Start-ups

Mocana, a start-up based in San Francisco, closed $7 million in venture funding for its security software protection for networked devices. Mocana is focused on the security threat represented by...

AT&T will begin offering Xora's "GPS TimeTrack" workforce management solution to AT&T' business mobile customers. Xora GPS TimeTrack uses Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to give businesses timesheet data collection,...

CoreOptics, which develops and manufactures 10/40/100 Gbps optical networking subsystems, raised $25 million in new financing from existing its investors, bringing the company's total funding to date to more than...

iamba Networks, a start-up based in Cupertino, California with R&D in Israel, raised $7 million in new venture funding for its GPON silicon. iamba's product portfolio consists of multicore SoCs...

XKL, a start-up led by Cisco Systems' co-founder Len Bosack, has supplied an optical transport system to the University of Washington in Seattle. The network runs from the university's main...

SkyPilot Networks, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, raised $3.4 million in new funding from its existing investors, including August Capital and Mobius Ventures, bringing the total raised since...

Matisse Networks named Prabhat Mishra, 52, as Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Mishra was most recently Senior Vice President of Engineering with Nevis Networks. Previous positions have included Vice President...

Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in VirtualLogix, a maker of virtualization software for communications devices and infrastructure equipment. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. VirtualLogix, a...

Wasabi Systems is adding 10Gb Ethernet capabilities for its Storage Builder network storage operating system. The 10Gb Ethernet allows users to aggregate storage traffic from multiple servers on a 1...

Monsoon Multimedia announced HAVA support for the Nokia N800 and N810 Internet Tablets (updated with the latest operating system), and the upcoming Nokia N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition, allowing customers...

Bubble Motion, a start-up based in Mountain View, California raised $14 million in new funding for its "voice SMS" technology. The company's BubbleTALK provides a "click, talk, and send" short...

Verizon Wireless will begin offering Loopt's social-mapping service on select mobile phones. With Loopt, Verizon Wireless customers can leverage their phones' location-based services capabilities to share location information, status messages...

Solera Networks, a start-up based in Lindon, Utah, raised $5 million in Series B funding for its deep packet capture and stream-to-storage technology. Solera Networks' DS Series is a line...