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Didi you think that this is one of global crisis impact ?? ? Well..well.. previous month AT&T announced plans to lay off 12,000 and then today Motorola has announced plans to cut a further 400 jobs on top of the 1,500 cuts announced in October. The earlier termination of approximately 1,500 employees, primarily in the Mobile Devices segment, and will result in pre-tax charges of $104 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.
The company warned at the time that further job cuts might occur – and has announced in an SEC filing that it will terminate approximately additional 400 employees, resulting in additional pre-tax severance charges of approximately $25 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.
These additional actions also include other exit-related activities, including the termination of leases and other contractual commitments and asset impairments, resulting in additional pre-tax charges of approximately $60 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Together with the actions announced in the Company’s Form 10-Q filed on October 30, 2008, these additional actions bring the total pre-tax charges in the fourth quarter of 2008 related to previously announced cost-reduction initiatives to approximately $189 million. Cash payments associated with these actions have occurred in the fourth quarter of 2008 and will occur in 2009. All of the Company’s business segments, as well as various corporate functions, are impacted by these plans.
BroadSoft, Inc., the leading worldwide provider of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) applications to the telecommunications industry, today announced it has acquired Sylantro Systems Corporation, a provider of VoIP applications based in Campbell, California.
“Sylantro has been a strong competitor of BroadSoft for 10 years. This acquisition further advances our market and innovative leadership position,” said Michael Tessler, president and CEO of BroadSoft. “Sylantro’s solutions, talent and customers complement BroadSoft’s business and enhance our ability to deliver compelling solutions and services to our customers.”
The acquisition extends BroadSoft’s leadership in VoIP applications. To serve its growing customer base, BroadSoft now has development and customer operations centers in Montreal, Canada; Dallas, Texas; Bangalore, India; Sydney, Australia; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Gaithersburg, Maryland.
“BroadSoft and Sylantro have long histories of helping telecommunications service providers deliver IP communications services to businesses and consumers around the world,” Marco Limena, president and CEO of Sylantro. “By joining forces, the two companies are in a position to create a market leading global entity with a shared vision and infrastructure to meet the needs of our valued customers and the challenges of a competitive industry landscape.”
BroadSoft did not disclose terms of the transaction. BroadSoft intends to support Sylantro’s Synergy platform through its direct sales force and authorized Sylantro and BroadSoft partners.
Great news for you guys, who wanna find the great refurbished 8 GB iphone 3Gs. There really is a $99 iPhone, but it’s not at Wal-Mart. And Wal-Mart really is selling an iPhone, but it’s not $99. The $99 iPhone is available only from AT&T.
As long as the supply lasts, or until December 31, AT&T is offering refurbished 8 GB iPhone 3Gs for $99 with a two-year contract (or to people who qualify for an upgrade). The 8 GB G3 usually sells new for $200. Don’t rush to a stores though — the refurbished phones can only be ordered online or by phone.
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Hot BlackBerry Curve 8320 Warms the Cold Winter Blues With Seamless, Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Access From AT&T. New BlackBerry Curve 8320 Builds on Popular BlackBerry Platform Features With Integrated Wi-Fi Capabilities
DALLAS, Texas, and WATERLOO – AT&T is turning up the heat with the ever-popular BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) and Research In Motion (NYSE:RIMM) announced today the immediate availability of the BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone with built-in Wi-Fi®, which gives AT&T customers with unlimited corporate or personal BlackBerry service plans free and seamless access to thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots in the U.S.
Available in sapphire blue, the BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone makes it easy to connect to home or campus Wi-Fi networks and to automatically connect to any of the more than 17,000 AT&T Hot Spots nationwide. These include Starbucks, Barnes & Noble and thousands more restaurants, airports, hotels and other convenient locations across the U.S. Those customers who subscribe to unlimited corporate or personal BlackBerry service plans can access these AT&T Hot Spots at no charge.
The BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone – with 802.11 b/g – provides broader data coverage, and customers also can carry on a telephone conversation on the cellular network while simultaneously accessing data via Wi-Fi.
The BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone also gives AT&T customers the ability to access Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide1. These global Wi-Fi capabilities complement AT&T’s industry-leading wide area wireless international coverage with the ability to perform data functions in more than 150 countries and make or receive a phone call in more than 200 countries.
“The BlackBerry Curve 8320 provides AT&T customers with yet another outstanding global solution that comes with a unique Wi-Fi feature that automatically connects to AT&T Hot Spots,” said Michael Woodward, vice president, Smart Devices, AT&T. “AT&T customers can also use their BlackBerry Curve smartphone to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot both in the U.S. and abroad, and when they do so, they can carry on a phone conversation while they’re checking e-mail, browsing the Web or performing other data functions. This allows our customers to be even more productive and get greater value out of their BlackBerry smartphone, particularly when they can connect free of charge to an AT&T Hot Spot in the U.S.”
Mark Guibert, vice president of corporate marketing at RIM, said: “The BlackBerry Curve is one of the most successful smartphones in the world – customers love its communications and multimedia features, easy-to-use keyboard and compact design. With the BlackBerry Curve 8320, AT&T customers will enjoy easy access to Wi-Fi networks whether they’re in the U.S. or traveling abroad.”
The BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone packs numerous new features including an enhanced HTML browser that supports a Web browsing experience with desktop-style depiction. The smartphone’s trackball acts like a computer mouse, allowing users to quickly scroll through a page, zoom in and out or click on hotlinks. The BlackBerry Curve 8320 also has an improved user interface and support for HTML e-mail, and it allows users to download attachments as well as edit Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint files directly on the handset using the preloaded DataViz® Documents To Go® software suite.
The BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone retains the features that have made it one of the most popular smartphones in the world. It combines the renowned BlackBerry® e-mail and messaging capabilities with a full QWERTY keyboard, built-in spell checker, premium phone features and comprehensive organizer, and it sports a large, ultra-bright, 320-by-240 display that supports more than 65,000 colors and comes with light-sensing technology that automatically adjusts backlighting for optimal viewing. In addition, it features Bluetooth® 2.0 support, a 2 megapixel camera with zoom, flash and video recording2, advanced media player with desktop media management software and expandable memory of up to 16GB via its microSD/SDHC memory card slot. The BlackBerry Curve 8320 smartphone also includes AT&T Music™ subscription services, integrated Push To Talk (PTT) and, when used with a separate Bluetooth-enabled GPS receiver, provides access to the popular AT&T Navigator and YELLOWPAGES.COM mobile services.
SK Telecom and RIM Introduce the BlackBerry Solution in Korea
Targeting both multinational and domestic companies, the BlackBerry Bold smartphone and BlackBerry Enterprise Server software are expected to be available by the end of December, delivering mobile freedom and productivity gains to business customers in Korea
Seoul, Korea – SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM, KSE: 017670) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the official launch of the BlackBerry® solution in Korea at an event held at the Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel in Seoul. SK Telecom will initially offer the BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphone and the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server software to business customers in Korea.
The BlackBerry® solution from RIM brings together smartphones, software and services and is currently being used by more than 20 million subscribers in over 150 markets around the world. The BlackBerry solution provides customers with powerful email, messaging, phone, organizer, web browsing and multimedia features, as well as access to thousands of mobile business and lifestyle applications. Mobile users will be able to enjoy the freedom and productivity benefits of the BlackBerry solution by staying connected to the people and information that matter most to them.
SK Telecom plans to begin providing the BlackBerry Bold smartphone to corporate customers by the end of this month. Domestic and multinational companies will be able to purchase this innovative smartphone at around 800,000 won (excluding VAT) and a special discount price of around 700,000 won with subsidy applied. An additional data plan for BlackBerry service is required, which will be priced at 26,000 won monthly on top of rate plans for voice and data.
With the introduction of the BlackBerry solution, SK Telecom is planning to penetrate the corporate market. SK Telecom expects the introduction of BlackBerry Bold smartphones in Korea will help empower its position in the enterprise mobility market, which represents tremendous growth potential and opportunities.
“SK Telecom anticipates that the new addition of the BlackBerry Bold and services will provide great convenience to our corporate customers and help expand Korea’s smartphone market. We expect BlackBerry smartphones to become a must-have item for businesspeople in Korea,” said Sung Min Ha, President of MNO Biz Company at SK Telecom.
“It is with great pleasure that RIM announces the launch of the BlackBerry Bold smartphone and BlackBerry Enterprise Server together with SK Telecom. The industry-leading BlackBerry platform offers Korean business customers substantial opportunities for communications and productivity enhancements and we expect it will be well received in the market,” said Norm Lo, Vice President of Asia Pacific at RIM.
Search engine Yahoo! Inc will cut to three months the time it stores personal data gathered from Web surfing, making its retention policy the shortest among peers, the company said on Wednesday.
The company will “anonymize” the computer addresses of its users within three months in most cases, from a prior standard of 13 months. It is reserving the right to keep data for up to six months if fraud or system security are involved.
Internet search companies have come under pressure from European and other data protection officials to do more to protect the privacy of users. Earlier this year, industry leader Google Inc halved the amount of time it stores personal data to nine months. Microsoft Corp has said it will cut the time to six months if its rivals did the same.
“Google first went to 18 months and started this competition,” said Ari Schwartz, vice president at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a privacy advocacy group.
Yahoo’s pledge “is more significant because they are getting rid of some data after 90 days and they actually have an implementation plan to get this done,” he added. The European Union has recommended that companies keep data no more than six months and urged the sector to adopt an industry-wide standard.
“This was our attempt to put a stake in the ground” on the issue, Yahoo vice president of policy and privacy chief Anne Toth said.
Internet search engines get their revenue by matching advertisements to searches, so advertisers can peg their ads to what is on the searcher’s mind. Once the companies make commitments on data retention, they are enforceable under federal and state laws in the United States, Schwartz added.
Kuala Lumpur:Indonesia won two gold medals at the sixth day of the XIV ASEAN Students’ National Games (POM ASEAN) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Athlete Heru Astriyanto won a gold medal in the 400-meter men’s sprint at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium. Heru recorded 47,98 seconds and defeated Kian Seong Kenneth Khoo from Singapore and Tu Pho Quach from Vietnam, who won the silver and bronze medals, respectively.
In the traditional martial arts, pencak silat, the men’s team won the second gold for Indonesia in the competition held at the Malaya University. Nowo Tri Purnomo and his friends impressed the five juries who gave them 463 points, above Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam.
United Nations agency the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has agreed upon G.hn as the global standard for digital home networking. The G.hn standard aims to deliver a single unified technology for wired home networks.
Having an agreed standard means that electronics manufacturers and service providers will be able to start producing home devices that can communicate with one another.
“There’s a clear market need for a unified networking approach,” said Malcolm Johnson, director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau.
Non-profit group HomeGrid Forum, which works to promote the ITU’s global standardisation efforts, plans to bring together companies in a web seminar to consider the implications of G.hn for the consumer market.
It is also working on compliance and interoperability test programs for the G.hn standard.
“We applaud ITU’s success in achieving this major milestone,” said Matthew Theall, president of HomeGrid Forum.
“This achievement allows chipset providers to begin design of silicon which will be used to create new products that will form the foundation for next-generation whole-home networking.”
The Leading Thailand SMS Company Allowing Customers to Send SMS to Thailand Transfers from Online Service to Direct Mobile Communication
Thailand, December 15th 2008: Since its slow deployment in 1995 the use of SMS or ‘text messaging’ from mobile phone to mobile phone has grown considerably. The industry is now worth billions and the services available from the many different network providers operating today include multi-national communication. One such example of this huge growth is the move which Thai Translation and SMS providing company ‘SMS Thailand’ have recently made.
Originally the company operated online, through their website www.sms-thailand.com, where customers would fill out a web form including the SMS text and the company would send it on from there. Of course this method lacked the ease of traditional direct mobile to mobile texting, yet in the past three months the company has begun offering customers the chance to send texts to Thailand (with Thai translation) straight from their handset.
“We are the only company that can provide this kind of service” says Kanokarn Inmang CEO of SMS Thailand Inc. “our updated translator system is extremely quick and accurate.”
To send SMS to Thailand customers need to sign up for the service first and top up their account just as a Pay As You Go mobile customer would. They then have a balance from which they can send messages to loved ones, colleagues, partners, family and friends in Thailand. Once the messages is sent to the SMS Thailand number 08165 45773, the company’s Thai translation software translates the text into the relevant language and customers receive an email ‘delivery report’ confirmation that the message has arrived.
To enable newly registered customers the chance to try out this unique online SMS translation service, the company are currently offering a free trial until December 25th 2008.
The global growth of the text message is most certainly not at a standstill with services like direct mobile translated SMS messages sent across the world. It is recent developments like this which make it clear to see that communication over long distances and in a multitude of tongues is bringing people together.
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