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Special Report: Ericsson and GSMA on how to monetize ‘Connected Living’

STOCKHOLM - Last week, Ericsson and the GSMA teamed up to offer members of the media a tour of Ericsson's customer demonstration center at the company's Kista headquarters addressing the work both parties are doing in support of the GSMA's 'Connected Living' program. While the...

GSMA/Ericsson media tour: Requirements to enable Connected Living

STOCKHOLM - To promote its work with equipment vendors at enabling the Connected Living program, the GSMA arranged a media tour of Ericsson’s customer demonstration studio at the Swedish vendor’s Kista headquarters. The GSMA and Ericsson arranged for a roster of speakers to discuss...

Symmetricom touts software-based clocks in support of small cells synchronization

Symmetricom joined the small cells parade today by announcing a series of software-based clocking solutions aimed at supporting sync for both consumer and enterprise small cells deployments. The new SoftClock solution will support a variety of sync tools such as IEEE 1588 v2,...

Alcatel-Lucent unveils small cells optimization solution, highlights Bell Labs services

Alcatel-Lucent launched what it is calling the Metro Cell Express solution based on its lightRadio hardware to help network operators improve capacity and performance in densely populated gathering places such as train stations, sports venues, etc. At first glance not much about the...

IMS 2012: Japanese invade Montreal, announce slew of products

The American subsidiaries of a number of Japanese electronics companies came to the 2012 International Microwave Symposium in Montreal armed with product announcements that, while not as sexy as a new tablet launch, should all play key roles in enabling increasingly robust microwave radio...

IBM: Survey says mobile ads coming, coordinating marketing and IT is key

IBM released the results of a survey of 350 marketing professionals across a range of industries and geographies in which some of the key findings indicate that CMOs feel a disconnect between the marketing and IT departments. This is particularly important because the survey...

Mavenir: Mobile Cloud Suite is the answer to carrier OTT problems

Mavenir Systems announced the availability of its Mobile Cloud Suite (MCS) which is designed to help network operators launch pre-IMS rich communications services either as an in-network deployment or as a hosted cloud-based service. While the company crafts an interesting buzzword collage in...

NSN keeps 3G optimization train rolling, this week addresses HSPA+

Building on last week's EV-DO Advanced release, today Nokia Siemens Networks announced enhancements to its HSPA+ solution aimed at improving data session performance on smartphone devices. Similar to last week's CDMA-focused announcement, this week's foray is designed to help improve spectral efficiency in the...

Analyst Angle: Nokia’s Asha Touch range is compelling, but will face challenges

Nokia recently launched three new devices – the Asha Touch 311, 306, and 305 – as it continues to execute on its “connecting the next billion” strategy. With larger three-inch displays and a new design, the major selling point of the devices is the...

EV-DO Advanced – NSN shows CDMA some love

Nokia Siemens Networks announced enhancements to its CDMA portfolio with the launch of EV-DO Advanced capabilities today. The company positions the new release as providing up to 40% more data capacity in heavily loaded cells. The company pointed out that the new solution enhances spectral...

High-tech incubator Tandem raises $32 million to nurture mobile start-ups

Tandem, a Silicon Valley-based high-tech incubator focused on mobile start-ups announced a new $32 million fund to invest in early-stage ventures by providing $200,000 of working capital, access to office space for 6 months, and mentoring in exchange for a 10% equity stake in...

Mobile security drives AMD to strengthen partnership with ARM

AMD announced an expansion to its collaboration with ARM whereby the Sunnyvale, CA-based chip maker will be integrating ARM's TrustZone technology into its future Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) in support of more robust security features on mobile devices, especially related to mobile payments. While the...

Relevvant releases mobile ads platform, hangs hat on psychology

Relevvant, a mobile ads firm targeting the enterprise retail segment, today announced a software tool that uses social, location, and purchasing data to target ads on mobile devices that the firm believes achieves a greater level of granularity than existing mobile advertising platforms. In its...

RACO Wireless deals add breadth, depth to M2M ecosystem

RACO Wireless made a pair of announcements on Tuesday at the Connected World conference that add breadth and maintain a level of depth in the Machine-to-Machine ecosystem. The first announcement stated that RACO Wireless and T-Mobile USA will partner with Apriva to support the mobile...

1588v2 uptake key to widespread Ethernet mobile backhaul

Not since The Police has Synchronicity been this sexy. The coming together of two seemingly unrelated events such as Ethernet and timing, while not new, is profoundly necessary to make widespread Ethernet mobile backhaul a reality. There are a number of possible solutions...

Venture Capital: A week ranging from the bizarre to the sublime

The VC business can be a strange game sometimes. That was typified for me this week courtesy of two lines in my WSJ reader (see below). While the "Larry the Bird" makeover took top billing on my screen, the two entries surrounded in...

Citrix buys Bytemoble, taps video in support of carrier cloud play

Citrix Systems, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held Bytemobile, Inc. for an undisclosed sum. While not the first deal of this nature in 2012, it does represent one of the more meaningful as cloud platform providers seek to...

M2M, MIMO, mobile data: Interview with Ericsson CTO Ulf Ewaldsson

Yesterday Ericsson released its annual Traffic and Market report, which is based on the company's internal mobile traffic growth modeling exercises as well as data collected from external sources. Not surprisingly, Ericsson's report finds that mobile subscriptions, and thus, mobile traffic – particularly mobile...

GridSense launch shows intersection of smart grid and telecom analytics

GridSense's launch of its Grid InSite software tool highlights the increasing intersection between the network analytics and optimization capabilities required by smart grid energy operators and telecommunications network operators. At the heart of the solution, Grid InSite applies link sensors and monitors to provide...

Exclusive Analysis: Nokia looks to consolidate on its early lead in MEA

Editor's Note: This analysis was taken from an article that Ovum will be publishing in its subscriber newsletter in June, 2012. Summary Ovum recently attended a Nokia-hosted analyst event in Dubai, where the vendor explained its current business and future prospects in the Middle...

All Things D: Mobile advertising firms in store for a big pay day

Reporting remotely on the All Things D conference has its advantages and disadvantages, with the primary drawback being the inability to feel the energy of the event firsthand. I'd guess that a gathering of that much power and influence would have a decidedly more...

TM Forum 2012 Wrap-up: Over analyzing the importance of Analytics in CEM?

The benefit of a long plane ride home with no diversions other than sitting through a playlist of hot-poker-to-the-eye "rom-coms" that I already watched traveling to and from the other spring trade shows is that I had plenty of time to stare out the...

TM Forum 2012: Keynote discusses investment conundrum in digital world

DUBLIN – In the morning keynote panel kicking off the TM Forum's Management World 2012 event, financial analysts joined the TM Forum's executive leadership to discuss what factors will determine the "winners and losers" in the digital world. Specifically, the questions to the panel...

TM Forum 2012: Alcatel-Lucent’s managed CEM looks to solve implementation black box

DUBLIN – Alcatel-Lucent kicked off its TM Forum Management World 2012 presence by announcing a significant new addition to the CEM solution capabilities that it officially brought to market in February. The new offering, entitled Managed Service Quality and Assurance, essentially offers the capabilities...