Mobile marketing company Urban Airship is partnering with location-based information company Gimbal to more precisely target users via geo-fencing and low-energy Bluetooth beacons as well as location history data.
Urban Airship was one of the first vendors to offer a third-party platform for developers to enable...
Continuing its investment in education programs related to big data analytics, IBM announced a partnership with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for an executive program focused on the use of big data analytics for marketing and customer engagement.
Earlier this year, IBM...
Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's big data...
Oracle has used the spotlight of its OpenWorld conference to launch a flurry of new offerings, many of which focus on incorporating mobile and big data analytics for application development.
The "brand new, majorly upgraded platform-as-a-service," in the words of Larry Ellison, now chairman and...
Matti Aksela, VP of analytics and technology for Comptel, spoke with RCR Wireless News' Kelly Hill about trends in big data, including the impact of big data and the "Internet of Things."
Aksela came to Comptel when the company acquired Xtract Oy, a Finnish data...
Indian IT company Infosys has gained or expanded a number of partnerships recently, including infrastructure vendor Huawei and Microsoft, and is increasing its focus on cloud and the data center.
Infosys has had three major partnership announcements in recent days, including:
Partnering with Huawei to jointly develop...
SHANGHAI — Huawei’s enterprise unit was formed just three years ago, but the Chinese company has big ambitions for the unit. The company has set a target of $10 billion in revenues by 2017, a significant increase compared to the $2.5 billion that the...
Tata Consultancy Services is ramping up its offerings in big data and analytics, looking to increase its competitiveness in IT consulting and services as communications service providers try to get a handle on the opportunities and challenges that cloud, mobile and social technologies are bringing.
"CSPs find themselves at...
Oracle's co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison is stepping down and moving to fill the roles of executive chairman and CTO of the company, and the company will now have co-CEOs: Safra Catz and Mark Hurd.
"Safra and Mark will now report to the Oracle Board...
The use of network analytics in Wi-Fi is an area with great potential for network optimization as well as improving customer experience, according to Shahid Ahmed, managing director at Accenture and the lead for its North American Communications Industry practice.
"Wi-Fi, first of all, is...
Shanghai — The U.S. market remains a focus for Huawei, although the U.S. government has labeled the Chinese giant IT and telecommunications company as a security threat. The main driver to grow in the U.S. market relies on the enterprise business, which, according to...
Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's big data...
SHANGHAI — Huawei has set a target for its recently launched enterprise business to become the leader in the IT infrastructure field.
“We are leveraging our strength to the IT field,” said Eric Xu, rotating CEO and deputy chairman of the board at Huawei Technologies,...
RCR Wireless releases a new feature report that explores recent developments and advances in the collection and analysis of data across the telecom operator's broad horizontal view: from business systems, the network, and devices. Distilling data from those sources into actionable intelligence remains a...
Oracle has agreed to acquire Front Porch Digital, which specializes in big data-based digital content storage, management and delivery.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Front Porch's 550 customers include NASCAR, BBC Broadcast, MTV, ESPN, A&E Television, China Central TV, Al Jazeera and broadcast...
Global Wireless Solutions brought its network testing capabilities to CTIA's Super Mobility Week — and if you're looking for the fastest places in Las Vegas to upload selfies, the company can tell you.
GWS does walk- and drive-testing as well as offering a mobile application...
Napatech's Dan Joe Barry, VP of marketing, discussed big data trends with RCR Wireless News that include software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV).
Napatech develops appliance accelerators for networks to enable them to keep up with data flows and processing in the telecom...
RCR Wireless News explores recent developments and advances in the collection and analysis of data across the telecom operator's broad horizontal view: from business systems, the network, and devices. Distilling data from those sources into actionable intelligence remains a challenge, with automation an area...
Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's news in...
RCR Wireless News explores recent developments and advances in the collection and analysis of data across the telecom operator's broad horizontal view: from business systems, the network and devices. Distilling data from those sources into actionable intelligence remains a challenge, with automation an area...
Apple has been gearing up for months to release the latest version of its mobile operating system, and the company has outlined rules that strictly limit developers' use of personal health data that will be collected within the new iOS 8.
Apple has its own "health" app that...
Nokia Networks is highlighting the potential of big data-driven artificial intelligence and automation, aiming to show a vision of the future for networks that allows them to more precisely allocate resources and run more efficiently.
Ajit Kahaduwe, head of ecosystem innovation for Nokia Networks, said the company...
A new report from ABI Research explores the role that application programming interfaces, or APIs, can play in the monetization of telecom networks.
Telecom APIs aren't a revenue item by themselves, the firm noted, but allowing access to APIs by content companies, developers or other...
Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data and analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's big...
