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The reason for this being strategic for Google is that it at least gets to keep a toe in the water in the handset market where the speed of innovation means that the owner of Android at least has a (pardon the expression) window on that world. It was a staple of the old Mission: Impossible television series, and even later movies. Children of the eighties, meanwhile, might better recognize it from Inspector Gadget. But regardless of where one remembers it from, the technology itself may be poised to get a thoroughly modern upgrade if a new United States government project, the Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) project, has its way. The OTT business model has begun to significantly evolve, given the Emmy-winning success of shows like House of Cards on Netflix, and ever-more investment is being made in creating original content across the board. Released at the recently concluded Davos World Economic Forum, the 17th annual survey by PwC of 1300 Global CEOs is an interesting snapshot in time. Indeed, for those of us in the communications industry items on the minds of the CEOs of communications companies around the world are interesting in that the priorities are not necessarily the ones you might expect. Telecom cooperative Canby Telcom plans to provide a gigabit symmetrical Internet service for its customers in Canby, Ore., located south of Portland, Ore. The National Journal held a fascinating event in Washington, D.C., on February 6, titled Dialing In on the IP Transition. The topic is certainly a hot one on all fronts-tech vendors, customers and policy makers in the U.S. at all levels of government. In fact, punctuating just how important this transition is to all stakeholders, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler not only was the keynote speaker for the event, but in a fireside chat session with former FCC Chief Counsel Bruce Gottlieb he went into some detail about his views on the role of the FCC and what he hopes to accomplish. ThoughtSpot - an intelligent search and data visualization startup for businesses - has raised some $10.7 million from Lightspeed and other angel investors to finance the building of a business data search appliance. Like many who follow the financial results of important players in the communications industry, it is never dull to read the release of information in its entirety. Alcatel-Lucent's Q4 and FY 2013 results are a case in point.
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