Bill Gates and company used this year's RSA conference to set several more stakes in the security market and to try once again to convince everyone that Microsoft is a ...

Orange rolls out its strategic Business Everywhere product in Belgium, through Mobistar. ADSL, HSDPA, WiFi and VoIP telephony are all on the roadmap. UK mobile competitors, take note. ...

USi continues to take a low key approach to the market, working with its India operations to keep costs down and remain in the hunt against tough competitors such as ...

Cisco is seeing its vision of converged IP communications fully realised, and the company is reaping the benefits in terms of sales in the European enterprise telephony market, all in ...

HP created a new division focused on its smartphones; the fact that HP makes smartphones at all would come as a surprise to many people, which is the reason why ...

Intrinsyc launches a development platform for Windows CE-based feature phones. Offering a feature rich solution, faster development and lower costs; this platform appeals to a wider audience, helping to bring ...

VSNL completed its acquisition of Teleglobe, creating a wholesale powerhouse with unmatched global submarine, terrestrial, and satellite capacity. The carrier faces challenges in the integration, and it must improve its ...

Telefonica is deploying VoIP services to residential customers and SMEs in Spain based on an IMS deployment with Ericsson, with BroadSoft as the application server partner. It is taking the ...

Lucent's new BSR makes good on promises of "flat IP" networking and could help with WCDMA momentum. More intriguing, however, are plans to expand the concept to new technologies - ...

Nokia and Sanyo announced that they will combine their CDMA businesses into a separate company. A JV looks good on paper but will face enormous challenges, from serious resource allocation ...

Tellabs announces the world's smallest Multiservice Provisioning Platform (MSPP), the 6325, which features fault-tolerant hardware, redundant power supplies, and Ethernet and TDM Pseudowire support in only a single RU ...

Nortel announced its Secure Network Access Switch and Secure Network Access Architecture, getting itself squarely into the policy-managed network admission control and posture assessment markets. ...

In delivering its IMS portfolio on an ATCA-based platform, Nortel has earned the right to lay claim to some aspect of market leadership in the IMS arena. Shadowing the strategic ...

Verizon Business added SAS 70 Type II certification for its hosting centers, expanding the number of centers that have achieved this certification, and ensuring that it remains competitive with clients ...

The digital home market for some companies has existed as a mythic space for which competition is limited and the end result is a black box, but users' demands for ...

A third client interface for Live Communication Server not only extends IM to mobile users, but also includes telephony presence. However, the absence of advanced call features provides telephony developers ...

T-Mobile USA's Messaging Value Bundles deliver on cost and simplicity, two critical factors in driving usage. New marketing alliances with the NBA and expanded MMS inter-operability further speak to T-Mobile's ...

IBM has made strides to unify its BPM tooling and debuted an ESB product, and a lower cost Process Server product to replace the WBI bundle. This brings it closer ...

Asia Netcom continues to make progress towards financial recovery. Margins are up, network coverage in Asia is comprehensive and customer numbers are on the increase. The move into VoIP and ...

Orange and Vodafone are finalising an agreement to link their IM communities and are appealing to other operators to sign up to this initiative. With interoperability essential for any new ...