Tech & IT
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. [...]
Neusoft acquires Finnish mobile solutions company Sesca
Neusoft, an IT solutions & services company in China, has signed an agreement with the Finnish software company Sesca Group under which Neusoft will acquire Sesca’s mobile phone software development and testing business operations in Finland and Romania. According to the agreement, Sesca’s subsidiaries, Sesca Mobile Software, Almitas and Romania-based Sesca Technologies will be integrated [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Melco signs software patent agreement with Microsoft
Microsoft and Melco Holdings have entered into an agreement that will provide Melco Group’s customers with patent coverage for their use of technologies running Linux and other related open source software. Specifically, the patent covenants apply to Buffalo-branded Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, which run Linux, and Buffalo-branded routers, which also run Linux. Although the [...]
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 [...]
