Time Warner offers 4G

Time Warner Cable will soon offer a 4G wireless broadband service using Clearwire's WiMax network, reports CNET News.

CEO Glenn Britt told investors during Time Warner Cable's second-quarter earnings call that the company will begin reselling wireless service through Clearwire starting later this year in Dallas and Charlotte.

Clearwire uses a technology called WiMax, which offers faster speeds than current 3G wireless technologies, but offers wider coverage than other high-speed wireless technologies such as WiFi.

IBM will partner with Nuance to help push the development of speech recognition systems, states Computing.co.uk.

The partnership will address the automotive, banking, electronics, energy, utilities, healthcare, insurance, media, entertainment, retail, telecoms, travel and transportation industries.

The collaboration will be split into three main categories: Web application server capabilities for traditional and VOIP network infrastructures; advanced automated customer self-service and agent optimisation; and device control for in-vehicle and on-device systems.

Kontiki Live is a video broadcasting software plug-in that companies install on workers' PCs to deliver video to their employees, says eWeek.

Designed for companies with thousands of employees, the product is an alternative to installing streaming and caching servers from Cisco Systems.

With Kontiki Live, businesses executives can create ad-hoc meetings for crisis communications, or plan quarterly meetings and town hall sessions to help get the message out across the corporate LAN.