Still trying to slim down, chip firm Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXT) is halting new development of wireless LAN chips and laying off 140.
The news came yesterday as Conexant reported its fourth-quarter earnings, and the change took effect immediately. By late afternoon yesterday, the “wireless products” link had been removed from Conexant’s home page. (See Conexant Re... Read more
Now that the world knows a Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) employee is behind the Patent Troll Tracker blog, it’s no surprise to see the company’s name show up in defamation lawsuits.
Two Texas attorneys are suing blogger Richard Frenkel over some postings made in October. And they’ve named Cisco as a defendant as well.
Eric Albritton filed his suit on March 3 in ... Read more
Reliance Communications Ltd. (RCom) , which runs India’s second largest mobile network, has made its first international mobile acquisition, in Africa. (See Reliance Buys Into Uganda.)
Reliance has acquired Anupam Global Soft (U) Ltd., a service provider license holder in Uganda, for an undisclosed sum and plans to invest $500 million over the next five years building an IP-based network... Read more
Verizon Business has announced a new initiative designed to help retail customers modernize their IT infrastructures using an open standards approach. As part of this initiative, announced at the National Retail Federation show in New York City this week, Verizon also announced its support for the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) and unveiled its own open standards framework for ... Read more
Singapore’s government is to partly fund the construction of a nationwide broadband network that, once built, could be used by any operator to deliver services to the country’s 4.5 million residents. (See Singapore Issues RFP.)
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has issued an expanded request for proposals (RFP) inviting any company or consortium to bid for t... Read more
A federal judge has crippled the U.S. government’s options-backdating cases against former Broadcom Corp. (Nasdaq: BRCM) executives, and the federal drug case against former CEO Henry Nicholas III could fall apart next.
Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney acquitted former Broadcom CFO William Ruehle of fraud charges and dismissed criminal fraud charges against Nichol... Read more
wireless network, at least according to Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT).
Motorola didn’t invent this idea, but it’s one of the few saying the ability to go purely wireless is here now (although major rival Aruba Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: ARUN) has talked up the concept in the past). At recent media events held in Boston and San Francisco, Motorola executives stated their case, basing it... Read more
Mobile World Congress — How will the rapid growth of the mobile Internet be funded? And who will reap the spoils from a wealth of new wireless data applications and services? Those questions have been vexing operators, vendors, and content providers here at the show, and it came bubbling to the surface in this morning’s keynote session.
On one side was Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japa... Read more
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But the operator warns that it is still too high to use the expenses of femtocells effectively. (See 3 G & WiMax Femtocells: Operator’s opinion.)
” We are making the technology assessment of femtocells, like other ea... Read more
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