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RCR Wireless News names Prescott Latin America editor in chief

RCR Wireless News has named Roberta Prescott editor in chief of RCR Wireless News Latin America, as the news group expands its global coverage of the mobile and wireless industry.Prescott will be responsible for reporting news and analysis coming out the region, interviewing key...

Contracts: Tellabs & Celeste; Nokia Siemens wins 2 contracts; and more

TellabsFrance: With French broadband Internet service provider CELESTE to exclusively provide the nationwide optical transport network in order to expand its high performance and high bandwidth fiber optic network to all major cities in France.Value: UndisclosedNokia Siemens Networks China: With China Mobile has successfully...

Employee engagement: A competitive advantage

Editor's Note:John Williams is a human resource consultant to RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers who is blogging on HR matters that impact the wireless industry, including hiring and retaining employees as the economy improves. In a tight labor market, will your employees jump ship? May's...

Bits & Bytes: GSA announces 3 new members; Jumptap receives new patent; and more

Orange Business Services is introducing Business Together as a Service, a unified communication solution designed to enable an innovative way of working and collaborating. Business Together as a Service allows Unified Communications solutions to be offered via the cloud, using an “as a service”...

Partnerships: G&D's new SIM card; Sybase wins over Dutch-Bangla Bank; and more

Red Bend Software, Mobile Software Management (MSM), announced that BYD Electronic Company Limited of China, manufacturer of mobile handset components and modules, has licensed Red Bend's vRapid Mobile

Capital Markets: Hyerta Communications announces IPO; TelePacific acquires Tel West; and more

Hytera Communications China, the parent company of Miramar-based Hytera Communications Co., Ltd., has announced the successful Initial Public Offering on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange of 70 million shares at an initial price of $3.06/share. Total authorized capital is 278 million shares. The...

Contracts: Clarity in Indonesia; MP Antenna wins gov contract; and more

ClarityIndonesia: With PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (TELKOM) to rollout next phase to enable Fulfilment and Assurance capabilities for TELKOM’s broadband access network.Value: UndisclosedConvergys Corporation China: With G-Net, a Beijing, China-based provider of telecommunications services to implement a single convergent billing platform comprised of Rating...

Movers & Shakers: ICANN's new VP Europe; Payfone appoints COO; and more

Movial announced the appointment of Joakim Hedenstedt as Head of EMEA Sales and Marketing, Movial Creative Technologies (Movial CT). Mr. Hedenstedt is responsible for accelerating growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and will lead Movial CT's sales and marketing initiatives to expand...

Weekly Roundup: Top stories from around the globe

SINGAPORE – RCR Wireless News Editor Sylvie Barak reports on top stories from around the globe, including the CommunicAsia2011 trade show; Global Foundries' decision to cut its top management team; Research In Motion Ltd.'s (RIM) disappointing quarterly results and a long-rumored Facebook iPad application...

Capital Markets: AdaptiveMobile acquires Sentry Wireless; Glympse receives funding; and more

CML Microsystems Plc , a mixed-signal semiconductor company headquartered close to London, England, has acquired the exclusive rights to the RALCWI low bit-rate vocoder products from Spirit Corp, a Moscow based software company. CML originally licensed RALCWI from Spirit a few years ago to...

Contracts: Alcatel-Lucent in Russia; Huawei with TDC; and more

Alcatel-LucentRussia: With State Corporation Russian Technologies to develop and manufacture Long Term Evolution (LTE) components customized for the Russian market. The companies will set up a R&D Center in St. Petersburg operated by Alcatel-Lucent RT that will be fully integrated with Alcatel-Lucent's wireless operations....

Movers & Shakers: Samsung announces new CMO; Alcatel-Lucent introduces new exec; and more

BroadHop Inc., policy control platforms for telecom operators, announced it has expanded its management team, appointing Steven D. Adams to the newly created role of Vice President, Customer Operations. Adams will lead BroadHop's global customer deployment, support and professional services teams supporting...

KDDI's Okinaka, China Telecom, Sprint and others win CDG awards

GUANGZHOU, China — Dr. Hideo Okinaka, VP of emerging technologies and industry standards at KDDI Corp., was recognized for his industry leadership with an award from the CDMA Development Group.The organization honored individuals and companies as part of its 2011 CDG Industry Achievement Awards...

Capital Markets: Google bets on Admeld; Qualcomm acquires Rapid Bridge; and more

Qualcomm announced it has agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Rapid Bridge LLC, a San Diego-based inventor of advanced techniques for the design and development of semiconductor products. Rapid Bridge's San Diego design team and San Diego/Bangalore engineering services operations will...

Contracts: Alcatel-Lucent with MTS; Huawei & Telus with Carlton Univ; and more

Alcatel-LucentRussia: With Mobile TeleSystems, telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS, for the modernization of MTS transport infrastructure by deploying a mobile IP network. MTS has selected Alcatel-Lucent's IP/MPLS-based mobile backhaul solution to gain more flexibility and efficiency following the introduction of 3G mobile...

Partnerships: Ember Corporation with Visonic; Mashable & Pepsi; and more

Ember Corporation, provider of low-power, wireless mesh networking technology, and Visonic Ltd., developer and manufacturer of wireless home security and safety systems and components, announced a partnership to integrate ZigBee communication protocols with Visonic security peripherals. Following joint development efforts by the two companies,...

Contracts: Device with IBM; Ericsson wins contract with Australia's NBN; and more

The following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: DeviceAnywhereUnited States: With HP to expand support for HP application testing environments with integrations to the latest versions of HP Quality Center (QC) and QuickTest Professional (QTP). The company also signed a new strategic...

Southern California region sheds 1,600 telecom jobs in April

The greater Los Angeles metro area shed more jobs in the telecommunications sector in April, continuing an ongoing downward trend, according to new data from the Department of Labor.All six geographic areas tracked by RCR Wireless News in the Southern California region lost telecommunications-related...

Telecom, computer jobs inch up in May

The telecommunications sector saw a 3,400 bump in jobs from April to May, but was still down 33,400 positions from a year ago, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the wireless industry subsector, which lags a month behind in statistics, 400 more...

Partnership: Laird announces new distributor; Twitter partners with Photobucket & Firefox; and more

Laird Technologies, design and supply of customized components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless products, announced it has signed SE Spezial-Electronic AG as a distributor in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Poland for its wireless M2M products. Laird Technologies designs a complete line of...

Capital Markets: TinyCo's not so TinyFund; Mavenir's new acquisition and funds; and more

TinyCo a leading developer of iOS and Android games, announced the launch of the TinyFund -- a $5 million gaming fund -- to provide mobile game developers with capital and resources needed to successfully launch their games. Developers around the world are invited to...

Contracts: Alcatel-Lucent adds Microsoft CRM; ZTE with Ncell; and more

Following are infrastructure contracts announced during the past week: Alcatel-Lucent Africa: With Microsoft to extend customer management solution to include Microsoft Dynamics CRM. The customer management solution is part of Alcatel-Lucent's Business Support System (BSS) suite which includes customer information systems such as call...

Bits & Bytes: Tekelec introduces new CEM; TM Forum awards; and more

AFL has signed an agreement to acquire TCC Group, a leading telecommunications network implementation and integration provider based in Bracknell, United Kingdom. TCC Group will join the AFL global portfolio to provide communications services to the European market.Tekelec, the mobile broadband solutions company, introduced...

Partnerships: Yahoo! will power Nokia Mail; Zayo Group joins Dark Fiber Community; and more

DLT Solutions, value-added reseller in government IT software and services, and XO Communications announced an agreement to provide federal government agencies with communications and networking solutions. Through the arrangement, DLT Solutions will offer XO Communications' broad portfolio of IP communications, hosted IT and...