Wisely following the prevailing downward trend in the media gateway market, Veraz has introduced a scaled-down member of the I-Gate 4000 family that will expand the company's customer base among ...

Intervoice takes out competitor Edify and thereby grows its customer base, adds experienced resources for IVR platform and application development, sales and marketing, and professional services -- all in pursuit ...

RIM dials up some speed with its first EV-DO device, the 7130E BlackBerry for Verizon Wireless, which can be used for dial-up networking to add EV-DO to a PC. ...

BBeyond launches an attractive SDSL promotion, and while the incentives are sound, the action is par for the course in the ongoing game of one-upmanship common among broadband competitors looking ...

Cingular improved MEdia Net, simplifying navigational clicks out of the box and allowing customization of the interface. While this is welcome, accessibility should have been a concern from day ...

Cisco acquires Scientific-Atlanta, securing a single-vendor, end-to-end video distribution solution and stronger presence in the digital home. This improves Cisco's position significantly, particularly in MSOs - but Cisco is ...

Coming off buying Western Wireless, Alltel continues its acquisitive march with its latest target, Midwest Wireless. Alltel strengthens its stance in the competitive wireless sector and assures itself ...

Foundry Networks' alliance with Microsoft on high performance cluster computing brings great publicity, boosts Foundry's image, and raises Foundry's mind share, but makes no real technical difference in Foundry's products. ...

Cable & Wireless is trying to grow managed services in the UK wholesale market with "Brand in a Box,' aiming at new entrants to the branded telephony market. The ...

T-Mobile UK adds the Sidekick II device to its web'n'walk portfolio. Heavily subsidised in the UK market, T-Mobile is hoping that this device will repeat its success with US consumers. ...

Nokia is set to acquire Intellisync, bolstering the company's mobility offerings to enterprises. Intellisync brings multi-device and platform-independent support, adding to Nokia's portfolio and furthering its aim to mobilize the ...

BellSouth is keeping up with the wave of broadband speed upgrades sweeping the industry, adding a new 6 Mbps downstream option. It's one of the fastest non-FTTP DSL offerings around, ...

Verizon Wireless launched the iTXT enterprise messaging service for field communications; text messaging has been successful for consumers, so why not offer a version "on steroids" for business usage? ...

Cisco has identified hosted services for SMBs as the seventh "advanced technology" from which it hopes to one day grow a $1 billion business. With Cisco now in their ...

Nokia is set to acquire Intellisync, bolstering the company's mobility offerings to enterprises. Intellisync brings multi-device and platform-independent support, adding to Nokia's portfolio and pushing its aim to mobilise ...

eircom's business IP+ Voice service fills the initial VoIP void in its enterprise IP portfolio, but a fully featured IP telephony service and QoS support for voice over DSL are ...

UTStarcom's new IPTV deployment with China Telecom is the result of a successful trial and positions the supplier perfectly for exploiting a huge potential opportunity, despite the modest scale of ...

Business Objects announces Crystal Xcelsius, the first fruits of its acquisition of Infommersion. Given the attractiveness of the technology and the visibility of the Crystal brand, the company should realize ...

Interactive Intelligence increases the scalability and reliability of CIC by offloading some processing to separate media server applications. Targeting much larger contact center opportunities has its ups and downs ...

An early 2006 launch will allow T-Mobile NL to pooh-pooh 3G as a "narrowband' technology, but the real competitive punch could come on price. ...