Did New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller speak too soon? With each and every day, the rumors about a new Apple product being launched soon seem to become stronger; the Apple Tablet. Biller Keller briefly mentioned the so-called Apple Slate during a private meeting. The Apple Slate is supposed to be a tablet that enables reading content such as newspapers. Undoubtedly Apple's refined touch technology will be integrated in the Apple Tablet. The goal of the NY times meeting was a presentation about the future of the New York Times as a newspaper in the digital era. And Apple seems to be involved in this.

RadioFrame Networks announced the introduction of the OmniRadio Processor, the first in a family of microchips enabling the mass deployment of low cost picocell and femtocell products. The OmniRadio Technology will make possible mass market opportunities through improved production economies and capabilities for RadioFrame's picocell and femtocell base station products. The introduction of the OmniRadio Processor is timely as it addresses the huge opportunity for Mobile Network Operators to serve homes and small and medium sized businesses (SME) as Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) strategies are implemented. A new study from ABI Research forecasts that by 2011 there will be 102 million users of femtocell products on 32 million access points.

AdvancedTCA communications servers. Release 3.1 of the Centellis 3000 series offers enhanced performance, flexibility and scalability over previous generation communications servers. These enhancements will help improve network equipment providers’ ability to deploy network infrastructure for applications such as IMS, IPTV and wireless broadband on a standards-based common platform. Motorola, Inc. announced the latest release of its pre-integrated and validated

Motorola, Inc. announced the Centellis 4000 series, a new generation of AdvancedTCA-based communications servers. With a 10Gbps internal Ethernet switching fabric and high performance payload blades, the Centellis 4000 series is designed to address the high bandwidth and packet processing requirements of data plane elements in applications such as 4G wireless, WiMAX and IPTV networks. First products of the Centellis 4000 series of communications servers will be available by mid 2007.