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‘Tis the Season for Enterprise-Class Tablet Apps: New IBM Software Encourages Safe, Secure Social Networking

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:21:08 +0000

IBM today unveiled seven new social networking and collaboration mobile apps specifically designed to address enterprise-class requirements. The new software, available for download today from the most popular app stores, takes IBM industry-lead...

Exclusive: Huawei employees ask U.S. for right to compete

Stephanie N. Mehta, Executive Editor — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:10:26 +0000

The fast-growing gear maker has been thwarted in the U.S. by national security concerns. Now, employees are rallying on behalf of the company.

FORTUNE -- Earlier this year Fortune chronicled China-based telecom equipment maker Huawei's efforts to win private contracts in the United States. Thus far the fast-growing gear maker, which last year had sales of $27 billion, has been thwarted by national security concerns.

Now FORTUNE has learned that external relations MORE

IT Professionals Predict Watson Technology To Transform Education Industry

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:00:53 +0000

Developers around the world believe IBM Watson’s sophisticated analytics capabilities will transform industries that are managing massive amounts of data, according to the 2011 IBM Tech Trends Report released today. Survey respondents selected...

Mobile Device Retail Traffic to More Than Double This November Holiday Season, Reports IBM

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:34:05 +0000

During this year's November holiday season an unprecedented 15 percent of people in the U.S. logging onto a retailer's Web site are expected to do so through a mobile device, according to cloud analytics-based findings by IBM ...

Eurotech and IBM Contribute Software to Connect Next Generation of Wireless and Mobile Devices

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:16:02 +0000

IBM and Eurotech (ETH.MI) today announced that they are contributing software to accelerate and support the development of a new generation of smarter wireless and mobile devices. The technology, which could become the basis for a new standard o...

IBM Launches Netezza Appliance to Help Communications Services Providers Analyze Networks and Gain Consumer Insight

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:24:29 +0000

Netezza Appliance, Scott Stainken, IBM Global Telecommunications Industry,Jamey Molsbee, executive director at XO Communications E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us Digg ...

IBM Business Analytics Helps Improve Customer Retention by Nearly 50 Percent at XO Communications

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:00:21 +0000

IBM today announced that XO Communications, a leading nationwide provider of advanced broadband communications services and solutions, has reduced its customer churn rates by nearly 50 percent, largely through the use of IBM predictive analytics...

IBM Accelerates Social Business Adoption with New Mobile Software

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:14:54 +0000

IBM today announced new software designed to help organizations embrace social networking using the broadest range of mobile devices. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us ...

VimpelCom Uses IBM Analytics to Triple Revenue from Marketing Campaigns and Improve Conversion Rates by 400 Percent

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:44:06 +0000

IBM today announced that mobile phone service provider VimpelCom CIS is using IBM predictive analytics software to optimize the effectiveness of its direct marketing campaigns. Using IBM analytics, VimpelCom improved the conversion rate of campa...

New IBM Technology Helps Communications Service Providers Deliver Growth in the Face of Hyper-Competition

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Tue, 24 May 2011 04:01:03 +0000

Today at the TMF Management World 2011 conference, IBM announced new software and services designed to help communications service providers (CSPs) deliver new and innovative services to subscribers. E-m...

Internet’s backbone fuses: Level 3 buys Global Crossing

Scott Woolley — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:14:23 +0000

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The world's dominant Internet backbone just got a lot more dominant. Should we worry?

Level 3 already runs the single most important part of the Internet. Of the 36,878 autonomous networks that collectively make up the global Internet, Level 3 (LVLT) is by far the largest and most interconnected. Buying Global Crossing (GLBC), which by most measures is now the global Internet's third largest part, in a $3 billion deal will only MORE

IBM Introduces New Services for Communications Service Providers to Build High Quality Multi-Play Networks

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:07:04 +0000

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile World Congress -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new services for mobile operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), communication service providers and cable companies transforming their...

IBM and WAC To Streamline Creation of Mobile Application Stores

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:07:08 +0000

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), a global alliance of telecommunications companies committed to simplifying application development, today announced the availability of a new cloud-based &q...

Samsung Electronics and IBM Announce Patent Cross-License Agreement

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:22:23 +0000

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and IBM today announced a patent cross-license agreement, under which the companies will license their respective patent portfolios to each other. E-mail this page ...

IBM Fuels Social Business Adoption With Partner and Academic Skills Initiative

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:27:07 +0000

IBM today unveiled new programs to help business partners embrace the growing social business market opportunity and to financially reward them for their value to clients. Over the next three years, the market for worldwide social platforms is e...

IBM Brings Social Business to the Cloud, Mobile Devices

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:02:33 +0000

IBM today announced a new initiative to help organizations become social businesses with the broadest support for smart phones and cloud delivery models. E-mail this page Save to del.icio.us...

IBM and ARM to Collaborate on Advanced Semiconductor Technology for Mobile Electronics

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:43:55 +0000

ARM and IBM today announced an agreement between the two companies to extend their collaboration on advanced semiconductor technologies to enable the rapid development of next generation mobile products optimized for performance and power effici...

Bharti airtel and IBM Finalize Agreement to Transform Mobile Communications in Africa

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:35:26 +0000

IBM and Bharti airtel today announced the completion of contract negotiations for technology services spanning 16 African countries. As part of the 10-year agreement signed in December 2010, IBM will deploy and manage the information technology ...

Brazil’s Largest Mobile Operator Increases Sales 30 percent with IBM Marketing Automation Software

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 02:05:44 +0000

From the Smarter Industries Symposium in Barcelona, Spain, IBM today announced that Vivo, the largest mobile telecommunications company in Brazil, has achieved more than a 30 percent increase in sales and reduced time to market and operating cos...

Made in IBM Labs: California State Water Control Board Partners with IBM to Improve Water Quality

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:01:56 +0000

A new application that enables iPhone users to help monitor water quality and alert authorities to problems, is now available in Apple’s App Store. The first state to partner with IBM to use this data to monitor the thousands of miles of creek...

IBM Delivers New Mobile Software for Smarter Maintenance of Cities, Campuses and Businesses

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:23:33 +0000

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today expanded its enterprise mobile computing offerings with new software that puts critical information about buildings and equipment into the hands of maintenance staff in the field. The...

IBM to Acquire BLADE Network Technologies

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:31:41 +0000

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies (BLADE), a privately held company based in Santa Clara, CA. BLADE specializes in software and devices that route data and transactio...

Bharti Airtel and IBM Join Forces to Transform Emerging African Mobile Communications Market and Fuel Economic Development Across the Continent

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:59:30 +0000

In a move that will accelerate the transformation of African mobile communications and positively impact the speed of economic development across the African continent, Bharti Airtel Limited and IBM today announced the selection of IBM to manage...

New IBM Software To Help Companies Improve Web Presence

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:00:35 +0000

Today IBM unveiled new software designed to help organizations reinvent the way they interact with consumers over the Web and through mobile devices. The software features analytics, social software and commerce capabilities that helps organiza...

IBM Provides Smartphone Data Services for Solar-Powered Robot Car Journey From Italy to China

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 01:46:33 +0000

The VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge (VIAC), an epic 13,000km journey from Parma, Italy to Shanghai, China using unmanned, solar energy powered vehicles, aims to showcase the benefits of green transport. Over the course of the tri...

Portuguese Cable Operator ZON Multimedia Adopts IBM Software to Improve Customer Service

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:28:20 +0000

IBM today announced that ZON Multimedia, the leader of the pay TV market in Portugal, has adopted its software to consolidate ZON's IT and network management into a single view for improved quality and distribution of cable services to its c...

Quippo-WTTIL Taps IBM for Technology Services Agreement

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:22:03 +0000

IBM today announced a five-year Integrated Managed Services (IMS) agreement with Quippo-WTTIL, the world's largest independent telecom infrastructure company, to improve efficiency as business demands increase. The agreement is a step toward...

IBM Helps Mobile Communications Providers Gain Control of Cell Sites

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:35:13 +0000

IBM today announced new software and services that help mobile communication service providers (CSPs) analyze, manage and maintain the critical data and physical assets at manned, unmanned and remote cell sites to streamline operations and make ...

IBM Delivers a New Level of Intelligence to the Expanding Mobile Business Market

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:26:39 +0000

IBM today unveiled a range of new software, services and research offerings designed to bring a new level of intelligence to the fast-growing mobile enterprise market. Today, IBM also opened a new software development laboratory, the IBM Mass ...

IBM Opens Its Largest Software Development Lab in North America, Enhances Investment in Massachusetts High Tech Talent

IBM Press Releases - Telecommunications - United States — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:05:03 +0000

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has opened the doors of the IBM Mass Lab -- IBM's largest Software Development Lab in North America. The IBM Mass Lab, a campus comprised of sites in Littleton and Westford, Massachusetts, brings together 3...