Marketing
Rajeev Suri appointed CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks
The Nokia Siemens Networks Board of Directors has appointed Rajeev Suri as Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 October 2009. Suri succeeds Simon Beresford-Wylie, who will support Suri during a transition period through 1 November before leaving the company. Beresford-Wylie will leave the Nokia Group Executive Board as of 30 September 2009. Suri will be based [...]
LG Electronics USA appoints Vandenbree Sr VP
Jay Vandenbree is joining LG Electronics USA in the newly-created position of Senior Vice President, Go-to-Market Operations, reporting to Teddy Hwang, President of LG Electronics USA. Vandenbree, a long-time Sony Electronics executive, will be responsible for key sales support activities including product management, pricing, promotion, channel merchandising and market analysis for LG’s home entertainment and [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
