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.
China Telecom’s (CHA) push into the U.S. market continues as the telecom giant announced an agreement with AT&T (T) to expand their existing relationship delivering telecom solutions to multinational companies.
The expansion includes migrating AT&T’s existing IP-VPN service into China and jointly deploying an expanded...
During a series of meetings organized by the Steering Committee of the Internet in Brazil and the Center for Information and Coordination Point BR, telecom operators disclosed target dates for providing IPv6 connectivity.
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 management. Pressured by chief financial officers to reduce the total cost of ownership and...
Brazilian holding company EBX and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a partnership to support the growth strategies of the two corporations. This strategic partnership would cover a wide variety of business initiatives to meet the natural resources 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 IBM's initial prediction of 25%. “Brazil is No. 2, behind China, in terms of...
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 strong year for the company, with three consecutive quarters of double-digit year-over-year growth, which...
MasterCard and the Brazilian unit of Spain's Telefónica have created a joint venture to offer mobile financial solutions, or m-payment, for 65 million Vivo consumers in Brazil. The initiative aims to create a mobile wallet allowing consumers to make payments via their mobile phones...
RCR Wireless News attended the TM Forum Management World Americas 2011, the industry’s communications management conference, held in Orlando, Fla., earlier this month and interviewed some of attendees and speakers. Check them out:
Interview with Randy Frantz of ESRI
Interview with Tom Wise, VP of OSS...
Telefónica Digital and the BlackBerry's manufacturer Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) are conducting a pilot program on using near field communications (NFC) with plans to launch the service in the next year.
First, only Telefónica’s employees will be able to trial. In collaboration...
Bharti Airtel has joined hands with Healthfore (a division of Religare Technologies Ltd) and Fortis Hospitals as knowledge partner to launch MediPhone, a mobile health initiative launched in northern India.MediPhone allows subscribers to avail quality health advice through mobile their Airtel mobile phones 24x7.
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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 tool Google Desktop.
This week, the Internet company sent e-mails to communicate its customers the...
Juniper Networks on Wednesday announced that it has provided a secure multiplatform remote network access solution to the Essar Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate with interests in steel, oil and gas, power, business process outsourcing, ports, shipping and infrastructure development.
Junos Pulse is an integrated,...
Ronaldo Miranda, Advanced Micro Devices’ (NYSE: AMD) president for Brazil and Latin America’s vice president since March, is celebrating. “We started 2011 with 7% of market share in laptops and consumer verticals in Brazil, and now we have 20%, which is higher than our goal of 15%,” he said during a news conference Tuesday.
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.
Brazilian carrier Oi (TNE) is expanding its business in neighboring Paraguay, where the Paraguayan National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has authorized Oi to begin operations in the east of the country as a wholesaler, reported La Nación. The local press also noted that Oi intends...
Spanish telecom Telefónica has signed an agreement with China Unicom to use each other's networks to expand their coverage. The agreement builds on a previous deal and extends and reinforces Telefónica's footprint by sharing the use of points of presence on their international networks.
Employees infused with mobile devices spend about 28 minutes per day on technology distractions, according to a new report from iPass. The quarterly “iPass Mobile Workforce Report” noted that the top two most time consuming distractions employees face are work e-mail and technical issues,...
One of the most developed countries in Latin America, Chile faces very similar telecom challenges to Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Its mobile penetration surpassed one device per habitant, reaching 120.8% in June, with most subscribers on prepaid plans. The Chile wireless market is also...
Private equity firm Aditya Birla Capital Advisors has invested U.S. $18.7 million in Alphion India Private Ltd., the principal subsidiary of Alphion Corp, a global provider of optical networks.
Dell Inc. is keeping more of every dollar it makes. The world's No. 3 PC maker (behind Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo) earned $1.1 billion in the third quarter on revenue of $15.4 billion.
Imagine checking your smartphone or PC at work to see how much energy your home heater or air conditioner is using while you're out. Then imagine resetting your appliances remotely to save energy and money. That's the goal envisioned by Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) in its partnership with a group of global companies that has formed the Energy@Home Consortium
Wavion, a global provider of Wi-Fi solutions, and the integrated solutions company Leadcom have OK'd a cooperation agreement for Africa and Latin America. Wavion expects to more than double its sales in the region in 2012, coming from both operators (carriers and ISPs) and government projects such as education.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has bought $10.7 billion worth of common stock in IBM (NYSE: IBM) this year. Berkshire now owns 5.4% of Big Blue, but the 81-year-old billionaire has said he doesn't intend to buy any more shares.
