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Hey, they're honest about it: The "lackluster performance" of India's broadband market means changes need to take place.   It's primarily attributable to, "the technical and economic non-feasibility of the fixed line infrastructure in India," according to officials of the upcoming trade show WiMAX 2010, to be held August 20 in New Delhi.   They add that, "the solution for mass proliferation of broadband in India has to be wireless." And now the industry and the country wait to see, "which wireless technology will be adopted to provide a cost effective and scalable BB to the Indian market." Perhaps not surprisingly, the trade show's officials feel that WiMAX, "emerges as the quintessential answer to these problems, given its superior performance and lower costs as compared to the existing 3G technologies and futuristic Long Term Evolution equivalents."   The show itself, the WiMAX India 2010 International Conference, will focus on the delivery of next generation broadband services using WiMAX, 802.16x and similar proprietary standards, according to show officials: "Senior-level speakers will discuss crucial issues of standards and interoperability, spectrum and licensing," and other issues including strategies for capturing the mobile market.   Read more here.
...   Snom Technology has announced that its full suite of IP phones for the desktop has, "passed a battery of interoperability tests with 4PSA's cloud-based unified communications product VoipNow."   According to company officials, the tests included the snom 3xx and snom 8xx desktop phones, as well as the snom m3 wireless DECT phone. Snom officials say this support snom's, "growing position as the go-to developer of intelligent IP endpoints for unified communications systems of all kinds."
The combination of snom's open SIP architecture and 4PSA's innovative cloud computing communications software is cited by company officials as offering customers a, "low-cost, highly functional enterprise telephony system" capable of being deployed and scalable "to hundreds or thousands of endpoints, if necessary."   All of snom's products "are built on the premise of interoperability in any SIP environment, be it hardware or software, on-premises or hosted and even in the cloud," said Michael Knieling, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales for snom technology AG. "With 4PSA leading the way in cloud-based unified communications environments, we think the two product suites complement each other very nicely."   Read more here.
...   Operators globally have been discussing and planning Class 5 migration strategies for many years. Alcatel-Lucent's Class 5 offering, based on 5060 ICS, is seen by company officials as "a perfect fit" for service providers in emerging markets, or smaller Tier 2/3 operators.   The main motivations to migrate this legacy network to new packet based networks vary from operator to operator, they say, "with a few common themes:"   The legacy PSTN infrastructure restricts the introduction of new and innovative voice and multimedia services," company officials say: "And most operators face increasing competition from alternative carriers with attractive voice offers, significantly eroding voice revenues.

Recently in San Jose, TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani had a chance to sit down and interview Andy Chou, the Chief Architect of Coverity, who said the company has just launched a new partnership with Armorize Software, which works in enterprise malware detection.   "What we really want to do," Chou said, is to take the quality analysis for software, "and combine it with security analysis for software, so you can do both during the development process, and get rid of both crash-causing defects and other problems, as well as security problems in your code before it's released."   When asked by Tehrani if that was a hot button for his customers about now, Chou said he thinks that customers have always cared about quality. "They've always wanted to make sure they ship products that are high quality and deliver the value they're supposed to, in terms of functionality and performance."   Read more here.

...   Recently TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani had a chance to sit down and talk with Caleb Sima, the CEO of Armorize. It's a three-year old company "mostly based out of Asia," Sima said, adding that "mostly what we do is make software products that help protect companies from computer hackers."   Specifically, he said, "we do two things. First, he said, is "identifying malware.

You've probably seen the startling images from the "backscatter" X-ray technology they use in airports now, which leave little to the imagination and could possibly heighten the risk of you getting skin cancer as well.   Well, there's another reason to hate it now: According to Yahoo! News, the Transportation Security Administration and other federal organizations store the images captured by the system.   This is, of course, in direct contrast with what they promised when they introduced the technology: 'The TSA has long held that scanned images - which show in great detail a photo-negative-type image of the subjects who stand before it - are not stored.

The need to be close to customers, manufacturing facilities and specialized labor means organizations have had to extend the traditional concept of "headquarters" to offices and factories hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

That's the observation of a recent white paper titled "Centralized Data Backup: It Doesn't Have to Cripple Your WAN," which addresses "the realities of dealing with data that sprawls across the organization."   Because as the paper notes, whether the data is "at the Munich branch or at HQ in New York," it is equally susceptible to loss, requiring that data recovery and security plans "apply to all parts of the organization, regardless of location."   WDS technology is one way companies are accomplishing this. The technology "accelerates application performance over the wide-area and provides networks with the appropriate interface for data transport between geographically-disparate sites," the paper finds, adding that certain products in the field can "extend the life of existing network infrastructure by minimizing the bandwidth required by distributed backup processes."   Read more here. ...   If you're not paying attention to the cleansing and enrichment of postal address data for customers, suppliers, prospects, and other individuals or organizations of interest, then you're neglecting the foundation, and often the only, data quality investment made by many enterprises.

This is the studied conclusion of a recent Forrester study titled, "Confirm The Quality Of Address Data As It's Captured, Not Later," and really here the title says it all.

Indonesia "may follow the lead of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia by banning service for Research In Motion'sBlackBerry devices," according to a recent report cited by MarketWatch.   The Associated Press, citing a spokesman for Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Information, "reported that the government there is concerned that encrypted data sent by BlackBerry devices could be intercepted outside the country and used by criminals or spies."   MyStateLine.com has reported that Research in Motion and Saudi Arabia have "hammered out an agreement to put the BlackBerry smartphone back in service" in the tightly-controlled Islamic state.   The government says it's awaiting "some final, technical details before agreeing to lift the ban," MyStateLine says, adding that the ban covers e-mails and text messages from BlackBerry users.   "Both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have threatened bans if they can't get RIM's encryption codes for the BlackBerry.