Archive for August, 2009
Vimicro acquires Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell’s ViSS business
Vimicro, a multimedia semiconductor and solution provider, has announced that Vimicro Tianjin, a joint venture company operated and managed by Vimicro, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Video Surveillance System (ViSS) from Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (ASB). Vimicro Tianjin will acquire the complete ViSS business including all property, plant and equipment, inventories, business contracts, intellectual [...]
Cable&Wireless launches BlackBerry solution in UK
Cable&Wireless Worldwide and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced the availability of the BlackBerry solution to Cable&Wireless customers in the UK. The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and services to allow Cable&Wireless customers in the UK wireless access to e-mail, phone, messaging, social networking, calendar, web, multimedia and other business and lifestyle applications. RIM [...]
Robert Andersson to head Nokia’s corporate development office
Nokia has announced that Robert Andersson, who currently heads Finance, Strategy and Strategic Sourcing in the Devices unit, will leave the Group Exective Board as of 30 September 2009 in connection with his transfer to new duties in the Corporate Development Office as of 1 October 2009. He will head the Corporate Alliances and Business [...]
Hughes to provide satellite-based cellular backhaul services in Brazil
Hughes Network Systems, a player in broadband satellite networks and services, has announced that its Brazilian operating unit, Hughes do Brasil, has signed agreements with two Brazilian cellular operators to provide satellite backhaul services connecting remote cellular base transceiver stations (BTS) to their GSM networks. The two contracts call for providing turnkey managed services for [...]
Futurex opens regional office in Singapore
Futurex, a provider of hardware data encryption security solutions, has opened a regional office in Singapore, its first in Asia. The company informed the decision follows a demand for Host Security Modules (HSM) and Key Management Servers (KMS) in the Asia Pacific marketplace and particularly the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) group of countries. [...]
Orange to acquire Unanimis
The Orange France Telecom Group has acquired 100 per cent of Unanimis, an exclusive digital advertising network in the UK. Unanimis has exclusive online advertising relationships with key website brands such as the AA, Ticketmaster, ASOS, Gumtree and Shopping.com. Orange believes together, Orange and Unanimis will have particular strength in the area of online advertising. [...]
Neusoft acquires Finnish mobile solutions company Sesca
Neusoft, an IT solutions & services company in China, has signed an agreement with the Finnish software company Sesca Group under which Neusoft will acquire Sesca’s mobile phone software development and testing business operations in Finland and Romania. According to the agreement, Sesca’s subsidiaries, Sesca Mobile Software, Almitas and Romania-based Sesca Technologies will be integrated [...]
Trikomsel partners with Mig33 in Indonesia
Trikomsel, a telecommunication company in Indonesia, has announced a partnership with mig33, a mobile community in the country. Under the agreement, the two companies will form a voucher distribution partnership to develop new opportunities for mobile Indonesian consumers. In the near term, Indonesians will for the first time be able to buy vouchers for a [...]
Airtel launches m-commerce service on voice
Bharti Airtel, an integrated telecom services provider headquartered in India, has launched its m-commerce service – ‘Mchek on Airtel’ on the voice platform. This service enables use of voice (IVR) for m-commerce transactions for all Airtel mobile customers. The customer has to call 543219 to access the service which is toll free. The new service [...]
China Telecom selects Alca-Lu for IP backbone
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a centralised purchasing contract with China Telecom, a telecom operator in China, to provide and maintain an IP/MPLS backbone across ten provinces (Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Guizhou, Gansu, Xinjiang and Shanghai). Upon completion in October, China Telecom hopes to deliver advanced broadband services with improved quality. The contract, which is [...]
