Vendor corner - 27/04/08

Ericsson and two Gulf Arab telecom have applied for information to bid for Egypt' second fixed-line telecom license. They joined nine other companies interested in the auction.

NSN will team with Huawei for next round of TD-SCDMA equipment procurement in China.

ALU will test DVB-SH broadcast mobile TV service with Dish Network (USA) in the 700 MHz band.

Samsung increases its market mobile phone market share to 16%, consolidating its second place in the market, and shipped over 46m units in 1Q08.

Motorola shipped 27.5m handsets in 1Q08, down 40%. It has made an investment in virtualization software maker VirtualLogix.

Sony has bought music identification company Gracenote for $260m.

Siemens planning to sell its cordless phone making division.

Alvarion announced FCC authorization for its 802.16e BreezeMAX 3650 base station and CPE.

Huawei and Qualcomm said they completed Europe' s first MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) field trial with Telecom Italia.

Nokia signed with Sony BMG for music offerings.

Sonus has bought integrated network management firm Atreus.

OKI announced the world's first all-optically regenerated transmission using 160 Gbit/s signals on a single wavelength. The technology would be ready for market in 2010.

Aegis has acquired CardinalPoint.

Google continues pushing open source software with its Google Summer of Code 2008 (over 1100 developers, 177 organizations and 259 man-year R&D for an amount of $5.6m) and with its Android Developer Challenge to create Java applications for the Android platform (current session and another one in 2H08, each with a $5m price).

Apple will buy PA Semi, a specialist in low-power chipsets.