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ADTRAN Inc. today is formally unveiling a management solution called the Advanced Operational Environment, or AOE. The company describes the solution, which brings element management systems, an OSS gateway and service management under one umbrella, as a management framework focused on service delivery and operational improvement that abstracts hardware from the network manager’s user interface.

NetMotion Wireless, a provider of mobile productivity and management software, named mobile computing solutions provider Psion as an Authorized NetMotion Wireless Reseller for North America and EMEA.

A leading provider of high-quality electrical, communications and data networking products, with a special focus on related supply chain management and logistics services, Graybar has appointed Bob Siegel as its new vice president. In this new role, Siegel is going to lead the company's product management team.

It's known as a Twitter Revolution - when the citizens of a troubled country with a restricted media use Twitter and other online social networking sites to update the rest of the world, via posts and photos, what's going on inside the country. For obvious reasons, it's a relatively new concept. The latest Twitter Revolution, some bloggers have pointed out, is going on right now in the troubled North African nation of Tunisia, which is currently experiencing nationwide protests and riots due to high unemployment and food prices, government corruption, poor living conditions and freedom of speech.

Many researchers at Hitachi may soon work closer to the markets for which they are researching products.

Kenya is perhaps best known for outstanding safaris. But now the African nation is a place for a new kind of hunting: Mobile phone providers are trying to capture middle class consumers in the important and growing African market.

The overall broadband take rate for rural and independent telcos responding to a recent National Telecommunications Cooperative Association survey is 55 percent, up significantly from 38 percent a year ago. That 17-percentage-point jump in a single year is virtually unprecedented, as I seem to recall, over the history of these surveys.

TSG Global, Inc. is a privately held VoIP and SMS Texting service provider based out of Boston, Mass. TSG's enterprise solutions, include a customized self-service VoIP and texting model created to replace traditional wire-line technology with the ability to accelerate their corporate growth by providing them with the products and tools necessary to maintain or develop new applications.