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Broadband Surf Report: Jan. 5

(More or less) every morning (Pacific time), our editors check the Web for broadband news and announcements. The cream of that crop gets planted here. So to speak.

AT&T, TI team on VoIP platform--Information Week

Next-gen wireless will threaten landline broadband--study--Information Week

Linksys claims eightfold speed increase for router, adapter--Networking Pipeline

Sat radio recording moves ahead--Wired

Stalking the wild Wi-Fi network--Wired

Cisco, Nortel vie for Comcast deal--Light Reading

Time Warner confirms Sprint talks--Light Reading

New Edge, MCI find IP boom--Telephony Online

FCC approves Samsung 3G/Wi-Fi smart phone--Wi-Fi Planet … Read more

Welcome to the first Broadband Surf Report of 2005. Our editors wade through the Internet ebb and flow to test the waters of broadband news, which they collate and wrap in wet metaphors for your enjoyment.

VOIP's mainstream move--eWeek

Qwest delays residential VoIP--Telephony Online

Sonus Networks carried 10 billion minutes of VoIP traffic in December--Networking Pipeline

Ford to offer factory-installed Sirius satellite radio--The Wall Street Journal (subscription site)

SBC plans Set-top box with Web links--eWeek

Cingular, Lucent trial 3mbps HSDPA service--Unstrung

World's wireless carriers to supercharge 3G--TechNewsWorld

P2p file sharing is increasing--with most use in U.S.… Read more

Broadband Surf Report: Dec. 23

And that's a wrap: Here's the last surf report of 2004, a taste of what's broadband news on Dec. 23. Happy new year.

White House expected to press for speedier licensing of public airwaves--Wired

FCC raises value of spectrum it seeks to swap with Nextel--The Wall Street Journal (subscription site)

Time Warner Cable viewers to set own start times-- The Wall Street Journal (subscription site)

Terabyte Webmail--One company quietly offers it--Broadband Reports

Powell interviewed on indecency, innovation, consolidation, and competition--Reason

Wi-Fi on the Autobahn?--Wi-Fi Planet

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Broadband Surf Report

Highlights of our editors' morning stroll through the broadband field...

Cingular outages casued by pain of integration?--Broadband Reports

Do-it-yourself anti-municipal broadband kit--MuniWireless.com

Networking service providers see growth in 2005--Light Reading

Sprint relies on wireless in 2005 forecast--Light Reading

Broadband gaps in New York City--Newsday

Germany sells stake in Deutsche Telekom--The Wall Street Journal (subscription site)

Share your thoughts on these stories, post a link to one we missed, or just say hi--the comments page awaits...

Broadband Surf Report

All of today's broadband news that's fit to link...

HP, Cisco to Share Global Support--eWeek

http://broadbanddaily.gigaom.com/index.php--The Broadband Daily

Alcatel, Microsoft Tuning IPTV Deal--Light Reading

IT moves into voice communications--eWeek

CallWave launches VoIP apps for mobile users--Telephony Online

Cell phones are becoming sex toys--Wired

Comment on one of these stories? A link we missed that you want to post? We'll see you on the comments page ...

Broadband Surf Report

The Web's alive with the big broadband and networking stories, including Microsoft's purchase of Giant, the ad from Firefox hitting the New York Times and Bin Laden's apparent video blogging. The video search stuff we've been reporting on has hit big, and the Sprint-Nextel story is still all the rage. Here's what else we caught online today:

U.S. Lags In Broadband Adoption Despite Demand For VoIP, IP Video: Report--Networking Pipeline

Samsung targets 100M mobile phone shipments in 2005--Infoworld

Systimax Debuts 10-gigabit Cable For Bandwidth-Hungry Enterprises--Networking Pipeline

Zigbee (Almost) Arrives--Wi-Fi Planet … Read more

Broadband Surf Report: Dec. 15

Better late than never. We hope. Here's some of the broadband news elsewhere on the Web today.

Is Cisco Seeking Security?--Unstrung

Cisco Unveils WAN File Access Appliances--Networking Pipeline

Whither T-Mobile USA?--Broadband Daily

Juniper Appoints New CFO--Light Reading

Software Battle Brews at Layer 2--

A Single Chip??in an AP--Wi-Fi Planet

Ultrawideband Preps for Consumer Electronics Show--Unstrung

Have something to say about one of these stories? Got a link we missed that you want to post? Hit the comments page ...

Broadband Surf Report: Dec. 13

The broadband surf report is our writers' guide to what's taking up bandwidth today.

Siemens to decide fate of mobile phone unit in January--InfoWorld

Ericsson Hovers on WiMax--Unstrung

Sprint and Nextel tentatively agreed on key terms in a $35 billion deal--Wall Street Journal (subscription site)

Motorola is likely to feel the fallout of a Sprint-Nextel deal-- Wall Street Journal (subscription site)

Cable gets a vault from VOIP--Light Reading

Hosted VOIP isn't always up to the job--eWeek

The Rout Game: Cisco vs. Juniper--Broadband Daily

Foundry network product blitz targets speed, security, IP networks… Read more

Broadband Surf Report

Every morning (more or less), News.com editors cruise the Net looking for the latest announcements and reports on broadband, wireless, VoIP and related networking topics and compile a list of news for our writers. A refined version of this internal newsletter will start showing up on this blog, usually in the 10 o'clock hour, Pacific time.

Net2Phone lowers 1Q loss--Multichannel News (subscription site)

IDT seeks sole control of Net2Phone--Light Reading

Japan dominates VoIP over DSL--Light Reading

Telecom taxes: Is a breakthrough near?--Business Week

Trend Micro offers virus scanning for smart phones--eWeek

Cell phones work as tour guides… Read more