Cisco invests in P2P equipment vendor Oversi, which is targeting the content delivery network sector with its traffic management servers
Akamai and Limelight showed strength on expectations of strong demand in content delivery
ITC slaps ban on some Qualcomm 3G chips
Randall Kruep's latest startup is now in the hands of Vikash Varma, former P-Cube CEO
Starz says its Vongo Internet movie service isn't stealing premium cable customers, but the sub base of the young offering remains a mystery
Swedish giant buys its way into the out-of-the-box service delivery platform (SDP) market with the acquisition of Drutt
How to prevent people from spitting on the police
Nortel is facing a fine of less than $100 million over its accounting scandal – less than expected – according to a Bloomberg report
Vodafone says proposals made by John Mayo-backed activist investment firm ECS would undermine its business strategy
A disappointing first quarter and a tepid outlook for the second quarter sent SeaChange shares reeling today
The ROADM component startup names Krishna Bala, a name out of the optical bubble, as its new CEO
Limelight is gearing up for its debut on Nasdaq tomorrow morning and will be opening at a higher price than originally planned
The missing link?
CableLabs may have just issued an RFI on PacketCable 2.0, but there's plenty of road to travel before MSOs will deploy it
The mobile industry looks to 2007 as the inflection point for the mobile Internet at the Mobile Entertainment Forum's annual event
An activist investment firm has sent a letter to Vodafone asking that it sell its 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless
Infinera shares are up more than 40 percent over its offer price
NBC's digital maidservant?
C&W decides $40 million bonuses aren't enough. Honest!
France Telecom buys Deutsche Telekom's Spanish broadband unit Ya.Com for €320 million and looks set to sell its Dutch business to DT
Social networking goes mobile in the UK this month as Orange prepares to launch Bebo in the wake of Vodafone's MySpace service
Following a successful IPO, it appears BigBand is wasting no time using its new heft to squash potential competitors
For 22 more days, it's the next best thing
Vendors need to get their act together by July 13 if they want to participate in the PacketCable 2.0 RFI
The WiMax operator still needs more money, and investors don't seem happy about it
ITU approval is one big step towards 4G status for WiMax
The components manufacturers make nice and agree on a price for OCP's outstanding shares
Car trips just got more nauseating
The DL on XKL
Jivin' Ivan
Openwave's board has rejected Harbinger's offer and Sybase deal likely falling apart, according to sources
Universal Remote Control is trying to ensure that cable subs will enjoy a true 'hands on' experience when MSOs begin deploying OCAP
Verizon to Comcast and back to Verizon. With some DirectTV thrown in, too
Sycamore concludes stock option grant dates were deliberately altered by its former CFO
Good news for IPO hopefuls – wireless data router vendor sees its stock jump 16 percent in the first few hours of trading
New day, new rumor: Nokia Buying Palm?
Avaya must pay its private equity suitors up to $250 million if it kills the agreed $8.2 billion takeover deal
Inder Singh seeks new pastures as Prudential exits research sector
Content owners say mobile operators must open their networks and simplify data pricing to the mobile entertainment market
Mobile carriers love the economics of Ethernet backhaul, but pitfalls abound on the road from TDM to Ethernet, finds Heavy Reading
What does the MVNO filing for Chapter 11 mean for the mobile content industry?
BigBand has filed suit against Imagine Communications, a company run by former BigBanders
As expected, the erstwhile Cisco exec becomes top dog at Joost
Ericsson's M&A spree continues with a €310 million bid for billing specialist LHS, a move that beefs up its business systems offering
C-COR is selling off its Outside Plant and Installation Services unit for $7M
Capex from Cingular is expected to ramp up in the second half of this year according to one Wall Street analyst
A Warner Bros. exec says offering movies simultaneously on DVD and VOD could make good business sense
Good quality, low on content
The Flashwave 9500 combines Sonet, ROADM, and carrier-grade Ethernet services all in one box
Meaningful differentiation that users never see
If you use a pay phone, you are a criminal
Service delivery platform vendors Aepona and Appium are merging to better compete with the big guns
Private equity firms Silver Lake and TPG strike cash deal to buy PBX vendor Avaya, but the door is still open to rival bids
The FCC curses the NY courts
C-COR, Harmonic, Motorola, and Scientific Atlanta are said to be in Comcast's 'early stage' switched digital video tech trials
A Forrester study indicates that consumers who want their cable TV on an à la carte basis underestimate the value of programming
Avaya will be bought out by private-equity firms Silver Lake Partners and TPG Capital, say reports
Content news cornucopia
Elevation, a PE firm part-owned by U2's Bono, takes a $325M stake in the smartphone maker
Nokia Siemens deals with some staffing issues
With a bigger and more feature-packed router, Redback and its new owner Ericsson take on the IP equipment industry's big guns
WiMax backers get a lift with news that the technology has taken the first step towards becoming part of the ITU's 4G standards roadmap
'Primetime has lost its urgency'
Game over for FierceGameBiz
New Prince track via Verizon
Yucky stuff
The high cost of wireless broadband
Volpi gets loosed
Airband, Gemini Technologies, and SiGie Semiconductor see dollar signs in this week's VC roundup
Sweet, juicy archaeology
An FCC ruling affecting the multiple-dwelling unit sector gets a mixed reaction from cable's top lobbying arm
Nortel and Silver Lake Partners are the two players down the stretch, with a deal that could surpass $9B, sources say
It's also lawyer-bait
Cablevision is following through on its threat to fight an earlier court decision that put the brakes on its 'Remote Storage' DVR
IMS and SIP won't be enough to battle the speedy development cycles of Web 2.0 mashups
Speculation is heating up that Indian mobile operators Spice Telecom and IDEA Cellular are in merger talks
Sorry, but Yogi is a bear here
