Astra beams into every other home

SES Astra satellite has announced that it is sending digital and analogue signals down to over a hundred and twenty million households throughout Europe, which works out at about half of.. more

Pioneer to discontinue KURO plasmas in May

The recession is catching up with all sectors of the market and the cost of producing plasma TVs has made them vulnerable in the current climate. It didn’t, therefore, come as.. more

SecureMedia and GoBackTV Offer Interactive IPTV Over Cable

SecureMedia which provides software for the delivery of digital content over broadband, has entered into a development partnership with GoBackTV which provide digital headend solutions to support digital video services. The.. more

Palringo available for Android handsets

Palringo, a mobile instant messaging application, can now be used on handsets running Google’s Android operating system, allowing users to chat to their friends on messaging services and social networks such as Google Talk, MSN, Facebook, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, iChat, and QQ. As well as.. more

Amino in STB testing deal with Mirifice

Amino Communications is boosting the performance and reliability of its set-top box (STB) systems through a deal with Mirifice Ltd, which is based in Bath. Amino will integrate Mirifice’s MiriATE solution into its existing facilities, providing a powerful technical environment for the testing and control.. more

CIP launches 100Gbps 2R regenerator

UK-based telecoms equipment maker, CIP Technologies, has released a 100Gbps version of its 2R (reamplification and reshaping) regenerator for optical networks. The device regenerates RZ (return to zero) signals in high-speed optical networks. It integrates an array of the company’s high speed nonlinear semiconductor optical.. more

Millenicom Call by Call service to run on DIGITALK

Telecoms provider, Millenicom, has announced that its new Call by Call service will be hosted by Deutsche Telekom, using the DIGITALK Multiservice Platform. Virtual network Millenicom has offered alternative telecoms services in Germany for a decade, and the Call by Call service is part of.. more

Femtocells make indoor 3G five times faster

US-based telecoms equipment maker, Airvana, has announced that its HubBub CDMA femtocell improves indoor 3G performance by up to five times compared to using a standard 3G network. Femtocells are small wireless devices that pick up 2G and 3G mobile signals and route them across.. more

Employees see work laptops as personal property

Work laptops and mobile phones are increasingly being treated as personal property outside the office, potentially exposing businesses to security threats. A survey by Vodafone found that nearly half of business people use their work laptop to access the internet outside the office, whilst a.. more

Cyber-Ark launches new access management tool

Security software provider Cyber-Ark yesterday unveiled an updated version of its access management tool, Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Suite 5.0. Available immediately, PIM 5.0 is a combination of two existing Cyber-Ark products: Application Identity Manager (AIM) and Enterprise Password Vault (EPV). Together, the two programmes.. more