Cell phone user Brad Hakala says “we use our cell phones for everything. School Principal and everything. It’s just a little bit more convenient.”

But until recently, the only people calling us were people we gave our numbers.

Now, a company called Intelius has an online cell phone directory of 90 million numbers. Sort of a 411 for the wireless.
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Strix Systems, a worldwide leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking, today announced the introduction of the highest-powered, highest performance Mobile Wireless System (MWS) 100 to its award winning Access/One® product line. The MWS is the industry’s highest performance mobile extension which enables on-board video surveillance, voice over IP and critical data applications for in-vehicle wired or wireless client connectivity in public safety, railway, municipal, strategic and tactical wireless broadband mesh networks.
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Strix’s 4.9 GHz wireless video surveillance camera system for broadband Networks redefines IP video surveillance with the highest peformance and the greatest reach.

Strix Systems, a worldwide leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking, and Dotworkz Systems today announce the availability of the highest performance, Integrated Wireless Video Surveillance System (IWVS) – the industry’s only integrated wireless mesh network system specifically designed for optimal high-quality delivery of IP video surveillance over wireless/WiFi mesh networks in a single easy to deploy packaged design.
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Cisco® (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced today that Montreal’s Concordia University has added the next chapter to its history as one of Canada’s leading technology trailblazers by deploying the country’s first 802.11n wireless network on a university campus and incorporating it as part of a larger, innovative indoor-outdoor wireless mobility infrastructure.
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Scopus Video Networks Ltd. , a provider of digital video networking solutions, today announced that Texas-based TVMAX has purchased a complete headend solution (Piccolo) to support its migration to an all-digital network. With approximately 100,000 passings, TVMAX is a leader in providing cable services to MDU (multiple dwelling unit) housing communities in the greater Houston, TX area. The new Scopus installation will enable the company to deliver high-quality digital programming to subscribers securely and cost-effectively.
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Internet law professor Michael Geist examines the shift from locking down content to locking down the network.

“As digital technologies and the Internet began to emerge in the mid-1990s, many content companies responded by betting on the ability of technological protection measures to re-assert the control that was rapidly slipping from their grasp.

The vision of control through technology required considerable coordination - the insertion of encryption on content distributed to consumers, cooperation from electronics makers to respect the technological limitations within their products, and new legal provisions to prohibit attempts to pick the new digital locks.
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Makena/MTVN Partnership Continues to Drive Fans to Eight Online Properties Based on Popular TV Shows

Makena Technologies, creator of the popular social virtual world There.com, and MTV Networks today announced the unveiling of a new Virtual Skatepark inside MTV Networks’ virtual worlds tied to MTV’s two popular on-air shows, “Rob and Big” and “Life of Ryan.” Makena provides the exclusive technology platform for MTV’s franchise-related virtual worlds, including the Emmy-winning Virtual Laguna Beach, Virtual Hills, Virtual Real World and Virtual VMAs, among others. » Read the rest of the entry..

NetIron(r) MLX Series of MPLS metro routers was selected by Neo Telecoms, one of France’s leading network and Internet Service Providers (ISP), to power its revamped network infrastructure to meet exponential capacity growth due to customer demand. Foundry Networks’ next-generation 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) MPLS metro routers are used to efficiently transport high volumes of data and deliver advanced IP-based services to Neo Telecoms’ broad customer base.
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Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) has launched Bandwidth Virtualization(TM) to meet the needs of the Internet for a faster, more responsive Internet today and in the future. Implemented using an Infinera Digital Optical Network, Bandwidth Virtualization enables service providers to respond quickly and flexibly to market demand with a wide range of services over one optical infrastructure. Bandwidth Virtualization also enables service providers to differentiate themselves by offering innovative new services to their customers.
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NEW YORK Microsoft has extended the reach of its ad network through a deal with CNBC.

Under terms of the agreement, Microsoft becomes the exclusive reseller of advertising, both display and text, on CNBC.com. CNBC will continue to sell its video ad inventory, which it will package with TV spots, but Microsoft will handle the bulk of the site’s ad inventory, both remnant and premium placements.
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