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Alcatel-Lucent today announced that Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, located in Dorset, England, is deploying an Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) to help improve patient care at its 789-bed hospital. The new network, to be installed by Alcatel-Lucent Business Partner Khipu Networks, will be used in association with printed patient wristbands to ensure patient safety by automating blood donation tracking and ultimately streamlining the process of dispensing drugs. The new network also improves bedside care by improving knowledge sharing among the clinical staff with secure anytime, anywhere access to patient records and hospital resources.

The new network is based on the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess WLAN technology. Poole Hospital opted for the Alcatel-Lucent solution because of its high availability, the ease with which it integrates with the Trust’s existing Network Access Control solution, and its scalability. The initial rollout will provide up to 400 staff with wireless access and is capable of supporting more than 10,000 devices.

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In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in Barnstable County, Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site. The new site increases high-speed wireless data coverage and capacity along Route 28 in the western part of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, as well as the surrounding area.

Verizon Wireless has invested more than $45 billion since it was formed to increase the coverage and capacity of its national network and to add new services like BroadbandAccess and V CAST. Regionally the company has invested nearly $2.2 billion into its New England network, including over $292 million in 2007 alone. As a result of these investments, every Verizon Wireless cell site in New England offers wireless broadband connectivity.

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Motorola, through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, today announced an investment in Apprion, Inc., a market leader in open industrial wireless networks and applications. With the Motorola Ventures investment, Apprion has raised over $23.5M.

Apprion delivers advanced wireless products, applications and services for industrial plants. Apprion’s ION System enables industrial facilities to cost-effectively deploy and manage multiple wireless applications as one unified, integrated system. The ION System consists of the Apprion IONosphere and IONizers. The IONosphere is an on-site controller that manages data services, workflow, security, monitoring and maintenance, and 3rd party application integration across wireless plant networks. Apprion’s IONizer is the process industry’s first industrial-grade, multi-RF, wireless network appliance. IONizers are designed to cost-effectively integrate and secure previously standalone wireless-enabled applications, such as VoIP and condition monitoring.

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Nokia today announced that Warner Music Group will make its diverse catalog of new stars and legendary artists available through Nokia Music Stores around the world as well as through Comes With Music, a revolutionary way for people to discover and enjoy music offered uniquely by Nokia.

“Warner Music Group has been a pioneer in developing new digital music business models and we are very pleased to have them supporting both the Nokia Music Store and Comes With Music,” said Tero Ojanperä, executive vice president and head of the Nokia Entertainment and Communities business. “Comes With Music enables people to access great content, provides artists to wider exposure with new and existing fans, and creates new revenue for all stakeholders.”

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Alcatel-Lucent today announced that it has signed a new frame agreement with Neuf Cegetel, France’s leading alternative service provider, for the deployment of a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Paris. Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON) solution will enable Neuf Cegetel to offer very high-speed access and services to more than 100,000 apartments. The project is part of an initiative led by the Paris social housing office OPAC (Office Public d’Aménagement et de Construction) to bridge the digital divide in the French capital.

Alcatel-Lucent’s GPON solution will enable Neuf Cegetel to offer triple play services, including 18 television channels that are high–definition television (HDTV)-ready, high-speed Internet access and VoIP. Alcatel-Lucent will also provide Neuf Cegetel with installation and commissioning services.

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Alcatel-Lucent, Telekom Malaysia (TM) and Subang Jaya Municipality Council (MPSJ) have jointly set up a Public Internet Access Centre (PIAC) for the convenience of residents, the organizations announced today. Located at the MPSJ building, the PIAC is expected to further boost community service for the area via the provision of an easy to use Internet access facility.

Subang Jaya residents visiting the MPSJ customer service centre now will be able to access the Internet using their WiFi-enabled devices free of charge while waiting for their turn to meet with the service counter officers.

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Alcatel-Lucent will today welcome around 100 guests from the worlds of business, politics and the scientific community to view its completely renovated and modernized company campus and Bell Labs research facility in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen.Baden-Württemberg Minister of Economic AffairsErnst Pfister, Stuttgart Lord Mayor Dr. Wolfgang Schuster and Wolfgang Welk, Chairman of Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, will be attending the grand opening.

“We’re proud to send a clear signal in 2008 reaffirming Stuttgart as an industrial location with our new campus,” explained Wolfgang Weik, looking back on two and a half years of building work. “We’re developing tomorrow’s Internet and next generation broadband wireless technologies here.” Alcatel-Lucent in Germany, including its Bell Labs research facility, is a driving force in many innovative fields, contributing decisively to the group’s world leadership in optical networking and the latest mobile communications technologies (GSM/EDGE/W-CDMA/WiMAX/ LTE, with flexible radio access systems, advanced antenna technologies, etc.)

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In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in Middlesex County, Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site. The new site increases wireless voice and data coverage and capacity along Mammoth Road, Nashua Road, and Lakeview Avenue in western Dracut, Massachusetts, as well as the surrounding area.

Verizon Wireless has invested more than $45 billion since it was formed to increase the coverage and capacity of its national network and to add new services like BroadbandAccess and V CAST. Regionally the company has invested nearly $2.2 billion into its New England network, including over $292 million in 2007 alone. As a result of these investments, every Verizon Wireless cell site in New England offers wireless broadband connectivity.

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Motorola today released survey findings that reveal consumers rank crime as their top safety concern. Results of an APCO-Motorola survey conducted earlier this year found that first responders named natural disasters as their highest priority. Regardless of the emergency, both groups agree that investments in technology are vital to protect officers and the public they serve.

Marking the beginning of the 2008 hurricane season and National Safety Month, Motorola’s new consumer survey, which polled approximately 1,000 consumers nationwide, uncovered the public’s top safety priorities for their local communities. In the earlier first responder survey, Motorola teamed with the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) to poll 200 local firefighters, police officers, EMTs and county officials to determine their needs and concerns.

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Verizon Wireless announced today that it has expanded the national rollout of its high-speed wireless data network to Sioux City and portions of western and central Iowa.

Coverage in the Sioux City area extends north to Hinton, south to Salix, east to Correctionville, and west to South Sioux City, Neb. Other communities covered in this network rollout are Le Mars, Denison, Carroll, Harlan, Atlantic, Fort Dodge, and Webster City. In addition the high-speed network is now available in communities where Verizon Wireless has service in the counties of Adair, Audubon, Cass, Guthrie, Madison, Crawford, Harrison, Monona, Shelby, Woodbury, Calhoun, Carroll, Greene, Ida, Sac, Cherokee, Plymouth, Hamilton, Humboldt, Webster, and Wright.

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