Orange and Google announced a strategic partnership that will leverage Orange’s SMS platform to bring Google’s services to African customers. This agreement will facilitate access to the growing mobile internet market in Africa. Through the development of SMS-based services that operate on all mobile networks (including GSM), Orange and Google will extend the reach of a wide range of internet services that were previously limited to smartphone and broadband users. Read more.
Motorola Solutions announced that its joint Rail Transit TETRA Digital Trunking Laboratory at Beijing Jiaotong University has been officially unveiled. The laboratory will conduct specific research on urban rail transit, inter-city rail transit, integrated urban transport hubs, and emergency communication. Beijing Jiaotong University will adopt Motorola Solutions’ 800MHz Digital Trunking TETRA Communication System in its teaching and research on rail transit wireless communication technologies.
Telit Wireless Solutions, machine-to-machine (M2M) technology, announced that Direct Communication Solutions, has signed a distribution agreement with Telit following Telit’s acquisition of Motorola’s M2M unit.
Qualcomm Incorporated, through its Wireless ReachTM initiative, and Renaissance Academy Incorporated, a private correspondence high school in Daigo-cho, Ibaraki, announced partnership to launch the 3G Smartphone x Digital Textbook project to help high school dropouts, habitual absentees and students seeking vocational training earn diplomas. Read more.
Acision in partnership with Accuris Networks will provide Alltel Wireless with Accuris Networks’ OTA (over the air) solution, to enable the operator to deliver value added services to subscribers such as handset activation and national and international roaming updates. Read more.
151 Ventures, consulting and advisory firm for mobile software and technology companies, announced that it has joined forces with Wireless Rain, a wireless channel consulting firm and former national dealer for all major North American wireless carriers. 151 Ventures will rebrand the Wireless Rain CHANNELOCK program, a complete channel sales partner strategy and deployment platform, as a service to its clients. Read more.
