Several vendors suggest that Apple's upcoming iPhone OS update could increase network pressures for operators

There's a great deal of growth expected in Singapore's broadband sector in the next few years, and not just in the fixed market, finds Pyramid Research report

5:45 PM Web hub clamps down on manual tweaks that allowed the Kylo browser to play back Hulu vids

Enrique Rodriguez, an exec formerly responsible for products such as Mediaroom and Zune, is joining Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group

Huawei claims super-fast LTE deployment on Chinese bullet train

The company's all-purpose 'plug computer,' its pride and joy at the last two CES shows, is making a play for telco services and broadband video

Motorola and Verizon will launch two Android phones in July, while Microsoft says it will sell 30 million, and something big brews at Samsung

Makers of mobile handsets are stepping up their efforts to develop and sell products that are more environmentally friendly

11:45 AM Maybe they'd sell jPods and jPads

The iPad has gone international – see how its acolytes reacted in Europe and Asia/Pacific

Only les geeks made the effort in France, but elsewhere it was a case of the longest queues since the last British Airways strike

Korean operator to invest $100 million in Malaysian WiMax operator P1 as part of its international expansion plan

Brazil also strongly backed, while the Ohio State Buckeyes get some sympathy votes

9:00 AM Hostile bid mooted

6:00 PM Everybody's still looking to get bought, but Cisco/CoreOptics offers a dash of hope

Separately, that is. A senator wants Comcast to shed NBC's stake in Hulu, while the FCC prepares to ask about its authority over broadband

5:15 PM With all that's coming up with AT&T's U-verse service, the prospect of integrating over-the-top content with pay TV doesn't seem likely

A key Cablevision ITV partner goes after the telco roughly two months after Verizon accused the MSO of violating patents linked to FiOS TV

Competitive carrier's latest transformation built on providing last-mile Ethernet to a wide range of new customers

Communication service providers have to rethink everything as data traffic continues to climb, Telcordia says

Operator executives have actually been talking about moving to a more usage-based model for mobile broadband for at least two years

The TM Forum's Management World 2010 was all about flexibility, efficiency, and customer experience

12:10 PM For that matter, will consumers embrace the Fox mobile TV service?

11:20 AM Cable show rumor that Comcast's prepping a 105-Meg tier gets some legs

10:50 AM Scientist catches celebrity bug as he infects himself with computer virus

Startup scores its largest deal so far as MSO heads to the clouds for linear and VoD ad support, and sets up potential for Web-fed video

AT&T's annual survey of businesses finds many more using wireless devices and cloud computing to execute business continuity plans

10:15 AM Apple supplants Microsoft as world's most valuable tech firm

9:25 AM Bonus time at BT

4:35 PM Is it just me or does the TV news sometimes take the whole dumbing-down thing a bit far?

Unicorn Media is opening up its analytics to all video providers to let them know what their users are doing, when, where, why, and how

Is it a tablet? Is it a phone? Brits will find out for sure in early June

German operator gets busy with its newly won 800MHz spectrum and plans to test LTE this year

2:10 PM The FCC considers regulations; the CTIA is shocked

The Irish incumbent is sending out 'three strikes' letters to suspected illegal file sharers in a crackdown on Internet music piracy

11:45 AM Getting the latest version of the Kylo browser to play Hulu videos requires some manual adjustments

German operator has started offloading iPhone traffic onto WiFi networks and plans to increase its hotspot coverage to help 3G network capacity

10:30 AM The investigation, still in preliminary stages, may focus on a recent spat with Amazon

Analyst firm says Cisco is looking to build on Starent acquisition with a buyout of either Bridgewater or Openet for LTE policy control capabilities

AT&T shows off its iPad app, interactive games, 3DTV, and more ways to take your content on the go

The CoreOptics buy could mean Cisco won't need merchant chips for 100G. But that doesn't deter Oclaro – or ClariPhy, which just got $24 million to pursue that market

Ericsson, Nortel, Nokia, Huawei stake their claims, but the answer remains 'anyone's guess'

Hulu workaround is part of a new round of updates to Hillcrest's 'Kylo' video browser, but will Hulu try to block access again?

6:00 PM A last glance back at the 400G PIC

A JP Morgan Chase analyst believes that it is much more likely that Verizon & Apple will plot a CMDA iPhone launch for Q3 rather than June

Cross-MSO advanced ad venture licenses This Technology's platform for VoD proof-of-concept work

4:25 PM Aircom thinks it may be

Previewing a far-out app gives AT&T the chance to reaffirm the possibilities of its IPTV network and service

2:35 PM The BWA auction is underway, and the carriers are ganging up on the regulator

40G seems destined to get squeezed between the continuing popularity of 10G transport and the future uptake of 100G

1:20 PM OTT video changed the game, but telcos still need to be players in delivering video services – we can show you how to do it profitably

Now that state-owned operators BSNL and MTNL face 3G competition from their privately owned rivals, the race is on

After a year of evangelizing the smart grid, Cisco is bringing its hardware to utilities looking to modernize the grid with IP

Who needs tru2way? TiVo's going direct to get its software baked into Best Buy's broadband-fueled, Insignia-branded digital TVs

11:10 AM In the feisty, F-bomb-laden way that only she can...

Verwaayen has spoken, Vestberg has sided with Brazil, and O'Hara has complained on behalf of the Irish – now it's your turn

10:00 AM Internet firm nabs some mobile social networking

Extra spectrum could help new machine-to-machine strategy, but KPN's German operator, E-Plus, missed out on the sought-after 'digital dividend' band

7:00 AM With more updates on the horizon, we reminisce about the good, the bad, and the ugly from AT&T’s foray into IPTV

The annual service provider IT (SPIT) event that is Management World had gossip, booze, and just the best coffee... oh, and good contacts, too

XO's Randy Nicklas discusses how operational expenses are becoming a bigger deal as service providers pick packet-optical networking gear. He also says he's looking forward to Infinera providing 100G wavelength capabilities in its equipment during the second half of 2010

Everyone needs a 100G story, and Infinera is no exception. The more pressing issue is whether people buy its 40G story

3:50 PM Company blames parts shortages on latest shipment delay of its PC-based CableCARD tuner

T-Mobile will likely be first with smartphones supporting the faster 3G standard, but analysts say a HSPA+ iPhone is possible for AT&T

Avail-TVN says it hopes to go 24/7 with 3D content in due time

1:35 PM AlcaLu CEO Ben Verwaayen shares his prediction

Wireless operators have their own set of criteria that point to a competitive US wireless market, but the reality depends on where you look

12:15 PM DeHood covers every trend: social networking, hyper-local content, coupons, friends, status, and messaging

Founder Nan Chen gets excited as eight-month-old Ethernet exchange hits milestone of 10M end points

NEC gets to work on developing residential femtocells for LTE

9:35 AM CEO promises simpler privacy settings

Indian state-owned carrier excludes Chinese vendors from its mobile network expansion plans as security concerns drag on

Pan-European network operator continues its turnaround story with a profitable 2009 and a focused acquisition strategy

Orange sees Nice launch as dress rehearsal for nationwide, near-field communication, over-the-air payments rollout

5:10 PM Technicolor deal further distances TiVo from hardware-centric strategies while it seeks global expansion

The MSO has yet to make a final decision, but sources say broadband-fueled TiVo and SlingLoaded EchoStar boxes are in the running

Wotta shocka from Yota! Russian operator is ditching WiMax for LTE

Our final look at some of the familiar faces in the optical networking world that were seen at our NYC event this week

Late gossip as Management World wraps up is that OSS player TTI Telecom is next to be acquired – but by whom?

2:55 PM 100G chatter could be drowning out some of the carriers' bigger needs

FCC's enormous annual report strikes fear in AT&T and Verizon Wireless as regulation looms ahead

SEC filing reveals size of the recent investment, but Casa's CEO says CMTS startup will move ahead without an exit strategy

10:40 AM WSJ uncovers a way the sites have shared users' personal information with advertisers

For World Cup predictions, we hear from the GSMA's Michael O'Hara; Alcatel-Lucent's Ben Verwaayen; Ericsson's Hans Vestberg; Redknee's Lucas Skoczkowski; Heavy Reading's Patrick Donegan, Graham Finnie, Gabe Brown, and Adi Kishore; Jeff Yee of Volantis Systems; Mavenir's Pardeep Kohli; Aircom's Darryl Edwards; David Sharpley of Bridgewater Systems; TeliaSonera's Lars Klasson; Michael Hecker of MTS; and Keith Higgins of Aricent

Conservative-led administration clears its throat on broadband rollout plans, appoints minister to take the credit/blame for the outcome

AT&T business services veteran sees faster technology adoption by businesses than at any point in the past

Level 3's Paul Savill tells Light Reading's Carol Wilson that interoperability is important to provision services end-to-end, but vendors need to do more work to make these services easier to provision and more flexible

8:15 AM One old hand breaks in, while one upstart gets its big break

7:40 AM Ratings agency highlights impact of high 3G spectrum prices

Covad's Brad Roldan talks with Light Reading's Craig Matsumoto about how and why his company went from offering legacy, copper-based services to more connection-oriented Ethernet services

Motorola boasts that its BSR6400 is the most power-conscious CMTS chassis, while rival claims the basis of the comparison is 'skewed'

Latest upgrade will allow users to make Android phones a 'personal hotspot,' but how much will carriers charge for the feature?

Our latest optical conference in NYC had some of the brightest names in the business talking about the future of big bandwidth

5:00 PM Bharti's unhappy... again!

Google TV aims to mesh the Web and television. Hmmm... This all sounds so vaguely familiar

After 224 bidding rounds a decision is reached in Mainz

3:10 PM Another FCC vote ties into the Commission's proposed National Broadband Plan

The $99M pending acquisition is a 100G play, and a packet-optical play, and... Hey, wait a minute, Cisco's doing something in optical!

Brushing aside interference concerns, FCC unanimously votes to open up 25MHz in the 2.3GHz band for new mobile broadband services

11:30 AM According to reports, Google will introduce its new Web TV platform in San Francisco today

With India's 3G spectrum auction over, the country's spectrum-hungry operators will now start bidding for the broadband wireless access airwaves

11:00 AM As Google infiltrates all of their traditional businesses, Ovum warns that telcos must exploit or be exploited

As its machine-to-machine traffic grows, Google rethinks the way optical networks should connect its far-flung data centers

10:05 AM MSO's fastest Docsis 3.0 tier messes with two more Texas towns

It was a big talking point in Nice, but few telecom software players are shouting out loud about cloud service management capabilities

7:30 AM OSS guru to build Oracle consulting/integration team

Heavy Reading's Sterling Perrin talks about today's packet-optical devices and the rocky road ahead for 40G transport. Also, should the industry be thinking ahead to 1 Tbit/s? It's not bad to speculate on that next speed, Perrin says

Network gear is delivering more bandwidth at a lower cost, but more work is done to reduce the growing cost of operating networks

Sources say MSO will use boxes from DMT and security from Nagravision to power US cable's first deployment of hi-def DTAs

Verizon exec talks about the carrier's progress in 100G, what it is learning from its equipment trials, and some of the challenges in getting a network built for 10G ready to run 10 times the bandwidth

New technologies that can deliver greater bandwidth over copper may postpone the age of the all-fiber access network yet again

Fresh funding and a line into China's growing cable broadband market dampen possibility that CMTS startup will seek an M&A exit

2:15 PM Official word from one of LTE Summit's volcanic ash victims

Carriers are enticing developers with promises of bigger profits, but they may never be more than one store in a much larger shopping mall

12:20 PM Facebook strips down its mobile app; Kindle lands on Android; the iPhone becomes a credit card, catches fire

Network architect Wellbrock tells Packet Optical Transport Evolution audience that networks need to be more automatically reconfigured

Arthur Orduna says the Canoe JV is paddling quickly toward its interactive ad debut while its new lab gives VoD some advertising oomph

Carriers want 100G technology to avoid the pitfalls that befell 40G – including cards that just didn't work right

Kabira got 'acquired' – did anyone know? Only a few, and there are reasons why...

11:30 AM All cretins are liars

Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, and Aircel all bag spectrum in 13 of India's 22 circles as 3G auction ends after 34 days

Third-largest US mobile operator is open to Long Term Evolution as it issues a next-generation network RFP UPDATED 11:40 AM

9:50 AM Yahoo is paying around $100M for the user-generated media startup, reports say

Arcep finally gives Orange France and SFR the 3G nod

Look out! The Androids are on the march

8:15 AM Software giant examines the 'dumb pipe' scenario, announces new customer, and launches new product

O2 heads to Carlisle to be the first UK mobile operator to test LTE in the digital dividend spectrum

7:50 AM Carrier CTO identifies oft-forgotten strategic management issue

5:30 PM Google's reportedly (ahem) taking smartphone subsidization to a whole new level!

4:05 PM A session at Wednesday's Packet-Optical Transport Evolution forum will give PBB-TE its say

Cable ops are cautious but confident that wayward Galaxy-15 satellite will have a minimal effect on video services

Unlike the Chicago Cubs, Juniper's super data-center project with IBM has hope for 2011

Türk Telekom to pay €197M for international wholesale arm of Hungarian company

2:45 PM Vendor outlines wireless R&D priorities

2:10 PM Iceland's volcano casts no gloom over Europe's LTE fest

Vodafone exceeds £4B ($5.8B) in data revenues for first time and gears up for further smartphone uptake this year

Sarah Reedy reports on cable's move to IP. What's prompting the change? How will MSOs keep their identity with consumers? And how IP-savvy are the cable companies anyway?

Tektronix looks to expand its video network monitoring business and boost its cable presence with purchase of Mixed Signals

ADB's next-gen tru2way-based 'set-back' box uses SDHC cards for video storage and MoCA 1.1 for whole-home DVR setups

Google has agreed to acquire VoIP company Global IP Solutions for a hefty cash sum

11:40 AM Is mobility a product? A feature? Or something the cable industry isn't taking seriously enough?

With the world's first commercial LTE network already in tow, TeliaSonera urges operators to stop trialing and start launching LTE

11:00 AM Called CinemaNow, it will be unleashed by the end of the month

10:00 AM Regulating network management won't lead to more Internet users, but pay-per-bit pricing might

9:20 AM China Mobile exec says IP's the future, but it's a devil to handle

After a blip in 2009, the telecom services market in Slovakia is set to grow, fueled by demand for 3G and fixed broadband services, report finds

Jay Rolls of Cox explains why IPTV is higher on the cable ladder and why the MSO is partial to souped up, do-it-all gateways

New carriers engagements for HP and Openet, and the impact of Eyjafjallajokul, are dominating the early chat at the Management World OSS fest

But Motorola posted a 29.2% decline in mobile phone shipments

Operator now wants one more twist out of 3G before an expected move to LTE in 2011

4:10 PM The score is even between Eyjafjallajokul and Light Reading this week

3:30 PM Which is better than TV sets exploding

Swedish vendor’s latest managed services deal with Telefónica Brazil gives it another foot in the fixed-line outsourcing door

Mobile wasn't on most cable company minds at last week's show, but they could be missing out on the real TV Everywhere opportunity

Moto's private cable demo said to feature a 2D-to-3D box that might help MSOs and retailers fill the content gap in the early days of 3DTV

Telcordia offers an alternative to traditional network planning tools with a system that extracts data from multiple OSSs and third-party systems

Despite Cisco's UCS, Juniper is sticking to its data center story of the past two years, adding software and applications to bolster its case

12:30 PM 3DTV may be overhyped, but by far the coolest demo I saw at the cable show was ADB's 3D-optimized 'Carbo' guide

Teams with McAfee to keep email threats from hitting corporate LANs and corporate data from escaping via email as well

10:00 AM The site makes the big announcement as it kicks off its fifth birthday celebration

NCTA president Kyle McSlarrow continues his interview on the top regulatory agenda items for the cable industry with Light Reading Cable's Jeff Baumgartner. In this part, CableCARD rules and moving up the window for video on-demand are the big topics

9:25 AM €3.3 billion and still bidding

Around the show in less than one minute. Ready, set, go!

NCTA president Kyle McSlarrow discusses the top regulatory agenda items for the cable industry with Light Reading Cable's Jeff Baumgartner

The Spanish telecom services market took a hammering in 2009, but there are signs of recovery, according to a new Pyramid Research report

Some vendors are closer than others to a core P-OTS box to satisfy the likes of Verizon. But the front-runner so far isn't the favorite

Verizon is boasting 8-Mbit/s downloads for LTE in Boston video

5:00 PM Sprint should have room to run with the HTC Evo 4G mobile hotspot

A merger, a billing pitch from Huawei, and other service provider IT news ahead of the Management World show in Nice, France

Sprint and Verizon don't want the Nexus One, and it appears consumers don't either – at least not online

2:05 PM Adobe is taking the high(er) road in its war of words with Apple, but the battle is far from over

Dish chief Charlie Ergen's big gamble pays off as court grants a review of the TiVo DVR patent case

11:00 AM Hulu says HTML5 is not ready to meet customers' needs

10:30 AM Time Warner Cable chief says to expect more cable-Apple connections following the intro of Comcast's 'Xfinity Remote'

10:00 AM British carrier will offer its own tablet PC to its customers

9:20 AM Idea Cellular hits out at Indian regulator's 2G spectrum plans

Here's a quick look at some of the big booths and bold companies that made noise at The Cable Show this week

Comcast's Cathy Avgiris explores the importance of mobile broadband and the next speed milestone ahead for the MSO's wired wideband platform

Comcast's Derek Harrar says it's game on for cable-fed 3DTV following the Masters event stunt and coming launch of ESPN's new 3D net

Vendors and service providers take some time to chat with our editors at The Cable Show in Los Angeles

TiVo, Twitter, Cablevision, Showtime, and a Hollywood agent contemplate the future of media and TV

The FCC chairman says he won't back down from his agency's attempt to regulate the Internet

1:55 PM This week's financials show that, even for Europe's brightest stars, there's always at least one blot on the landscape

Cox will offer seven handset models, including the Samsung Finesse, when it gets its wireless service off the ground

Telecom operators need to decide quickly what they want to be, and start investing, says TM Forum's chairman

Former CEO Jamie Howard has severed ties as the video compression startup hires interim CEO and chases TV Everywhere market

Some see LTE as a game-changer for mobile backhaul; others say it's just business as usual. Which is it?

Light Reading's Phil Harvey talks to Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick about the cable industry's TV Everywhere project and the urgency to take IP video all the way to the consumer

Light Reading's Phil Harvey talks to Heavy Reading's Alan Breznick about the cable industry's ability to look different from the telcos. Also, Breznick sizes up the enterprise opportunity for cable MSOs

10:00 AM The social-networking site is holding a company-wide meeting to address outrage over its recent privacy policy changes

BT outlines its service and spending plans, including an increase in its FTTx capex, and takes a small stake in a cloud-based games specialist

8:40 AM Had enough long hold times, tardy installers, closed networks, and bad attitudes?

We've got the pictures as Sprint shows off its first '4G' smartphone

As it prepares to get swallowed into Dialogic, the VoIP company hints at data-services products that could tap the oh-so-popular mobile backhaul market

Cable strategy officers respond to a startup’s pitch that mobile phones should be cable's interactive remote

7:55 AM Will the bidding ever end?

Will the search giant get to check out some Chrome concept designs?

The proposed merger would send Dialogic public and give it some firepower in VoIP, IMS, and even service provider IT (SPIT)

Results continue to point to an economic recovery across the board, at least in Cisco Land

Comcast subscribers will eventually be able to use the iPad to navigate its library of VoD content

4:05 PM All this cloud talk, and still no word on Stratus

Chinese vendor's senior management is meeting with government officials in an effort to assuage security concerns

Transforming raw data into customer intelligence needs to be a key focus for carriers and their SPIT technology partners, says analyst

NOON Middleware companies like SeaChange are easing operators into the idea of Webifying their TV platforms

11:15 AM The two companies are reportedly teaming up to compete with the iPad

10:35 AM Comcast keeps 3D buzz going by becoming first MSO to ink carriage deal for ESPN's budding part-time channel

T-Mobile lost 77,000 customers in Q1 but is hoping that a high-speed 3G upgrade in the US will help it rebound

Cable operators are starting to acknowledge the benefits of IP video, though none expect to make an overnight 'flash-cut' to the technology

Ohio MSO plans to conduct a six-month IPTV test using a CMTS bypass architecture from BigBand

The regulator's recommendations for the allocation of new 2G spectrum are 'shocking' and 'perverse,' states India's leading mobile operator

7:50 AM Operator enjoys iPhone exclusivity in Germany

5:50 PM Foundry's Ethernet franchise could take awhile to repair

Brian Roberts claims cable's video sky isn't falling as he reveals the MSO will debut a simpler version of its TV Everywhere product within 90 days

The FCC's latest 'net neutrality' move is a solution in search of a problem, and it might just create one

Heavy Reading analyst expects the migration from 3G to 4G, along with cloud services developments, to dominate at Management World

A new group in ETSI will write a new specification for an open, standard interface between baseband units and remote radio heads in cellular base stations

Itaas ports EBIF 'user agent' to Comcast's Cisco boxes, setting up the MSO to pipe interactive apps to its full digital video footprint

RCDb is ready to move on from Blu-ray to tackle the cable sector with lots of partners and fancy apps

11:45 AM Comcast pushes VoD 'choices' to 25K, Avail-TVN (and Verizon) get their 3DTV on, itaas brings EBIF to Comcast's Cisco boxes, and more

10:15 AM Showtime has an online video service for subscribers, similar to HBO's, in the works

9:10 AM India's regulator plans new policy for 2G spectrum allocation and an easing of M&A restrictions

Orange and T-Mobile reveal bizarre new company name for their UK joint venture, but British consumers will still see orange and magenta

Joint venture partner Portugal Telecom turns down Spanish giant's offer to take control of Brazilian mobile operator

Sources say Germany's second-largest MSO has placed an order for EchoStar boxes, but are they of the 'SlingLoaded' variety?

New security-as-a-service offering launches with free 'clean pipes' plan for current business Internet customers

A 2006 filing evaporated, but the network processor company, now big on mobile-network gear, is ready for another try at going public

'SelecTV' becomes EBIF's consumer handle, tru2way starts speaking some IP, Verivue confirms its first deal, and other pre-show stuff

Alcatel-Lucent isn't out of the hot seat yet, following recent 3G outages earlier this year at Telecom New Zealand

A new version of Xsigo's I/O box targets the cookie-cutter approach to data center deployments

NOON NPD says that sales of Android phones have beaten out sales of the iPhone for first time ever – take that, Steve Jobs

The Wi-Fi Alliance is joining forces with the WiGig Alliance to break WiFi speed barriers

10:30 AM After targeting the CE industry, Rovi has since tailored its fancy new guide for service operators

UK operators O2, Orange, and Vodafone announce mobile data 3G network charges for iPad users

Cable's move to IPTV, TV Everywhere, 3DTV, wireless, and what's next for tru2way, will be among the drivers at this week's show in LA

8:35 AM Strings attached for valuable 800MHz spectrum

6:00 AM NDS has rights to sell Cox's new tru2way 'Trio' guide to other US MSOs, a move that would put competitive pressure on Rovi Corp.

MSO's home-grown Trio guide will lead a premium video package featuring more HD, whole-home DVRs, and interactive apps

IBM buys Cast Iron; Intel funds a cloud company; Microsoft discovers the cloud's dark side

3:45 PM Always nice to hear the future is better than 'oblivion'

Analysts anticipate that the tablet could use up to five times the traffic that a smartphone does

Motorola is looking to offer a complete WiMax package to the operators that land spectrum in the broadband wireless access spectrum auction

US-based Verne Global is capitalizing on all the attention caused by Iceland's volcano to highlight advantages of its hosting center there

Motorola has reportedly acquired Linux-based OS maker Azingo to decrease its dependency on Android and improve its user interface

10:50 AM Big wholesale numbers for Q1 show the marketing strength of Clearwire's investor partners

Harmonic pushes cross-platform ambitions and growing rivalry with SeaChange via $274M buy of video production and playout specialist

SDV growth was the lone bright spot in a dreary Q1 for BigBand, which experienced QAM price pressure and delays in IP video gear purchases

7:25 AM Private operators smell state favoritism

Vendors offering the newest generation of ATCA chassis are keeping LTE in their sights, as shown at the latest Light Reading virtual tradeshow

5:45 PM Take a chill pill, investors! One analyst says FCC's Third Way is 'amongst the most benign' options available

5:00 PM FCC Chairman seeks a compromise on net neutrality but faces uncompromising positions and an easily spooked Wall Street

The FCC proposes a mix of broadband regulations that aim to give the agency more control over MSO and service provider networks

40G/100G optical modules could be a $720 million business by 2014, according to a new report

3:45 PM Irish service delivery platform specialist gets a $10M vote of confidence

The Wholesale Applications Community’s scale won’t mean anything if operators don’t get on board – right now, they’re in 'wait-and-see' mode

To keep its legal footing, Cablevision will make sure its new network-based DVR functions just like more traditional DVRs

MSO says it's on track to have wideband lit up in half its footprint and switched digital video in 60% of its systems by year's end

With four prepaid brands in its arsenal, Sprint is segmenting the wireless market and attacking each sector with a different value proposition

10:50 AM iPad's also threatening e-readers and the iPod Touch

Double acquisition of Service Provider IT (SPIT) firms Camiant and BlueSlice strengthens Tekelec's position as a transformation player

Russian mobile operator upgrades to all-IP backhaul network in competitive, fast-growing mobile data market

Alcatel-Lucent struggled in the first three months of 2010, citing components shortages as one reason for its disappointing sales

Coming off a strong Q1, Clearwire says it will have an HTC and a Samsung WiMax smartphone before the year is up

Comcast gives new 'High-Speed 2go Nationwide' tier a go in Portland, Philadelphia, Seattle, Houston, and Boston, with other markets on deck

Company secures $23M Series D of funding as it adds more products based on its NFP network processor, including ready-built servers

Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox each stand poised to pass $1 billion in commercial services revenues by the end of the year

4:15 PM Charter's CTO expands deeper into ops

Adobe, RIM, HP, and Microsoft are all working on tablets

CMTS card with 48 dedicated upstream ports will start showing up on cable plant in July. Elsewhere, Moto shores up its TV Everywhere product menu

2:30 PM Not that we really know what 'avast' means

2:10 PM Almost €3 billion and the bidding goes on

1:35 PM What do these things have in common? Way too much, if you ask regulators

How carriers can get to grips with cloud services is going to be a big topic at the upcoming TM Forum event

NOON Rule #1: Keep your head

RCN starts hawking a fancy DVR that pipes in OTT video and the MSO's managed VOD fare in DC, with NYC on deck ASAP

10:55 AM The search giant will launch its e-book store this Summer – possibly with a big edge over the competition

The Wholesale Application Community (WAC!) operator alliance reveals plans to simplify the mobile app market

8:00 AM After 21 days the spectrum auction is still going strong, raising billions of dollars

7:10 AM New video library shows consumers how to operate DVRs, set up parental controls, or understand how FiOS works

Company clarifies that a modem design that bonds 16 downstream channels is a 'prototype' that links two discrete Docsis 3.0 chips

5:30 PM Let's step back: It's amazing that Apple has popularized a new mobile device format in less than a month

(Ah-haaaaa!) As the telecom software world gears up for the Management World jamboree, subscriber data management emerges as a hot topic

4:50 PM Another step toward a commodity world

4:15 PM It looks as if Ben Bennett's a free agent UPDATED 5/5 7AM

As Alvarion reports a Q1 loss, the WiMax firm announces plan to cut 175 jobs while revamping to add professional services capabilities

2:25 PM Another Monkey Bidness PSA

European operator Deutsche Telekom's app strategy relies on partnering at the core and attacking at the periphery

Broadcom's new Docsis 3.0 chip has IPTV in mind, but it's capable of producing straight 800-Mbit/s bursts in EuroDocsis environments UPDATED 8PM

1:10 PM Cloud platform vendor names partners but still needs financing

12:40 PM Users will soon be able to rent out their content themselves

12:15 PM Microwaving the 64GB 3G iPad

New integration enables sales and support of combined solution from single source

11:35 AM Mixed Signals adds EBIF monitoring as cable preps for a big interactive TV push

China and India lead the way in adopting mobile services, while the home of the smartphone trails behind

9:15 AM Carrier checks out US LTE wholesaler, says report

Cisco aims to preserve and add market share with integrated CMTS linecards that quadruple the downstream densities of their predecessors

Soapstone assets get put to use, as Extreme unveils a management platform that points to software as a new battleground for equipment vendors

Chinese vendor seeks talks with the Indian government over security worries as details emerge of blocked purchase orders

Sources say Time Warner Cable intends to 'pilot' Mediaroom in Los Angeles as it starts to develop a broader IP video migration strategy

Some vendors are putting PBB-TE into their packet-optical plans, but all of them plan to support MPLS-TP

Google's rumored Android software for TV continues a trend of ad-targeting, consumer reach, and breaking down closed systems

1:10 PM Look, Ma! My first mobile app!

QoS may open up new opportunities for LTE operators, but questions remain about how well it works – and whether it will make money

Apple has now sold over 1M iPads overall, with estimates that it sold over 300,000 3G iPads over the weekend

9:40 AM Does this mean it'll launch a Web-based version of iTunes?

Dish swings with Widevine's DRM and adaptive streaming for a new Web-based video hub that complements its 'SlingLoaded' set-top strategy

8:05 AM Apple acquired voice-enabled search app Siri to take on Google’s search dominance

AT&T may be in for a rude awakening if it expects the iPad to be WiFi-driven; the launch of the 3G version brought crowds in NYC and Chicago

Somewhere in New York, consumers are recording shows without cluttering their homes with more hardware

10:30 AM Wow