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Marconi will shortly announce the results of its headcount and operations review following its failure to become BT s 21CN supplier. In a first run, it will cut 800 jobs in the UK, but it is said that two thirds of its U.K. workforce could be concerned....
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People
SBC cuts 1800 jobs in 1Q05, and expects to cut 7,000 jobs in 2005. Telstra is expected to cut about 1,500 jobs this year. Microsoft named Chris Liddell as new CFO. Marconi is to cut up to 3,000 jobs, or two thirds of U.K. workforce, as it failed to be...
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People - N60
Teliasonera will fir some 650 jobs, of which 330 will be dismissed. Siebel has named George T. Shaheen as CEO, as former CEO Shaheen, 60, resigned by mutual agreement. He will be the company's third CEO in almost a year. Telecom companies cut workforce...
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People N58
HP has named Mark Hurd as its new CEO. He said his primary focus will be on execution and creating shareholder value. Mark Hurd is coming from NCR. Nortel hired another Cisco guy to become its CTO. After enrolling Gary Daichendt, Nortel has named Gary...
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People - 14/1/06
Nortel named former GE executive Don McKenna as its new vice president of Global Manufacturing Services. Bruce Claflin, 3Com CEO for five years, will retire. Heinz Sundt, Telekom Austria CEO, will step down on 23 May, and will be replaced by Boris Nemsic...
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People - N51
Vodafone named Bill Morrow president of Vodafone K.K. in Japan and Shiro Tsuda executive chairman and chairman of Vodafone K.K.'s board effective April 1. Tim Miles will take over Morrow's position as chief executive of Vodafone UK . Robert Wayman has...
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People 17-01-05 N47
HP hired Steve Smith, a Lucent executive, as boss of its fast-growing managed services business. Graeme Allan has been appointed vice president for Northern Europe of Alcatel Enterprise Solutions. Kristin Rinne, Chief Technology Officer for Cingular Wireless,...
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People - 5/1/06
Siemens Communications has named Berndt Baumgartl as the new President and CEO of the company. Jean-Louis Constanza, CEO of Tele2' s French unit and market area director for Southern Europe, has resigned. He will be replaced by Oliver Anstett as CEO French...
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Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008
During its latest Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gartner highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will impact most organizations. It is interesting to list these technologies, and you can refer to Gartner for further information: 1- Green IT, with...
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APAC operators
At the end of 2Q07, APAC reached 1.2bn mobile subscribers, with three dominant countries: China with almost 500m, India with over 175m and Japan with about 110m. China and India also dominate the market in terms of new subscriptions: +75m in 1H07 and...
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Wi-Fi Usage
In early WiFi days, WiFi was thought for travelers and road warriors. As such, hotspots were mainly deployed in airports or hotels; access was given as a paid service, or included in another services (hotel i.e.). Another phase comes up when municipalities...
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Agenda - 28/06/06
IDEF 2006, Interactive and Digital Entertainment Festival. 28-30/06 2006 Cannes, France www.afjv.com VON Japan 2006 July 19-21, 2006, Tokyo, Japan. www.von.com/japan06/ VoiceCon Fall 2006 August 21-24, 2006, Moscone Center San Francisco, California. www.voicecon.com/fall/call-for-papers.php...
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Agenda 24/06/06
IDEF 2006, Interactive and Digital Entertainment Festival. 28-30/06 2006 Cannes, France www.afjv.com VON Japan 2006 July 19-21, 2006, Tokyo, Japan. www.von.com/japan06/ VoiceCon Fall 2006 August 21-24, 2006, Moscone Center San Francisco, California. www.voicecon.com/fall/call-for-papers.php]...
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MBMS for mobile TV?
At a moment when EU and many other countries have decided to deploy DVB-H standard for mobile TV, a concert of speakers at the Broadband World Forum Europe event in Germany, voiced to support MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) as THE mobile...
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Market corner - 13/10/07
A few set of market information released this week: According to the DSL Forum and Point Topic, IPTV customer base rose 179% to over 8.2m by June 2007, of which over 60% in Europe. APAC accounted for 27% and Americas for over 13%. According to Point Topic,...
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Agenda - 06/05/06
Africa Telecommunication and ICT Conference. 13-17/05 2006 Nairobi, Kenia www.nepadcouncil.org ICIN2006 Advance Programme 29/05-1/06 Bordeaux (France) www.icin-conference.com and icin2006@adera.fr CommunicAsia 2006 & BroadcastAsia 20-23/06 Singapore www.communicasia.com...
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Global vendor strategies - 13/10/07
SAP has made a €4.8bn bid on Business Object. Nokia finalized the acquisition of Enpocket, a mobile marketing firm. Google is said to be working on a free Linux-based mobile operating system. NEC, Opera and Freescale are jointly developing a new solution...
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Agenda - 29/04/06
Africa Telecommunication and ICT Conference. 13-17/05 2006 Nairobi, Kenia www.nepadcouncil.org ICIN2006 Advance Programme 29/05-1/06 Bordeaux (France) www.icin-conference.com and icin2006@adera.fr CommunicAsia 2006 & BroadcastAsia 20-23/06 Singapore www.communicasia.com...
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Agenda - 15/04/06
Games & Mobile Forum 26/04/ 2006 New York www.gamesandmobile.com Africa Telecommunication and ICT Conference. 13-17/05 2006 Nairobi, Kenia www.nepadcouncil.org ICIN2006 Advance Programme 29/05-1/06 Bordeaux (France) www.icin-conference.com and icin2006@adera.fr...
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Agenda 23-8-05
Storage Networking World. 6-7/09 2005 Frankfurt, Germany www.snweurope.com HSPDA Conference . 6-7/09 2005 London, UK www.telecoms.com/hspda GSM World Middle East, Gulf & North Africa. 11-12/ 09 2005 Dubai UAE www.gsmconferences.com Submarine Networks...
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Agenda - 10/07/05
VON 2005 19-22/09/05 Boston , US http://von.com 4th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology. 21-23/09 Geneva IUT SIIT 2005 www.siit2005.org ITU Telecom Americas 2005 2-6/10 Salvator de Bahia Brazil www.itu.org...
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Agenda - 2/7/05
Ubifrance Conference on Domotics , 7/7/05 , China Trade World Center Beijing China, www.ubifrance.fr VON 2005 19-22/09/05 Boston, US http://von.com 4th International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology. 21-23/09 Geneva...
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Agenda - 4/3/06
WTDC-06. World Telecom development 1-15/03 2006 Doha Qatar www.itu.int CeBIT 2006 9-15/03 2006 Hannover Germany http://www.cebit.de/ Spring 2006 VON 14-17/03 2006 San Jose http://pulver.com/von Beyond 3G Technologies. 21-23/03 Madrid Spain www.umts-forum.org...
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Agenda - 26/02/06
Digital Music Forum 28/02-01/03 2006 New York www.digitalmusicforum.com WTDC-06. World Telecom development 1-15/03 2006 Doha Qatar www.itu.int CeBIT 2006 9-15/03 2006 Hannover Germany http://www.cebit.de/ Spring 2006 VON 14-17/03 2006 San Jose http://pulver.com/von...
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Fixed vendor strategies - 13/10/07
ALU claims it is leading the WiMAX market with 15 commercial contracts and 70 trial networks worldwide. Last week, it introduces a 7705 Service Aggregation router, an All-IP microwave transport platform, a 1850 transport service switch, and said it targets...