Global vendor strategies - 16/02/06

Publié le 16 février 2006 par Arnal

Microsoft made a strategic partnership with Motorola that will put its Media Center software on phones hitting the market later this year. It also said in a separate announcement that it has acquired mobile search company MotionBridge.

IBM bought Viacore.

Alcatel and Oracle have joined forces to develop and market a convergent billing system for fixed and mobile telecoms operators worldwide.

Nokia' s sales in China, grew by 29% to €3.8bn in 2005, and its mobile phone sales in China in 2005 reached 33m units.

HP plans to split its hand-held-device business from its notebook-computer business, in order to implement a new growth strategy.

Nortel announced aggressive plans to evolve its wireless and wireline platforms to the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA).

Intracom Telecom (Greece) sold some assets to Sistema (Russia) for €120m.

STMicroelectronics rolls out wireless LAN chip for Wi-Fi enabled mobile handsets.