Study: VoIP, not multimedia, first out IMS door
About three quarters of global service providers plan to offer voice-over-IP services via an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure by next spring, according to a new report from Infonetics Research....
Verizon launches visual voicemail
With Verizon’s official launch of visual voicemail today, the carrier is taking the service beyond simply mapping visual functions onto the same traditional voicemail prompts and into group-centric applications and organization....
Verizon targets public safety market
Verizon Business today announced a new managed service, aimed at the public safety market, that enables public agencies to bridge disparate radio systems over an IP connection....
Are social feed apps in play? AOL buys SocialThing
As experts decry the end of email and mobile operators look for the next SMS-style hit, Web-based micro-blogging and messaging services could be ready for their moment in prime-time....
ABI: Ericsson leads on IMS technology, deployments
Ericsson is leading the vendor pack in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) deployments and technology development, but Alcatel-Lucent is gaining strongly....
SkyMail LBS documents every step
With location now driving its value proposition, wireless technology provider Pacific DataVision (PDV) is aimed at making enterprise life so efficient and accountable that no action goes undocumented....
Telcordia: IP doesn’t have to mean best-effort
Telcordia this week debuted a new network management platform it believes can add true “five-nines” capabilities to IP networks – and it says it has customer trials at some of the world’s most security- and reliability-minded enterprises to prove it....
JuiceCaster 6.0 takes video blogging mobile
Just one month after AT&T joined the Juice Wireless roster, the social networking provider is adding Alltel Wireless to its list of carriers now offering JuiceCaster 6.0....
Alcatel-Lucent seeks US telemedicine partner
Alcatel-Lucent is searching for a US service provider partner to help deliver a new telemedicine application it developed with Canadian carrier SaskTel....
Room for one more VoIP play? Meet MyGlobalTalk
Between calling cards, international rate plans and voice-over-IP (VoIP) software and hardware platforms, the market for international calling is crowded with different means to achieve the same end – the cheapest phone service possible....
TM Forum: SDPs must be simple, organic
Service delivery platforms (SDPs) – which rapidly moved from concept to reality in some service provider networks – are now getting a second, more considered look ...
Service providers stay hands-off on hands-free
Beginning today, drivers in the state of California and Washington cannot talk on their cell phones while driving unless they use a hands-free device, and drivers under age 18 can’t use either. ...
VZW rhapsodizes on music
Verizon Wireless is no longer tackling the mobile music market solely under its own brand, announcing today the long-awaited paring of its mobile music service with RealNetworks....
Solving the SDP puzzle
With new applications and services taking the forefront at NXTcomm08, the software required to run those services from delivery platforms to test and...
The truth about IMS
Completely overhauling the global telecom network per complex yet open-to-interpretation specifications can't be easy, right? Then why the surprise when...
IMS vs. Web app story becomes clear
In this corner, IP multimedia subsystem: the industry-backed approach to IP-based service creation. Across the ring, Web services: the challenger that aims to upset the perceived service status quo...
Telco APIs get more 'RESTful' – will it matter?
Service provider efforts to expose network functionality via open application programming interfaces (APIs) have proved mixed at best, but vendors and operators are hoping that making those interfaces more Web-friendly may help the cause....
NXTcomm08: NextPoint hires Global Logic for mobile development
LAS VEGAS--Carriers aren’t the only telecom companies embracing managed services. ...
NXTcomm08: CableLabs CEO calls for telco, cableco cooperation
The telecom and cable industries need to cooperate in supporting the U.S. State Department in its plan for the quadrennial reorganization of the ITU-T, the global telecom standards body...
Sun’s McNealy touts open source for telecom
LAS VEGAS--Service providers must embrace the same open source economics as their Web 2.0 rivals if they are to compete in a world where computing and telecom are merging at breakneck speed, Sun Microsystems chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy said Wednesday in a NXTcomm08 keynote address...
NXTcomm08: Accedian offers real-time SLAs
LAS VEGAS -- Accedian Networks on Tuesday announced the availability of an element management system (EMS) promising to enable what the company calls “real-time service level agreements (SLAs)” for Ethernet and IP services....
From MySpace to the office space
Social networks have become so pervasive, everyone's feeling social...
Building the 21st century central office
For more than a century, the central office is where the telecommunications industry has hung its hat. But the job for which these unassuming but ubiquitous brick houses were built, and the technology within them, are changing dramatically...
Marketing goes NextGen
The last 10 years in telecom have been tumultuous, to say the least. The boom-bust-buildup cycle has seen a lot of companies come and go and a once-stable job market become much less so....
Microsoft tries ‘take two’ on telco mashups
Despite some setbacks, Microsoft hasn’t given up on bringing Web mashup-style development to the carrier market – it wants to try a bit of hand-holding to help break the ice...
