MOSCOW-Siemens released three new phones the company said are aimed specifically at Eastern European users. The company said its new entry-level A52 mobile phone is aimed at first-time buyers in countries with low market penetration, such as the Ukraine, while its two new camera...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens said it will build a GSM/GPRS 1900 MHz network for Colombia Movil in Colombia. The Colombian operator will also equip its network with EDGE technology, Siemens said, giving the German vendor its fourth EDGE win.The order is worth more than $65 million.Colombia...
Interest in the wireless enterprise market continues as Siemens, Colligo Networks, Aligo, Salesnet and Orsus Solutions announced new deals and products in the arena.First, Siemens Business Services Inc. announced the creation of its Mobile Enterprise Services Alliance, which the company said is a portfolio...
LONDON-Siemens AG said it has collaborated with Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time communications technology called OpenScape for enterprise.The application converges voice and data and combines instant messaging, presence information, a range of multimedia collaboration tools, e-mail and the Outlook calendar for office communication."I...
Telecom Italia Mobile has become the first European operator to publicly state its commitment to EDGE technology, according to international press reports. The reports said the largest Italian mobile operator will use EDGE in areas where it's not economically feasible to deploy W-CDMA third-generation...
MUNICH, Germany-German vendor Siemens AG said it has signed two contracts, one for EDGE technology.Siemens announced a deal with Malaysian mobile operator DiGi Telecommunications to supply it with GSM, GPRS and EDGE equipment. The German equipment maker described the deal as the first EDGE...
NEW DELHI, India-Siemens AG announced a strong push into the India mobile market Wednesday, launching six new mobile phones into the country, which has a large population and low mobile penetration rate. In addition, the German supplier said it would increase its engineers in...
PALO ALTO, Calif.-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile said it created a new operations support system for its wireless carrier customers, a move the company said gives operators a single point of contact to implement infrastructure products from companies including Hewlett-Packard Co., Micromuse, PSI, Steria,...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG said it has signed a $36 million contract to expand GSM networks for China Mobile in Shanghai and Anhui provinces."Following this expansion, over 3.4 million subscribers in 17 regions overall in the Anhui province will be able to make calls via...
DALLAS-Texas Instruments Inc. said its digital signal processor technology known as TMS32064x will be deployed in Siemens AG's TD-SCDMA base stations, which are already in field trials in China and scheduled for operation at the end of this year."This programmable DSP platform allows base...
MUNICH, Germany-Although Siemens AG suffered a loss in net income, its wireless division reported a group profit of $60 million in the second quarter compared with a profit of $48 million in the corresponding quarter last year.Its sales dropped 15 percent to $2.5 billion...
LONDON-NEC Corp. and Siemens AG said they have completed the first phase of a European commercial 3G radio network for Hutchison 3G UK, which trades as 3.Both companies are supplying 3 UK's radio access network and radio network controller equipment in London and Southern...
MUNICH, Germany-Siemens AG has said it will provide cdma2000 as part of its core network offering, although it will not involve the backhaul or radio access network.The company said the offering will be integral to its Internet Protocol multimedia subsystem, which is a radio-access...
NEW ORLEANS-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile made several announcements at CTIA Wireless 2003 this week in New Orleans.The company announced its SX1 mobile phone for U.S. consumers will be available in the third quarter. The SX1 has strips of keys built into each side...
CANNES, France-Siemens Information and Communication Mobile released an advanced new mobile phone to be sold in the next few months in Europe and Asia, the first phone from the company to use Nokia Corp.'s Series 60 software platform.The SX1 device, which offers a large...
MUNICH, Germany-Mobile-phone maker Siemens predicted its handset business will continue to grow next year, according to media reports, and that the company could increase its worldwide handset market share to 9 percent, up from its current 7.8 percent.Nokia Corp. also recently predicted its handset...
BERLIN-Telecom equipment maker Siemens AG said it recorded a net profit of $717 million for the third quarter in contrast to a net profit of $1.59 billion during the same period last year, although the company does not expect an upbeat result in the...
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Siemens IC Mobile UK chose Pixo's Mobile Download System as the recommended solution to operators for over the air downloading of wireless Java applications to Siemens mobile devices."With the Pixo Mobile Download System and Siemens mobile phones, operators have powerful tools to...
HELSINKI, Finland, and BERLIN—Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG have agreed to collaborate in creating and driving open standards-based mobile software, part of which will allow Siemens to license Nokia's software platform on the German vendor's smart phones."This initiative will benefit developers and operators not...
ERFURT, Germany—Siemens AG announced layoffs of 6,500 workers, even as it posted a net profit of$1.14 billion, up from $518 million in the same period last year.The company said it posted an operating profit of $39.4 million in its mobile-phone and wireless gear sales...
STOCKHOLM—Siemens Mobile Acceleration announced it has invested in Swedish start-up Mediabricks AB, which provides a platform that enables mobile operators and service providers to offer interactive broadcasting applications to Java-enabled devices.In return for the investment, Siemens will hold a minority stake in the new...
MUNICH, Germany—The Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group and Cambridge Positioning Systems announced a five-year deal under which they will cooperate to support Siemens IC Mobile's development of mobile location solutions.Siemens IC Mobile will integrate the E911 Cursor software into its mobile network product...
MUNICH—George Nolen has been named U.S. head of Siemens Information and Communication Networks. Nolen, 45, previously served as president of Siemens Enterprise networks in the United States. "George Nolen has proven that he can cope successfully with change processes in a challenging competitive environment,...
MUNICH, Germany—Siemens AG bucked industry trends by reporting a first quarter net profit of $478.8 million against a loss of $971 million in the previous quarter."The level of net income and the positive trend … give us confidence that we can continue to improve...