Archive for August, 2009
Ericsson’s Bert Nordberg appointed President of Sony Ericsson
Ericsson’s Executive Vice President Bert Nordberg has been appointed President of Sony Ericsson as of 15 October 2009. He will join Sony Ericsson on 1 September 2009, to take on the position as Co-President. Bert Nordberg is presently also head of Ericsson Silicon Valley. He will leave his positions in Ericsson when he joins Sony [...]
Alca-Lu, Airtel appoint Soubelet as CEO of their JV
Alcatel-Lucent and Bharti Airtel have announced the appointment of Arnaud Soubelet as the CEO of their joint venture Alcatel-Lucent Network Management Services India (ALNMSI). The joint venture will manage Bharti Airtel’s pan India wireline broadband and telephone services. It will also support their transition to next generation networks (NGN) to offer advanced services like high-speed [...]
Tata Communications partners with Hyperoffice
Hyperoffice and Tata Communications are partnering to offer the Hyperoffice collaboration suite with the data and voice tools that Tata Communications delivers to business subscribers in India and other countries around the world. Tata Communications offers internet services in India under the Tata Indicom brand name to business subscribers, including online backup, security, web conferencing, [...]
MySpace to acquire iLike
MySpace has announced an agreement to acquire iLike, a social music discovery service. Brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi founded iLike in 2006. The entire iLike team will stay intact including, CEO Ali Partovi, President Hadi Partovi and CTO Nat Brown. MySpace noted that all three are seasoned entrepreneurs who havrve held executive positions at both [...]
Former Taiwanese exec indicted in CDT price-fixing conspiracy
A federal grand jury in San Francisco has returned an indictment against a former executive of a Taiwanese colour display tube (CDT) manufacturing company for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of CDTs, a type of cathode ray tube used in computer monitors and other specialised applications, the Department of Justice announced on [...]
Dialogic, Jaduka ink deal for on-demand services
Dialogic, a provider of products and technologies for multimedia and signal processing and Jaduka, a provider of global on-demand customer communications services, have announced a relationship in which Jaduka will leverage Dialogic’s media processing engines to provide on-demand web-based communications services to the enterprise. The relationship is aimed at helping companies blend voice applications into [...]
KDDI selects Motorola for LTE network in Japan
Motorola will help develop and implement KDDI’s Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, including RAN/base stations, in Japan. Motorola’s Home & Networks Mobility business will provide the optimal LTE solution to enable KDDI to offer high-speed mobile broadband services, such as video and social networking, to its customers across Japan. KDDI informed that it will deploy [...]
VistaComm chooses Blink Logic solution
Blink Logic, a player in Software as a Service (SaaS) Business Intelligence (BI), recently announced that it will power VistaComm’s Ag Retailer Information System (ARIS) designed to help businesses identify, analyse and monitor sales and inventory KPIs. This web-based system allows users to sort, query and segment individual product and services by customer as well [...]
