March 25, 2008 - Icahn sues Motorola over access to records

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March 25, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day  Icahn sues Motorola over access to records With Motorola failing to deliver improved results, activist investor billionaire Carl Icahn sued the company Monday in Delaware Chancery Court. Icahn, who holds 6.4% of the company's shares, wants documents related to Motorola's struggling mobile-phone business and other corporate records. Icahn turned down a Motorola offer for two of its board seats. BusinessWeek (3/25) , The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (3/25) , Chicago Tribune (free registration) (3/25)   Business & Industry Watch  AT&T, NTT sign on for underwater-cable build AT&T and NTT Communications have become members of the group laying the Trans-Pacific Express, an 11,000-mile undersea cable stretching from the U.S. to Asia-Pacific. The China-to-U.S. route is expected to be completed by August, AT&T said. CNNMoney.com/Thomson Financial News (3/25) , Digitalmediaasia.com (3/25) Google lays out plan for "white space" broadband Google has issued a proposal to the FCC to allow the use of vacant TV airwaves to deliver broadband access to wireless mobile devices. The Web giant says the plan works without disrupting signals to TV sets and other equipment. TV broadcasters have long-opposed such a plan, arguing that such devices would interfere with their programming and cause problems during the government-mandated DTV transition next year. The New York Times/Bloomberg (3/25) , The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) (3/25) Indonesia provider said to be expanding aggressively Indonesia's largest broadband-service provider PT First Media Tbk is aggressively expanding its subscriber base, according to Sandvine Corp., which is equipping the company. First Media, which had 18,000 subscribers in mid-2007, has set goals of reaching 150,000 customers by mid-2008 and 1 million by 2009, Sandvine said. Forbes/Thomson Financial News (3/25) USTelecom Spotlight Improve lives through broadband Telemedicine. Telecommuting. Education. Just a few areas where broadband technology is rapidly changing how we live, work and communicate. Join USTelecom and NextGenWeb.org at Telecom2008 to explore how access to high-speed Internet delivers better education, advanced health care, a cleaner environment and a stronger economy to communities throughout the U.S. Learn more. Learn more about USTelecom -> NXTcomm  |  News  |  Join USTelecom  |  Bookstore  |  Webinars   Video Upload    Reports: IPTV ready for explosive growth in U.S. The Yankee Group is predicting IPTV usage in the U.S. may reach 97 million subscribers by 2011, compared with 1.4 million a year ago. Competition for customers is escalating with such force that spending on IPTV/switched digital video equipment could grow from $1.1 billion in 2007 to roughly $11 billion by 2011, according to Infonetics, another research firm. TMC Internet Telephony (3/24) Verizon's FiOS launching channel for retirees Verizon Communications will offer its FiOS TV customers the Retirement Living TV network, a 24-hour service targeting an over-55 audience. The 18-month-old network reaches 30 million homes, largely through Comcast and DirecTV. Multichannel News (3/24) Traffic down for portals' TV episodes Viewership of TV episodes on Web portals dropped slightly last month, compared with January. AOL TV, which carries ABC content, as well as shows from new channel Hulu and CBS, recorded the heaviest traffic with 10.5 million unique visitors for the month, while Yahoo! TV came in second with 9.6 million, according to Nielsen Online figures. MSN TV suffered the biggest traffic drop, with its monthly tally at 6.8 million visitors. Adweek/The Hollywood Reporter (3/24) LightGAIN is Optelian's complete DWDM, CWDM and hybrid solution, supporting 1 to 40 wavelengths of 10Mbps to 10Gbps traffic, SNMP managed and path protected. SFP and XFP transponders, tunable optics, and in-house manufacturing provide customers with short lead times, low cost, and customized solutions to fit their exact requirements.   Technology Trends  Bell Canada blogs to enhance teamwork, manage projects Blogging "jam sessions" have improved efficiencies and creativity while cutting costs at Bell Canada, according to a company systems and technology executive who taught employees how to use the internal forum productively. The lightweight enterprise-blogging tool Bell Canada installed ties together a dispersed work force that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. ITBusiness.ca (Canada) (3/24) Groupe Lagasse buys SR Telecom's WiMAX assets Bankrupt SR Telecom has agreed to sell most of its WiMAX assets to Groupe Lagasse for about $6 million, the Canadian companies announced. Under the deal, SR Telecom will sell its brand, trademarks, intellectual property, patents, inventories and equipment relating to its symmetryMX product line to Groupe Lagasse, but shareholders will likely receive no value from the deal. cellular-news (U.K.) (3/25)   IP Download  Newest demand from younger employees: Unified communications Forget free coffee and casual Friday: Younger employees are pressing their bosses to install unified-communications systems in their workplaces, according to Orange Business Services. The requests are emanating from tech-savvy workers who are familiar with consumer Web-oriented tools and want the same types of collaborative applications at work. ZDNet (3/25) Microsoft readies SP1 for small-business VoIP system The upgrade for Microsoft's Response Point small-business system will connect to telecom networks over the Internet rather than by analog, a move that VoIP companies say will result in less expensive calls and simple management. Microsoft, which is expected to introduce the first service pack for Response Point this summer, said its system was designed specifically for small companies. 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