Marketing
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, [...]
David Orton appointed CEO of Aptina
Aptina has appointed David Orton as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. He will assume his new responsibilities starting 5 August 2009. David Orton succeeds Nicholas Brathwaite who has been the CEO since April 2008 and who will assume the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors for [...]
Xavier Gentric assumes senior sales role in Nevion
Nevion, a media transport solution provider for broadcasters, telecommunications service providers and government entities, has added Xavier Gentric to a senior sales role in western Europe. Based in France, Gentric will manage Nevion’s growth in the region, providing strategic sales and management of key customer relationships. Gentric brings project management and technical experience, including 13 [...]
Avistar appoints Bob Kirk as CEO
Avistar Communications, a player in unified visual communications solutions, announced the resignation of its CEO Simon Moss. In a press release, the company noted that with Avistar having completed its strategic, financial, product redesign and market repositioning during the last 18 months under Moss’ leadership, “he has decided to follow his career objectives and to [...]
Malaysia Airlines selects Akamai solution
Malaysia Airlines has selected Akamai to power its main website, Malaysiaairlines.com, and the airline’s booking engine to provide customers with a better website experience. Akamai informed its Web Application Accelerator solution is aimed at enabling Malaysia Airlines to improve its website performance and increase online bookings. The Web Application Accelerator solution provides customers with a [...]
Microsoft announces changes at the helm
Microsoft has promoted Steven Sinofsky to president of the Windows Division. Sinofsky, a 20-year Microsoft veteran, most recently led the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, contributing to the 22 October availability of Windows 7. As president, Sinofsky will be responsible for the Windows business including both the engineering and marketing functions for Windows, Windows [...]
Broadband services still a top spending priority: study
Consumers are unwilling to part with their broadband services at home even in the midst of the economic downturn, preferring to cut spending on things like dining out and leisure travel, according to a series of recent studies sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent. These findings were uncovered as part of a global study exploring the impact of [...]
Alcatel-Lucent appoints new HP strategic alliance VP
Alcatel-Lucent has announced the appointment of Christel Heydemann, as Strategic Alliance Vice President for HP reporting to Tom Burns, President of Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Product Group. She will be based in California. HP and Alcatel-Lucent recently signed a relationship agreement establishing both parties’ intent to form a 10-year global alliance to bring new end-to-end integrated telecom [...]
Airtel, Alca-Lu form managed services joint venture
Bharti Airtel, an integrated telecom service provider headquartered in India, and Alcatel-Lucent, a communication solutions provider, have formed a joint venture to manage Bharti Airtel’s pan-India broadband and telephone services and help Airtel’s transition to next generation networks. Under the joint venture, Alcatel-Lucent will design, plan, deploy, optimise and manage Bharti Airtel’s broadband and telephone [...]
Ericsson, Mobicom bring mobile broadband to Mongolia
Mongolian operator Mobicom has launched a high-speed mobile broadband network in the country, powered by Ericsson’s HSPA technology. The launch will enable Mobicom to introduce mobile broadband services to its subscribers across Mongolia, starting in the capital Ulaanbaatar. Ericsson informed that its HSPA technology is aimed at providing fast data-transmission speeds, boosting network capacity and [...]
