Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. Partnerships abound this week as it seems like everybody’s shaking hands with everybody to create some great deals. AT&T was especially busy on this front, furthering its partnership with Amdocs for its connected car program, signing an exclusive deal with Beats headphones to create family plans for a new streaming music service and tapping Vantiv for enterprise billing. Verizon Communications and Oracle are working together to improve app access and cloud computing. Not to be left out, Sprint is working with NQ Mobile to refresh its “Android ID” for smartphones. To read these stories and more, click the links below.
- AT&T chose Amdocs for billing in their connected car program.
- Amdocs also posted a great blog post about the partnership and potential for the connected car.
- AT&T and Vantiv announced new mobile payments solutions for businesses of all sizes.
- AT&T also announced a special family deal with the upcoming digital streaming music app Beats (yes the headphone makers).
- Verizon and Oracle have partnered to improve cloud access and deliver Oracle apps on demand.
- Sprint added Spanish transcriptions to its visual voice-mail software.
- Sprint is also working with NQ Mobile to update the interface of its Android ID.
- Suddenlink selected NetCracker for customer management and CRM transformation.
- Swisscom selects CVidya to manage sales performance with its analytics software.
- Facebook acquired link sharing app “Branch” for $15 million.
- Ceragon scored SDN-capable backhaul deals from leading operators.
- A report indicates data roaming will generate $42 billion in revenues by 2018.
- Investors are less than happy with Juniper Networks.
- Despite this, Juniper Networks introduced its “Firefly Security Suite” to address the security challenges for public and private clouds.
- Redknee announced that it has established pricing and terms with an acquired Asia-Pacifc tier-one service provider.
- Sandvine reported Q4 2013 financial results.
- Want a phone with the most secure OS and apps? Try the Blackphone.
- Publix Super Markets grows business intelligence capacity with Teradata Active Data Warehouse expansion.
- RAD Data Communications and Nakina Systems reported product interoperability for a “major” North American cable operator as one of the first real-world examples of network functions virtualization (NFV).
- ZTE, Coriant joined the SDN-, NFV-focused OpenDaylight Project.
- SeaChange and ThinkAnalytics signed a global reseller agreement for multi-device video delivery and content recommendations.
- Candy Crush restitution! Apple will refund $32.5 million worth accdiental kids’ in-app purchases.
- Apigee acquired InsightsOne for big data analysis.
- A recent report states carrier SDN spending set to hit $29.5B by 2018.
- In case you missed it, we posted thoughts on smarthome apps last week in our CES coverage.
- Gigaom posted a nice reflection on CES that discusses software.
