Author: TelecomWeb :: Breaking News in the Global Telecom Industry - Daily
31
Jul
Results of a recent global survey indicates "significant and rapid adoption of virtualization solutions within the enterprise," with some 72 percent of businesses polled affirming they've already deployed or soon will deploy virtualization solutions. The results from an independent, Web-based Yankee Group...
Author: TelecomWeb :: Breaking News in the Global Telecom Industry - Daily
31
Jul
VoX Communications is partnering with the operating companies of Charles Street Partners (CSP), purported to be one of the largest and fastest growing wireless broadband Internet and voice providers in North America, to provide wholesale VoIP phone services. With a nationwide VoIP network and internally...
Author: TelecomWeb :: Breaking News in the Global Telecom Industry - Daily
31
Jul
Moonwalk Inc., an Australian developer of data-management and -protection software, says its Moonwalk 6.0 Software has been certified compatible with the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, "giving customers powerful new capabilities for managing the lifecycle of unstructured data across the enterprise."...
Author: TelecomWeb :: Breaking News in the Global Telecom Industry - Daily
31
Jul
Indian telecom giant Tata Communications has launched a pair of global Ethernet services for multinational enterprises to create wide area networks (WANs) across India and onward to major business centers in North America as well as Asia, Europe and Africa. The two services, Dedicated Point-to-Multipoint...
Author: TelecomWeb :: Breaking News in the Global Telecom Industry - Daily
31
Jul
Hosted business VoIP provider SimpleSignal has gone to market with a unified communications (UC) offering that lets users manage calendar items in Microsoft Outlook using just voice commands. The new service, dubbed SimplyMobile and aimed at the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) market, can also "read"...
Author: TelecomWeb :: Breaking News in the Global Telecom Industry - Daily
31
Jul
Motorola surprised the industry this morning by reporting a tiny profit, instead of an expected loss, with its Enterprise Mobility products winning top honors for turning the trick along with strong results in its Home and Networks Mobility unit. Cellular sales, meanwhile, continued to plummet in dollar...
Author: CommunicationsDirect News
30
Jul
IBM said Monday that it has reached an agreement to acquired ILOG, a
French developer of software that helps businesses manage logistics
and back office operations. Under the deal, IBM will pay
about $340 million to buy ILOG. The amount represents a 37% premium
over the NASDAQ-listed company's closing share price Friday....
Author: CommunicationsDirect News
30
Jul
Alcatel-Lucent made its first official move in the 3G CDMA femtocell
market today with the announcement that it will work with Airvana
Inc. to develop a CDMA EV-DO femtocell solution that is based on IP
Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The news won't come as a
complete shock to femto followers as the two companies staged a...
Author: CommunicationsDirect News
30
Jul
Middle East and African operator Zain reported earnings for the first
half of the year that reflect a subscriber base surpassing the 50
million mark as the carrier invests in expansion across the region.
As Zain reported during the weekend, revenues for the first half
increased by 26 percent from a year ago, to $3.49 billion,...
Author: CommunicationsDirect News
30
Jul
How’s this for a lofty business goal? Take on Google and win.
That is what startup Cuil, pronounced “cool,” plans to
do as it launches its competitive search engine today. The
company, which is composed of former Google employees, claims its
search engine covers more than three times as many Web pages as...