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France's Olympic handball team expects video analytics to give it a boost against opponents. The French started using software combining videos of all the players in the world with match statistics to train their teams. Studying opponents' every move, strength and weakness is meant to help players devise the perfect counter-attack.
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Mobile Linux will outsell Microsoft Windows Mobile and other rival OS makers in the mobile Internet device market by 2013, says ABI Research. Moblin, LiMo and Maemo will be the leading Linux mobile providers.
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Vonage Pro lets mobile workers take their home office phones with them. With features like Vonage Companion, users can set up their offices wherever they are.
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The LiMo Foundation reveals the next swath of its Linux-based smart phones, which are designed to help users access the Internet from anywhere on the go. The new phones apply additional pressure on Google's mobile and wireless plans to bring phones based on its Android mobile operating system to the market.
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President Bush signed the so-called “VOIP-911 Bill” into law last week, a step toward ensuring VOIP users have the same protections and access to 911 systems as landlines. The new law ensures 911 service is available during an emergency whether the call comes from a VOIP or traditional phone company; SAP CEO Henning Kagermann told analysts and investors last week, that SAP could actually benefit from a rough economy. SAP reported a solid second quarter and global economic turmoil could be helping, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann. Business software makers like SAP are less likely to suffer from a weakening economy, SAP CEO Henning Kagermann said, because their products are designed to help companies become more efficient and save costs; Intel will sell 500,000 Classmate PCs to Portugal for elementary school students nationwide. Intel’s Classmate customer win nearly matches the total number of XO Notebooks sold by rival OLPC (One Laptop per Child); and the next Silicon valley startup could be built on Google cash. Google is considering setting up its own venture capital investment arm. Sources told the Wall Street Journal Google has hired several VC mavens, but no firms plans have been made.
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Motorola narrowly kept its No. 3 ranking in the global phone market ahead of LG Electronics and posted a small quarterly profit after more than a year of disappointing results. Motorola said it sold more mobile phones than expected due to strength in North America.
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BT Group, Britain's fixed-line telecom provider, said revenues rose 3 percent to 5.18 billion pounds, ahead of forecasts. BT Group posted a first-quarter rise in underlying core earnings of 1 percent on Thursday, just below forecasts, and said its full-year guidance remained unchanged. The BT Retail unit's share of net broadband additions was 31 percent during the quarter.
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Ribbit co-founder Crick Waters says Ribbit chose to sell itself to British Telecom because size matters. Rather than grow its VOIP software from scratch in competing with Google, Skype and phone carriers, Waters says Ribbit chose British Telecom for scalablity and footprint.
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Ribbit, the VOIP company that lets software developers for the enterprise and consumers add voice capabilities to CRM apps such as Salesforce.com and social networks such as Facebook, joins BT's fleet of acquisitions.
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An analyst argues that a marriage between the open-source mobile operating systems of Symbian and Android would be good for both Google and Nokia. The analyst contends that Nokia and other users of Symbian, principally Motorola, DoCoMo and Sony Ericsson, don't want to compete in the mobile operating system market.
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Garmin unveils its latest crossover GPS device, the Nuvi 500 series, at the British Automotive show in London.
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Surprise! The nation's wireless carriers, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, and their primary trade association and Republican leaders in Congress are all opposing an FCC proposal that would put free wireless broadband in the hands of consumers.
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The Intel EP80579 microprocessor is the first of a new generation of embedded processors designed to power a range of devices from television set-top boxes to mobile Internet devices to telecommunications infrastructure.
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Cisco Systems says it will acquire Pure Networks, a privately held provider of home networking-management software and tools, for $120 million. Cisco says Pure Networks' home networking-management solution allows users to set up and manage a home network and connect a range of devices, applications and services within the home.
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AT&T posted higher quarterly profit as stronger-than-expected growth in wireless subscribers compensated for shrinking traditional landlines. AT&T added more than 1.3 million net wireless subscribers in the quarter, including iPhone customers.
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Scopia Conferencing Platform manages to coax disparate conference room and desktop videoconferencing solutions into relative harmony.
Microsoft’s VOIP and unified communications platforms don’t intersect significantly—yet.
Review: Microsoft's VOIP system for SMBs boasts a few glitzy
next-generation features that make the system incredibly easy to use,
and comes in an appliance form factor that makes the system a snap to
deploy.
Review: Cisco's Smart Business Communications System extends to small businesses the same networking technologies available to larger companies in a platform that can take on video, instant messaging and other apps.
Review: magicJack, a small USB dongle device that makes it possible to plug any phone into a computer and make calls over the Internet, provides some interesting capabilities but these are outweighed by its shortcomings.
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