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Cisco and Clearwire Pact on WiMax Gear

Cisco and Clearwire Pact on WiMax Gear

Clearwire is trying to get a jump on the pending 4G mobile broadband world by rolling out high-speed WiMax technology: so far the service is up and running Baltimore and Portland, Oregon, and the company is promising more major markets will come online during 2009 with as many as 80 markets online by the end of 2010. To that end, Clearwire and Cisco have just announced a deal that will put Cisco gear at the heart of Clearwire’s core infrastructure…and Cisco plans to roll out WiMax gear for consumers, including routers under its Linksys brand.

ISO Fails to Fast-Track Microsoft’s OOXML

ISO Fails to Fast-Track Microsoft

In a bit of a blow to Microsoft’s efforts to have its Open Office XML (OOXML) document format ratified as an international standard, members of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) failed to turn in enough "yes" votes to fast-track OOXML’s approval process. Of the 41 participating and observing members eligible to vote on the Joint Technical Committee 1, 17 voted in favor of fast-tracking OOXML, while 24 either voted against it or abstained. Omitting abstentions, that meant the proposal had a 53.12 percent approval; a two-thirds majority would have been required for it to pass. Microsoft also failed to get approval from the larger ISO membership, with 51 countries of 87 participating countries approving the motion: that’s 74 percent, just shy of the 75 percent required.

New Advanced Digital Set Top Box Announced

First Capital International,Inc. the Designer and Manufacturer of its prepackaged VIP Systems (www.VipHomeSystems.com), a state-of-the-art Home Automation/Media Distribution and Video observation system, announced today that VIP Systems will introduce to the market a new, all-in-one set-top entertainment box in June of this year.

The company has produced several prototypes and has successfully tested it through the Company’s worldwide network of dealers. Additionally, the company had a successful test through the Consumer Focus Group of one of the Fortune 100 companies.

“These testing results clearly indicate that we have a superior product, the right market approach and positive consumer acceptance of this product,” said Alex Genin, CEO and President of VIP Systems, Inc.

Sweden beats U.S. as top Web-savvy nation

One other European country, Denmark, was also more aggressive in taking advantage of the Internet than the United States, according to research carried out by IBM and the intelligence unit of British magazine The Economist.

Of the 60 countries surveyed, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan were at the bottom of the list with 2.37 and 2.52 points respectively out of a possible 10.

Sweden scored 8.67, up from 8.32 a year ago. The United States was little changed at number three with 8.43 points, on par with the Netherlands and Britain.

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