Paradial today announced the general availability of Paradial’s RealTunnel 2.0. In addition to making it simple for customers to deliver guaranteed and secure connections across networks, geographical areas and organizational boundaries, the new version enhances the award winning product with new features and standards-based provisioning capabilities on a significantly reduced
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Research In Motion, which manufactures the popular BlackBerry device, is in for some tough competition at the hands of Microsoft, as the companies prepare to go head to head in the wireless OS and email market.
Microsoft says that it hopes to see the Windows Mobile operating system (presumably including its email software) achieve annual market growth of 100% for the next several years.
As luck would have it, RIM has set the very same goal, with
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Finnish cell phone manufacturer, Nokia, revealed yesterday that it is extending its partnership with Yahoo, and will soon offer the internet giant’s email and instant messaging programs on select handsets.
The roll-out will initially involve the Nokia 6300, 5200, and 5300 XpressMusic mobile phones, and will allow users to gain access to calendar, tasks, and contacts stored in their Yahoo accounts.
This expands on a partnership between the two
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Retail giant, Wal-Mart, has agreed to begin reselling AT&T’s DSL internet service in 570 stores across the telecom giant’s 13-state footprint.
“Wal-Mart has millions of consumers and potential customers going through their doors on a regular basis,” commented AT&T’s Chief Marketing Officer, Rick Welday, noting that his company aims to be “easy to do business with, by being where the people are.”
The Wal-Mart partnership
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America’s second largest telecom carrier, Verizon Communications, has announced its intentions to offer fiber optic cable television services in Western Pennsylvania.
The company will make a multimillion-dollar investment in new infrastructure and equipment for the region, according to Verizon spokesman, Lee Gierczynski. FiOS television service will also be available in the Philadelphia metropolitan area in the not-too-distant future, although an exact data for that launch has not yet been set.
Tektronix has announced RSA-IQWIMAX demodulation and analysis software, part of a comprehensive test set to find and solve WiMAX design problems. RSA-IQWIMAX software is a new application specific test tool for characterising and troubleshooting WiMAX device designs using a Tektronix RSA3408A real-time spectrum analyser and is the result of a partnership between Tektronix and LitePoint.
Note: I might have to look into getting more information on this device. Very useful in certain situations when CLECs don’t support full e911 support. 911 Enable will be unveiling its RedBOX at the upcoming VON Enterprise, December 4-6, in Atlanta, GA. The 911 Enable RedBOX combines fast and secure VoIP 911 call delivery to Public Safety Answering Points (PSAP) with a hardware interface that automatically manages inter-branch enterprise phone moves.
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Fortress Technologies has been awarded a contract by General Dynamics NASSCO to implement secure wireless communications for the U.S. Navy. The work will be on the next generation replenishment ships under the Navy’s Dry Cargo/Ammunition Ship program. This contract serves as one of the first major wireless awards since the Navy lifted its ban on wireless networking, a release said. No financial details of the contract were disclosed.
Polycom, provider of unified collaborative communications solutions, today announced it has opened a third testing site and state of the art facility in Tokyo. Known as the Quality Lab, this site occupies prime real estate in Tokyo’s central business district and was established to do four types of testing including release readiness reviews, interoperability testing, scalability testing across local and wide area networks, and comparative testing.