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Vendor strategy N57
Sagem and Snecma will merge as expected and the combined entity will take the name of Safran. Sagem has gained control on more than 83% of Snecma equity. Safran will have some 55,000 employees. Benefiting from real successes with air flight companies...
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Vendor strategy N55
Broadcom bought privately held Zeevo, a Bluetooth chipmaker, for $ 32m. Siemens could merge its SBS division with Atos Origin. The combined entity could reach Europe s second rank with about $9bn in revenues. Amdocs unveils its IP Convergence Solution...
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Vendor strategy N53
Siemens invests in 3DiS ( UK ), a machine-to-machine communications expert. Alcatel could buy Ethernet access specialist Native Networks. Fixed networks: Alcatel and Microsoft are developing a joint IPTV management and service delivery platform. Cisco...
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Vendor strategy N52
Motorola invests in Sequoia Comms, an RF semiconductor company. Cisco introduced two new security concepts: email "caller ID" and "self-defending" networks. Fixed networks: Nortel is teaming with IBM on converged multimedia (IMS) services. Mobile networks...
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Vendor strategy N51
Strategies/Organization Strategies/Organization Nokia Venture Partners changed its name to BlueRun Ventures. HP and Cisco are teaming on blade technology for developing a Gigabit Ethernet switch. Microsoft bought Sybari Software, a leading provider of...
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Vendor strategies N50
Alcatel is targeting its way back in the Defense telecom activities. Some Thales Defense telecom activities are directly concerned, but EADS is also interested by that business. In a separate move, Alcatel and Finmeccanica will merge their respective...
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Vendor strategy N49
Nortel and LG have signed a frame agreement to establish a 50/50 JV for the provision of telecom equipment and solutions to mainly Korea and China . Huawei targets to double overseas sales in 2005 to $4bn. In-Fusio , mobile-game publisher, acquires Thumbworks,...
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Vendor strategies 24-01-05 N48
Oracle said it will lay-off about 5,000 people, or 9% of the combined Oracle/Peoplesoft workforce in its international entities. HP will not break into 2 or 3 entities (as rumored in past mont hs), but will merge its Printing and Personal Computer divisions....
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vendor strategies 17-01-05 N47
Cisco will resell EMC's NAS products, and it will buy Airespace, a wireless LAN switch vendor, for $450m. IBM has acquired SRD, a provider of identity resolution software. In another move, it will give free access to 500 patents. Tut Systems bought Cosine...
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Strategy- 10-01-05 - N46
Strategies/Organization Tellabs bought Vinci Systems, a developer of optical networking terminals (ONTs) for fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) access systems , for $52.5m in cash. UTStarcom has unveiled its F-1000 Wi-Fi handset, allowing placing a VoIP call using...
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Market researches - 31/08/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, mobile TV will begin to take off in the next two years, and predicts that more than 10% of all U.S. mobile users will subscribe to mobile video services by 2009. Windows dominates...
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Market researches - 25/08/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, mobile users continue to opt for streaming music services over wireless video services. Furthermore, video sevices are more costly and need digital rights management technology....
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Market researches - 23/08/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, 148m EDGE handsets should be shipped this year (14% of the global handset market) IDC forecasts that TV and video services will drive the DSL IC chipset market. The number...
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Market researches - 20/08/06
A few set of market information released this week: Mobile WiMAX could exceed fixed WiMAX soon. Fixed WiMAX sales would hit the peak in 2007 before giving way to mobile WiMAX in 2008. According to In-Stat, China has 20% of urban households equipped with...
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Market researches - 06/08/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Juniper Research, mobile WiMAX will gradually replace fixed WiMAX. Mobile WiMAX could have 1.7m subscribers in 2007 and 21.3m in 2012. Firefox has reached 200m web downloadings and is given...
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Market researches - 29/07/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, mobile data revenues rose 2% to $102bn in 2005. According to Canalys, smart mobile device shipments rose by 55.5 % to 18.9m units in 2Q06. In 2006, the Italian telecom market is...
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Market researches - 24/07/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Harris Interactive, Americans are not keen on sending pictures and videos with their cell phone. 58% of mobile users state they have not used any of these services; 18% have sent pictures,...
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Market researches - 28/06/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to In-Stat, there would be more than 132m converged cellular/WiFi devices in use by 2010. More than 20 combo devices are already available. Carriers would not be able to resist the trend much...
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Market researches - 24/06/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to ABI Research, more than 500m users are expected to subscribe to mobile TV in the world by 2011, up from 6.4m at the end of 2005. In-Stat forecasts 100m+ users by the end of 2010. Juniper...
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Market researches - 20/06/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Informa, mobile music revenues should reach $13bn by 2011, most of it still in ringstones while its portion is decreasing. Frost & Sullivan found that the European enterprise voice equipment...
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Market researches - 16/06/06
A few set of market information released this week: 95% of European teenagers (12-18) have their own mobile phone. According to Berg Insight, shipments of handset based personal navigation solutions in Western Countries could reach 12m units by 2009,...
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Market researches - 14/06/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to IDC, Worldwide broadband subscriptions will nearly double to reach 400m in 2010, from 205m at the end of 2005. According to Telecom Trends International, the HSDPA infra market would reach...
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Market researches - 09/06/06
A few set of market information released this week: · According to In-Stat, the global market for media gateways and Class 4 and 5 softswitches will jump from $2.7bn in 2005 to $8.4bn in 2010. Huawei and Nortel lead the market. · ABI Research is assessing...
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Market researches -07/06/06
A few set of market information released this week: According to Infonetics, the WiMAX equipment market revenues were $68m in 1Q06, up 48% sequentially. The market should be worth $1.7bn by 2009. Around 30% of WiMAX equipment comes from EMEA, 26% from...
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Market researches - 02/06/06
A few set of market information released this week: · According to In-Stat, more than 289m UWB chipsets should be shipped in 2010. UWB chipset shipments will start in late 2006. · Idate forecasts 250m VOIP lines in the world in 2011, from current 25m...