Openwave Systems is making the code available through SourceForge. The code is the essential software needed to access a library of information Openwave uses to route data like e-mails, short messages or Web pages to and from cell phones, according to Ron Mandel, general manager of developer services at Openwave. With the announcement, Openwave joins a growing number of wireless equipment makers beginning to pry open their own designs to the outside world. Nokia opened up some of its source codes as well, and device makers like Research In Motion have been licensing out their designs. But there are still more proprietary systems than open source. Those companies still clinging to their secrets include Qualcomm, the owner of cell phone patents for about 20 percent of the world's phones.

Bonds from Qwest's local phone business subsidiary, which holds about $7 billion worth of debt, were cut to Baa3 from Baa2, one notch above junk, "The local business is a pretty solid business," said Robert Konefal, a managing director at Moody's, "The long-distance part of the business is consuming capital and is not delivering returns hardshell case + ring for apple iphone x and xs - scallop black multi/clear on that capital.", Qwest said in a statement that Moody's decision was disappointing, and that it was based on no new information, The company added that the decision will have "no substantial impact" on its business operations..

Concerns over the company's health are not new. Qwest gave investors a start a few months ago when it had to renegotiate the terms of its loans. The Denver-based telecommunications carrier is also trying to raise cash from the sale of its non-core assets such as nonessential phone lines, wireless network assets and its phone book publishing business. The company says that it will become cash flow positive in the second quarter of this year and remain so for the year. Moody's Investors Service cuts the debt rating of the troubled communications carrier because of the company's uncertain financial condition.

The credit-rating agency said the action reflects the firm's concern over several aspects of Qwest's business including its ailing long-distance business and uncertainties coming from an investigation of the company by the Securities and Exchange Commission over accounting issues, The debt-rating cut follows a similar action taken last week by Standard & Poor's, another credit-rating firm, A cut in debt rating usually raises interest rates on a company's existing debt, which makes it harder to meet interest hardshell case + ring for apple iphone x and xs - scallop black multi/clear payment obligations, A cut can also make it more expensive for a company to issue new bonds..

CNET también está disponible en español. Don't show this again. All Optical Networks said Thursday that it has raised $6 million in a first round of financing led by ForeFront Capital. The company will use the financing to bring its telecom equipment to market. AON expects that its initial product, called the MetroScout, will be ready for customer trials in the fourth quarter this year. The MetroScout works in metropolitan optical networks, which handle data traffic within cities. The device sends multiple signals at the same time as one complex signal, which gets deciphered at the receiving end.