LAS VEGAS—After HP's turbulent year in 2011, with Léo Apotheker stepping down as CEO just 11 months after being named and the indecision over the future of its PC business, HP (NYSE: HPQ) used this week's HP Discover 2012 event to make its enterprise business strategies...
Less than a month after Oracle's purchase of the cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform Vitrue, the company announced on June 5 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the cloud-based social intelligence firm, Collective Intellect. It is the IT giant's second...
LAS VEGAS – “It is too early to evaluate HP’s new product. And it has still to be proven by clients. What I can say at this moment is that EMC leads this market with a huge share of our backup solutions,” Rodrigo Gazzaneo,...
LAS VEGAS – How to manage big data has been a challenge for companies of all sizes and sectors. Companies need to develop strategies to deal with the volume, variety, velocity and value of a huge amount of structured and unstructured data. Although still...
Two big IT events happened in Las Vegas last month: Interop and Symantec Vision. Both events made a very good impression on me when I downloaded the apps and found out I could do my check-in,
Securing LTE Backhaul with IPsec: Are you doing all you can to keep your LTE backhaul network secure? Tellabs’ white paper explains how IPsec addresses the security issues inherent in LTE networks. It also reviews the end-to-end protection solutions available in the IETF IPsec...
China's Huawei Technologies expects its Brazilian unit’s revenues to reach $5 billion by 2016, with its enterprise business making up $1.5 billion of the total. This would be a jump compared to its 2012 forecasted revenue for Brazil of $2 billion. Sales estimates were...
So what kind of smartphone do you have? Is it an Apple iPhone, an Android, or a BlackBerry? As 3G and even 4G networks are deployed across Latin America, smartphone adoption is soaring. And once they experience the power, versatility and sheer fun of smartphones, people can get almost addicted to them.
Tribold and Alcatel-Lucent have signed a global OEM agreement under which Alcatel-Lucent can resell Tribold EPM (enterprise product management) as either a stand-alone product or in the context of their end-to-end Business Support Systems (BSS). It will put Tribold EPM at the heart of...
Are you prepared for the second wave of apps? A new Forrester Research report aims to answer this question. "We believe the market is poised for a second wave of consumer apps that are more personalized and contextual," Thomas Husson, Forrester Research principal analyst,...
Focusing on wireless carriers and device manufacturers as customers, OfficeDrop launched a custom small business online cloud storage solution, designed to allow technology companies to offer cloud storage to their end customers under their own brand. The new solution enables wireless providers to launch...
A new chapter in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit: A federal jury said Wednesday that Google (GOOG) did not infringe Oracle (ORCL) patents that protect Oracle's Java technology. The decision came after the jury found earlier in May that Google had infringed Oracle's copyrights...
Cloud computing is the new king of the information technology market, and three acquisitions announced this week underscore the point.
On Tuesday Germany's SAP AG unveiled its plans to buy cloud-based business commerce network Ariba Inc to expand its cloud presence, in a deal...
Watch the discussion between Dan Meyer, Editor-in-Chief, RCR Wireless News and his panel of experts, Roger Entner, Lead Analyst, Recon Analytics, and Daryl Schoolar, Principal Analyst – Wireless Infrastructure, Ovum as they discuss the major themes and developments that came out of the CTIA Wireless show in New Orleans.
Most of the costs companies incur by letting employees choose their own devices are not associated with the devices themselves. Companies are spending much more supporting and securing the devices, according to Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group. The global consulting group recently surveyed 600...
The mobile network operator Digicel has added NFC technology to its Digicel Mobile Money service offering in the South Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga. Digicel said it will make the service available initially with 50 merchants in the capital of Nuku’alofa and it plans...
It’s a delicate (some might say indelicate) question to ask – What is your mobile strategy? But I’ve learned not to make assumptions when companies come to us looking for help with their mobility issues.
Beyond Policy - A New Era in Real-Time Charging: Why prevent a subscriber from accessing a desired capability that is readily available at minimal cost to the operator? In "Beyond policy," Dr. Colm Ward, CEO at Tango Telecom, discusses the new era in real-time...
Smartphones have been used in corporate environments for quite a while and, since the advent of Apple’s iPad, tablets have also flooded the enterprise environment. Sometimes, adoption is driven by users under the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon; other times it is the corporation that starts...
Increased mobility, cloud computing, and IT consumerization are the main enterprise trends that companies around the world are basing their strategies on. RCR Wireless News is watching these trends to learn how they are affecting companies and impacting chief information officers (CIOs).
Vendors, consulting firms,...
Enterprises are changing to become more mobile, integrating cloud computing and allowing IT consumerization. RCR Wireless News takes a look at the most relevant trends to discuss how they are impacting companies and CIOs, as well as what solution providers are doing to address...
NEW ORLEANS – Following on news earlier this week flushing out more details of its network plans, T-Mobile USA continued to hammer home the point that it wants to re-establish its position as an industry disruptor.
Highlighting that cause, the carrier is looking to...
The world passenger car market is projected to reach 86.5 million units by the year 2017, while OEM-connected car system shipments are expected to grow from 8.22 million in 2012 to 39.5 million in 2016. This according to data released by Global Industry Analysts,...
In about a week, Motorola Solutions made two announcements that underscore the company’s embrace of cloud-based technology. New enterprise-grade WLAN service management capabilities will now be delivered via the cloud. The company also introduced a modular Wi-Fi Access Point (AP) that allows hardware snap-in...
