Orange Business Services Partners with Cisco in Latin America

Orange Business Services is working together with Cisco to offer managed unified communications and collaboration services to companies in Latin America. Specifically, Orange supports enterprise customers in the region with three managed services for Cisco Collaboration solutions: Cisco Unified Communications, based on Cisco Unified IP telephony solutions, including a managed LAN service; a managed end-to-end Cisco TelePresence offer; and a Web collaboration service via Cisco WebEx. Orange's Cisco Certified TelePresence now spans 44 countries,...

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Sony Ericsson's Handset Shipments Up 2% in Q3 but Down 45% Year-over-Year

Sony Ericsson shipped 14.1 million mobile phones in Q3 2009, an increase of 2% quarter-on-quarter and a decrease of 45% year-on-year. Sales for the quarter were Euro 1,619 million, a sequential decrease of 4% and a year-on-year decrease of 42%. The sequential decline in ASP (Average Selling Price) was due to product mix and continued challenging market conditions.Sony Ericsson forecasts that the global handset market for 2009 will contract by approximately 10% from around 1,190 million units in 2008. Sony Ericsson estimates that its market share...

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Nokia Shuffles Management Team

Following its earnings report last week, Nokia announced two senior management changes.Rick Simonson, currently Nokia Chief Financial Officer, has been appointed to head of the Mobile Phones entity within the Devices unit. He will also head strategic sourcing for the whole of the Devices unit. Simonson joined Nokia in 2001 and has been CFO since 2004. He will continue to be a member of the Group Executive Board. Timo Ihamuotila, currently global...

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Beceem Selects Mindspeed's Gateway Processor

Beceem Communications, a leading provider of mobile WiMAX chips, has selected Mindspeed's Comcerto 100 broadband gateway processor for use within its BCS5200 customer premise equipment (CPE) chip for residential, small office/home office (SOHO), small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) and enterprise applications. Beceem's BCS5200 is a single-chip WiMAX device with integrated voice and gateway router functionality. Mindspeed's Comcerto 100 processor combines a high-performance virtual private network (VPN)/wide area network (WAN) router platform with...

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Charter's Bankruptcy Case Advances in Court

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has indicated that it intends to confirm Charter Communications' pre-arranged Joint Plan of Reorganization and issue a confirmation order within the next several weeks. Charter expects to emerge from Chapter 11 shortly thereafter. Charter Communications ranks as the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States. http://www.charter....

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Insider Trading Case Implicates a Managing Director at Intel Capital

The Securities and Exchange Commission formally charged billionaire Raj Rajaratnam and his New York-based hedge fund advisory firm Galleon Management LP with engaging in a massive insider trading scheme. Charges were also brought against senior executives at major companies IBM, Intel and McKinsey & Company. Rajiv Goel, a managing director at Intel Capital, allegedly provided inside information to Rajaratnam about certain Intel quarterly earnings and a pending joint venture concerning Clearwire Corp., in which Intel had invested. One of the...

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Ekinops Introduces a Multi-Protocol ADM Solution

Ekinops has expanded its optical transport portfolio with a multi-protocol/multi-rate ADM (add/drop multiplexing) for aggregating converged traffic in business Ethernet, triple-play, wireless backhaul, and broadband backhaul applications.The new capability allows for many different protocols (uncompressed video, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, SONET/SDH) and many different rates (ranging from as low as 10/100 or OC-3/STM-1) to be aggregated over a single...

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Obama Promotes Cyber Security Awareness

President Barack Obama released an online video calling on all Americans to be careful online. Specifically, Obama cited three basic cybersecurity principles:1. Keep security and software systems up-to-date and beware of suspicious email.2. Always know who you are dealing with online3. Never give out your personal or financial information until you verify the recipient is legitimate.http://www.whitehouse.govhttp://www.staysafeonline.o...

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Alcatel-Lucent Appoints Head for its Middle East Business

Alcatel-Lucent has appointed Nicolas Bouverot as vice president and head of the company's business in the Middle East region. He will assume overall responsibility for managing day-today operations as well as taking the lead on strategic business directions for Alcatel-Lucent in the Middle East, reporting to the President of Alcatel-Lucent in Middle East and Africa. Nicolas succeeds Mazen Hamadallah who has decided to leave the company. Most recently, Bouverot was Alcatel-Lucent's Global Account Director for Etisalat. Previously he held several...

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ATSC Adopts Mobile DTV Standard

The Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) voted to approve the A/153 ATSC Mobile DTV Standard, which is the set of technical specifications necessary for broadcasters to provide new services to mobile and handheld devices using their digital television (DTV) transmissions. Formal development of the ATSC Mobile DTV system began in May 2007 with the issuance of http://www.convergedigest.com/qa655.aspa request for Proposals (RFP).Mobile DTV...

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