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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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...
TEC selects ADTRAN for Bay Springs Telephone FTTN upgrade
TEC selects ADTRAN for Bay Springs Telephone FTTN upgrade JUNE 2, 2010 — ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) says that TEC, a holding company for several telecom service providers in the Southeast, has selected ADTRAN’s Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform (MSAP) and Total Access...
Millry Telephone chooses ADTRAN for FTTN
Millry Telephone chooses ADTRAN for FTTN JUNE 7, 2010 — ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN) says that Millry Telephone, which serves southwest Alabama, has selected the Total Access 5000 Multi-Service Access and Aggregation Platform (MSAP) and the Total Access 1124P for its fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployments. “We were...
