Telecommunications Weekly back issues from August 2008:
Research from K.B. Toh and colleagues has provided new data on telecommunications.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Ieice Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences, "This paper proposes a combination of adaptive equalizer and Least Mean Square-RAKE (LMS-RAKE) combining scheme receiver system for Direct ...
Reports on wireless communications findings from C.M. Chao and co-researchers provide new insights.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "A contention-based wireless ad hoc medium access control (MAC) protocol, such as carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA), has excellent efficiency when the system is light loaded. The main drawback of such protocols is their inefficiency and unbounded delay when ...
TCW Portfolio Manager Tom McKissick to Deliver Outlook Amid Volatile Market: "Where Do We Go From Here?".
Aug 04, 2008 ... The TCW Group, Inc., invites you to participate in a conference call today with Tom McKissick, Portfolio Manager of the TCW Focused Equities Fund (Nasdaq:TGFFX)(Nasdaq:TGFVX). Mr. McKissick will discuss his stock market outlook and his approach to managing the fund in a ...
Findings from Rutgers University provide new insights into telecommunications.
Aug 04, 2008 ... "We investigate the use of distributed measurements for estimating and updating the performance of a cellular system. Specifically, we discuss the number and placement of sensors in a given cell for estimating its signal coverage," scientists in the United States report. "Here, ...
Crawford Communications Contracts NSS-7.
Aug 04, 2008 ... SES NEW SKIES, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), announces that Crawford Communications, Inc. (Crawford) has contracted a total bandwidth of 20 MHz on the NSS-7 satellite at the orbital location of 338 degrees East for a period of five years. Crawford has been awarded a ...
Former Corwin President, McDougal Littell Vice President Join Solution Tree Family.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Solution Tree, a leading educational professional development company, recently gained two new executive team members. Douglas Rife, former president of Corwin Press, joins Solution Tree as president of its newly launched division, Solution Tree Press. Susan Willis Kanold, former ...
New telecommunications study findings recently were published by K. Sugiyama and co-researchers.
Aug 04, 2008 ... 'We investigate the minimum weights of simple full-length array LDPC codes (SFA-LDPC codes). The SFA-LDPC codes are a subclass of LDPC codes, and constructed algebraically according to two integer parameters p and j. Mittelholzer and Yang et al. have studied the minimum weights of SFA-LDPC ...
Reports summarize telecommunications study results from Lehigh University.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from the United States, "Two approximations to the Shannon capacity of a maximal-ratio combining (MRC) diversity system are proposed in terms of the diversity factor (DF)." "Asymptotic analysis shows that the approximations are identical to the true ...
Cistera Networks Launches Unique Collaborative Partner Program.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Cistera Networks(R) (OTCBB: CNWTE) a leading provider of enterprise application platforms and engines for Internet Protocol (IP) Communications, announced the launch of Cistera CollaborNET(TM) for its Value-Added Reseller partners. This unique partner program is designed to deliver a true ...
Data on telecommunications detailed by Y. Maekawa and co-authors.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Ieice Transactions on Communications, "Directions and speeds of the motion of rain areas are estimated for each type of rain fronts, using time differences detected in the rain attenuation of the Ku-band satellite radio wave signals ...
Arthur D. Little Strengthens Middle East Consultancy with Affinitiv Integration.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Today leading global management consultancy Arthur D. Little announced that its Middle East office is integrating with the staff of Affinitiv, a strategic telecommunications and CRM consultancy with a strong presence in the region. Affinitiv's founder and CEO, Zoran Vasiljev, and his ...
Reports from McMaster University highlight recent research in telecommunications.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Hamilton, Canada, "We investigate the complexity of joint source-channel maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding of a Markov sequence which is first encoded by a source code, then encoded by a convolutional code, and sent through a noisy memoryless channel. As ...
DHL Returns to the Runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim, July 18 - 21.
Aug 04, 2008 ... South Florida-based DHL, the world's leading express delivery and logistics company, returns for a second year as sponsor of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim, held in Miami Beach at The Raleigh Hotel, July 18 through July 21. The annual designer swimwear event introduces the 2009 ...
Brown-Forman Stockholders' Meeting is July 24.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Brown-Forman (NYSE:BFB)(NYSE:BFA) will hold its annual stockholders' meeting at 9:30 a.m. (EDT) on July 24. The meeting will be held at the company's headquarters at 850 Dixie Highway, Louisville, KY. Brown-Forman Corporation Chief Executive Officer Paul C. Varga will speak to stockholders ...
Hilton Hotels Corporation Rolls out Flexible Work-at-Home Program for Reservations Agents.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Hilton Hotels Corporation has developed a flexible work-at-home program, called Hilton@Home, underway within Hilton Reservations & Customer Care (HRCC). The highly flexible program enables HRCC to attract talented individuals for reservations and customer support positions who prefer to ...
InstantConference Launches Enterprise Services Featuring User Managed Conferencing in Very Low-Cost, Centrally-Managed Plans.
Aug 04, 2008 ... InstantConference(R), the dedicated on-demand reservationless conference service, answers the need for company-wide, efficient, low-cost, user-managed conferencing with the release of a new Enterprise service. Featuring low-cost monthly plans starting at $25/month and toll free rates as ...
Research on telecommunications discussed by scientists at Hitachi, Ltd.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Ieice Transactions on Communications, "Abnormal traffic that causes various problems on the Internet, such as P2P flows, DDoS attacks, and Internet worms, is increasing; therefore, the importance of methods that identify and control ...
Innovex Announces Fiscal 2008 Third Quarter Results.(Financial report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... Innovex (Nasdaq: INVX) reported revenue for the fiscal 2008 third quarter ending June 28, 2008 of $16.2 million, a 22% increase over the second quarter and revenue excluding pass through material of $10.3 million, an 18% increase over the second quarter. In the fiscal 2008 second quarter, ...
American Color Graphics Granted Approval of First Day Motions.
Aug 04, 2008 ... American Color Graphics, Inc. ("the Company"/ "American Color") announced that it has received Court approval of all of its first day motions, including interim Court approval of its debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing, permitting American Color immediate access to up to $135 million in ...
Openfilm.com Goes Live with User-Generated Films.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Openfilm announced the public launch of its next-generation video sharing website www.openfilm.com. The site showcases a fast-growing collection of high quality short films and animations displayed in high resolution. Openfilm provides a venue for users to watch premium video content, as ...
Research in the area of telecommunications reported from D. Inoue and colleagues.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "In this paper, we introduce a new notion of conditional converge cast (CCC), by adding the conditional property to converge cast. A CCC protocol with predicate Q is a three-party protocol which involves two senders S-0 and S-1 and a receiver R. S-0 owns a secret x and a message m(0), so ...
A Market Overview of the Liberian Telecoms Industry: Including the Latest Key Statistics & an Overview of the Regulatory Environment.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/46c6d4/liberia_telecoms) has announced the addition of the "Liberia - Telecoms Market Overview & Statistics" report to their offering. Four years into peace, following more than a decade of civil war which ...
New findings reported from Chiba University describe advances in telecommunications.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "This paper proposes a new color halftone image quality assessment method based upon the color structural similarity measure with considering the human visual characteristics. To include the color visual characteristics, we carry out the color filtering for each luminance, redgreen, and ...
NetCracker Announces Enhanced IPTV Solution at IPTV World Forum.
Aug 04, 2008 ... NetCracker Technology, the leading provider of OSS solutions to Communications Service Providers (CSPs), will announce its enhanced IPTV service delivery solution at IPTV World Forum North America. NetCracker's IPTV solution, combined with its Services Ecosystem approach, ...
Research on wireless communications detailed by scientists at Nanyang Technological University.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Singapore, Singapore, "In this paper, we study the blocking and dropping probability of mobile users in the multi-service cellular systems with mobile users. Based on the idea that different services may require different signal-to-interference ratios and ...
Juniper Awarded Master Service Agreement with AIS.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Juniper Group (OTCBB:JNIP) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, New Wave Communications, Inc., has been awarded a contract by Advanced Integrated Services, Inc ("AIS") in Poughkeepsie and Binghamton, New York. The Company, after performing well for AIS in the Chicago and ...
The Online World has Added a New Dimension Brand Protection Services.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/5fed82/brand_protection_s) has announced the addition of the "Brand Protection Services" report to their offering. Brand and reputation have always been among the most valued corporate assets. The online world has ...
New telecommunications study findings recently were reported by researchers at Sejong University.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "In order to reduce spatial redundancies, the H.264/AVC Intra coding provides nine directional prediction modes including DC prediction for every 4 x 4 block, but it needs a lot of overhead bits to represent the nine directional prediction modes for every 4 x 4 block," scientists in Seoul, ...
PaperCut enhances scalability of web-based application with Jetty and Webtide.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Webtide, the main developer of leading open source HTTP server and Java web container, Jetty, announced that PaperCut, the leading solution to monitor, quota and report network printing and internet use, has chosen Jetty as an embedded component for its web-based product. ...
Reports summarize telecommunications study results from C. Kotchasarn and co-researchers.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to a study from Bangkok, Thailand, "We investigate the problem of joint transmitter and receiver power allocation with the minimax mean square error (MSE) criterion for uplink transmissions in a multi-carrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) system. The objective of power ...
Infuse Creative's Gregory Markel to Speak at SMX Local Mobile San Francisco.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Founder and President of Infuse Creative, Gregory Markel, will share his 13 years of SEO and search engine marketing expertise while focusing on mobile search engine marketing strategies at the SMX Local and Mobile Conference in San Francisco on Friday, July 25th, 2008. Gregory ...
Latin America Mobile Games Report, 1st Edition, 2006-2011: a Comprehensive Analysis of the Latin America Mobile Games Market.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/805f26/latin_america_mobi) has announced the addition of EJL Wireless Research's new report "Latin America Mobile Games Report, 1st Edition, 2006-2011" to their offering. This report covers the downloadable mobile ...
Law Videos, Inc. and IP1 Network Announce Joint-Venture Agreement.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Law Videos and IP1 Network announced the formation of a joint-venture company based on LVI's video information website. IP1 Network, an integrated applications service provider, brings value by leveraging LVI's service capabilities and infrastructure into its own platform, thus ...
Zubican Makes It Easy for Businesses to Search for, Evaluate and Connect With Other Businesses That Meet Their Specific Needs.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Zubican Inc. of Los Angeles, today opened the Zubican online business community (www.zubican.com) in a public beta program enabling businesses to easily find, evaluate and connect with other businesses online for free. At the heart of Zubican is a database populated with detailed profiles ...
New telecommunications findings from Kyungpook National University described.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "The TFT-LCD image has non-uniform brightness that is the major difficulty of finding the visible defect called Mura in the field. To facilitate Mura detection, background signal shading should level off and Mura signal must be amplified," scientists writing in the journal Ieice ...
IQ Services Introduces Investment Protection Program for Contact Center and Communication Solutions.
Aug 04, 2008 ... IQ Services, the industry's premier provider of managed testing services for contact center and communications solutions, announced the availability of its unique Investment Protection Program(TM) for Contact Center and Communication Solutions, which is designed to help businesses get the ...
Research reports on telecommunications from S. Miyake and colleagues provide new insights.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Research into applying LDPC code theory, which is used for channel coding, to source coding has received a lot of attention in several research fields such as distributed source coding," scientists in Yokosuka, Japan report. "In this paper, a source coding problem with a ...
Easier Said Than Done: Customer-Focused Operations is Much More Than Network Management or Real Time Billing.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Stratecast, a division of Frost & Sullivan, is pleased to announce its 2008 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the global telecommunications market, to be held on Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. PDT. Today's telecommunications market landscape is more than ...
Cartoon Magic Explored by Award-Winning Animator Eric Goldberg in "Character Animation Crash Course!".
Aug 04, 2008 ... Eric Goldberg, the pioneering, award-winning animator-director whose cartoon magic has graced such classics as Disney's "Aladdin," "Pocahontas," "Fantasia/2000" and "Hercules," has harnessed the essence of cinema's most beloved form in a new book, Character Animation Crash Course! ...
Immediate Demand for .ME Goes Sky High!
Aug 04, 2008 ... Go Daddy received a Super Bowl-like spike in traffic and domain registrations - only it didn't have anything to do with commercials or Go Daddy Girls. It was all about the .ME domain. In the first 24 hours of registration, Go Daddy successfully registered more than 20,000 .ME ...
Moneris Solutions Acquires ANB Merchant Business.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Moneris Solutions, one of North America's largest payment processors, announced that it has acquired Alabama National BanCorporation's (ANB) merchant payments business, which includes the servicing of 103 banking centers in the Southeast as well as the existing merchant processing ...
14 More Push-to-Talk Markets for Sprint? Palringo Chats in All US Markets with Voice, Text, and Image.
Aug 04, 2008 ... As Sprint announces the launch of its QChat push-to-talk service in another 14 U.S. markets, another company has quietly - and freely - been providing a similar service that is available across the U.S. With offices in New York and London, Palringo offers "vocal instant ...
SouthernLINC Wireless Announces Availability of TeleNav Track Throughout Regional Calling Area.
Aug 04, 2008 ... SouthernLINC Wireless, a Southern Company (NYSE: SO), announced that award-winning mobile resource management service TeleNav Track(TM) is now available to all business and public sector customers throughout the entire SouthernLINC Wireless Regional Calling Area. Using ...
Research from Yeditepe University in the area of telecommunications published.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Today, localization of nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a challenging problem. Especially, it is almost impossible to guarantee that one algorithm giving optimal results for one topology will give optimal results for any other random topology," investigators in Istanbul, Turkey ...
Jay Rasulo, Chairman, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts to Be Inducted into TIA's Hall of Leaders.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Jay Rasulo, chairman, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, has been named the 2008 inductee into the Travel Industry Hall of Leaders. Rasulo will be honored during a dinner attended by several hundred travel industry leaders October 28th in Portland, Oregon during the Marketing ...
UTDi Delivers IP Solution for FAME; Lowers Operating Costs and Protects Employee Base.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Unified TelData, Inc. (UTDi) has announced that Financial Aid Management for Education, Inc. (FAME) of Ft. Lauderdale, FL reduced operating costs and improved employee retention as a result of the implementation of Avaya's IP Softphone solution. FAME also experienced increased productivity ...
FutureResume.com, New Online Job Board, Offers Free Video Resume and Conferencing Capabilities for Job Seekers and Employers to Improve Recruiting.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Greg and Theo Rokos, prominent executive search and sales leadership professionals, announced the launch of FutureResume.com, a new concept in the online job board that allows job seekers to show their personality and professionalism through one- to two-minute video resume introductions ...
First Communications Acquires GCI Globalcom Holdings, Inc. and Closes on $50 Million Term Loan Commitment.
Aug 04, 2008 ... First Communications (AIM: FCOM), the US based integrated telecommunications company, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GCI Globalcom Holdings, Inc., the sole shareholder of Globalcom, Inc. ("Globalcom"), a Chicago-based corporation which offers a complete ...
Study results from P. Sharma et al provide new insights into telecommunications.
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research published in the journal Ieice Transactions on Communications, "This letter reports a high-performance Ka-band equilateral triangular microstrip patch (ETMP) antenna suspended on a thin dielectric membrane. The membrane is released using a silicon ...
Anna Griffin, Inc. Goes Digital with Scrapblog.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Award-winning craft designer and paper personality, Anna Griffin, announced a partnership with Scrapblog, the first craft on the Web and leading service for creating and sharing scrapbooks online, today at the summer CHA conference (Craft & Hobby Association). Crafters of all ...
Reports outline telecommunications research from Tsinghua University.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... According to recent research from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "In this paper, we investigate the proportional fair scheduling (PFS) problem for multiuser OFDM systems, considering the impact of packet length. Packet length influences scheduling schemes in a way that each scheduled ...
Senior Corporate Executives Willing to Trade Compensation for Culture According to New Survey.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Contrary to what most corporate managers in America believe, it's not about the money. A recent nationwide survey of senior-level executives shows that 38 percent would accept up to an 18 percent pay cut for the "right" position - one where they are learning, positively impacting their ...
My Own Business, Inc. Reaches Major Milestone in June.
Aug 04, 2008 ... My Own Business, Inc. (MOBI) announced that during the third week of June its web site received its 10,000,000th visitor since going live in 2001. "This is a significant landmark in the growth of My Own Business," William Topaz, MOBI President and CEO, stated. "Our organization ...
AirMe One of Most Popular Photo Apps for iPhone.
Aug 04, 2008 ... AirMe, an innovative photo sharing application, premiered alongside the opening of Apple's new App Store for iPhone 2.0 users. AirMe is a free, easy-to-use, downloaded application that enables iPhone users to take photos and have them instantly tagged and sent to the user's Flickr account, ...
Examine Telco Strategy Directors Agenda.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c284cd/telco_strategy_dir) has announced the addition of the "Telco Strategy Directors Agenda" report to their offering. Communications service providers are moving at an accelerating pace into a new world of ...
UL DQS Signs Agreement for GQEX and QSU Services.(Company overview)
Aug 04, 2008 ... Apogee Global Resources, Inc. (AGR) has signed an agreement to market and promote ISO 9001 and other management system certificates awarded by UL DQS, Inc. and to provide UL DQS Inc. clients with a cobranded electronic subscription to leading industry publication Quality Systems Update ...
ClickTorch Launches Latest in Intelligent Web Recommendation Systems.
Aug 04, 2008 ... ClickTorch, the UK web artificial intelligence experts have launched the latest version of their product and content recommendation system. Utilising the power of intelligent learning ClickTorch can be quickly and simply installed on most websites to provide visitors with highly relevant ...
Cygne Receives NASDAQ Notice Letter.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Cygne Designs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYDS) announced that it received a Nasdaq Staff Deficiency Letter on July 16, 2008. Nasdaq had previously notified the Company on January 14, 2008 that it had failed to comply with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing set forth in Marketplace ...
Now is the Time to Get Your Name Online.
Aug 04, 2008 ... If you missed out on registering your domain name with other extensions - get ready. Tomorrow, July 17, GoDaddy.com is offering .ME domain names for Open Registration. This gives anyone who wants to get their presence online an opportunity for a valuable piece of Internet real estate. As ...
New telecommunications research has been reported by J.H. Choi et al.(Report)
Aug 04, 2008 ... "Transmit antenna diversity without feedback has been widely investigated for various wireless communication systems. Especially, space-time codes are extensively studied to exploit the spatial diversity induced by multiple transmit antennas," researchers in Wales report. ...
infoUSA Provides API Solution to Topix for Local Business Directory.
Aug 04, 2008 ... infoGROUP (NASDAQ: IUSA), the leading provider of proprietary business and consumer databases, local business listings for directories, POIs for navigation systems, sales leads, direct marketing, and email marketing, and global information, announced its infoUSA division's US business ...
IDC Survey Results Show Growing Level of Commitment Among Small and Midsize Firms Toward Adoption of Applications To Support Green Initiatives in the Supply Chain.
Aug 04, 2008 ... In a survey of 250 decision makers at small and midsize enterprises involved in the manufacturing, wholesale, and distribution industries, IDC found that there is a growing level of commitment among both small and midsize firms toward the adoption of applications that would support more ...
Intervoice To Recess Today's Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Intervoice, Inc. (NASDAQ: INTV) announced that it intends to convene and then immediately recess its 2008 annual meeting of shareholders in light of the Company's entering into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Convergys Corporation (NYSE: CVG). The Company's Board of Directors believes ...
MIVA Reports Record Audience Growth for Spill.com.
Aug 04, 2008 ... MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIVA), a global digital media company, announced record audience growth for its movie review and entertainment site, Spill.com. In June 2008, Spill.com attracted 715,000 unique users, a 39 percent increase over the 513,000 unique users visiting the site in May ...
The Snapshots Publishing Report Gives an Instant Overview of the US Publishing Market and Covers Book, Newspaper and Magazine Publishing.
Aug 04, 2008 ... Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bda59a/snapshots_us_publi) has announced the addition of the "Snapshots US Publishing 2008" report to their offering. Snapdatas Snapshots US Publishing 2008 provides 2007 year-end market size data, with 2008 ...