5:45 PM It's not running the show, but Xsigo has something to brag about at VMworld

3:50 PM Motorola runs the table in Docsis Cert Wave 68

3:00 PM Calix's Carl Russo on the shift from telephone company to broadband provider

WiMax provider hires ex-Borland chief as CFO, adds a strategy and wholesale head to the mix

1:35 PM District court agrees that the competitive video landscape has changed significantly over the last 17 years

For shuttling IPTV around the home, 802.11g isn't a good enough match for bonded ADSL2+ deployments, the vendor claims

Go public? Throw an obscene Christmas party? Sponsor a body-painting cocktail party for customers?

9:40 AM Yeah, yeah, yeah

Analyst says Apple wants to open the iPhone up to multiple carriers

Five photos from the past week include some new netbooks, Telecom New Zealand's checklist, some badly burnt earth, and a bikini car wash

5:30 PM State gives more clues to the diversity of bids

Massillon Cable urges the FCC to force the vendor giants to support 'SimulCrypt' and open up the market for security and set-tops UPDATED 8/31 1:30 PM

But that doesn't mean we'll see a bunch of M&A activity for Comcast and other big MSOs

China Unicom will begin selling the device in Q4, but there's one catch

An updated look at Unstrung's stimulus index chart

2:45 PM IRS to Nortel: You owe us $3 billion

Evolution's new security module offers entry to the tru2way market and ramps up competition with Motorola and Cisco among cable Tier 2s

11:35 AM Will 'portability' lure businesses to WiMax?

7:50 AM Unicom announces deal as it reports H1

Cable gear vendor says it's been tapped for 'more than a handful' of broadband stimulus projects, but bid volume reduces odds of success

India edges closer to 3G and WiMax spectrum auctions as government sets minimum reserve prices

As the slowdown in mature markets hits sales hard, mobile handset vendors have the Africa and Middle East region to fall back on

4:30 PM Prepares to live stream more than 300 hours of tennis

$4B first round of broadband stimulus funding is oversubscribed, according to NTIA

2:00 PM Comcast completes Chicagoland deployment, putting some new pressure on RCN and AT&T U-verse

Business WiMax provider says that $100M plus in stimulus funds will help it to reach underserved areas in 17 different cities

1:00 PM Five telecom-related movies we'd like to see

12:20 PM It may be the differentiation they’re looking for

Euro firms team up to define standard for the delivery of hybrid, broadcast/broadband TV services. But what about Project Canvas?

Verizon and Time Warner Cable have joined the 'TV Everywhere' brigade

10:50 AM MSO confirms tests are underway but is mum on when it will launch on a broad scale

9:45 AM We are in the process of updating our 'Ethernet Services Carrier Scorecard: North America' report

This graphical look at the Recovery Act's definition of rural and remote areas sheds light on some service provider concerns

TiVo suit claims AT&T and Verizon are infringing on three DVR-related patents, seeks financial damages and injunctions

Tension builds around a potential iPhone announcement, and China Telecom unveils its financial results for the first half of the year

It's not just the big companies that turned down a shot at the US government's broadband stimulus money

4:40 PM Dish & EchoStar say patent office has dismissed a TiVo petition to vacate a patent re-examination

3:45 PM The aggregator can't keep stealing other people's content forever, Contentinople publisher writes

Shares slide almost 18% after vendor says some of its biggest MSO customers cut VoD gear and software spending in fiscal Q4

Reliance Globalcom and China Telecom have built a new fat pipe to link India and China, but it's not another subsea connection

10:55 AM Government suggests snipping off file-sharers... oh boy

M&A speculation is swirling around Alcatel-Lucent, giving the giant vendor's share price a boost

10:10 AM Long live the Wii

9:35 AM Although Web TV could wreck traditional MSO biz models, the cable industry is in the driver's seat if 'TV Everywhere' is a success

Unstrung charts the companies bidding for broadband stimulus funds

At least two top 10 US MSOs are expediting DTA deployment plans after the FCC blessed devices from Cisco, Moto, Pace, and Thomson

Clearwire wants 'modest grants' from US broadband stimulus funds, isn't revealing how much yet

4:00 PM Acquisition will increase Yahoo's presence in the Middle East

2:50 PM A 96% run-up in two days has the stock trading near $1

Some of Europe's telecom markets have too many operators and need a serious dose of M&A, according to the team at ratings agency Fitch

Syniverse moves to beef up its mobile messaging capabilities with $175 million acquisition of VeriSign unit

12:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance now a fashion statement

Services like IPTV, VoIP, and mobile data will help get the Korean market back in growth mode, finds a new report from Pyramid

11:05 AM The CEA came out on the short end of yet another FCC set-top waiver decision UPDATE 11:55 AM

8:10 AM Present cash will allow the operator to cover 75 million in the US, CEO tells The Seattle Times

It's divided into 16 ports of 10-GigE, but Cisco's quick to say that it trumps the 100-Gig ambitions of the competition

FCC OKs four more box vendor DTAs and Comcast looks to be the big beneficiary

The open nature of Android may result in a loss of individual vendor identity at the handset level

14.38M new connections have been added to the world's fastest growing market, as operators target rural areas

3:45 PM Turner Sports and RealNetworks are both planning iPhone apps this week

T-Mobile Austria claims it has Europe's largest LTE trial in Innsbruck, using equipment from Huawei

1:55 PM TeliaSonera wants total control in Estonia, Lithuania

12:15 PM Another kick in the teeth for the online tracking specialist

Canadians want the government to block the sale of Nortel to Ericsson, the poll says

10:00 AM The language nannies strike again

8:25 AM Nokia unveils its first 'mini laptop'

6:00 PM One of the good guys of PR has died at 55

70 hospitals want stimulus money to update their in-building wireless networks while the FCC ponders what 'broadband' really means

5:40 PM Jeff Bridges-y MSO does D3, analyst cuts SDV forecast, Comcast's cash, and why broadband is cable's new 'core' product...

An unconfirmed report says Huawei's 29% growth projection for 2009 is still looking good

4:45 PM Boxee CEO Avner Ronen clues us into its revenue strategy

3:45 PM Beyond the Mondi

As China Mobile's margins are squeezed in the first half of the year, it sets sight on getting more from value-added services

1:10 PM And the comments from the Great Unwashed are already rolling in, some more helpful than others

Avago might have the bigger name, but Accelink got the bigger first-day IPO gains

Complements next-gen satellite broadband stimulus project with a $30M effort seeking to subsidize links in Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona UPDATED 4 PM

Cox debuts 50-meg wideband tier in Arizona, aiming to slake subs' thirst for speed and take on Qwest's VDSL2

Motorola and NEC – rather than the usual suspects – get the nod from Japan's No. 2 to provide LTE infrastructure

5:25 PM Family-friendly programming, at your command

4:20 PM The Home Shopping Network takes over all three screens

3:45 PM West Virginia Attorney General claims state has jurisdiction over allegations involving Comcast's set-top box policies

City of Boston and Massachusetts nonprofit want government money for broadband projects

Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have been earmarked for the expansion of broadband penetration

Funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have been earmarked for the expansion of broadband penetration

2:05 PM Us? Not so much

The company is looking for ways to expand its test-and-measurement franchise into the wireless area

12:55 PM Broadband backlog causes further delays

Filings state that its bankruptcy reorg is taking longer than expected

12:10 PM Thanks to mobile growth in Africa, ZTE may soon pass Moto as the world's 5th largest handset maker

EU Pumps $25M into LTE Advanced; NSN to open development center in Dallas

Optical components are still hitting some stalls, but test and measurement saw some growth compared with the previous quarter

Look behind you... Will Huawei be No. 2 in India's infrastructure managed service market by the end of the year?

Video gear specialist looks to expand into Asia and the telco sector and further diversify for a desired IPO exit

Vendor sees a revenue and net profit boost as 2G and 3G network buildouts continue in China and other emerging markets

1:45 PM Once the Recovery Act applications come in, the gloves will come off

12:50 PM Former CEO Greg Reyes gets a do-over

12:05 PM Here are some ways to mend it

The race for Nortel's VoIP carrier business looks set to change the VoIP landscape in North America forever

Leap, Level 3, KeyOn, and SkyTerra are all bidding for first-round broadband stimulus money

Sales could jump 22% in 2009, but economic conditions in Central Europe and data revenue worries could drag the market down over time

Company tells customers to select a new wireless provider by Halloween

5:30 PM And it's a big one

5:00 PM Cablevision's big biz unit revs up a multi-building, flat-rate Metro Ethernet service

Canadian MSO boots up Docsis 3.0 in Toronto with a 50-Mbit/s (downstream) tier and a 175GB monthly consumption allowance UPDATED 8/19 9:05 AM

Lack of standards may delay wide deployment of TV Everywhere efforts

10:30 AM Will Reliance buy up Zain assets and join Airtel in a race for the African market?

Some added features could make DNS servers the centerpiece of managed security services

8:10 AM With some careful stage managing, the smaller vendor might have a big part of Nortel's optical future

Big MSOs are poised to use tru2way as their common interactive platform, but its ability to spawn a retail market remains unclear

5:30 PM Lou Castle springs into action instantly, after being named CEO last week

5:00 PM That's all you'll need to pipe in the broadband version of DirecTV's 'NFL Sunday Ticket' package

Sprint's 4G Now service launches in Atlanta, Portland, and Las Vegas; can Clearwire and friends make an impact before LTE arrives?

3:05 PM With the Ethernet project long since hatched, Sheth flies the coop

2:25 PM China Mobile launches app store, Unicom and Apple still talking

Managed services allow operators to become more nimble, while providing a growth market for telecom equipment makers

1:40 PM But new report says the top telcos are faring better than their cable rivals

Time Warner Cable and other MSOs won't see a dime from a competitor's new $349 NFL Web video product UPDATE 4:30 PM

India's Bharti Airtel confirms it's in talks with three carriers for newly launched global wholesale services

10:00 AM What are they looking for?

Throwin' rocks at U-verse pop-ups, Tier 2 expands on D3, In Demand CEO is out, and Moto touts wideband at retail

It's no whitewash: Extreme was already pitching Soapstone to customers, providing a reason to buy its technology

Live data connections achieved for the first time at Verizon's test sites in Boston and Seattle UPDATED 6 PM

4:55 PM Analyst says everyone's looking at Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks group

A group of MSOs and modem makers want to invalidate two patents at the core of a five-year dispute with Rembrandt Technologies

Digital terminal adapters, cheap and easy to install, are beating out complicated switched digital video for cable business

3:45 PM Taiwan's telcos and vendors line up behind LTE

AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon Communications won't participate in the first round, according to reports

Nortel VoIP division prez says bid for those assets is close, with speculation that Sonus could lead out with an $800M offer

Australia's leading telco sets AU$6B free cash target, but cost of IT transformation hits EBITDA margin

Australia's formerly government-owned telco puts price on degrees of separation and keeps NBN door open

9:25 AM Time for Clearwire to clarify subscriber counts

New MSPPs put some focus on Ethernet, but ECI is still proud to pile it on old-school with TDM

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won't block Ericsson's acquisition of Nortel's LTE and CDMA unit

4:30 PM Microsoft and Netflix are no longer exclusive

You've now got 'til Aug. 20 to file electronic applications for the first $4B in broadband stimulus funding

3:45 PM Evolution's FCC-blessed DTAs find a home in Kentucky

Not so long ago, AlcaLu's new 4G exec was a general in the Lucent optical ranks

But this is the last time. Honest. No, really. They mean it

The MSO wants to overturn last year's ruling that said its P2P throttling was tantamount to blocking

Ericsson is taking over

Ken Wirth takes over as 4G boss as Mary Chan leaves Alcatel-Lucent to pursue other opportunities

Discovery is the 24th cable programmer to sign on to Comcast's broadband video initiative

10:20 AM Irdeto says it has the answer with a DTCP-IP-based scheme, but that vision is likely to be shared by its encryption rivals

HTIL sells controlling share in Israeli operator Partner, plans Thailand sale and invests in Indonesia and Vietnam

Sprint is going to track Clearwire's 2009 network launches very closely from now on, Comcast and TWC not so much

The Chinese vendor is that close to ousting Alcatel-Lucent for the top market share

The move is a vote of confidence for Cisco's Eos content management platform

4:15 PM Contentinople has some good news for the online video market

3:30 PM CEO hopeful new funds will strengthen Boxee's ties with MSOs and get its tech in set-tops

1:35 PM Wait 'til they're lying down

Vendor plays up the power savings of its amp-free 'Fiber Deep' design, but admits that MSOs are more attracted to its capacity gains

The wireless carrier is looking at devices beyond smartphones to generate revenues from its mobile data network

11:15 AM Recent results at Comcast continue to signal a flattening out of service upgrades and add-ons

Ireland's vote of confidence is set to drag optical burst switching out of the labs and into the mainstream spotlight

8:30 AM Rovi and TNS will use a new set of picks and shovels to dig up data on how consumers use IPGs

2:00 AM Next few months critical for carriers and vendors

Subs growth in Q4 2009 will outstrip all other quarters this year combined, Clearwire says, as it posts narrower Q2 loss

Existing shareholders throw in $11M more to help support further operator femto deployments

5:30 PM Will the MSO fare better than Megalon?

4:45 PM This week's PGA Championships will hit many platforms, including the iPhone and Twitter

3:20 PM Are mobile banking services ready for liftoff?

EchoStar says multiple MSOs are testing its tru2way-based, 'SlingLoaded' box, but can't speak to any purchase commitments

2:20 PM Turning the spotlight on Ethernet Expo Americas 2009, Nov. 3 & 4

1:40 PM RCN closes in on Docsis 3.0 launch, Charter does some good, DirecTV's star search, and more

Korea's WiBro operators face losing their licenses and further censure for failing to invest quickly enough in Korea's mobile WiMax

Clearwire says Huawei is one of its suppliers, along with Cisco, Ciena, DragonWave, Motorola, and Samsung UPDATED 1:45 PM

New Unstrung Insider finds that the move to LTE and other all-IP networks will finally force operators to take mobile VoIP seriously

The carrier's public offering would raise funds for general business expenses, as it continues to lose lucrative postpaid subscribers

5:35 PM Cable engineers give high marks to Prime Sense's '3D-sensing' technology, which can sense who's in the room

4:30 PM The US is Ericsson's new stronghold – and the recovery hasn't really started here (yet)

Nortel's Metro Ethernet Networks group stays in line with the rest of the company, and that might interest suitors

Broadcom's playing from behind with its MoCA strategy, but hopes to gain ground with a newly certified design for set-tops and gateways

Korea Telecom reports 227 percent jump in quarter-on-quarter profits as mobile revenues kick in

Vodafone's German business puts Huawei to the test using the 'digital dividend' airwaves

CEO departs as Nortel restructures to sell its remaining standalone businesses

Mobile VoIP, which began as a voice application, is no longer just a cheap telephone call: It has become a major component of a unified communications mix

7:30 AM Nortel CEO signals his departure

But Deputy minister says RIM should have gone to the bankruptcy court if it had a problem with the proceedings

4:45 PM Even though CEO Bill Rinehart is a founder of Akamai's archrival

Sources confirm that Novafora, a video chip startup headed up by the founders of Terayon, has run out of money and ceased operations

1:20 PM Mulling inexpensive box option that lets subs drink in its newly expanded HD lineup

Lazaridis makes impassioned plea to keep LTE tech in Canada, says that RIM and Nortel had an LTE deal before the vendor filed for bankruptcy

To getta betta pizza the action, FastWeb and Wind strike network-sharing deal to keep costs down and cock a snook at Telecom Italia

NOON Leads all video providers in net adds

Tandberg hits back at its VoD rivals with an update to OpenStream that manages the delivery of video to IP set-tops, PCs, and handsets

11:20 AM But analyst taps the brakes on giving the company a ratings boost

Nortel says it could sell LTE patents at a later date, amongst a range of options for the wireless broadband intellectual property

ZON Multimédia raises the anté in Portugal as it prepares the September launch of a 1-Gbit/s broadband service

7:45 AM Sprint leads the business WiMax charge

Intros the Samsung Reclaim, calls for 90% handset recycling by 2017

MSO to keep U-verse and FiOS in check, plumbing 80% of its plant for Docsis 3.0 by year's end, 15% better than the original plan

T-Mobile said it experienced lower voice revenues, but these were offset by growth in data revenues

4:30 PM Comcast exec doesn’t think analog reclamation and switching are mutually exclusive

4:05 PM This one has legs

2:20 PM The journey continues for ex-Cisco, ex-ADVA exec Ron Martin

Comcast's financial house was in order in Q2, beating analyst estimates, but the operator lost another bundle of basic video subs

10:25 AM Comcast rolling out WiMax in Chicago and Philly later this year

India's regulator calls a timeout on mobile license allocation while it mulls capping the number of service providers

Broadcom is starting to hire LTE talent but saying nothing on its strategy for the mobile broadband technology

Microsoft Mediaroom's win with SureWest seems to indicate the platform is ready for wider IPTV deployment

The routing giant's earnings got less depressing in Q4 than they've been in a year

MSO has shelved tru2way deployment plans after striking a deal to offer a fancy, new, broadband-powered TiVo HD-DVR

The Canadian House of Commons industry committee has called on Ericsson, Nortel, and RIM to attend a surprise meeting to review the wireless unit auction process

A master plan for packets and optical is taking shape at AlcaLu, with Basil Alwan, head of the router division, playing a key role

Don't expect much money from the first round of the broadband stimulus package to flow to cities like NYC

3:25 PM Huatever happened to its Level 3 business?

2:10 PM China Unicom begins third phase of its W-CDMA rollout

Google is buying the video compression and encoding specialist in an all-stock transaction worth $106.5M

11:40 AM One analyst wonders if the technology's best days are behind it

Shares in the digital video specialist plunged as much as 20 percent after-hours Tuesday amid warning of a Q3 loss and lower revenues

Despite all the press given to Comcast's upcoming On Demand Online trial, it won't be the first company to launch such an offering

6:00 PM One vote of no confidence for the FiOS app store

5:15 PM Score one for Charlie Ergen's corner

4:45 PM Verizon lets FiOS subscribers social-network on TV

Digeo's retail HD-DVR now has the ability to tap 'switched' cable channels and – for a price – pipe content to other rooms in the house

Big props for the largest telco in the Philippines as it reports a positive first half to the year and increases its profit guidance

The courts give their OK, Avaya's got its $475M bid in, and now the real fun starts

Test specialist Spirent eyes opportunity in mobile broadband LTE as challenging market conditions persist in 2009

12:10 PM Welsh whiskey: nature's disinfectant

RCN to attack MSOs and telcos next year with a TiVo box outfitted with broadband video features and hooks into its legacy cable VoD system

The company will bake more enterprise-friendly features into Android, but still may have a hard time convincing companies to ditch their BlackBerry smartphones

One analyst thinks that Juniper isn't ready for coming product trends and that the Nokia Siemens partnerships won't help

9:10 AM FCC looks at the blocking of Google Talk, but shouldn't operators be more creative with data rather than milking the voice cash cow?

5:40 PM Think six years wasn't enough for the Qwest ex-CEO? Then you won't like this

Shipments of Docsis devices slowed in the first quarter, but Heavy Reading says wideband could spark a second-half rebound

4:35 PM But who's reaping the benefits?

3:55 PM Remember Cswitch? You won't have to for long

3:15 PM An optimistic sign out of EZchip's earnings

2:35 PM MSOs will have to tweak their business models if they add complementary Web TV access

Clear's mobile broadband will soon be in eight markets in Texas, as well as two in Boise, Idaho, and Bellingham, Wash.

11:50 AM Bharti Airtel and MTN cozy up for extended merger talks

As Reliance increases sales and profits, Tata Communications struggles, and state-owned MTNL slumps to a quarterly loss

Another significant 100G trial for Nortel's up-for-sale optical division

ExtendMedia is launching a new product today that caters to providers that want to launch their own 'TV Everywhere'-type services

Alvarion may be facing some troubles now, but global growth in WiMax could make it an M&A target in 2010

Now you can upload those vital Twitter and Facebook updates a little faster in Portland, with Clearwire doubling uplink speeds on its WiMax network