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Massachusetts Miracle in the Making
Came across a patriotic video that will have your patriotic heart soaring – at least for the first 42 seconds. After that, how you view this video depends on how you view the current Obama administration. The premise of the video is how on April, 19, 1775 Americans first fought the British... »
GTT To Acquire Off-Net Customers from Global Capacity
In its second acquisition in less than 60 days, Global Telecom Technology Inc. (GTT) (GTLT), a global network integrator based in McLean, Va., announced Tuesday it has signed an agreement to acquire certain customers and assets from Chicago-based Global Capacity, whose parent company is Capital Growth Systems Inc. (CGSY).Under the …(452 words) ... »
BT and Cisco launch global hosted IP unified communications service
BT and Cisco have announced a partnership to launch a global hosted IP unified communications (UC) service. The new service will require the building of new data centers stateside in addition to BT’s London-based data centers. While rolling out the hosted UC service to the U.S. as well as countries in Europe, the Middle East... »
Another $1.5B Infusion for Clearwire
It shouldn’t come as a surprise: Clearwire, the WiMAX-based wireless network operator, is looking for a $1.5 billion infusion from Sprint and other backers including cable giant Comcast. Clearwire executives, including CEO William Morrow, have been publicly talking about a need for new capital. The announcement is likely to be made later this week,... »
WiMax Coming to Chicago in November
WiMax will finally go on sale next month in Chicago, a city that was to have been one of the first places where the high-speed wireless service was offered in the U.S. Chicago was on the cutting edge of Sprint Nextel’s original push for WiMax in 2007, along with the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area. A network... »
Apple Tablet Is Now an e-Reader?
The latest crop of Apple Tablet rumors continues to rage on, but a new wrinkle has emerged: Some speculate that the Apple Tablet is nothing more than … drumroll … Apple’s grab for part of the growing e-book market.Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun-Times started Wednesday’s rumor ball going by …(497 words) ... »
Level 3 Expands Operations in Chicago
Level 3 Communications Inc. (LVLT) has announced it is expanding operations and enhancing its local presence in the Chicago area. Through this commitment, Level 3 will combine its network, metro assets, and a locally focused sales and customer support team to serve Chicago midmarket enterprises. “An increasing number of enterprises …(167 words) ... »
Comcast to acquire mid-tier IP communications company Cimco
Comcast has announced that it is buying Chicago area voice and data services provider Cimco Communications. Cimco provides both hosted VoIP services as well as IP trunking for the enterprise and small businesses in the Chicago area. Launched in 2006, Comcast’s commercial services efforts have been focused mainly on small business needs, and the... »
United by airwave usage, Google, telecoms, advocates say efficiency required as needs increase
In a rare show of unity over national communications policy, Google, the wireless industry and consumer advocates have come together to support a bill that would require the federal government to take a complete inventory of the national airwaves to determine what spectrum bands are being used, how and by whom. The government needs to... »
Tales of Hotels and Bandwidth
As a regular road warrior I can’t stress enough the importance of having really solid bandwidth and decent access when you’re traveling. It may seem like a broken record, but for those of us who actually work on the road and consider hotels, coffee shops, remote work sites and friends’ houses an extension of... »
At SXSW, Location Awareness Is The New Black
The annual SXSW Festival is on, and this year I am surprised by the number of location-aware mobile services being launched in Austin, Texas, many of them for Apple’s iPhone. SocialBomb launched its Paparazzi game, which allows you to click and share photos of your friends and having them mapped to location. I love this... »
Forget Small, Give Me a Giant Phone!
Most cell phone manufacturers are trying to fit as many keys and functions as possible in the tiniest amount of space. Not Samsung – at least, not in Chicago, beginning next week.It’s not as big as the Sears Tower, but a working 15 by 11-foot cell phone will be available …(110 words) ... »
Clearwire to Spend at Least $1.5B in Cash in 2009
Eric Savitz (Barron’s) submits: Clearwire (CLWR) isn’t the easiest company to analyze; still in a development stage, and now combined with the old Sprint Xohm business, trying to draw conclusions from the WiMax-based wireless carrier’s financial results is challenging, to say the least. But here’s what I can tell you about the company’s Q4... »
Paid Blogging or Blogger Relations-There is A Difference
Yesterday I spoke with an upcoming reporter named Jason Hahn from Northwestern Universities Journalism program at Medill, one of the nations better J-Schools. I have an open door policy for students, and even lecture from time to time as without my college experiences at Temple University, and lots of mentors, I never would have... »
StatShot: Tech Job Cuts Inching Closer to 200,000
The technology industry cut close to 186,955 jobs in 2008, up 74.2 percent from the 107,295 job cuts recorded in 2007, according to data collected by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a recruitment company based in Chicago. The firm claims that job cuts soared 167 percent in the second half of 2008 and the velocity... »
Cisco CTO Being Considered for U.S. CTO Gig
Cisco Systems chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, is on a very short list of candidates being considered for the job of U.S. CTO. She is on a short list that also includes Vivek Kundra, CTO of the government in Washington, D.C., according to BusinessWeek. Warrior, who was CTO of Motorola before switching to Cisco,... »
Cisco CTO Being Considered Fort The U.S. CTO Gig
Cisco Systems chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior is on a very short list of candidates being considered for the U.S. CTO job. She is on a short list that also includes Vivek Kundra, CTO of Washington, D.C., according to BusinessWeek magazine. Warrior, who was CTO of Motorola before switching to Cisco was a keynote... »
AccessOne Names Engineering Director
Access One Inc., a Chicago-based service provider, named Kevin Shannon as director of engineering, responsible for the company’s network planning, engineering, switching, information technology and translations teams.Shannon bring more than 13 years of industry experience to his new post. He joins Access One after serving as manager of switch engineering …(74 words) ... »
Will the Great Depressed Push Facebook Higher?
Hitwise, a data analytics and research company, today released a report that indicated a big spike in Facebook traffic on Christmas Eve. The research firm says that Facebook hit a new high, with traffic “reaching 2.18% of all U.S. Internet visits compared with 1.42% average for November.” That’s up 54 percent from November 2008 and... »
Bandwidth Startup’s Big Plans Hit By Credit Crunch
Darkstrand, a Chicago-based startup planning to commercialize the fiber network built as part of the National LambdaRail (NLR) project, is — like most of its telecom brethren — facing a rocky road. NLR is a federally funded network that connects about 30 universities across the country; Darkstrand won the rights to offer commercial services... »