Archive for March, 2009
-
Virginia Hospital Picks Airespace
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Airespace Inc.? announced today that Virginia Hospital Center, a comprehensive healthcare facility in Northern Virginia, has implemented the Airespace Wireless Enterprise Platform to deliver mobile voice and data services across its hospital campus and to remote locations. With the Airespace Wireless LAN (WLAN) system, Virginia Hospital Center is able to increase worker productivity through secure wireless mobility, allowing clinicians to spend more time with the patient... more
-
Extricom Unveils Interference-Free WLAN
LAS VEGAS — Extricom unveiled its Interference-Free(TM) WLAN solution at the Networld Interop show. A combination of low-cost, high-bandwidth access points (APs) and a wireless switch, Extricom’s Interference-Free(TM) WLAN implementation offers several advantages over conventional, cell-planning WLAN solutions.
“First of all, it works a lot better,” said Gideon Rottem, Extricom CEO. “You have higher overall performance, capacity and coverage,” he expl... more
-
NEC Partners With Vocera
DALLAS — NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. (NEC), a leader in integrated communications solutions for the enterprise, today announced a reseller agreement with Vocera Communications, a wireless communications solutions company, incorporating the Vocera Communications System with NEC’s UNIVERGE(TM) WL converged mobility solution to create a comprehensive offering for instant, wireless, hands-free voice communication.
The UNIVERGE WL system, including wireless LAN infrastructure, hand... more
-
Symbol Opens in Brno
WINNERSH, U.K. — Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL), The Enterprise Mobility CompanyT, today announced the opening of its new EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Shared Services Centre in Brno, South Moravia in the Czech Republic. The new 10,000-square-metre facility will serve as the hub for Symbol’s EMEA customer support services including a repair centre, multi-lingual customer call center, finance, contract administration and sales ordering operations. It is expected to be fu... more
-
Nokia Cuts Jobs
ESPOO, Finland — As part of its previously announced plans to increase cost-efficiency and adapt to the market situation, Nokia today announced plans to close its mobile devices R&D site in Jyv?skyl?, concentrating mobile devices R&D in Finland at its sites in Tampere, Oulu, Salo and the Helsinki metropolitan area. Nokia also plans to scale down Salo production with staggered temporary lay-offs, aligning production with market demand while continuing operations without interrupti... more
-
Quickoffice Debuts First Paid Android Application
DALLAS — Quickoffice, Inc., the leading global provider of mobile office productivity software, today announced the release of its first Microsoft Office viewer for the Android platform, Quickoffice for Android. The product enables T-Mobile G1 phone users to access, view and manage their Word and Excel files.
With Quickoffice, users can access and view .doc and .xls files sent via a Gmail attachment or stored on a memory card. The viewing features include robust zoom and scrolling t... more
-
Open Kernel Gets $7.6M
CHICAGO — Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), the leading provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband internet devices, announced today that the company has closed a significant round of funding with investments from venture capital firms Chrysalis Ventures and Neo Technology Ventures (including a recent incremental investment), and from Citrix?Systems, Inc., the global leader in application delivery infrastructure. The total $7.6 million includes Chrysalis Venture... more
-
T-Mobile, Opera Team
OSLO, Norway — Opera Software today announced that T-Mobile
is bringing a customized version of the My Opera Community
to its web’n'walk users. By integrating the community
into their product offering, T-Mobile allows its customers to take advantage
of popular My Opera features such as photoblogging, photo albums and more,
all from the convenience of their web’n'walk powered phones.
T-Mobile’s web’n'walk offering uses a cus... more
-
FON Raises $21.7M
MADRID, Spain — FON, (http://www.fon.com/) a company focused on creating a global network of shared WiFi connections, today announced that it has secured euro 18 million (USD$21.7M) in Series A funding from Index Ventures, Google, Sequoia Capital and Skype. Index Ventures led the round. The company also announced that Danny Rimer (Index Ventures), Mike Volpi (Cisco) Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (Skype) joined the board. Existing board members include Martin Varsavsky, FON CEO, and Anto... more
-
Sawtel Selects Meru
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Meru Networks, the global leader
in wireless VoIP infrastructure, today announced that Sawtel Inc., a Satellite
and Wireless Telecommunications company, has chosen Meru Networks for an
island-wide Wi-Fi deployment in the Bahamas. Sawtel Inc. will implement the
Meru solution, to ensure a converged voice, data and video services to both
business and residential users across the island of Nassau. The voice
services will give users... more
