Year: 2008

Nokia agreed to acquire Plazes AG, a start-up developing a location-aware social networking service, for an undisclosed sum. Plazes is ...

Carl G. Eilers, considered the "Father of Stereo FM Radio and Stereo Television Sound," for pioneering work during his 50-year ...

T-Mobile USA announced the availability of the Nokia 6301 and Samsung SGH-t339 to the lineup of phones that support T-Mobile ...

Alcatel-Lucent and SpeedCast announced plans to jointly market, deploy and operate a shared, hosted DVB-H platform for mobile TV operators ...

TechWeb (formerly CMP) announced plans to host its first European VoiceCon event in Amsterdam from October 14-16, 2008 at the ...

The Supreme Court of Canada reinstated a lower court order approving BCE's plan of arrangement. This opens the path to ...

The FCC is considering requiring public access to free, nationwide, high-speed wireless broadband Internet services using a portion of the ...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 293-129 to approve a bill (H.R. 6304) that grants immunity to telecom firms that ...

MRV Communications introduced its OptiSwitch OS9124-410G, a packet optical aggregation platform that combines reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexing (ROADM), packet switching ...

New Edge Networks, the business communications unit of EarthLink plans to begin selling through selected communications network providers its service ...

Korea's Hanaro Telecom has deployed Harmonic's Narrowcast Services Gateway (NSG) 9000 universal edgeQAMs to increase bandwidth offered to cable subscribers. ...

Sun Microsystems released MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 6.3, the latest version of its high-availability open source database, especially designed ...

Verizon's landline telecommunications network in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin has held up well throughout the storms, according to ...