Ericsson and SAP AG announced at this week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC – check out all pieces) that they have signed an agreement to jointly market and sell cloud-based, machine-to-machine solutions and services to enterprises via operators around the globe. The solutions will be based on a combined software-as-a-service offering from Ericsson and SAP within [...]

As the telecom world increases its use of analytical and intelligence tools to better understand customer and network behavior, several players will use this week’s Mobile World Congress event (MWC—check out all pieces) in Barcelona, to showcase their work in this area. Daryl Schoolar, principal analyst for infrastructure at Ovum, wrote in a recent Analyst [...]

What does big data represent for telecom providers? What does the future hold for the industry as telecom providers better utilize the data at their fingertips? How is the mobile explosion driving mobile business intelligence? And how can carriers monetize big data and take advantage of analytics tools? “Operators have been dealing with big data [...]

The global market for unified communications as-a-service is expected to grow from $2.52 billion in 2013 to $7.62 billion by 2018, at an estimated compound annual growth rate of 24.8%. A recent study conducted by MarketsandMarkets shows that UCaaS will be one of the key enabling factors that will drive the market for unified communications. The [...]

Ensuring network quality is one of telecom operators’ biggest challenges. In Brazil, mobile carriers are facing huge governmental pressure to improve their service and network quality. TIM, the No. 2 carrier in the Brazilian market, is using Actix’s ActixOne platform to help identify and diagnose network issues quickly, and better target network optimization activities while ensuring [...]

When the world’s largest mobile phone maker decided to open an office in the heart of Silicon Valley, Samsung did not set out to hire mechanical engineers or product designers. The company’s Open Innovation Center will focus on software, and is actively recruiting developers with ideas. “You bring the product vision; we’ll bring the rest,” [...]

The era of big data and telecom analytics has arrived for operators as they face the challenge of getting value from data, both structured and unstructured. Telecom operators are looking to use the vast amount of consumer data to benefit their business and to understand what is passing through their networks. “With the evolution of [...]

Software created to run Windows in other operating systems is making a resurgence as developers work to port it to Android. The software is called Wine and has been around for years, but now it is making its way to the world’s leading smartphone operating system. ‘Wine on ARM’ sounds like someone got sloppy at [...]

The Federal Trade Commission wants mobile platforms and apps to share more information with consumers about use of personal data. After meeting with trade groups, consumer privacy advocates, and academic leaders, the agency has issued a set of guidelines for mobile privacy policies. If implemented, the guidelines would require much tighter integration of mobile platforms [...]

VMware is shifting skill sets by cutting some jobs and adding others. The company also says it wants to make more acquisitions.