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Cisco has won a major VoIP deal with Bank of America reports News.com. BoA will replaces nearly 362 PBXes and will deploy 180,000 Cisco Internet Protocol (IP) telephones throughout 5,800 banking centers and enterprise locations in 29 states and the District of Columbia. This is the second major win for the company in past [...]

Russell tees off on everyone who thinks Palm is a Smart Phone. He defines what is not a smart phone.
Here’s a little lesson in mobile nomenclature: If you can’t use the phone with one hand, it’s not a smart phone. Got it? It’s pretty simple. It’s a PDA Phone or a Communicator or something. Whatever [...]

Adelphia Commnications, was not part of the Broadbandits saga. It could easily have been. Nevertheless it is still a cautionary tale of corporate excesses. And from this morning’s reports, it is coming to an end. Time Warner and Comcast are teaming up to jointly bid for the assets of the bankrupt cable operator. It is [...]

Marc Goldberg, a partner at Occam Capital in France has been exploring a lot of deals in the WiMAX space, and be sheer coincidence I ended up on his blog, which is actually quite amazing. He has a nice round-up of WiMAX opinions from a whole slew of sources including smart folks like Jeff Nolan [...]

Popular Telephony’s Peerio technology just might upstage Skype’s juggernaut. The company today announced that it has signed a deal with France’s Logicom to develop a new line of handsets that use the Peerio serverless peer-to-peer VoIP technology. Unlike Skype which relies on a server to act like god for Skype calls, Peerio is a true [...]

Perryopolis has had a broadband makeover, thanks to some good samaritans from Carnegie Mellon University. The students of the school installed a line-of-sight antenna atop Frazier High School which allows residents and businesses within the two mile radius to get high speed internet access. There are plans to add more antennas as well. Several of [...]