Kim Perdikou is being promoted to the office of the CEO; meanwhile, Juniper starts up a software and applications division for Junos

Developing and executing a strategy based around service provider IT (SPIT) capabilities is critical to modern-day carriers, say Heavy Reading analysts

Could Windows Mobile 7 be unveiled next week in Barcelona?

3:00 PM Will Google's fiber 'experiment' accelerate cable's development of Docsis 4.0 and a move toward gigabit speeds?

Cisco is peddling a new line card that signals a move toward an 'integrated' CMTS architecture

Internet giant solicits municipalities to participate in trial of speedy fiber network that will serve as many as 500,000 users

11:05 AM AlcaLu and Ericsson are AT&T's LTE radio access suppliers, but the core network vendors are not yet known

10:20 AM Google's new social feature, unveiled yesterday, might not be a Twitter killer after all

Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson are AT&T's two radio access equipment suppliers for its LTE rollout

The Swedish vendor hasn't ruled out making its own 3G femtocell but says the cost is still too high and the market too limited

7:00 AM Deutsche Bank estimates 2010 mobile broadband capex

Heavy Reading's Graham Finnie tells Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about the impact of mobile broadband growth on the Policy Control and Deep Packet Inspection sectors

6:00 PM And how it could live on...

Getting data traffic off increasingly crowded 3G networks will be a key topic next week in sunny Spain

Broadcom's no longer got dibs on the only Docsis 3.0-certified products capable of pumping out downstream speeds of 320 Mbit/s

New IO6 specs from CableLabs add support for unbound ITV apps, but EBIF vendors don't believe the upgrade will require a major overhaul UPDATED 5:35 PM

Two new security services will let Verizon's mid-sized businesses get a jump on potential network threats

11:10 AM Google is expected to announce a new feature for Gmail that could compete with major social networks

Indian operator to target corporate customers with dedicated CDMA-based wireless data connectivity

9:00 AM 'Influencer' boasts Tier 1 deals, banks VC cash

The rivals will face off (figuratively) at Mobile World Congress, each pitching big plans for the future of the mobile network

Pyramid Research analyst Badii Kechiche talks to Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about developments in the African mobile market

Carriers' needs are diverging from what Ericsson saw in 2008, so its packet-optical strategy is getting a refresh with a new metro box

Comcast's already trialing a version 4.0 digital terminal adapter based on new Broadcom chips that can run Moto and Cisco content protection schemes

Cox is bucking a cable industry trend, expanding its Ethernet sales and stressing local ties and regional verticals

5:05 PM Cablers at CableLabs 'Innovation Showcase' view Jinni's mood-based video finder as the idea most likely to succeed

Financial projections for 2010 scare off the event's management company

10:25 AM Google unveils its first Superbowl ad, and Vizio presents an Internet-star-studded ad for Web TV

Cablevision among the early takers for a wideband-capable WiFi access point optimized for wireless video and voice applications

9:00 AM Fiber access folk to hook up in Lisbon to get Europe's FTTx latest

New Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg expands top leadership team with regional executives for China and North America

8:10 AM Ahead of Barcelona, LTE's again shaping up to be one of the hot topics

Heavy Reading senior analyst Gabriel Brown examines the latest LTE developments and the move to all-IP networks

4:25 PM Clearing up confusion about Clearwire's retail/wholesale mix

Believe it or not, some of the telecom action in DC doesn't involve the proposed Comcast-NBCU deal

Wireless industry vet Paul Mankiewich has left AlcaLu after nearly 30 years UPDATED 1:45 PM

11:20 AM How to better enjoy The Game

Investor day overview shows where Corning has seen demand in the past year for its telecom products, and how FTTH has yet to deliver

Company puts its struggling 'Quality of Experience' business on the block, claims to have a potential buyer already on the line

9:25 AM Hachette joins the fray as Macmillan continues its fight

Brian Roberts insists MSO won't prevent others from offering shows over broadband, but WideOpenWest CEO claims there's already some of that going on

The latest salvo in the war of big numbers: 250 Gbit/s per slot UPDATE 2/5 7:10 AM

AlcaLu uses software-defined radio technology to support GSM, UMTS, and LTE in the same radio module

1:30 PM Google chief is getting a lie-in at Mobile World Congress

12:30 PM We're down to our last 30 million

11:20 AM CEO downplays the threat, sees Apple device as a new outlet for Comcast's programming

Wei Leping, former CTO and current adviser at China Telecom, tells Light Reading about the key technology challenges facing the operator

Verizon Business is teaming up with Current Group to power up an integrated smart grid service targeted to utility companies

10:35 AM iPhone users with Slingboxes can now watch TV over AT&T's 3G network

Three Heavy Reading analysts look forward to the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

The project to take the world's most widely used mobile operating system open-source has been completed

Comcast may revive its interest in switched digital video now that its big analog reclamation project is well underway

8:50 AM Reports suggest a Telefónica/Telecom Italia wedding might be on the cards

Global roaming on LTE will be years away because device makers face a tough challenge to support all the different LTE frequency bands across the globe

Former Redback and Cisco executive has big plans for mid-sized vendor

Michael O'Hara, the GSMA's chief marketing officer, talks about the association's evolving role in helping along the development of modern mobile networks, applications, and devices

The economic comeback is real, it's entering a second phase, and revenues (and hiring) are coming back. Thus spake Cisco

A deal setting up a joint venture to run Emcore's optical business seems to put a high value on the products

Biannual Vertical Systems Group report shows metro Ethernet going in faster, as market becomes more competitive

Reps for small cable MSOs, indie programmers, and consumers attack proposed marriage, but offer few conditions for regulators to chew on

FCC blesses two DTAs from Huawei and three more from Evolution, while another Chinese vendor, CoShip, guns for a box waiver of its own

Motorola's Devour on Verizon, RIM touchscreen, and Google's tablet concepts are in this week's gadget review

MSO expects to polish off two key projects this year as it announces Q4 earnings that beat Wall Street expectations

9:30 AM Market forces, not FCC rules and mandates, should be sufficient to solve the set-top 'innovation' dilemma

9:05 AM Clearleap and FourthWall Media give EBIF some video chops

The mobile vendor in-crowd goes to Barcelona

8:45 AM Radio does offer a new dimension to reportage, and good radio is worth paying for

Christine Heckart exits Microsoft's IPTV business to join cloud storage vendor NetApp, a key partner of Cisco

An overview of the challenges that service providers must face when migrating to wireless backhaul infrastructure, as well as the efforts currently underway to synchronize networks via packet synchronization.

MSO looks to amp up its business services growth with purchase of Colorado-based provider of hosted and trunk-based VoIP services

Tiny MoSys says it's got a way to simplify the gobs of memory interface that have to back a 100-Gbit/s linecard

4:00 PM Rumors of the death of the mobile Web are greatly exaggerated

The first phase of VoIP didn't truly disrupt the traditional voice model, but the next round likely will, thanks to players like Google

New transport service aims to replace multiple 10-Gbit/s optical transport links used by many New York companies

Japan's CDMA operator KDDI will test 3G femtocells in March using equipment from Airvana and Hitachi

10:35 AM Apple's iPad may have a camera after all

NEC adds self-organizing network (SON) capabilities from Actix to its LTE family

Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Patrick Donegan talks about the backhaul rollout challenges facing mobile operators and the proliferation of approaches being adopted to deal with the backhaul bottleneck

Comcast unit revamps its Web TV publishing systems to keep up with the demands of high-end clients, but simplifies it to address the midmarket

Sprint and Airvana are quiet on the prospects of a launch anytime soon for the box that improves data coverage in the home UPDATED 2/2/2010

CEO Peter Blackmore is out, and the company is moving to Beijing after receiving $48.5M in investments

The Apple CEO defends his decision not to include Flash on the iPad

On average, India's mobile operators collectively added more than 20,000 new customers every hour during 2009. EVERY HOUR!!!

11:40 AM DirecTV picked MoCA for multiroom DVRs, but it's also testing out G.hn, an emerging challenger

10:30 AM After a heated spat over e-book prices, Amazon surrenders to Macmillan

9:40 AM As Deutsche Telekom wins FTTC dark fiber ruling, Vodafone makes its own VDSL plans

SCTE aims to help cable ops shave the energy costs of individual systems by as much as 30 percent with 'Smart Energy Management Initiative'

Someday they'll come up with a vaccine for that

7:05 AM First glimpse of DoCoMo device in Barcelona

Michael O'Hara, the GSMA's chief marketing officer, says mobile broadband and application delivery will take the stage right alongside new devices at this year's industry-wide confab in Barcelona