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AT&T’s Watson Speech Recognition Technology

September 16, 2009 AT&T News ( NYSE:T )

AT&T and Vlingo have come to a licensing agreement and strategic alliance to incorporate AT&T’s Watson technology into Vlingo’s speech-enabled applications. The alliance will drive innovation in user interfaces by allowing people to use the power of their voice to create and send a text message or email, search the Web, access social networking tools [...]

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Avaya buys Nortel assets

September 14, 2009 Nortel News

Nortel Networks Corporation [OTC: NRTLQ] have concluded a successful auction of substantially all of the assets of Nortel’s global Enterprise Solutions business as well as the shares of Nortel Government Solutions Incorporated and DiamondWare, Ltd. Avaya Inc. (Avaya) has emerged as the winning bidder agreeing to pay US$900 million in cash to Nortel, with an [...]

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No Money In Voice – Welcome 4G!

August 4, 2009 Carriers

As profits dwindle, telecom giants join forces at the Next Generation Telecom Summit to cash-in on the new 4G world. The last five years has seen unprecedented change in communications. The European consumer has a plethora of handset choices and packages. The average handset has evolved from the humble voice-box, to the total media centre. [...]

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Covad Increases Bandwidth Offerings upto DS3

August 4, 2009 Covad News

Covad Communications Company has completed the next phase of its broader network transformation strategy by building out its access portfolio with the introduction of DS3 service for performance-intensive applications and enterprise connectivity, as well as higher-bandwidth bonded T1 offerings up to 12.0 Mbps. Covad has also introduced network-wide Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities to enable [...]

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Level 3 Q2 2009 results

July 30, 2009 Level 3 News (Nasdaq: LVLT)

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) reported consolidated revenue of $942 million for the second quarter 2009, compared to consolidated revenue of $1.09 billion for the second quarter 2008. The net loss for the second quarter 2009 was $134 million, or ($0.08) per share, compared to a net loss of $42 million, or ($0.03) per [...]

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Victor Agnellini Senior Vice President, Transformation Alcatel-Lucent

July 28, 2009 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the appointment of Victor Agnellini as Senior Vice President, Transformation. Based in Paris, Agnellini will orchestrate the transformation initiatives being done throughout the company into a single global project. In this role Agnellini will work with company leaders to accelerate and drive alignment of the many transformation [...]

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Largest-Ever Network Disaster Recovery Exercise

July 14, 2009 AT&T News ( NYSE:T )

AT&T is holding the largest ever network disaster recovery exercise. This trailer (see picture, credit AT&T) for example can carry all IP traffic for a city. AT&T is conducting its largest ever Network Disaster Recovery (NDR) exercise at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, DC from July 8 to 17, 2009. The AT&T [...]

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BTOP and BIP Broadband Grants availability

July 11, 2009 Featured

From the LAW OFFICES OF THOMAS K. CROWE, P.C., full contact info below. Last week, on July 1, 2009, the Rural Utilities Service (“RUS”) of the Department of Agriculture and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (“NTIA”) of the Department of Commerce released a Notice of Funds Availability (“NOFA”) announcing the policies and application procedures [...]

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Avaya IVR gets Gartner Strong Positive Rating

June 26, 2009 Avaya News (NYSE:AV)

Avaya Inc. has received the highest rating – a “Strong Positive” – in Gartner’s recent “MarketScope for Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Systems and Enterprise Voice Portals, 2009.” The report evaluated leading vendors’ voice response systems and applications, and rated vendors according to a number of criteria. In the report, Gartner classified systems into two distinct [...]

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