Device Arena

Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc (SMART) has recently signed a deal with Nokia to offer Nokia Messaging on selected Nokia Nseries and Eseries devices. Nokia Messaging is an easy-to-use messaging service that will be available on a special data plan to SMART subscribers beginning September 26, 2009. The Nokia Messaging plan will initially be offered with the Nokia E75 and will also be offered to other Nokia Messaging capable devices in the near future.

“SMART is pleased to be the first operator to bring Nokia Messaging in the Philippines. More and more customers – even non-business users – are looking for a reliable service that allows them to have email pushed automatically to their handsets while on the move,” said Danilo Mojica, Head of Wireless Consumer Division, SMART.

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Can’t get no satisfaction from high wireless bills and restrictive calling circles? On Sunday, Sept. 27, Sprint launched a unique form of video entertainment designed to encourage wireless users to belt it out, sing a goodbye song to their current wireless carrier, and choose Sprint instead. In a sign that the times they are a changin’, Sprint is offering Any Mobile, AnytimeSM – a new feature of Sprint Everything Data plans that offers customers unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling from the Sprint Network to ANY wireless phone on any U.S. wireless carrier network at any time.

Sprint’s call to action behind the new spots is simple: go to www.mobilegoodbye.com, choose a preferred tune (based on your current wireless carrier), then watch as a hip crooner bursts into a breakup song aimed at the restrictive calling circles of T-Mobile, AT&T or Verizon Wireless. People are encouraged to share the short video with friends, family and colleagues to illustrate that wireless phone subscribers can, indeed, beat it with Sprint’s Any Mobile, Anytime offering.

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Alcatel-Lucent today announced that scientists in Bell Labs, the company’s research arm, have set a new optical transmission record of more than 100 Petabits per second.kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gigabits per second.kilometer). This transmission experiment involved sending the equivalent of 400 DVDs per second over 7,000 kilometers, roughly the distance between Paris and Chicago. This is the highest capacity ever achieved over a transoceanic distance and represents an increase that exceeds that of today’s most advanced commercial undersea cables by a factor of ten. To achieve these record-breaking results the Bell Labs researchers made innovative use of new detection techniques and harnessed a diverse array of technologies in modulation, transmission, and signal processing

High speed optical transmission is a key component of Alcatel-Lucent’s High Leverage Network™ architecture, key elements of which have already been selected by leading service providers.

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Campus MovieFest (CMF), the world’s largest student film festival, and presenting sponsor AT&T announced today the recent launch of CMF’s 2009-2010 World Tour. In its ninth year, Campus MovieFest gives college students everything they need to create original short films on any topic, competing for exposure, cash, and other prizes totaling more than $400,000.

This year CMF will tour more than 50 colleges and universities, CMF grand finales, and top film festivals around the world. Past participants have included first-time filmmakers as well as aspiring professionals.

“We’ve had an amazing journey since starting CMF as students. Working together with AT&T, we’re making this year without a doubt the biggest CMF tour yet, providing masses of students with unforgettable experiences, exposure, and opportunities.” said David Roemer, Co-Founder of Campus MovieFest.

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For people with hearing and speech loss, communicating with callers who can speak and hear just went real time, thanks to AT&T and AOL’s AIM® instant messaging service. Customers using AT&T IM Relay services now have a new, faster feature at their fingertips: AT&T Real Time IM. AT&T is the first and only provider to offer the new real time feature — offering more than 31 million people with hearing and speech loss, nationwide, a more immediate way to communicate with standard telephone users.

Users log in to a specialized AIM interface that works with an Internet connection on a PC and on many wireless devices. A specially-trained relay operator reads IMs to hearing callers and types IMs which are displayed — in real time — to the end user. The new service is offered at no additional charge to customers who register with AT&T Relay Services.

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