Intel has announced that its board of directors has promoted William M. Holt to serve as senior vice president, and also elected Sohail U. Ahmed, Stacy J. Smith and Richard G.A. Taylor as corporate officers.

Sun Microsystems has announced a new global cooperation with Ericsson and Nokia that aims to unite the Network Equipment Provider (NEP) community and assist telecommunications operators and service providers. Coming together as the Telecommunications Platform Initiative, members are jo

For the second consecutive year, Motorola iRadio was named Best Radio Service at the 2006 Billboard Digital Entertainment, Media + Marketing Excellence Awards (DEMMX), held last evening in Los Angeles. The award ceremony was part of the two-day Digital Entertainment, Media + Marketing

Cisco has announced that Numericable, the largest cable operator in France, has started a nationwide upgrade of its network based on the Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture to bring ultra-high-speed (up to 100+ megabits per second) broadband services to more than 9 m

Canadian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are taking a 'big business' approach to their technology investments and becoming more sophisticated, according to findings released from the Net Impact SME Canada 2006 study.

Cisco has announced that it has been chosen by the largest community college in the Netherlands, the Amsterdam Regional Community College (Regionaal Opleidingencentrum van Amsterdam or ROCvA), to provide voice, mobility and security services for delivering teacher tools and innovative

Cingular Wireless has named Andy Shibley vice president and general manager of the Greater Los Angeles market, which includes Los Angeles, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange Counties.

Nokia has showcased its recent momentum in fueling the next wave of enterprise mobility. Speaking at the company´s annual investor and customer events in Amsterdam, Mary McDowell, executive vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Solutions division of Nokia, discussed the

Nokia has announced that users of the Nokia N80 Internet Edition will have easy access to low-cost calls over the Internet with SIPphone´s Gizmo Voice over IP (VoIP) services. The Nokia N80 Internet Edition is optimized for SIP-based Internet calls, and now Nokia and SIPphone have work

Sierra Wireless and M2M Connectivity, a wireless module distributor for machine-to-machine (M2M) products and applications, have announced they have signed an agreement for the distribution of Sierra Wireless 3G embedded modules in Australia and New Zealand. Under the terms of the agre

As the Kelsey Group's Interactive Local Media Conference kicked off in Philadelphia, InfoSpace announced the availability of a 60-day free trial of their enhanced mobile local search product InfoSpace Find It! for mobile customers with select handsets. The new InfoSpace Find It! combin

The National Football League and Verizon Communications have agreed to deliver live NFL Network sports and entertainment programming via Verizon's consumer broadband services, beginning Dec. 7 with the matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns. Verizon already of

Motorola has announced that it has been selected by BT to supply Mesh Wi-Fi network infrastructure and services for six of BT's Wireless City initiatives across the UK. The contract will see Motorola design, deploy and manage city-wide Wi-Fi networks with BT in, for example, Birmingham

Edith Cowan University (ECU) is launching Australia's first-ever postgraduate degree in mobile computing supported by training material from global networking company Nortel. Nortel's participation will give ECU's Master of Mobile Computing students hands-on experience in many aspects

IBM has announced it has agreed to acquire Vallent Corporation, a privately held company based in Bellevue, Washington with more than 400 employees. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and is anticipated to close in the first quarter

Motorola has announced the global debut of the highly anticipated MOTOFONE at an event held in New Delhi, India. MOTOFONE is set to redefine the mobile phone market place and strengthen Motorola's drive to connect the next billion mobile phone users. The Indian launch will be followed

Nokia today introduces the Nokia Flexi EDGE Base Station, a new revolutionary product for building out GSM/EDGE networks more cost effectively and quickly than ever before. In developing the Flexi EDGE Base Station, the smallest on the market, Nokia has taken full advantage of its late

At Nokia World, Nokia is introducing core network solutions that leverage the possibilities of IP to expand operators´ service portfolios, while keeping full control over their network usage. 'Nokia is embracing the vision of telecommunications that IP is making possible,' says Roberto

QUALCOMM has announced the launch of its mShop 1.1 shopping client on U.S. Cellular's easyedgeSM wireless data service. mShop, a key feature of QUALCOMM's uiOne offering, brings improved discovery, shopping and promotion capabilities to easyedge, allowing U.S. Cellular to better market

IBM is acquiring Vallent, a leading supplier of network performance monitoring and service management software for wireless service providers worldwide.

At Nokia's annual Capital Market Days taking place in Amsterdam, Nokia announced four new mobile phones including three mid-range models -- the Nokia 6300, Nokia 6290 and the Nokia 6086 -- as well as the Nokia 2626 targeted to consumers in entry markets. All four models are expected to

Verizon has announced three major initiatives to make Indiana even more attractive for customers who want high-speed broadband services and video choice and for people who want to work in the communications industry.

Sandvik, a global engineering group, has selected Verizon Business to expand a Managed Private IP network reaching Sandvik's 41,000 employees at 250 sites in 130 countries across Asia-Pacific, North America, Europe and South Africa.

McCoy's Building Supply has entered into a new three-year agreement with Verizon Business for advanced communications and business continuity services. Verizon Business will help the San Marcos, Texas-based company maintain business operations round-the-clock during severe weather cond

Verizon has announced plans to establish a local video hub office (VHO) that will give the company the ability to deliver video programming over the nation's most comprehensive all-digital, fiber network. Verizon Pennsylvania President William B. Petersen, along with Verizon Vice Presi

Verizon plans to begin offering FiOS TV by the end of December to more than 75,000 households in parts of the county where it has upgraded to an all-fiber network. The company will announce pricing and packages soon. Verizon delivers FiOS TV over the nation's most comprehensive all-dig

Cisco demonstrated the continued success of its SMB Select Partner program by announcing at the Cisco European Channel and SMB Press Forum in Milan that it had doubled its number of partners in Europe to more than 2,300 members this year.

Cisco and Sitronics JSC, the technology company in Russia & CIS, have announced a regional alliance to address the rapidly expanding telecommunications market in Russia and CIS countries (RCIS) and other emerging markets, such as Central and Eastern Europe (CEE); and Middle East and Af

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels announced that it has developed the thinnest reported LCD panel, one no thicker than a credit card at 0.82mm, which is 0.07mm thinner than the panel previously reported to

Samsung launches a new mobile TV phone (model: SGH-P930) to the Italian market this month through Telecom Italia. This newest mobile TV phone combines not only the latest mobile TV technology, but it also combines HSDPA technology which enables high-speed data transmission.

Sierra Wireless and Bouygues Telecom have announced the launch of a new Sierra Wireless PC card on Bouygues' network in France. The Bouygues Telecom 'Carte Internet haut debit mobile,' also known as the Sierra Wireless AirCard 850 wireless wide area network card, is available through B

Sierra Wireless and Orange Business Services have announced that the Sierra Wireless AirCard 850 Mobile PC Card is now available in the United Kingdom. The card is the first 3G+-enabled card offered by Orange and offers mobile professionals a proven, reliable wireless connection in adv

Kyocera Wireless, a global manufacturer of CDMA wireless phones and devices, and Verizon Wireless have announced the availability of the Kyocera K323, a compact camera phone with an internal antenna and Bluetooth wireless technology. The Kyocera K323 is Get It Now enabled and features

A new Cingular Wireless cell site on Morgan Alderman Road in the town of Mims is expanding coverage in Volusia and Seminole counties. The new site is located on the Volusia/Seminole County border and is providing connecting coverage on State Highway 46 between the towns of Geneva and M

Trolltech has announced that China Institute of Communications (CIC) has awarded Trolltech and its flagship product Qtopia, the unrivaled application platform for the efficient creation of Linux-based devices, the '2006 China Mobile Industry Outstanding Performance Award (Platform Solu

QUALCOMM, a developer and innovator of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) and other advanced wireless technologies, has announced the launch of its mShop 1.1 shopping client on U.S. Cellular's easyedgeSM wireless data service. mShop, a key feature of QUALCOMM's uiOne offering, brings

Motorola has announced that Southern Weekend, an influential Chinese business newspaper, rated Motorola the number two spot in its survey of Most Influential Fortune 500 Companies operating in China. It also ranked Motorola highest in a list of Best-Performing Fortune 500 Companies.

Motorola has announced that it has shipped 2 million MOTOMING units in Greater China, making the award-winning, elegantly designed handset the best selling smartphone in China, taking an unprecedented 50% of the country's pen-based PDA market.

T-Mobile has announced the exclusive availability of the Samsung Z560. Packed with the latest technology, the Samsung Z560 also offers the best value open Internet access via a range of web-n-walk plans from T-Mobile. The handset is one of the first consumer devices to offer mobile bro

Mobile Telesystems (MTS), the largest mobile operator in Russia and CIS, has awarded an equipment upgrade and services contract to Motorola, to improve the quality, capacity and performance of its Moscow macro region network, MTS's largest geographic region.