January 22, 2007

Apple breaks the rules

By Kevin FitchardJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone earlier this month at MacWorld, he projected 10 million sales of the sleek new device in 2008 an extremely...

Consumers in control

By Dan O'SheaJan 22, 2007 12:00 PM

AT&T recently began its marketing campaign to re-brand Cingular Wireless, which used to own the AT&T Wireless brand until Cingular phased it out, as AT&T....

Cisco wants architecture partner role

By Ed GubbinsJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

Armed with an increasingly comprehensive product portfolio, Cisco Systems is hoping to forge much closer relationships with service providers, becoming...

Rose to OPASTCO: Be Disney

By Tim McElligottJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

Despite its ranks swelling by 1.5 million lines with the proposed acquisition by FairPoint Communications of Verizon customers, rural telcos attending...

AT&T puts its bet on bonded VDSL2

By Ed GubbinsJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

AT&T gets asked a lot about whether its fiber-to-the-node, or FTTN, architecture brings enough bandwidth to the home to meet future demands for, say,...

A wild scramble for Web television

By Carol WilsonJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

It's no longer a matter of if or when Web-based video is coming to the TV set in your living room, but how and from what company. As a flood of announcements...

Verizon Wireless tests the mobile TV waters

By Kevin FitchardJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

Cingular (now AT&T) may have the iPhone, but Verizon Wireless managed to wring its own victory at the Consumer Electronics Show this month. It's first...

Start-up targets SMS for FMC

By Carol WilsonJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

In an era of consolidation, start-ups have become rare but Stoke, a venture capital-funded newcomer, is nonetheless going bravely where it thinks no one...

Fast Forward: Dan Carroll

Telcordia Dan Carroll assumed leadership of Telcordia as president and CEO in September 2005, a time when Telcordia, its customer base and its field of...

Sky's no limit for mobile backhaul

By Dan O'SheaJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

With every announcement of a multimedia-friendly mobile device like the iPhone, the broadband pipes of wireless networks fill with more promise that 2007...

Cingular returns to the AT&T fold

By Kevin FitchardJan 22, 2007 12:00 PM

Three years ago, Cingular quashed the AT&T Wireless brand, incorporating the former carrier's customers and assets under its own brand. Now, just as the...

The new, old AT&T

By Kevin FitchardJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

Cingular may be in the process of becoming the new AT&T, but it's the old AT&T that they should be concerned about, at least for the immediate future....

Bowling alone nonsense

By Ed GubbinsJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

The distinctive effect of technology has been to enable us to get entertainment and information while remaining entirely alone, Robert Putnam, a public...

Network Neutrality

By Carol WilsonJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

The contrast couldn't have been more stark at one end of the U.S., the high-tech industry was showing off everything that can come to the American home...

SMS hits TV before new fall schedule

By Tim McElligottJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

The biggest new premiere on television this year may not beat the sixth season of but hopefully it will beat out American Idol. With Caller ID to the...

Short message mania snares new demographic

By Joan EngebretsonJan 22, 2007 12:00 PM

Just when short message codes appeared destined to be the exclusive province of the cellular industry's youngest customers, along came the hit television...

The year we consolidated

By Dan O'SheaJan 22, 2007 12:00 PM

A month-by-month look at the mergers and acquisitions that shaped our industry...

Video networks get social

By Carol WilsonJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

Personalized video takes a new twist when social networking comes to the TV set...

Satellite's time has come

By Andrew ColeJan 22, 2007 12:00 AM

The much-maligned commercial satellite space is experiencing an awakening with the advent of ancillary terrestrial component, or ATC, service players...