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Lime, the Caribbean unit of Cable & Wireless Communications, is soliciting more business from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Caribbean by extending its suite of cloud-based services, the …

German software developer SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its intention to acquire Datango AG, a German provider of workforce performance support software. The transaction, scheduled to close during the …

IDC Latin America followed the company’s global predictions in forecasting that 2012 will be the year of mobile and cloud platform wars as IT vendors vie for leadership while the …

Embracing enterprise-focused services has been a key strategy for several telecom operators around the globe. A recent cloud services study published by market research firm Infonetics Research shows that 70% …

Global ICT spending growth in 2012 is forecast to be lower than previously expected. Gartner Inc is now predicting growth of 3.7% this year. The firm’s previous forecast for the …

It has been more than a year since Orange Business Services decided on a new go-to market strategy. The company, which is a unit of France Telecom, is looking to …

With technology having become ubiquitous, consumerized, cheaper and more equally available to all, the second half of the Information Age will be focused on the exploitation of technology and the …

Mexican electric power utility company Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is conducting a smart grid project to use wireless data radios to monitor and control crucial electric power applications. After …

Over the next few years, the number of online shoppers in Latin America is expected to grow 20% a year, and business-to-consumer e-commerce revenue is expected to increase to U.S. …

Global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, which means a 66% compound annual growth rate, according to …

Consumerization, cloud computing, consumer and enterprise social networks, mobile application, the shifting of sources of supply from Asia to the Americas, big data and cybercrime are some of the trends …

In the same week that UNE EPM Telecomunicaciones President Horacio Vélez de Bedout submitted his resignation to the board, the government telecom announced that it has partnered with compatriot firm …

The first South American global cloud computing platform for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, was launched today in São Paulo, Brazil. This is the eighth geographic region worldwide …

Global enterprises are shifting to mobile-only communications more rapidly than expected, as well as adopting unified communications services more broadly, notes the 2011 BroadSoft Mobile Enterprise of the Future survey. This trend could be an opportunity for mobile network operators, because enterprises believe their MNO is better positioned to deliver services such as video calling and conferencing, Web conferencing, voice mail, presence management and instant messaging than fixed-line providers like Microsoft, Google or IBM.

Although IT consumerization is a relatively new phenomenon, it cannot be ignored by chief information officers. IBM is taking steps to address enterprise-class requirements with a series of new mobile apps.

The Brazilian unit of Spain’s Telefónica aims to be the biggest and best telecom provider in Brazil — and that consumers recognize it as such. That might not be easy, because Telefónica Brazil faced serious problems with its Internet broadband service Speed in 2008, and it took some time to recover from the brand damage. However, the current scenario is brighter: Little more than one year after the mobile carrier Vivo’s acquisition, all Telefónica’s products will be rebranded under the Vivo name.

Although contact center solutions represent the biggest part of Avaya’s revenues, the company aims to be recognized beyond that business, as an important player of the multibillion-dollar enterprise market for communication tools.

While chief information officers are figuring out what — and no longer when — they will move to cloud computing, service providers are customizing their portfolio to include the cloud. Sometimes the answer has more to do with renaming existing solutions than with designing a whole new product portfolio. Hewlett-Packard is following this path.

Chief information officers are looking forward to three main trends that will (and in several cases already are) challenging their own corporate strategies: consumerization, cloud computing, and mobile security and …

IBM’s growth market unit, which includes 152 emerging countries under China’s leadership, is expected to represent 30% of the company’s revenues by 2015, an increase of 5 percentage points from …

Business application software provider Infor said it will relocate its headquarters from Alpharetta, Ga., to New York City by mid-2012. Infor CEO Charles Phillips said that 2011 has been a …

As previously announced, Google is ending several services, such as its ambitious collaboration tool Wave, medical records engine Google Health, Twitter competitor Google Buzz, Wikipedia-like aggregate Knol and PC file-searching …

Carlos Slim’s América Móvil and AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. telecommunications company by revenue, signed a memorandum of understanding to deliver enhanced communication services to multinational companies throughout Latin America and to so-called multilatinas around the world.

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