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After growing 11.3% in 2011, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., is projecting top line growth of 15-20% in 2012. This is an aggressive estimate in light of the company’s carrier network …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. A …

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) announced the formation of a new data services workgroup that will focus on accelerating solutions for enterprise big data and content management. ODCA is an independent IT …

IBM (NYSE:IBM) unveiled Mobile Foundation, a portfolio of products and services designed to help organizations capitalize on the proliferation of mobile environments, at its ongoing Impact 2012 Conference in Las Vegas this week. Aimed at …

Cloud computing apps are set to become much more popular by 2014, with Latin America and Asia-Pacific leading the way. Currently, large companies in emerging markets are the most aggressive …

Global travel technology company Sabre Holdings has selected HP Enterprise Services for a six-year infrastructure and applications services agreement worth $US 800 million. It is an extension of the companies’ …

Eyeing the upcoming Fifa World Cup and Olympic Games, the U.S.-based location determination company TruePosition, Inc., said it is trying to establish business relationships with local government agencies to help provide …

TIM is participating in Brazilian LTE auction, TIM President Luca Luciani said in a conference call today. TIM reported a 30% rise in first-quarter profit, with its share of the country’s …

Chilean Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (Entel) unveiled plans to invest $3 billion between 2012 and 2014 to focus on mobile technology. The plan comprises investments of $900 million in 2012 …

Latin America’s largest telecom group (measured by subscribers), América Móvil, posted an increase of 37.5% in net profit for the first quarter 2012, beating analysts’ forecasts largely due to the …

Brazilian workers in the city of Jundiaí have threatened to go on strike against Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn beginning May 3 if the company does not fix problems related to water, food, and transportation. Local …

Chilean telecom regulator Subtel is considering auctioning the 700 MHz band for LTE, the Minister of Telecommunications, Pedro Pablo Errazuriz, said during the 37th Plenary Meeting of the GSMA Latin …

NII Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: NIHD], which operates in Latin America under the brand Nextel, unveiled its consolidated financial results for the first quarter of 2012, reporting revenue of $1.63 billion …

Boosted by the growth of smartphone use, mobile banking is on track to become as common as Internet banking in Brazil during the next five to seven years, industry analysts …

IBM (NYSE: IBM) yesterday announced it will acquire Vivisimo, a Pittsburgh-based firm that helps large organizations access and analyze enterprise data.  IBM also announced that its big data platform will now run on Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop. The announcements …

Google yesterday unveiled Google Drive, a cloud-based file storage, management, and sharing service. Its use in the workplace is inevitable and could present advantages, but it could also present some headaches to chief information officers …

Adobe Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:ADBE) is moving to change its lifetime license model to a monthly subscription-based offering. Adobe launched the effort this week around the globe with Creative Cloud, a …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We’ve collected a group of the industry’s leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In …

If up to this year companies only investigated enterprise mobile solutions, 2012 might prove to be a milestone year for companies to finally include them in their IT strategy, Paulo …

Gemalto announced it has been selected as the technology provider for Transfer, the service resulting from a joint venture between América Móvil/Telcel, Citibank´s Mexican unit Banamex, and Banco Inbursa. Launched …

After offering mobile Internet access using a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) model, Colombian operator Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) has added mobile voice to its offering. ETB will …

In late February, I participated in a panel session at the Mobile World Congress event titled “Mobile Enterprise: Maximizing Workforce Productivity in the Age of Consumerization.”

Caribbean wireless operator Lime, owned by Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), announced it has launched IPTV services in Barbados. The pay-TV over broadband product was dubbed “Lime TV.” According to …

Several Latin American telecom operators are already launching LTE services or trials, and more auctions are scheduled, but LATAM still lags behind some other markets. That’s why the mobile broadband …