11228
A holding company based in Virginia is building a small empire of
domestic colocation and managed service facilities featuring
storage. Managed Data Holdings (MDH), a three-man firm started
in June 2007, made its second acquisition in seven months this
week with the purchase of Data393, a Denver-based colocation
facility with...
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