I just finished reading The Littlest Green Beret on Self-Reliant Leadership, by Jan R. Rutherford, Jr.* recently published by Pylon Publishing, LLC www.pylonpublishing.com. I have had the pleasure of working with Jan, and know him as a great self-starter and a natural leader in...
Today's telecom operators are facing perhaps the most competitive threats to their business that they ever have. Device manufacturers, operating system companies, over-the-top service providers and large digital content giants are each developing their own relationships with individual end users and enterprises. Faced with...
DALLAS – “Telecom is buzzing again,” said Windstream Communications President and CEO Jeff Gardner and Genband President and CEO Charlie Vogt during a keynote address today at the Telecommunications Industry Association's annual show, TIA2011: Inside the Network.Windstream, which was spun off from Alltel Communications...
ORLANDO, Fla.—CTIA’s semi-annual survey of wireless operators confirmed what the industry already knows: Americans are in love with their wireless devices, and using them more and more for data connections.Some quick stats from the survey: Wireless penetration is at 96%, up nearly 5% from...
The torch has been passed: Mobile data traffic now surpasses voice and it will continue to grow indefinitely. As a consequence, operators need to find ways to not only support this new wave of traffic, but also profit from it as well. Content delivery...
Armed with another $7 million in venture-capital funding, mobile search company ChaCha expects to become profitable in the second quarter, according to founder, Chaiman and CEO Scott Jones. The 4-year-old firm, which uses a combination of proprietary search technology and human “guides” to provide...
LONDON—Wireless giant Vodafone Group plc selected two U.S. companies to manage its application development and maintenance services around the world. Vodafone chose to outsource the operations to EDS and IBM Corp. after an eight-month process and 11 competitive bidders. The companies will write code...
LONDON—Wireless giant Vodafone Group plc selected two U.S. companies to manage its application development and maintenance services around the world. Vodafone chose to outsource the operations to EDS and IBM Corp. after an eight-month process and 11 competitive bidders. The companies will write code...
CINCINNATI-Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans to phase out its billing relationship with Convergys Corp. and has signed a preliminary agreement with Amdocs Ltd. for a single billing and customer care platform to serve all of its wireless subscribers. Plans call for Sprint Nextel...
Bayly Communications Inc. named Fernando Anaya as its sales representative for Latin America. Most recently, Anaya was sales manager for Motorola Inc. in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. CraniteWireless local area network security company Cranite Systems Inc. made two appointments to its executive...
PLANO, Texas-EDS said it has partnered with Vodafone Netherlands for a managed BlackBerry service for ABN AMRO Bank of the Netherlands.The new service connects individuals for real-time connectivity to e-mail, calendars, contacts, corporate intranet and the Internet. EDS said that in an ABN AMRO...
TAMPA, Fla.-Syniverse Technologies announced it plans to acquire EDS Interoperator Services North America, a subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems Corp., for $57 million cash.IOS North America is a third-party clearinghouse service provider for wireless carriers, offering clearing and settlement services for roaming and business...
TAMPA, Fla.-Syniverse Technologies announced it will acquire EDS Interoperator Services North America, a subsidiary of Electronic Data Systems Corp., for $57 million cash.IOS North America is a third-party clearinghouse service provider for wireless carriers, offering clearing and settlement services for roaming and business intelligence...
PLANO, Texas-EDS said it has reached an agreement with Nextel Communications Inc. amending their current five-year master services agreement that was signed in 2001 to cover additional applications development and hosting services. increasing the overall value of the agreement to approximately $100 million. EDS...
Satellite is spreading its wings. The sector appears to be aligning itself with other wireless technologies in hopes of becoming a significant part of a hybrid wireless network.John Kealey, chief executive officer of iDirect, a networking equipment company that makes routers that allow customers...
A quick Google of the acronym "TSI" can turn up at least 10 different companies, all using the same three letters to sell wildly differing products and services. However, Googling the word "Syniverse" turns up only one company-Syniverse Technologies Inc."It's like an alphabet soup,"...
As businesses eye the beauty of wireless services on a massive scale, hardware and software vendors have stepped up their activities.Despite a continued sluggish economy, the frenzy began about a year ago, according to major players."I have seen more uptake in the last nine...
LONDON-EDS said it signed an agreement with Orange plc for a set of managed mobility products for enterprise customers. The two companies will jointly deliver the EDS Extended Connected Office service, which brings secure data to mobile devices at a fixed monthly rate per...
EDS said it signed an agreement with Orange plc for a set of managed mobility products for enterprise customers. The two companies will jointly deliver the EDS Extended Connected Office service, which brings secure data to mobile devices at a fixed monthly rate per...
PLANO, Texas-Technology giant EDS released its new Mobile Information Protection product, which the company said protects information stored on mobile devices, such as laptops and personal digital assistants.Analysts have cited security issues with mobile and wireless devices as a major challenge to selling such...
Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a new partnership with chip maker Intel Corp. as well as new plans to sell wireless application services to businesses, all parts of an effort to continue the expansion of the company's Java 2 Micro Edition technology in wireless.The...
OWINGS MILLS, Md.-Aether Systems Inc. scored a massive deal with technology services giant EDS, under which EDS will manage and resell Aether's wireless technologies and services. EDS will also manage Aether's internal information technology operations and customer care services."The endorsement of a global leader...
ORLANDO—ViaFone will team with EDS and Hewlett-Packard at CTIA Wireless 2002 in Orlando.ViaFone will join HP to show off the Quickstart Mobile Sales Solutions from HP and ViaFone. The solution allows sales representatives to manage orders, contacts and opportunities from the field across popular...
RESTON, Va.—Nextel Communications Inc. signed a $234 million, five-year IT outsourcing agreement with EDS to manage Nextel's corporate data center, database administration, helpdesk, desktop services and other technical functions.As part of the outsourcing agreement, Nextel said it would transition about 290 employees to EDS.
