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|  | SBC plans set-top box for music, photos, downloads
SBC Communications plans to sell a television set-top box that can play music, display photos and download files from the Internet. SBC will make the box in a joint venture with privately held 2Wire. The box will be sold as an add-on to customers of SBC's high-speed Internet services and to SBC customers who buy EchoStar Communications DISH satellite service. CNET/Reuters (1/4), Chicago Tribune (1/4), Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg (1/4), The Wall Street Journal (1/4)
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| | Motorola seeks younger demographic with new line of outerwear
Motorola this week will announce plans to unveil a line of outerwear equipped with a system designed to allow people wearing the clothes to operate their cell phones and portable music devices with a small controller on the sleeve. The clothes, developed jointly with apparel maker Burton, are due out toward the end of 2005. Yahoo!/Reuters (1/4)
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|  | New mobile phones include host of advanced applications: Mobile phone companies this week are expected to showcase new handsets that can perform myriad functions ranging from basic voice calls to taking high-resolution pictures. The Wall Street Journal (1/4) |
| | Report: Cisco, Nortel won Comcast fiber deal
A research report by investment bank Lehman Brothers says Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks may have won contracts to supply Comcast with equipment for its new optical network. The report says Cisco and Nortel beat out Lucent Technologies and Ciena for the deal. Neither Cisco nor Nortel have commented. Telephony Online (1/3)
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| | Intelsat names cell phone exec as CEO
Intelsat, the Bermuda-based satellite company that carries programming for television networks including the Playboy Channel, named Dave McGlade as CEO. McGlade, CEO of British cell phone company 02 UK, joins Intelsat as the company is being purchased for $5 billion by a group of private investors. Financial Times (free content) (1/4)
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| | Verizon to carry Court TV
Verizon Communications and Court TV have agreed to a deal under which Verizon will carry Court TV via its fiber-optic network beginning later this year. Court TV reportedly is also in talks with SBC Communications about a similar arrangement. Multichannel News (1/3)
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| | Orb Networks links content devices through Web browser
Much of the attention at the Consumer Electronics Show, which opens Thursday in Las Vegas, is on a startup company called Orb Networks. Orb sells technology that connects PCs to cell phones, other computers and PDAs through a Web browser. That means an Orb consumer could watch live TV on his cell phone by connecting to his home computer. "It raises all kinds of questions for content companies," an analyst said. CNET (1/4)
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| | Companies team up to develop "Super 3G"
A group of 26 mobile phone carriers and equipment makers including NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone Group, Siemens and Alcatel have banded together to develop a wireless standard called "Super 3G." The new standard could be up to 10 times faster than the current 3G standard and would enable advanced applications such as the instantaneous transfer of high-resolution video between handsets. RCR Wireless News (1/3)
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| | Vonage to offer Wi-Fi phone
VoIP provider Vonage said it has formed a partnership with UTStarcom to produce a Wi-Fi phone capable of connecting to Vonage's VoIP network from remote locations. Vonage said it hasn't determined how it will price the product and that it is also considering offering it for free to new customers. Light Reading (1/4)
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| | China clears Corning of dumping charges
Corning said it has received notice from the Chinese government that it did not dump its standard single-mode optical fiber into the Chinese market at an unfairly low price. The company also said dumping margins -- duties imposed by China to reduce the risk of foreign companies undercutting Chinese companies -- were eliminated The Wall Street Journal (1/4)
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