* Comcast teams with N.H. governor for Internet safety legislation
By Mike Robuck
Comcast said yesterday that it had joined forces with New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, Attorney General Kelley Ayotte and other members of New Hampshire’s law enforcement community to support legislation regarding online crimes and offenses.
“As a company that works hard to educate consumers in New Hampshire about the tools and techniques they can use to protect their families and their finances online, we applaud Governor Lynch for recognizing the significance of cyber-crime with this important proposal,” said Steve Hackley, SVP of Comcast’s Northern New England Region, in a statement. “This bill will give our state and local law enforcement officials more of the tools they need to combat the growing problem of Internet crime.”
* Verizon extends video, data offerings in N.Y., W.Va.
By Traci Patterson
Verizon’s FiOS TV service will be available to consumers in Newburgh, N.Y., sometime next year thanks to a recently approved agreement. Verizon announced Thursday that its FiOS TV service had arrived in the greater Portland area, bringing the number of states that the telco offers video in to 13.
Additionally, consumers and businesses in Danese, W.Va., will soon have access to Verizon’s high-speed Internet offering, which is based on DSL technology.
* Omron taps AT&T for European LAN management
By Mike Robuck
Omron Europe said today that it has selected AT&T to manage its LAN environment in Europe. The new agreement is an extension of an existing partnership between the two companies.
Over the past four years, AT&T has provided IP-based Virtual Private Network (VPN), remote access and hosting services to Omron Europe. Under the terms of the new agreement, AT&T will take responsibility for monitoring and managing Omron’s LAN environment at 33 sites, located in 17 European countries, as part of a full range of network-management services offered to multinational organizations.
* Alcatel-Lucent demos mobile TV in Italy
By Brian Santo
Alcatel-Lucent, Italian mobile operator 3 Italia and Italian public broadcaster RAI are trialing mobile TV in Italy based on the DVB-SH standard. The trial, based on Alcatel-Lucent’s Unlimited Mobile TV solution, uses a multi-layer DVB-SH terrestrial network blending low-power transmitters from a mobile operator and medium-power transmitters from a broadcaster.
The trial will take place in Torino through March. It is designed to validate the capability of DVB-SH to make available a large number of high-quality mobile TV channels in various usage conditions.
* Google China taken to court for name infringement
By Traci Patterson
China-based Beijing Guge Sci-Tech Co. has taken Google’s China operations to court for what it claims is an infringement of the Chinese translation of the company’s name – “Guge” – according to the Associated Press.
The Chinese company officially registered the name on April 19, 2006, and Google did not register until Nov. 24 of that year, but Google said that there were reports on the Internet about Google’s use of the Chinese name “Guge” when Beijing Guge Sci-Tech registered, the AP reported.