The Finnish phone maker Nokia has devised a mobile handset that can also double as a metal detector, enabling the owner to look for concealed guns, hidden electrical cables and lost car keys, the British weekly New Scientist reports.
The US patent application filed by Nokia says the phone is fitted with an induction coil whose […]
Verso Technologies, provider of next generation network solutions, announced that Verso and IBM have executed a strategic teaming agreement to offer the Verso MetroNet VoIP Overlay solution on the IBM eServer BladeCenter platform. The joint offering creates a Linux-based VoIP solution running on the IBM eServer BladeCenter and will be globally positioned and marketed by […]
Acme Packet announced that its Net-Net session border controllers (SBCs) have been certified for Stealth Communications’ Voice Peering Fabric (VPF). The Net-Net SBC is RFC3263 compliant and supports the ENUM and SRV DNS look-up architecture to discover the next hop for call routing. Stealth Communications has certified that the Net-Net SBCs can be used with […]
Internet phone provider Vonage aims to put VoIP in the palm of your hand with a new device that lets you use any PC with a USB port to make calls to other computers or to traditional landlines.
The keychain-style V-Phone comes loaded with Vonage’s VoIP software and features 256 MB of storage to boot, plus […]
Nokia (NOK), the world’s largest mobile-phone maker, said it would stop making phones using the CDMA standard and had scrapped plans to produce them with Japan’s Sanyo Electric Co. (SANYY).
The Finnish company said on Thursday it would pull out of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) phone manufacturing, which it sees as a shrinking market in […]
China’s ZTE says that it has been selected by Tata Teleservices, an Indian CDMA operator, to deploy All-IP CDMA2000 solutions for rural telecom networks throughout India in the coming three years. ZTE won the contract worth tens of millions of US dollars with its All-IP solution after a series of stringent interoperability tests carried […]
Leveraging the cultural and geographical proximity, S K Telecom, South Korea’s largest mobile operator, is looking at other Asian countries as part of its global expansion plans.
“In 2006, we will continue to seek global business opportunities in an active but deliberate manner, focussing on other Asian countries which are close to us culturally as well […]
MUMBAI: CDMA operators, particularly Reliance Communications (RCL), are trying to change the dynamics of the CDMA industry. The biggest difference between CDMA and GSM networks is the handset. In the CDMA world, handsets are provided by the operator and they work only on one network.
RCL is trying to change this by encouraging CDMA technology owner […]
Finland’s Nokia and Qualcomm of the U.S. are at odds over royalties over Qualcomm’s code division multiple access (CDMA) technology. The disagreement has drawn attention in Korea not only because it involves the world’s largest handset maker and the owner of the CDMA technology, but also because CDMA royalties directly affect Korean businesses.
Nokia last week […]
Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSPD), a leading supplier of semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications, today announced a comprehensive wireless software suite for its Comcerto voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) processor family.
Mindspeed’s new wireless software solution and integrated Comcerto processors offer the industry’s most highly optimized platform for implementing GSM/W-CDMA and CDMA media gateways with support for […]
Plantronics, Inc. today announced that its Plantronics Voyager(TM) 510-USB, the first Bluetooth(R) headset system optimized for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) connections, will support the integration and use of call management capabilities to be featured in the new Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
The strategic relationship formed between Microsoft and Plantronics […]
Polycom, Inc. the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced an expansion of its ongoing strategic relationship with Microsoft to support Microsoft’s vision for unified communications announced today. Microsoft’s vision for unified communications breaks down today’s silos of e-mail, instant messaging, voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), telephony and conferencing, allowing people to […]