Archive for 'Telecommunications - Technology'
3G standards body gives the green light to 100Mbps data standard
Published on December 16th, 2008.
Prospects for 3G cellular networks delivering data at tens of megabits per second improved significantly this week when the global 3G standards body, 3GPP agreed to include specifications for long...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
NEC extends enterprise VoIP and unified comms to the iPhone
Published on December 15th, 2008.
NEC has launched an Australian-developed VoIP application for the iPhone that, in conjunction with software running on NEC enterprise IP telephony systems, will enable users to make business quality calls...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
New Zealand wakes up to the need for IPv6
Published on December 15th, 2008.
Major ICT industry and stakeholder organisations in New Zealand have agreed on the need for a transition plan from IPv4 to IPv6 that would include education, and identification and removal...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
New standard to wire up the digital home in the age of multimedia
Published on December 14th, 2008.
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has released a new standard that will enable communications over phone, power and coaxial cables in the home at up to 700Mbps for the delivery...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Race for the 5Gbps wireless LAN heats up
Published on December 11th, 2008.
With the increasing popularity of high definition video and multimedia today's wireless local area networks just won't be fast enough and work is well advanced to develop technologies with throughputs...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Ericsson & Sony Ericsson join the Android bandwagon
Published on December 9th, 2008.
Ericsson and its handset joint venture with Sony, Sony Ericsson, have both joined the Google-backed Open Handset Alliance set up to develop and promote the Android mobile handset software.Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
LG develops ‘world first’ 4G handset modem chip
Published on December 9th, 2008.
Korean electronics giant LG Electronics has developed what the company claims is the first 4G handset modem chip based on 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology standards. The chip can...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Huawei claims lead in 21Mbps HSPA devices
Published on December 9th, 2008.
Telstra and Sierra Wireless have demonstrated 21 Mbps HSPA devices on Telstra's network, but Sierra admits there is much work to be done before its devices are ready for...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
BitTorrent and Oversi collaborate on P2P solution for ISPs
Published on December 9th, 2008.
BitTorrent, the company that maintains the peer-to-peer Internet file sharing protocol of the same name, has partnered with Israel based caching solutions provider Oversi, to deliver an integrated P2P solution...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Cisco gears up for the Internet to become the ‘medianet’
Published on December 8th, 2008.
Cisco is forecasting video to be the dominant consumer traffic on the Internet and has introduced a host of new technologies designed to transform networks into video-optimised networks and to...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
How well does your web page work on a mobile phone?
Published on December 8th, 2008.
It's now very easy to answer that question. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has launched an online content checker designed to verify whether content on mobile web sites meets...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Phone home and switch on the oven says Nokia
Published on December 2nd, 2008.
Home is where the heart is and, if mobile phone colossus Nokia has its way, it will soon be a place where a smart mobile phone control centre lives. Nokia...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Nokia Siemens foreshadows the 1Gbps wireless network
Published on December 1st, 2008.
Nokia Siemens Networks claims to have staged the first demonstration of LTE-A (long term evolution-advanced) wireless broadband technology, a future evolution of today's 3G networks that could deliver speeds up...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Telstra and Juniper trial the Internet of the future
Published on November 17th, 2008.
Telstra and Juniper trial the 'Internet' of the future The Internet today is a 'best effort' service but the IPsphere Forum has been developing a set of specifications that will enable...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Qualcomm’s Kayak: a Net surfboard for the developing world
Published on November 13th, 2008.
Mobile phones far outnumber PCs in developing nations but they're not the best devices for surfing the net. Qualcomm, has a vision of devices that are part mobile phone part...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
VMware to take virtualisation to mobile phones
Published on November 10th, 2008.
VMware has unveiled plans to bring virtualisation to mobile phones through the new VMware Mobile Virtualisation Platform (MVP), based on technology it acquired from Trango Virtual Processors in October 2008.Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
D-Link to debut Microsoft IP-PBX in Australia & NZ
Published on October 27th, 2008.
D-Link expects to be the first vendor to introduce Microsoft's OEM IP PBX software product, Response Point, to the Australian and New Zealand market, a year after it was released...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Qualcomm promises truly pocketable computing” with Snapdragon
Published on October 6th, 2008.
Snapdragon, Qualcomm's soon to be released mobile device chipset will be featured in the company's first every briefing in Australia for analysts and media on November 19.Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Watch live video on your iPhone - through the browser
Published on October 2nd, 2008.
Multimedia technology company, Dilithium Networks, has developed technology to support the delivery of live video or streamed video-on-demand to an iPhone, viewable in the standard Safari browser.Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.
Sierra Wireless debuts 900MHz HSPA embedded modem in Australia
Published on September 30th, 2008.
Sierra Wireless, the company that supplies many of the external broadband wireless modems sold by Australian mobile operators, has chosen Australia to debut its new 900MHz HSPA embedded modem, its...Filled under Telecommunications - Technology, latest news. No Comments.