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.
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Atos, a European information technology services company and the worldwide IT partner for next year's Olympic Games in London, and the Chinese management software solutions Ufida International Holdings have invested U.S. $7.8 million to create Yunano, a joint venture to offer cloud services.
The second quarter saw quite some momentum in the telecom space with companies restructuring and rejiggering its top management. From major restructuring of its operations to new hires, companies like Bharti Airtel and Reliance sought out to bring fresher perspectives from top leaders into...
Qualcomm is looking to take advantage of Latin America’s relatively modest 3G penetration rates to boost its influence and revenues in the region.
As part of this, Qualcomm said it was also looking to participate in the Brazilian semiconductors value chain and does not discard installing...
Latin American telecoms are gearing up to upgrade their infrastructure to support IPv6 as the supply of IPv4 addresses nears its end. For instance, mobile operator TIM has spent $740,000 on its networks in Brazil to prepare for the migration to the newer protocol.
With Brazil growing into prosperity, is the country of the future finally arriving? Yes, say experts, but Brazil must make more progress to become more competitive.
Brazil's information and communications technology market could reach U.S. $400 billion by 2022, according to Brasscom, thanks to several major factors boosting the country's telecom transformation.
Ask chief information officers about their enterprise resource planning system, and they will probably refer to it not as ERP, but as SAP, using the name of German enterprise software giant SAP AG (NYSE: SAP). CIOs often use SAP as a synonym for ERP,...
