Telecompaper IT

Dell completes Wyse acquisition

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:51:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Dell has completed the acquisition of cloud client computing specialist Wyse Technology. The transaction is expected to extend Dell's desktop virtualization offerings...

Portugal Telecom takes SAP system to the cloud

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:32:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Portugal Telecom has launched a set of infrastructure systems and management services for companies that already use or plan to use SAP solutions...

Intel seeks ILS 3 bln Israeli tax break on overseas transfer

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:14:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Intel Israel is in talks with the finance ministry about tax due on a planned ILS 12 billion transfer out of the country...

Seagate to buy 64.5% of LaCie from founder

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:07:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) US hard drive manufacturer Seagate has agreed to acquire 64.5 percent of French IT storage specialisty LaCie from its founder and CEO, Philippe Spruch, in a deal valuing LaCie at EUR 146 million...

Slovak Fair-Play Alliance opposes govt Microsoft contract

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:02:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) The Slovak government will sign an agreement with Microsoft for more than 82,000 software licences, for which it shall pay EUR 51.5 million over the next three years...

Orange Business Services chosen to upgrade ZIM MPLS network

Thu, 24 May 2012 11:05:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Orange Business Services has won a contract from Israeli shipping container company ZIM to further rationalise its global MPLS network...

CNIL wants better answers from Google on privacy, EU law

Thu, 24 May 2012 10:42:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) French data protection agency CNIL met with Google on 23 May to asked for the company to clarify some points about its new data privacy policy...

France intros online voting for overseas deputies

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:30:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) France is using online voting to enfranchise citizens living abroad, Le Monde reports. The system will enable users to vote for 11 deputies with international constituencies for the first time...

HP to cut 8% of global workforce

Thu, 24 May 2012 09:29:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) HP confirmed plans for a major restructuring, cutting 27,000 jobs or 8 percent of its global workforce...

Kazakhtelecom to develop new services with Transcosmos

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:06:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Kazakhstan national operator Kazakhtelecom has signed a cooperation memorandum with Transcosmos, which will provide the informational and...

RIM to launch innovation centre in Bandung

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:21:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Research in Motion (RIM) has inked a memorandum of understanding with the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) for the establishment of an innovation centre, reports Antara News...

Microsoft Australia to launch innovation centre

Wed, 23 May 2012 15:08:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Microsoft Australia will launch the Queensland Microsoft Innovation Centre this week, reports The Australian...

Italian hi-tech sales down 11.7%, mobile telephony up 7.3%

Wed, 23 May 2012 13:16:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) According to estimates by GfK Temax Italia, in the first quarter of 2012 sales of technical consumer goods (TCG) amounted to EUR 4.04 billion, down 11.7 percent over the same period last year...

Lenovo revenue grows 54% in Q4

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:20:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Lenovo Group's revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter grew 54 percent to USD 7.5 billion year-over-year. Gross margin was 10.8 percent...

McAfee chooses MCS for PR in Benelux

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:46:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) McAfee transferred its Benelux PR activities from 1 May to MCS (Monogram Communication Strategies), based in Hoofddorp, Netherlands...

World Bank supports Caribbean broadband connectivity project

Wed, 23 May 2012 09:46:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) The World Bank Board of Directors has approved a USD 25 million financial package to support the first phase of the Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program...

Huawei picks Altimate as storage products distributor

Tue, 22 May 2012 11:33:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Huawei has chosen French value added distributor Altimate as the first company to distribute its storage products to IT integrators and resellers in France, Channelbiz.fr reports...

French court opens investigation into Amesys role in Libya

Tue, 22 May 2012 09:36:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) A Paris court has opened an investigation into Bull subsidiary Amesys for alleged complicity in torture in providing a communication monitoring system to the Kadhafi regime in 2007...

Atos wins UK IT outsourcing contract worth GBP 140 mln

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:44:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) French IT services company Atos has been awarded a five-year IT outsourcing contract worth GBP 140 million by the Shared Services Alliance (SSA), a...

RTComm cleared to acquire KM Media stake

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:21:00 +0200

(Telecompaper) Russian national competition regualator FAS cleared operator RTComm, a subsidiary Rostelecom, to acquire a 75.99 percent stake in software design...