Vocaltec Communications, a provider of multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Outsmart, a provider of telecommunications convergence solutions. The Outsmart assets acquired by Vocaltec includes Outsmart’s technology and intellectual property, as well as its primary customer and partner contracts. Vocaltec plans to engage certain Outsmart [...]
NTT Docomo has launched a new service for movie creation, ‘Keitaide Dougawo Tsukurou’, which allows its users to compose and edit their own media content with the ability to create themes, tell stories and share with their friends by Ubitus Cloud Computing platform. Ubitus media effects solution is an on-the-fly media cloud processing and delivery [...]
Alcatel-Lucent has announced that Bouygues Telecom has selected its end-to-end Long Term Evolution (LTE) solution for a trial of mobile broadband services. The trial is intended to evaluate the performance of LTE services in the 1800 MHz spectrum band. Alca-Lu will serve as the sole supplier and network integrator for Bouygues Telecom’s field trials program, [...]
F5 Networks, a player in Application Delivery Networking (ADN) and Quova, a provider of IP geolocation data and services, have announced a partnership and OEM agreement. The partnership is expected to improve F5′s ability to provide intelligent context-aware application delivery solutions to IT organisations worldwide. The Quova technology maps IP addresses and related data to [...]
TeliaSonera and Altimo have agreed to combine their ownership interests by contributing their respective direct and indirect interests in Turkcell and Megafon, into a new company. The new company will be established in a western jurisdiction and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Together the companies hope to create an international operator, with over [...]
Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, a player in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, and Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI), a division of Telecom New Zealand, a full-service telecommunications provider, have announced a new partnership for the availability of a joint IPX voice service offering. The companies are working together to offer a voice [...]
Ericsson has completed its acquisition of substantially all of Nortel’s CDMA business and LTE assets in North America. The acquisition includes the transfer of important CDMA contracts with North American operators including Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular, Bell Canada, Telus and Leap, as well as LTE assets, certain patents and patent licences relating to CDMA and [...]
Motive, a provider of digital life management solutions for fixed and mobile broadband services and an Alcatel-Lucent company, has been selected by STC (Saudi Telecom Company), a telecommunications carrier in Saudi Arabia, to deliver its High Speed Internet ServiceView solution. The solution offers a unified customer care environment aimed at providing end-to-end visibility and control [...]
Qualcomm, a developer of wireless technologies, products and services, is sampling a new smartphone chipset family. The MSM7x30 family lays emphasis on multimedia performance, supporting high-definition video recording and playback, improved graphics with dedicated 2D and 3D cores, and an overall chip design optimised for a responsive Web experience. The company claims that its MSM7x30 [...]
Inrix, a provider of traffic services, has announced an agreement with Intrinsyc Software International, a provider of software solutions for mobile and embedded devices to provide real-time traffic flow and incident information for the company’s upcoming iPhone Destinator 9 GPS Navigation app. Through crowdsourced real-time traffic network and its data fusion engine, Inrix helps Destinator [...]