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NSN and Huawei sign OSS deal

Huawei and NSN have signed a cross-licensing agreement for OSS (Operations Systems Support), following up on the plan the two infrastructure giants announced last spring. Ericsson is also expected to cross license its OSS system with Huawei and NSN, according to a memorandum of...

Carrier Wrap: Sprint, NSN claim TD-LTE speed record; Root Metrics grades airport coverage

Editor’s Note: Wireless operators are a busy bunch, and as such RCR Wireless News will attempt to gather some of the important announcements that may slip through the cracks from the world’s largest carriers in a weekly wrap-up. Enjoy! --Sprint and Nokia Solutions and Networks...

Telecom Software: Partnerships – AT&T & Amdocs, Verizon & Oracle

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. Partnerships abound this week as it seems like everybody's shaking hands with everybody to create some great deals. AT&T was especially busy on this front, furthering its partnership with Amdocs for its connected car program,...

Telecom Software: Oracle acquires Corente; Apple App Store tops $10B

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. CES 2014 may be dominating headlines this week, but some of the biggest stories in software came from companies not participating in CES, like Oracle announcing its acquisition of Corente or Apple announcing the $10...

Telecom Software: Oracle acquires Responsys; Google defends Android in court

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. The amount of news has slowed some due to the Christmas holiday, but that hasn't stopped Oracle from announcing a new acquisition and the results of a recent CEM survey. Google...

Oracle to buy Responsys for $1.5B

Oracle is paying $1.5 billion for online and mobile marketing specialist Responsys, marking the software giant's third acquisition this quarter. The software giant described Responsys as "the leading provider of enterprise-scale, cloud-based marketing software." Other Oracle purchases this quarter include BigMachines, a cloud-based sales...

Oracle, Qualcom and Gemalto Webinar: Smarter Connected Technology

Join Qualcomm, Oracle and Gemalto to discuss the direction of Java for connected devices. Connected intelligent machines are a rapidly growing technology that embeds logic in devices (controllers and operational systems) in order to harness machine data and drive value for businesses. We are now...

Telecom Software: Oracle acquires Blitzer; Google pays Android hackers

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of everything in the world of telecom software. While last week seemed to be spent on reflection and awards, this week sees an embrace of the new: Oracle, CenturyLink and Teoco's acquisitions, CVidya and Ruckus' new software and new...

Telecom Analytics: Beijing Mobile taps NSN to improve QoE; Amdocs buys Actix

Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) announced that Beijing Mobile, a branch of the Chinese operator China Mobile, will implement NSN's extensive quality of experience (QoE) solution, aiming to improve its customer experience by linking network performance with subscriber satisfaction and application behavior. The carrier...

British Telecom, SaskTel tap Oracle to improve customer experience

Oracle announced that many telecom operators such as British Telecom and the Canadian SaskTel are using its Customer Experience (CX) solutions. According to Oracle, the momentum of CX solutions continues to grow at a rapid pace with recent adoption by numerous global organizations. SaskTel, a telecom firm...

Oracle to buy Tekelec

Oracle continues to make its way aggessively into telecom software, this time with the purchase of Tekelec, a provider of diameter signaling and policy control solutions. Tekelec has been privately held for just over a year; it was taken private in January 2012 by...

Oracle to buy Acme for $2.1B, bolsters communications product offerings

Oracle agreed to acquire Acme Packet, which makes network solutions to deliver voice, video, data and unified communications services and applications across IP networks. Under the agreement, Oracle will pay $29.25 per share in cash representing a fully diluted equity value of $2.1 billion....

Mark Hurd: Oracle is committed to the cloud

Oracle is pushing its cloud computing strategies by investing in its software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solutions. The giant IT company has made several acquisitions to boost its portfolio over the last few...

Enterprise mobile apps set for major growth this year

2013 could be the year that enterprise apps come into their own. "Enterprise apps today are where consumer apps were three or four years ago," explained Rajeev Chand of Rutberg & Company, a boutique investment bank focused on wireless and digital media. "The consumer...

Oracle expands cloud services with Engine Yard, Instantis

Oracle’s latest pair of moves show the company’s efforts to bolster its cloud portfolio. By making a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, a cloud development platform that supports Ruby, PHP and Node, Oracle is pushing its platform-as-a-service strategy. This investment followed the acquisition...

Oracle puts cloud in the core launching seven new services at Open World

Oracle highlighted its cloud computing strategies, and goals at this year’s Oracle Open World in San Francisco. During the show, which has an estimated audience of 50,000 attendees from over 140 countries, Oracle introduced seven new cloud-based services, which augment Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of...

Oracle to help put Nokia on the map

Nokia is licensing its map application to corporate customers through an alliance with Oracle.

Oracle: more carriers should integrate customers relationship channels

Most telecom operators are missing an opportunity to integrate their multiple customer relationship channels in order to provide a better customer experience, according to Oracle (ORCL). “There is no much information being shared between multiple relationship channels,” said Alceu Bravo, communications industry director for...

Oracle continues cloud-based spree, acquires SelectMinds

Oracle announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire SelectMinds, a provider of cloud-based social talent sourcing and corporate alumni management applications. This acquisition follows Oracle's previous asset purchase of Skire, a provider of capital program management and facilities management applications, which...

Oracle announces second cloud purchase within a month

Less than a month after Oracle's purchase of the cloud-based social marketing and engagement platform Vitrue, the company announced on June 5 that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the cloud-based social intelligence firm, Collective Intellect. It is the IT giant's second...

Judge sides with Google in smartphone war against Oracle

Google (GOOG) won a key court victory yesterday in Northern California when Federal Judge William Alsup ruled that 37 of Oracle's Java APIs are not protected by copyright law. APIs are the application program interfaces that help different pieces of code work together, and...

Jury finds Google did not infringe Oracle patents

A new chapter in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit: A federal jury said Wednesday that Google (GOOG) did not infringe Oracle (ORCL) patents that protect Oracle's Java technology. The decision came after the jury found earlier in May that Google had infringed Oracle's copyrights...

Eyes on the cloud: SAP, Oracle and EMC announce acquisitions to expand cloud computing

Cloud computing is the new king of the information technology market, and three acquisitions announced this week underscore the point. On Tuesday Germany's SAP AG unveiled its plans to buy cloud-based business commerce network Ariba Inc to expand its cloud presence, in a deal...

Oracle buys ClearTrial to bolster Health Sciences suite

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire ClearTrial, which develops cloud-based clinical trial operations applications. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2012. The two companies did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. ClearTrial, a private company founded in...