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Ringtone, screensaver crackdown coming: AmTech
A new analyst brief from American Technology Research analyst Albert Lin says the market for ringtones, wallpaper and screensavers could be headed for a slowdown in sales. Reports out of the United States suggest that the wireless carriers are now working together to develop a code of conduct for ringtone distributors. It is expected to be released in about a month. "We believe major wireless carriers will begin a ‘crack down’ on overly aggressive ringtone/wallpaper/screensaver sales practices by the every increasing number of providers of such content. While we see a healthy growth industry remaining after this examination, we believe that segment of the industry will experience a slow-down which may feel like a train wreck compared with recent months of hyper-growth," Lin writes.

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Sierra Wireless Inc. has decided to split the responsibilities of chair and CEO, announcing that the lead independent director position will be replaced by a non-executive chair position. To that end, Peter Ciceri has been named chair, taking over from David Sutcliffe, who maintains the position of CEO and adds the role of president. The company also announced that Sutcliffe, who has served as CEO for 10 years, will retire at the end of this year. He will, however, stay on with the company as a director.

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Redline introduces WiMAX-based product family
Redline Communications has introduced its RedMAX family of WiMAX-compliant base stations, subscriber units and backhaul equipment. The Toronto-based company plans to present these products for WiMAX certification this July. The RedMAX line of products include: the AN-100U, serving as both a base station and backhaul equipment, the RedMAX SU-O subscriber unit, and the RedMAX NMS, a network management system. Majed Sifri, Redline’s president and CEO, said in a news release that the products can be used in either a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint network configuration. "In addition, operators worldwide have recognized Redline’s ability to deliver high-availability backhaul links under extremely hostile wireless conditions and they are pleased that we are pushing out our core products to deliver the benefits of our 3rd generation OFDM technology for their ‘last mile’ access networks," he said.

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