Siemens has landed a deal to provide its EDGE-based wireless module to @Road to support data interchange worldwide. Nokia is providing its Push-to-Talk solution to Mobilkom Austria.

Terabeam Wireless has completed its acquisition of nearly all Proxim assets. Proxim will now operate as Proxim Wireless. ADC completes its acquisition of Fiber Optic Network Solutions.

Intel has unveiled its new multimedia home platform, called VIIV. PCs with VIIV will be sold with Windows Media Center Edition software. Intel targets multimedia-oriented PC makers with its turnkey built-in audio, video and network platform. HP will invest...

Orange believes in mobile video. It recently gave information on its Orange Intense service: 50 TV programs, free access during the week-ends for one year, free multimedia pass for one mobile TV hour per month (beyond, World Intense pre-paid packages...

A few set of market information released this week: In-Stat forecasts that the RFID market to reach $7bn by 2009, while Datamonitor assesses tha market at $6bn in 2010. 43% of the market should be in NA, 33% in EMEA, 21% in APAC, and 3% in LATAM. Samsung...

France: 7.9m broadband customers in June, of which 7.4m ADSL and 0.5m cable. Mexico: there are 18.9m fixed lines in the country (or a 17.7% teledensity) and 42.5m mobile users.

Andrew bought Nortel' s wireless location business, and will integrate Nortel's mobile-location business into its own Geometrix business. Nokia has finally been allowed to recoup losses related to Telsim's loan defaults by the Turkish government. Samsung...

Alcatel and Telecom New Zealand will build a NG IP voice platform. The new network will begin delivering triple play - voice, video and data – services. Ciena will deploy its Optical Ethernet Platform across western New York for Adelphia (USA).

T-Systems , data processing arm of Deutsche Telecom, could be mulling an alliance with Atos Origin (France), to form the second largest data processing company in Europe. The rumor has amplified in recent weeks, but the form of the alliance is not yet...

Teliasonera (Sandinavia) is buying Chess/Sense, number 3 in the Norwegian market, for € 203m. Telefonica de Argentina has announced that it will launch VoIP for residential customers in 2006. Taiwan is eying issuing WiMAX licenses, but is planning to...