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Taipei to deploy citywide fiber-optic network The Taipei City government has announced it has signed a 25-year contract with a consortium of 15 local and foreign companies led by Tai Tung Communication, a Taiwan-based maker of fiber-optic cable, for construction and operation of a citywide...

The iPhone 4S Makes It Just in Time for the New Year It looks like Apple’s latest and greatest iPhone 4S will be making it to China just in time for the New Year. The Chinese New Year, that is, which takes place on Jan....

China market: Household appliance vendors joining competition for smartphones While China-based handset vendors ZTE, Huawei Device, Coolpad and Lenovo have been dominating the smartphone procurement projects released by mobile telecom carriers in China, a number of local household appliance vendors including TCL, Hisense, Konka, Changhong,...

GSM phones vulnerable to hijack scams: researcher Flaws in a widely used wireless technology could allow hackers to gain remote control of phones and instruct them to send text messages or make calls, according to an expert on mobile phone security. They could use the...

Apple ‘Scorched Earth’ Legal Strategy May Undervalue Its Patents Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc., told his biographer that he’d rather wage “thermonuclear war” with Google Inc. than make deals to share its technology with the maker of the Android operating system. That was...

China market: Handset makers form alliance to counter possible patent infringement lawsuits A number of handset makers in China, including Lenovo, ZTE, TCL, Coolpad and Konka, has formed an alliance in preparation to counter possible patent infringement lawsuits to bring upon by international players, according...

Apple’s iPad 3 Coming in Two Models in 2012: Rumor Apple will unveil two iPad models at a conference in January, according to Taiwanese publication DigiTimes. “Apple is set to unveil its next-generation iPad—which will come in two versions—at the [MacWorld/iWorld expo] scheduled for January...

Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs ‘phantom mode’ pumps 300 Mbps over two DSL lines APRIL 21, 2010 — Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) says that its research arm, Bell Labs, has successfully demonstrated a technology that boosts the transmission speeds achievable over two DSL lines. In...

ZyXEL launches dual-WAN, multi-service, VDSL2 FTTN/FTTH gateway MAY 18, 2010 — ZyXEL Communications Inc. has announced the P2812HNU, a single gateway that supports copper, fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) deployments.The P2812HNU, with dual-WAN, offers a range of connectivity options. An integrated VDSL2 modem enables service...

Central Scott upgrades with Occam Networks to offer new broadband services, GPON systems MAY 19, 2010 — Occam Networks Inc., a broadband access supplier offering multiservice access platform (MSAP) systems based on pure packet technologies, announced that Central Scott Telephone in Eldridge, Iowa, has deployed...