News of the Day

• Verizon adds flexibility to firewall
  Verizon Business aims to give enterprise customers more flexibility with its Secure Gateway Network-based Firewall offering by allowing businesses to customize offerings instead of being bound to a standardized template. InfoWorld/IDG News Service (2/5)

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Business & Industry Watch

• Telecoms, cable operators eye quadruple play
  AT&T and Verizon Communications are among a growing number of telecoms folding wireless into the services they offer to deliver a quadruple play. Comcast is teaming with Sprint to add a wireless component to its portfolio as well. Denver Rocky Mountain News (2/5)

• More TV available on PCs
  With PCs becoming TVs in many households, networks are starting to stream video of old episodes of favorite shows. Here's a list of what's available. The Seattle Times/McClatchy Newspapers (2/3)

• Ericsson, Turner team for wireless services
  Ericsson inked a deal to develop and host mobile services based on Turner Broadcasting System's news and entertainment content. The wireless services will be offered in Europe, the Middle East and Africa beginning Feb. 12. Forbes/Associated Press (2/5) , The Washington Post/Reuters (2/5)

• Broadcom combines Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, FM
  Broadcom has designed a single chip that supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio. The goal of the new chip is to help keep feature-rich wireless phones small, according to the company. Yahoo!/InformationWeek (2/2)

• Viacom demands YouTube remove clips
  Viacom wants YouTube to pay for clips of the entertainment conglomerate's content, such as highlights from "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report." Los Angeles Times (2/3)

• Amp'd Mobile lands original-content deals
  Amp'd Mobile has forged a deal with comedian Jack Black to create comedy shorts for the service provider. The company also is calling on "24" executive producer Howard Gordon to develop an investigative news series for its mobile-phone subscribers. The Wall Street Journal (2/5)

• Other News

• Sprint narrows pool of ad agencies to three contenders
  The New York Times (2/5)

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Hot Topics

Top five news stories selected by USTelecom dailyLead readers in the past week.

• Verizon bundles cell use with TV, landline and Internet (MSNBC)

• Alcatel-Lucent to still develop IPTV platform (Forbes)

• China skips ahead to 4G (CNET)

• ADC finds BigBand Networks buyer (Globes (Israel))

• Daylight-saving time could hit snags this year (The Washington Post)

• Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.

Technology Trends

• Sling Media chief calls on broadcasters
  Sling Media chief Jason Hirschhorn wants broadcasters to take television programming to the next level by making content available and possibly buying advertising space on his planned Clip+Sling service, which gives users the ability to clip portions of programming and post it to the Internet. "CBS is interested in how new media solutions can help build communities around content," CBS Interactive President Quincy Smith said. CNNMoney.com/Fortune (2/5)

• Mobile operators consider taking on Google, Yahoo!
  AT&T's Cingular Wireless, France Telecom and Vodafone are among the telecoms reportedly considering developing a mobile search engine that would challenge the search offerings of Google and Yahoo! The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)/Agence France-Presse (2/5)

• Yahoo! revamps approach to paid ads: Yahoo! is looking to generate more click-throughs by making paid-ad placement on its search engine more relevant to search-result content. San Francisco Chronicle (2/4)

• China posts mobile-phone sales growth
  The China Mobile Communications Association calculates that 120 million handsets were sold in China last year, which represents growth of 40%. The country is expected to sell 150 million handsets this year. cellular-news (U.K.) (2/5)

• Jupiter research delves into m-commerce
  While some operators are gravitating toward the quad-play approach to service offerings, many are still finding a market for independent content. "While I am sure that the mobile phone will become a multifunctional communications and entertainment device for many users in developed mobile markets, I am not so convinced that this will be universal, at least for some time," Juniper Research consultant Bruce Gibson said. E-Commerce Times (2/5)

Regulatory & Legislative

• Pretexting rules foster privacy debate
  Telecoms remain cautious about possible new phone rules designed to halt pretexting. A balance must be struck to ensure security as well as meet customers' need to have easy access to their account information, an AT&T spokesman said. The Boston Globe/Associated Press (2/5)

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