https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com CommunicationsDirect is a free news and information service for global telecommunications professionals. CommunicationsDirect offers frequent updates onbusiness, policy, and technology issues. CommunicationsDirect also offers free daily and weekly newsletters. 2010 PricewaterhouseCoopers en-us Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:02 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:45:02 telecom_direct_editor@us.pwc.com Saturday Sunday https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/39280?199 Cisco's new router, named "Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System", is designed to deliver a new wave of video, mobile, and data centre/cloud services. The company said that that the new router triples the capacity of its predecessor, the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, with up to 322 Terabits per second. The... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/130/39278?199 A poll has revealed that more than three-fourths of people across the world believe access to the internet is a fundamental human right. The survey, published by the BBC, showed that almost 79% of those questioned said they strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with the description of the internet as a "fundamental right of all... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/39275?199 The chief executive of Ericsson has stated the vendor is targeting growth in the services, wireless, and multimedia sectors, as the Swedish giant is claiming some 40–45% of the wireless equipment market. CEO Hans Vestberg, who took over at the helm in January, said Ericsson was looking to improve this market share in ... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/39273?199 Transit crew personnel working on or near rail lines may soon be wearing radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to enhance their safety. Bombardier Transportation, McMaster RFID Applications Lab (MRAL) and the Ontario Centers of Excellence (OCE) are undertaking a $1.4 million research collaboration to develop location awareness... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/39272?199 LOS ANGELES — Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its users' posts to those sites more easily and carve out its niche as an entertainment hub more clearly. Those changes,... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/39270?199 HONG KONG — China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, said Wednesday it was investing $5.8 billion in a Chinese bank as part of a plan to develop mobile phone banking and business services. Under the agreement, China Mobile will pay 39.8 billion yuan ($5.8 billion) in cash for 20 percent of... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/39268?199 Ever since the Google FTTH announcement a couple of weeks ago, the internet (and indeed the real world, for a change) has been abuzz with rumours, analysis, speculation and downright madness in some instances. In the meantime, I have written and published my own analysis of the announcement, accessible to Yankee Group customers under... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/140/39266?199 Motorola Inc. claims that its deployment of TD-LTE in Shanghai for China Mobile Communications Corp. means that it is still a force to be reckoned with in the world of mobile broadband technology. Motorola was selected by China Mobile to deploy the technology in seven pavilions around the Expo 2010 fair in Shanghai. The event runs... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/150/39264?199 Mainsoft has announced a free Outlook plug-in called Harmony that links a user's Outlook UI with his or her Google Docs account. The plug-in creates a window sidebar in the Outlook user interface that shows documents stored in the Google service. Users can grab documents from the sidebar and drag them into an e-mail message to ... https://www.communicationsdirectnews.com/do.php/120/39262?199 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.  -- Consumers want their Internet TV, according to market research firm, In-Stat.  Already, based on In-Stat’s new multi-client research study, 26% of US consumer respondents report viewing Internet TV more than once per week.  However, rather than a substitute for traditional pay TV services,...