March 3, 2008 - Embarq taps Gerke as CEO

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March 3, 2008 Sign up Forward Archive Advertise Read more at SmartBrief.com News for telecom industry leaders Search recent stories:       News of the Day    Embarq taps Gerke as CEO Embarq has announced that Tom Gerke has been named CEO of the telecom-services provider. Gerke, 51, has been holding down the top spot on an interim basis since December, when former CEO Dan Hesse moved to Sprint Nextel. CNNMoney.com/Thomson Financial News (3/3) , Houston Chronicle/Associated Press (3/3) Emerson Communications Conference '08… Meet and share ideas with some of the world's leading telecom experts at this year's Communications Conference in Dallas, Texas, at the Omni Hotel at Park West, April 23 to 24. Learn more about the conference and Business–Critical Continuity™ for your business at emerson.com/CommunicationsConference.   Business & Industry Watch    Telecom Italia sets sights on Asia, Africa Telecom Italia will refocus on expansion as part of management's new strategic plan, with a special eye toward making acquisitions in Asia and Africa, according to an Italian business publication. The report said CEO Franco Bernabe would avoid markets in which it would compete with new shareholder Telefonica SA. Forbes/AFX News Limited (3/2) AT&T eyes wireless, digital media as part of VC group AT&T has joined a consortium seeking to invest in fledgling Southern California outfits involved in delivering Web content to phones, computers and TVs as well as new wireless applications. Richard Wolpert, the former head of Disney's online unit and chief strategy officer for RealNetworks, will run the fund, which includes the William Morris Agency plus venture capital firms Accel and Venrock, AT&T said. Reuters (3/3) Verizon Business secures phone license in Saudi Arabia Verizon Business will provide business and residential voice and data services as part of a group that has received a license for fixed-line telephony in Saudi Arabia, the company disclosed today. CNNMoney.com/Dow Jones Newswires (3/3) Telecom switches emphasis: Preliminary analysis of the 2007 Telecom Industry Survey. To remain competitive as industry boundaries blur, telecom providers will require new sets of capabilities beyond the traditional strengths that telecom executives continue to emphasize. Learn more by downloading this IBM white paper.   Hot Topics  Top five news stories selected by USTelecom dailyLead readers in the past week. Hesse writing new chapter at Sprint Nextel (USA TODAY) Qwest outlines broadband plans (CNNMoney.com) Study: IPTV will "alter" pay-TV landscape (American City Business Journals) Sprint Nextel pushes Sprint as umbrella brand, unveils flat-rate calling (Reuters) The ABCs of wireless home networking (Electronic House) Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.   Video Upload  SinglePoint enables 32 million ITV mobile messages Bellevue, Wash.-based SinglePoint processed 32 million interactive TV-related messages emanating from users of the top four U.S. wireless carriers in the second half of last year, Nielsen Mobile reported. The wireless-services provider accounted for 84% of all ITV transactions for its content providers, including Fox, The CW and Telemundo. Multichannel News (3/3) Movie lovers want their TV, not their cell phone People want to see long-form movies on their television sets and are willing to watch short-form television shows on their computers, but few want to see programming on their cell phones, according to new research by the Diffusion Group. "All our research keeps pointing at a lack of interest among consumers in viewing video on the mobile phone," said the report's author. The New York Times (3/3) Study: Web outpaces other media as major news source Nearly half of respondents to a We Media/Zogby Interactive survey named the Internet as their main source of news and information, compared to fewer than one in three who turn to TV for their news, 11% for radio and 10% for newspapers. Persons over 65 still favor means other than the Web as their main source of news, with the study finding that 38% of older adults turn to TV as their primary news source. 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Contact Amy Abbey at 202-737-5500 ext 250 or aabbey@smartbrief.com.   Technology Trends  Verizon among first MS Windows Server 2008 supporters Verizon Business will be among the first companies to offer Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 as a high-end managed-hosting application in the U.S. this spring before expanding service to its European and Asia-Pacific customers by late summer, the company said. Microsoft launched the new version of the server operating system last week. SDA Asia (3/3) Germany's Freenet splits DSL, portal units Freenet AG, which said last week that it wanted to sell its DSL broadband business, will split that division off from its portal unit, the Frankfurt, Germany, company said, adding that its management and supervisory board had agreed to the move. Forbes/AFX News Limited (3/2) T-Mobile backs home-networking company T-Mobile Venture Fund has invested an undisclosed sum in Ubiquisys, a home-networking company testing femtocell technology. Ubiquisys is also backed by Google. The Guardian (London) (3/3)   IP Download  Irish carrier starts pay-by-use broadband service Ireland's Perlico has introduced broadband service in which users pay about 1.5 cents for every megabyte they use. "This approach, unique in the Irish market, allows customers full transparency when it comes to paying for their broadband," said Perlico's head of marketing Niamh McDonough. 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