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Articles tagged with: Oracle and Sun
Telecoms dealmaking on hold in 4Q '08
According to a new study from Ovum, global economic downturn depressed valuations and dealmaking in the telecom sector in 4Q 2008. Based on Ovum's report, M&A deal count was 129 in 4Q08, from 192 in 4Q07, with only four deals valued above US$1 billion, from 10 in 4Q07. more
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Authorities to seek consultancy for city Wi-Fi project
The municipality of Argentine city Rosario and the local IT hub Polo Tecnológico plan to launch an international bidding process in the coming months to select a consultancy to map out the city's digital services project, news site Canal Ar reported. more
Related Tags: sun-microsystems, hotspots, san-francisco, california
New forum to push Java handset development
The OSGi Alliance has announced the formation of the Mobile Expert Group, a new working body designed to further promote the use of Java technology in the mobile space. Comprised of industry leaders including BMW, Gatespace Telematics, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, oracle, Panasonic, ProSyst, Siemens VDO Automotive, Sun Microsystems, Telcordia Technologies and others, the Mobile Expert Group is chartered with defining requirements and specifications for the next generation of Java technology-based platform software, targeting data-capable mobile devices. more
Related Tags: sun-microsystems, ibm, helsinki, java, telcordia
Siemens UK promoting Java downloads to cellphones
Siemens IC Mobile's UK division has selected the Pixo Mobile Download System (MDS) as a recommended solution to operators for over the air downloading of wireless Java applications to Siemens cellphones. This new service will be jointly marketed and sold by Siemens and Pixo, and the solution will be hosted by the European mobile application infrastructure provider, End2End. more
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Billing software tested for its capacity limit
The billing solutions group, MIND CTI has announced the results of tests it has run on its PrePay software when run on Sun servers. The benchmark demonstrates the capability to handle 25 million AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) events per hour using an active prepaid subscriber base of 30 million. more
Related Tags: prepay, sun-microsystems, aaa, call-detail-records
Verizon Wireless reduces paper waste
The USA's Verizon Wireless is trying to cut down on its paper waste by switching to using more PC based communications. In December 2000, Verizon Wireless implemented AventX UNIX, an electronic information delivery software product for faxing from a UNIX environment. Randy Braley, senior technical analyst and PeopleSoft administrator, "The installation was quite simple. The documentation was very beneficial in addressing simple questions, and STR Software's technical support team was able to answer the more difficult ones." more
Related Tags: unix
Another industry alliance - this time for payment system
Hewlett Packard, Lucent Technologies, oracle, Siemens, and Sun Microsystems have established the PayCircle consortium to provide mobile device users worldwide a standard means of making mobile payments, regardless of the payment systems used by merchants or service providers. PayCircle intends to define open and uniform interfaces based on existing standards. Mobile device users can access their network operators' or payment service providers' mobile commerce offerings without having to install any new software. Security will be maintained by using mobile communication built-in security mechanisms, such as SIM cards, for authentication. more
Related Tags: sun-microsystems, mobile-payments, hp, mobile-commerce