Archive for February, 2010
BlackBerry Bold 9700 launched in India
Research In Motion (RIM) recently launched the BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone in India.
The phone will be available across the country from large format retail stores and multi-brand outlets serviced by Redington India as well as from operators including Airtel, Aircel, BSNL, Idea Cellular, Loop Mobile, MTNL, Reliance, Tata and Vodafone.
With its connectivity options this global 3G smartphone [...]
TVC Canada deploys Anda’s carrier ethernet solutions
Anda Networks, a player in fibre and copper-based access platforms for wireline networks or wireless backhaul applications, has announced a distribution partnership with TVC Canada, a regional unit of international distributor TVC Communications.
Through the partnership, TVC Canada will distribute Anda’s Carrier Ethernet solutions for business services and wireless backhaul capabilities, providing Canadian cable operators and [...]
Citrix launches SaaS-based IT management solution
Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, is entering the IT Management sector with the launch of Gotomanage, an integrated web-based platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting attended or unattended IT infrastructure anywhere.
The launch of the new service is aimed at enabling Citrix Online to meet the demand from the SaaS-based IT management market. The [...]
Genband to acquire Nortel’s CVAS assets
Genband, a developer of next-generation media, session and security gateway solutions, will acquire substantially all assets of the Nortel Carrier VoIP and Application Solutions Business (CVAS).
The acquisition will combine Genband’s next-generation media, session and security gateway technologies and Nortel’s softswitch, media gateway and application technologies.
The acquisition is subject to court and certain regulatory approvals in [...]
Pannon selects Alcatel-Lucent solution
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that Pannon, a Hungarian mobile operator and member of the Telenor Group, has selected an all-IP solution from Alcatel-Lucent to unify its mobile core network and its existing IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul infrastructure.
By transforming the entire network to IP, Pannon is reportedly preparing for the anticipated surge in mobile traffic and laying the [...]
Alca-Lu appoints Frank Maccary as VP, Investor Relations
Frank Maccary will join Alcatel-Lucent as vice president, Investor Relations, responsible for communication with the investment community, including financial analysts, institutional investors and retail shareholders.
Maccary will report to Paul Tufano, the company’s chief financial officer. This appointment becomes effective 6 April.
Maccary will replaces Remi Thomas who will become Chief Financial Officer for the company’s enterprise [...]
Huawei appointed to Board of Directors of CWTA
Huawei, a provider of next-generation telecommunications network solutions, has announced the election of Carl Liu, President of Huawei Canada, to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA). The association is the authority on wireless issues, developments and trends in Canada.
Liu has 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry. Liu was most [...]
RIM introduces BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express
Research In Motion (RIM) has introduced BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express – free new server software that wirelessly synchronises BlackBerry smartphones with Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft Windows Small Business Server.
The company has informed that the software will be provided free of charge in order to address two key market opportunities. First, the software seeks to offer [...]
Stepstone to provide talent management solution to Royal DSM
Stepstone Solutions, a player in talent management solutions, has announced that Netherlands-based life sciences and materials sciences company Royal DSM has selected Stepstone Solutions to support and manage DSM’s talent management processes on a global basis.
Over the next four months Stepstone Solutions’s performance management, career and succession planning, and ‘360-degree’ feedback modules will be deployed [...]
Intel, Nokia merge software platforms for future computing devices
Intel and Nokia are merging their Moblin and Maemo software platforms. This convergence of communications and computing is aimed at creating a unified Linux-based platform that will run on multiple hardware platforms across a range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems.
Called MeeGo, the open software [...]
