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
