Electronics manufacturers are used to harsh cyclical downturns often caused by their reliance on unverified assumptions about industry fundamentals. Even the biggest chipmakers, OEMs and other leading supply chain players have fallen ...
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Google has exited the smartphone manufacturing business and shored up Android's legal defenses in the smartphone patent wars in a single week. The technology giant sold off Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a US $12.5-billion deal on Wednesday ...
John Roberts, co-founder & chief technical officer of GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless provider of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has won the ...
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Rockstar, the group that bought Nortel's patents in 2011 following the company's bankruptcy, has taken aim at Google, HTC, Samsung and Huawi for alleged patent infringement. Google itself is accused of seven different counts of patent ...
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The PGA European Tour has selected Xirrus' Wi-Fi to provide spectators with access to golfers' location, stream video content, and enable the PGA to understand more about its fans. Graham Gifford, ICT director at PGA European Tour, told ...
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NHS England has issued a tender worth between £200,000 and £2m to train 100,000 people in basic online skills, in its bid to boost health literacy. The plan comes under NHS England's commitment in 2013/14 and 2015/16 to reduce ...
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Despite what he sees as shortcomings of Microsoft’s real-time communications platform, Lync, businesses will see value to some of its features, and supplement those with products from Avaya, says Avaya CEO Kevin Kennedy. “Are ...
Alcatel-Lucent's board has appointed Michel Combes as the company's new CEO, following Ben Verwaayen's recent resignation. It only took the Alcatel-Lucent's board two weeks to appoint a new CEO after Verwaayen's plan to step down became ...
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Optoelectronic chip and module maker JDSU of Milpitas, CA, USA has appointed Rex Jackson as executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Susan Spradley as senior vice president with responsibility for the development and ...
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Lloyd Carney, CEO, Brocade Brocade’s board of directors on Tuesday announced that it had appointed networking industry veteran Lloyd Carney to be the company’s new CEO, effective immediately. He will also join Brocade’s ...
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Eastman Kodak has told a bankruptcy court that it is exploring alternatives to the auction of its digital imaging patents, including keeping the patents and setting up a licensing company to repay creditors. Kodak filed in June a motion ...
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Theresa Caragol,VP, Global Channels, Extreme Networks, has revamped the company's channel approach. CW: You masterminded the channel program at your previous company, Ciena. How different is it to work with a company that already has a ...
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Catching up with many of the other unified communications vendors, Avaya today announced that its Aura platform now can be virtualized. Avaya has teamed with VMware to ensure that Aura - the company's UC platform for managing voice, video ...
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EMC has named former Huawei Technologies executive John Roese as chief technology officer. Roese, also a former Nortel Networks CTO, will play a key role in shaping EMC's cloud and big data technology strategy, the company said. Reese ...
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EMC has named former Huawei Technologies executive John Roese as chief technology officer. Roese, also a former Nortel Networks CTO, will play a key role in shaping EMC’s cloud and big data technology strategy, the company said. ...
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