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 among research and advisory firm Gartner’s top predictions for IT organizations and users for...
After winning a contract in April to supply and manage an emergency services call system for El Salvador's national police force, the Panama unit of Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has opened an office in the Central American country.
For CWC, which provides managed telecom services...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
Every once in a while a thunderbolt strikes in the communications, media and technology world that gets...
In its second edition, Ericsson's Networked Society City Index ranked 25 of the world's largest cities according to their ability to use ICT for social, economic and environmental benefits. The top three cities in the index -- Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm -- have successfully met many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT, Ericsson noted.
Verizon Friday announced the creation of a new global organization that will oversee all business, government and wholesale operations from across the company’s wireless and wireline businesses.
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 Enlace Operativo and Mexican company Kio Networks to develop a data center in Colombia.
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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 in which the company has deployed its platform to offer suite of infrastructure Web...
LTE services are expected to generate $265 billion in revenue by 2016, with a majority of that coming from enterprise customers despite that segment representing less than half of connections, according to a report from Juniper Research. The report added that LTE would account...
Nokia Siemens Networks has inaugurated a new center in Mexico to deliver remote services to operators across Latin America and around the world. The service delivery center will provide network design and planning as well as optimization and assurance for both networks and the...
Japan's NEC and the Argentinian unit of Spain's Telefónica have announced the first step in promoting cloud computing services in Latin America. As a result of previous partnership, Telefónica Argentina launched cloud services using NEC's cloud platform.
In February, Telefónica and NEC agreed a partnership...
SAP’s strategy to go beyond traditional enterprise resource planning, moving toward mobile, big data and cloud computing has begun a new chapter. The German enterprise software giant has acquired SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based human capital management solutions.
The explosion in Brazil's class C population -- defined as families with monthly incomes of $660 to $2,850 -- has been accompanied by changes in consumer spending habits by members of that class, especially in the mobile phone market.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reality Check column. We’ve gathered a group of visionaries and veterans in the mobile industry to give their insights into the marketplace.
Fifteen years ago, analysts and investors frequently asked enterprises, "What's your Internet strategy?" The unspoken corollary was,...
Less than 15 days after selling the former Motorola Solutions’ WiMAX business to NewNet Communication Technologies, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) announced today that Adtran Inc. (Nasdaq: ADTN) plans to acquire its fixed-line broadband access business and associated professional services and network management solutions. Financial terms...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible,...
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open as possible...
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.
Wireless technology innovators and other RCR Wireless community members gathered in San Francisco this week to discuss the future of the world's most exciting industry. The event was held at the Four Seasons hotel and participants enjoyed two tours of that building's Distributed Antenna...
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.
India's Tata Communications today announced the launch of its IPX+ (IP eXchange) mobile broadband enablement framework. The company said that 70 mobile network operators have signed up for the new framework, which is designed to help capitalize on the latest technology innovations in the mobile broadband space via better interprovider mobile service delivery and management.
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.
The unemployment rate in Central Texas slipped to 7.1% in October, down from 7.5% the month before. The news points to a significantly brighter jobs outlook in Austin than in Texas overall, where the unemployment rate is 8%. (The national unemployment rate now stands...
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.
Hewlett-Packard Co. has acquired Hiflex Software GmbH, a privately held global software solutions provider specializing in Web-to-print and management information systems solutions for printing services. HP said the acquisition will help it break the traditional barriers of how and where business customers print.
