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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Although news, the big data concept has been recently spread among ICT market. “Big meets cloud” has been the EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) slogan this year. Big data and cloud impact directly and they are changing a lot the technology …

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 …

Accustomed to the U.S. market, where banks have had no problems with buying standard ATMs, NCR Corp. has had to change to compete in the Brazilian market, where banks insist on customized machines.

Tata Communications today announced the launch of InstaHCM, a human capital management addition to its InstaApps software-as-a-service portfolio. InstaHCM will offered in partnership with SuccessFactors Inc., a company dealing in cloud-based business execution software.

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 …

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 …