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Microsoft is not the only company preparing to say goodbye to a key leader this week. Its longtime mobile partner Nokia is losing the head of its HERE maps unit. Michael Halbherr, CEO of HERE, says he is planning to return to "entrepreneurial...
The awkwardly named Hadoop market is set to receive the “as-a-service” boost that is sweeping the wireless telecom space, and it could potentially reap significant rewards.
A new report from Allied Market Research predicts the Hadoop-as-a-service market could reach $16.1 billion in sales globally by...
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Microsoft's Nokia is apparently taking a high-low strategy when it comes to mobile phones. The company is NOT exiting the basic mobile phone business, despite last month's announcement that "all Mobile Phones-related services and enablers are planned to move into maintenance mode, effective...
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Sprint is not the only company making executive changes this week as Microsoft said yesterday that is has hired Qualcomm's Peggy Johnson to lead business development. At Qualcomm, Johnson served as EVP of Qualcomm Technologies and president of global market development. She has...
Microsoft’s attempt to refocus efforts into the mobile space gained some heady momentum this week as the computing software giant added wireless industry pioneer John Stanton to its board of directors.
The move will increase Microsoft’s board to 11 members, with Stanton set to join...
Less than one week after announcing plans to cut 18,000 jobs, software giant Microsoft announced financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter showing robust revenue, margins and net income, but a dip in earnings per share.
The company, which during the quarter finalized its acquisition...
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Microsoft launches low-end Lumia
Windows may be the language of corporate America, but Microsoft clearly wants to translate it to consumers around the world. The software giant's newest smartphone offering is a $115 Windows smartphone called the...
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"Pay-as-you-go" has worked well for T-Mobile US when it comes to its service offerings for customers, and the carrier says it's choosing that same strategy when it comes to mobile backhaul. While some carriers are using...
Well, it looks like Microsoft finally found out what has been ailing Nokia’s handset business over the past several years, and this week took some action.
Microsoft’s latest attempt to turn around its flailing mobile operations is set to cost 18,000 employees their jobs, with most of those cuts coming from its recently acquired Nokia handset division.
The computer software giant announced today that its “restructuring plan” was designed to “simplify...
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to cut thousands of jobs, many of them at its Nokia handset business. The software giant recently bought the Nokia unit for $7.2 billion, and reportedly pledged to cut costs when the deal was announced. According to Bloomberg, Microsoft may...
Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...
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Microsoft has clearly decided that it needs to make hardware if it wants to be relevant in mobile, and now it looks like the software giant is moving beyond the Surface tablets and the handset business...
Rick Lievano, the worldwide director of industry technology strategy for the Microsoft Telecommunications Sector, recently spoke with RCR Wireless News about how Microsoft offers telecom companies value-added services such as marketing and selling services to end users.
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Lievano also elaborated on the software giant's use of...
Unfortunately, for those of us not so gifted, PowerPoint’s remain a struggle to insert interesting information into a digital format that sucks the interest out of just about any non-animation information.
Big data and analytics were top-of-mind at TM Forum's conference in Nice and across the industry this week, with several major platform announcements aimed at telcos.
Steve Hateley, head of marketing at Comptel, told RCR Wireless News at the TM Forum event that there is a...
Microsoft Corp. and SAP AG are expanding their mutual offerings for the mobile workforce and deepening the overall interoperability in their product portfolios.
The two companies have a long-standing partnership, but are expanding it in three areas: cloud, mobility, and analytics.
Microsoft and SAP said they would offer...
Editor’s Note: The RCR Wireless News Time Machine is a way to take advantage of our extensive history in covering the wireless space to fire up the DeLorean and take a trip back in time to re-visit some of the more interesting headlines from...
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Today Microsoft closed on its acquisition of Nokia, with the deal now valued up to $7.5 billion due to a rise in the value of the Euro. Roughly one-third of Nokia’s workforce of 90,000 will transfer...
Chetan Sharma Consulting has analyzed more than 7 million patents to create an in-depth look at the mobile patent landscape. The firm analyzed patent filings and granted patents in the U.S. and Europe for the years 1991 - 2014, and looked specifically at mobile...
Nokia, the world's leading maker of mobile phones until two years ago, is set to close on the sale of its device unit to Microsoft on April 25. The company first aligned itself with Microsoft in 2011, abandoning its Symbian smartphone operating system for...
U.S. wireless carriers are teaming up with manufacturers to create standards for smartphone software that can deter thieves by enabling remote deactivation of handsets. The new measure, announced today by wireless industry trade association CTIA, falls short of the mandatory "kill switch" that some...
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T-Mobile US taps tablets, capped data plans, overage challenges in latest marketing push
T-Mobile US’ most compelling announcement was a further push into the tablet market that allows customers to add a tablet device to a current postpaid voice plan for free. ... Read...
Microsoft has selected testing company Ixia as its official testing house for ensuring that mobile devices meet quality expectations when running the software company's Lync application.
Microsoft Lync is a unified communications platform, which is increasingly being used on mobile devices due to the bring-your-own-device trend in...
