Google promptly reshuffled Motorola Mobility's management Tuesday after completing its $12.5 billion acquisition of the device maker.
Longtime Google Inc. executive Dennis Woodside is replacing Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha as the company's leader.
Google also is bringing in several new faces while retaining some familiar ones at Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.
Here's a breakdown on Motorola Mobility's regime under Google's ownership:
— Woodside, the new CEO, spent the past three years as president of Google's Americas region, which saw its annual revenue rise from $10.8 billion to $17.5 billion under his guidance. Most of that money came from online ads. Earlier in his Google career, Woodside oversaw Google's expansion across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
— Vanessa Wittman is the new chief financial officer. She previously filled the same role at Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc., which sells insurance and business consulting services.
— Mark Randall will be the head of supply chain and operations. He is a former executive at another cellphone maker, Nokia, and at Amazon.com Inc., where he oversaw the supply chain for the Kindle e-reader and Kindle Fire tablet computer.
— Regina Dugan is running a newly created division focused on advanced technology and projects. She is the former director of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.
— Gary Briggs will oversee the marketing of Motorola's products. He directed marketing for Google's Chrome Web browser and previously led marketing for eBay Inc.
— Scott Sullivan will lead the personnel department. He previously led the human resources department for credit- and debit-card processor Visa Inc.
— Iqbal Arshad will lead global product development. He helped Motorola introduce its first phones running on Google's Android software.
— Mahesh Veerina will continue to lead Motorola's software division.
— Jim Wicks will run the consumer experience design division. He helped design Motorola's original Razr phone.
— Mark Shockley will oversee the "go-to-market." He helped Motorola Mobility expand in Brazil and China.
— Scott Offer will lead the legal division. He played an instrumental role in the company's spinoff from the old Motorola Inc. The other half, Motorola Solutions Inc., remains an independent company.
Bouygues Telecom Selects Acme Packet for IMS Network - Yahoo Finance
BEDFORD, MA--(Marketwire -05/23/12)- Acme Packet® (APKT), the leader in session delivery networks, today announced that Bouygues Telecom, a leading fixed and mobile service provider in France, is deploying Acme Packet Net-Net® Session Director session border controllers (SBCs) in its IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network, supplied and integrated by Alcatel-Lucent. Acme Packet's SBCs fulfill numerous IMS functions at both the access and interconnect borders, ensuring security, interoperability, and quality in the network.
Bouygues Telecom is deploying IMS to support multiple services, including migration of existing residential voice to voice over IP (VoIP), interconnecting with other service providers and launching new services, such as visual voice mail.
The Net-Net Session Director fulfills critical IMS functional requirements at the access and interconnect borders of Bouygues Telecom's network. In the access network, SBCs provide the critical Proxy-Call Session Control Function (P-CSCF) and IMS-Access Gateway Function (AGW) for securing, interoperating, and controlling all SIP-based services to subscribers. The Net-Net Session Director provides Interconnect Border Control Function (I-BCF) and the Transition Gateway (TrGW) for controlling fixed and mobile SIP traffic at interconnect borders, encompassing both internal interconnection between Bouygues' fixed and mobile networks as well as between the IMS network and other service providers.
Bouygues Telecom is using Acme Packet's interoperability feature set that includes SIP normalization and SIP to SIP-I interworking that helps accelerate time-to-market and reduce operational costs as the network expands. Net-SAFE®, Acme Packet's security framework, provides denial of service (DoS) attack prevention, topology hiding, and access control to protect Bouygues Telecom's IMS network and ensure service availability. Other key features include accounting for billing and traffic planning, as well as admission control, routing, and quality of service marking for service level agreement assurance.
"Acme Packet's SBC is a key part of our IMS network, built to enable innovative services and deliver enhanced customer experience to our fixed and mobile customers," commented Jean-Paul Arzel, Bouygues Telecom networks director. "We chose the Acme Packet solution due to their culture of innovation, the rich functionality and scalability of its session border controllers, and the company's impressive track record in enabling trusted, high-quality VoIP, and IP interactive communication services."
"Acme Packet brings extensive experience in helping our customers build next generation communications networks," commented Mario Oliveira, Acme Packet's vice president of Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and Caribbean and Latin America sales. "Our IMS solution portfolio delivers the security, interoperability, and quality functionalities that Bouygues Telecom and leading service providers demand to be successful in their migration to end-to-end IP communications."
About Acme Packet
Acme Packet (APKT), the leader in session delivery network solutions, enables the trusted, first-class delivery of next-generation voice, data and unified communications services and applications across IP networks. Our Net-Net product family fulfills demanding security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in service provider, enterprise and contact center networks. Based in Bedford, Massachusetts, Acme Packet designs and manufactures its products in the USA, selling them through over 220 reseller partners worldwide. More than 1,600 customers in 107 countries have deployed over 16,000 Acme Packet systems, including 88 of the top 100 service providers and 41 of the Fortune 100. For more information visit www.acmepacket.com.
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About Bouygues Telecom
Created in 1994, Bouygues Telecom has 11,304,000 mobile customers and 1,241,000 fixed broadband customers, and over 1,500,000 client companies. Bouygues Telecom is committed to continually enhancing the customer experience for its mobile and fixed telephone, TV and Internet services. Each day, the company's 9,800 employees develop solutions aligned with changing customer needs and deliver efficient support.
After pioneering the mobile talk-plan concept in France in 1996, Bouygues Telecom introduced groundbreaking unlimited call plans: Millennium (1999) and neo (2006).
In 2007, Bouygues Telecom introduced the first fixed-mobile solutions aimed at professionals.
Bouygues Telecom acquired its own fixed network in 2008 and became an Internet Service Provider (ISP), launching the Bbox broadband router.
In 2009, Bouygues Telecom invented the "all-in-one" solution with ideo the first quadruple play offer in the market.
In 2010, Bouygues Telecom launched Bbox fibre, its very-high-speed offer, and began investing in fibre-to-the-home in high-density areas.
In July 2011, Bouygues Telecom introduced mobile telephony "2.0" with B&YOU, the first web-based, SIM-only call plan.
Bouygues Telecom's mobile network covers 99% of the population. Its 3G+ network provides mobile Internet access for 94% of the population.
Bouygues Telecom is the only operator to be awarded "NF Service Centre de Relation Client" certification from French standards agency AFNOR Certification for all its consumer activities (mobile and fixed). Customer relations centres, a distribution network of 630 Bouygues Telecom Club stores, and a website available 24/7 combine to ensure optimum customer service.
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Motorola's New Android 4.0 Skin Demo Videos Released - mobilenapps.com
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Motorola, the company which is now owned by Google and is locked in a deadly cat fight with Microsoft in the courts, have been working on a new Android 4.0 skin set to debut on the Motorola RAZR and RAZR Maxx this quarter.
The company went ahead and released several video walkthroughs of its Android 4.0 skin, which in all honesty doesn't look bad at all, and it still keeps some of the vanilla Android flavor. While all the icons are different and a few things have been moved around, it won't pose much of a problem for those who prefer vanilla Android, you will be happy that Motorola chose to show some restraint.
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One of the big changes is the lock screen. The new lock screen has four shortcuts, which allows the user to enter a specific section of the phone once the screen is unlocked. Not quite impressive, but it's a neat addition nonetheless. There's also a new camera application. The top feature here is the ability to take stills while recording video. This feature can also be found in the Samsung Galaxy S3. Motorola also went ahead and completely ditched its all-in-one social network application. Now the company is encouraging users to download applications from Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
For a complete look, check out the videos below.
Motorola Solutions Moves WLAN Services to the Cloud - Yahoo Finance
SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Enterprises faced with the challenge of deploying, protecting and managing business-critical wireless local area networks (WLAN) can look to Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI - News) for the latest innovation in holistic WLAN services. The new Motorola WLAN Cloud Services extend the rich feature set of the premise-based Motorola systems to WLAN operators looking for a complete cloud offering with a WLAN Planner for RF coverage planning, the award winning WiNG 5 solution for controller and management functionality, and AirDefense for wireless security and network assurance. The new solution is available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and is targeted at organizations that need to improve the full life-cycle management of their WLAN, but have not found a solution with the mix of functionality at a cost point that matches their requirements.
Retail, hospitality, healthcare and other enterprise owners who are uncertain of their future needs can easily activate the WLAN Cloud Services solution with no appliance or controller setup, zero-touch access point deployment, and no ongoing maintenance. The solution can be deployed in any WLAN environment and can easily monitor thousands of access points distributed across any number of physical sites. The subscription-based SaaS model moves upfront capital expenses to operational expenses with a monthly charge directly tied to the level of services selected and the size of the network. WLAN deployments using the WLAN Cloud Services are designed to be more efficient, secure, and easier to manage because of the WiNG 5’s sophisticated approach to managing traffic generated by video, voice and other applications. In addition, Motorola WLAN Cloud Services support value-added services such as WLAN Planning and Proximity Awareness & Analytics, which enables the use of WLAN infrastructure as a tool for presence detection of and dynamic communication with Wi-Fi enabled devices in WLAN environments.
KEY FACTS
- The core functions supported by Motorola WLAN Cloud Services encompasses WLAN security and compliance, including rogue identification and threat mitigation; network assurance, which includes troubleshooting, proactive testing and forensic analysis; and WLAN management, which includes support for centralized management and policy configuration of Motorola WiNG 5 infrastructure.
- Motorola WLAN Cloud Services are seamlessly integrated with Motorola’s WiNG 5 architecture and allows centralized management of the WLAN with a single cloud-based controller. This makes controlling the network easier and reduces the hardware operating expenses needed to support large networks.
- For enterprises grappling with compliance to regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA, Motorola WLAN Cloud Services also includes a strong forensics capability, combining review and analysis of past events with an extensive compliance reporting capability, helping to simplify a task that has become increasingly critical to all enterprises using WLAN networks.
- The WLAN Cloud Services solution gathers more than 325 statistics relevant to WLAN networking and performance per minute from each device in the network, making the ability to identify and mitigate threats the best in the industry.
- Motorola Managed Services can be used to complement customer needs and provide greater operational flexibility giving customers additional options for tailoring the IT processes to their business needs.
SUPPORTING QUOTES
Todd Nightingale, general manager, Air Defense, Motorola Solutions
“With a growing number of organizations looking to transform their operations with cloud-based solutions, Motorola Solutions is delivering state-of-the-art WLAN services built on a utility model that makes it easier for customers to deploy and scale as their needs change. Our industry-recognized strength in deploying, securing, and operating mission-critical networks is now available to customers anywhere.”
Bob Blazek, president and CEO, Altura Communication Solutions
“Motorola WLAN Cloud Services offer a comprehensive WLAN life-cycle management solution that simultaneously expands our market opportunities and the range of customer problems that we can address. With a new set of highly scalable, enterprise-class capabilities , WLAN Cloud Services will allow us to help customers tackle WLAN performance problems that were previously left unaddressed due to cost or functionality considerations. This offering gives new reasons to engage and will allow us to forge closer relationships with customers as they search for ways to maximize the return on their WLAN investments.”
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Telecom Commission wants detailed study on airwaves auction price - Yahoo Finance
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Telecom Commission will ask the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to analyse the potential impact of a proposed airwaves auction base price that is seen as too high and has drawn protests from carriers.
The Commission however endorsed a separate regulatory proposal to auction by June next year airwaves in another band, Telecoms Secretary R.Chandrashekhar said on Saturday. That band currently used by older operators and will be taken back from them in the so-called airwave refarming.
TRAI had last month suggested an auction starting price that is nearly 10 times that paid by carriers in a 2008 state grant process for the basic 1800 mega hertz (MHz) band airwaves.
The auction, due by August, follows a Supreme Court order to revoke a total 122 zonal telecom permits awarded in a scandal-tainted state grant process in 2008.
The Telecom Commission, the highest decision-making body within the telecoms ministry, feels there is need of a detailed analysis of the impact of the proposed auction price on call tariffs and carriers' investments before a decision is taken, Chandrashekhar, who chairs the Commission, said.
"For example, what is the impact of this spectrum price on the tariffs if this entire impact is passed on. And on the other side, if this entire impact is absorbed, what is the impact on the investments, viability and the return on the investments," he told reporters after a meeting of the Commission.
The industry has criticised the high base price and limited number of slots proposed by the regulator and says the regulatory changes will cost them billions of dollars more, hurting profits, and will force them to increase tariffs for customers.
The Commission earlier this week said it wants a higher number of slots to be auctioned than what was suggested by the regulator.
The auction is the last chance for carriers including Norway's Telenor (TEL.OL) and Russia's Sistema (SSAq.L) to win back their permits that are set to be revoked after the court order.
Telenor and Sistema have threatened to pull out of India if the government goes ahead with the proposed rules. A panel of ministers has the final say on the auction rules including pricing.
SPECTRUM REFARMING
Older carriers such as Bharti and Vodafone are also fighting another regulatory proposal to refarm, or switch, their superior-quality airwaves in the 900 MHz band with relatively-inferior 1800 MHz at the time of renewal of their permits starting in 2014.
The carriers have the option to buy back in a separate auction the superior quality 900 MHz airwaves, although the proposed starting price for it is twice that of the lower-quality band. If they switch to the 1800 MHz band, network costs will increase significantly.
Chandrashekhar said the Telecom Commission had agreed with the sector regulator's proposals to conduct an auction of the airwaves in the 900 MHz band by June 2013, although will decide the price and other details later.
(Reporting by Devidutta Tripathy; editing by Keiron Henderson)
Telecom panel passes the buck - Kashmir Times
SRINAGAR, May27: It’s a decision everyone has been waiting for. But the telecom panel, which met twice this week, on Thursday and on Saturday, did not stick its neck out on reserve or base prices recommended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for a 2G spectrum auction.
Instead, it preferred to pass the buck to an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) to take a call on the contentious issue of the reserve prices, which telecom operators claim can steeply hike mobile tariffs and also make their business unviable.
The Telecom Commission, chaired by telecom secretary R Chandra-shekhar, has also requested TRAI to revisit its reserve price recommendations, and do an analysis based on the aspects detailed by it, namely the impact of the reserve price on the consumer if it is entirely absorbed into the tariff, as well as the required investment and the return on capital if it is entirely absorbed by industry players.
“We have neither increased nor decreased Trai’s recommended reserve price but that does not mean we have endorsed it. There is nothing like the right or wrong price, we are only assisting the EGoM by providing an analysis and presenting what is in the interest of the consumers, telecom players and government,” Chandrashekhar said.
“Balance (in the reserve price) will be struck once this analysis is made,” Chandrashekhar said.
The government is in a fix over the reserve price recommended by the telecom watchdog. Trai has pegged it at Rs 3622 crore per megahertz (MHz) for 1800 MHz band spectrum, which is 10 times what telecom operators paid for the same airwaves in 2008. For 800 MHz and 900MHz, it has fixed a floor price of Rs7244.36 crore, for 700MHz Rs14488.72 crore, for 2,100MHz Rs3773.24 crore, and for 2,300MHz Rs723.52 crore.
The Telecom Commission will now make a presentation to the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee-headed inter-ministerial panel “sometime in early June” after it receives the impact analysis it has sought from Trai.Rajan S Mathews, director general of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), said the government was moving in the right direction by getting its facts straight before taking a final decision on the reserve price. “Clearly, this is what we have been asking for. Hopefully, with the new chairman (Rahul Khullar) there will be fresh review (on reserve price) and more clarity,” he said.The recommendations for spectrum auction were prepared by JS Sarma, who retired on May 14. The government will be re-auctioning spectrum of the 122 licences cancelled by the Supreme Court (SC) early this year. The apex court had directed the Trai to come out with recommendations for the spectrum auction based on the third generation (3G) auction in 2010. The auction for the 2G spectrum will be held by August as ordered by the SC.
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