Ericsson
How To Reinvent A $38 Billion Company
With its illustrious 138-year history, its 114,000 global workforce and its $38 billion dollar market cap, you’d think that the Swedish tech giant Ericsson would be secure as the world’s…
Internet.org Lets f8 Developers Test Apps On A Simulated Low-Bandwidth Network
Until now, Internet.org has been a lot of talk about connecting the world without much to touch. But today at f8, Facebook and Ericsson gave Internet.org its first physical incarnation…
Facebook-Led Internet.org Partners With Nokia On SocialEDU In Rwanda, Unilever In India, Ericsson On New Lab To Connect Developing Economies
Later today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be appearing onstage at Mobile World Congress — his first appearance at the Barcelona-based event — to talk about bridging digital divide. Ahead…
Samsung & Ericsson End Long-Running Patent Dispute With New Licensing Deal
Samsung has secured another front against patent attack by shelling out to renew an IP-licensing deal with Ericsson — settling pending litigation attached to the long-running dispute.
Facebook And Internet.org Detail “1000X” Technologies They Hope Will Bring Earth Online
Air Traffic Control, HipHop, WebP, and Supplemental Downlink are some of the futuristic technologies that will bring the Internet to the five billion people still disconnected. A 70-page whitepaper released…
Keen On… The Mobile Future: Why IT Might Not Happen
“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed”, William Gibson famously said. But, with 20 billion connected devices existing by 2020, Gibson’s optimism might be misplaced. Indeed,…
OpenStack Cloud Builder Mirantis Raises $10M In Second A Round From Red Hat, Ericsson And SAP Ventures
Mirantis has raised another $10 million from Red Hat, Ericsson and SAP Ventures to fuel the growing demand for the build out of OpenStack systems for private and public cloud…
Video To Dominate Mobile Data Traffic In Four Years, Says Ericsson
If you thought smartphones were ubiquitous now — and in certain places they pretty much are — prepare for a whole lot more people to be coming online on their…
With No Buyer For The ST-Ericsson JV, Chipmaker Cuts 1,600 Workers And Prepares For Divorce
More developments on the grim story of ST-Ericsson, the unprofitable JV between Ericsson and STMicroelectronics that tried to kickstart a semiconductor business in Europe. Failing to find a buyer for…
Mozilla, AT&T And Ericsson Team Up To Demo Seamless Web-To-Mobile WebRTC Integration At MWC
What if your browser could know when you are getting a call on your mobile phone? Earlier this month, Google and Mozilla demonstrated how their browsers’ WebRTC implementations could interoperate.…
Samsung Seeks U.S. Sales Ban On Some Ericsson Products As The Two Continue Wrangling Over Patents
The patents war between Samsung Electronics and Ericsson rolls on. The Korean electronics company has announced that it filed a complaint last week against the Swedish telecom manufacturer with the U.S.…
Ericsson Will Take A $1.2B Hit On Decline Of ST-Ericsson Chip JV; Confirms It Won’t Buy STMicro’s Stake
Earlier this week European Commissioner Neelie Kroes spoke in platitudes about how the EU would be putting more effort into kick-starting the region’s hardware industry — to create the ‘Airbus…
Ericsson Files Patent Suit Against Samsung In The U.S. After Nearly Two Years’ Of FRAND Talks Fail To Reach A Deal (Updated)
Swedish telecoms kit maker Ericsson has filed suit against mobile maker Samsung in the US for patent infringement. The move follows nearly two years of negotiations to renew a FRAND…
After A Tough Q3, Telecoms Kit Maker Ericsson To Cut ~9% Of Workforce In Sweden: 1,550 Jobs To Go In Cost-Cutting Drive
Telecoms infrastructure company Ericsson has announced a big round of layoffs in a cost cutting drive after weathering a tough Q3, amid the global downturn. Reuters is reporting nearly nine…
Oops – Sony Ericsson Swings To A 207 Million Euro Net Loss In Q4 2011
Smartphone maker Sony Ericsson this morning posted a pre-tax loss of 247 million euros ($318 million) in the fourth quarter of 2011, after reporting a profit of 31 million euros…
Ericsson Forecasts 5 Billion Mobile Broadband Subscribers, Data Traffic To Grow Tenfold, By 2016
Ericsson, which provides technology and services to telecom operators around the globe, is forecasting a tenfold increase in mobile data traffic over the next five years, mainly driven by video.…
The Past, Present And Future Of Connectivity: A Must-See Mini Film
Just landed in our inbox: a link to this excellent documentary on connectivity, sponsored by Ericsson and entitled ‘On The Brink’. Picked up earlier by GigaOm, the 21-minute documentary features…
Sony Will Buy Out Ericsson’s Stake In Sony-Ericsson Mobile For $1.47 Billion
Sony Corp. has just announced that it will pay $1.47 billion for Ericsson’s 50% stake in a joint mobile handset venture.
Dear Sony: Just Buy Out Ericsson’s Stake Already
As it stands, Sony Ericsson is the 6th largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, but Sony may be looking into going it alone. According to a new report from…
ST-Ericsson looks to save $120 million per year, may scrap 500 jobs
ST-Ericsson, a joint venture of STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, this morning announced it will launch a cost savings plan to achieve about $120 million of annualized savings by the end of…
Ericsson Money launches to let you send and get money via mobile
Remember Ericsson? Yeah, they used to make mobile phones on their own. Then they realised they couldn’t compete against Nokia, Motorola and the rest, and spun out their mobile division…
Video: Connected Medical Devices At The GSMA Embedded Mobile House
The Embedded Mobile House at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2011? It sounded like science fiction to me or like one of those old IBM commercials hype-ing RFID for transportation…
Report: Number Of Mobile Broadband Subscriptions To Surpass 1 Billion In 2011
Ericsson, which provides tech and services to telecom operators around the globe, estimates that the number of mobile broadband subscriptions has grown to a whopping 500 million during the course…
Ericsson buys Spanish telecom vendor Optimi to boost network services play
Sweden-based Ericsson has agreed to acquire Spanish telecommunications vendor Optimi, which provides networks optimization and management solutions to a diverse set of clients in the telecom space. For Ericsson, the…
Ericsson Estimates 5 Billion Mobile Subscriptions Worldwide, Growing Fast
Ericsson, which provides technology and services to telecom operators around the globe, estimates we’ve hit another milestone in the Internet becoming increasingly mobile. The company claims, based on estimates based…
AT&T starts LTE field trials later this year, commercial deployment in 2011
Are you as excited as I am about LTE and the blazing fast data speeds it promises? Sure you are. And while you’re undoubtedly holding your breath waiting for 4G…
ST-Ericsson's new platform could spawn heaps of low-cost Android smartphones
ST-Ericsson, a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, this morning announced its latest HSDPA platform built on the Linux OS. Dubbed U6715, the platform aims to aid handset manufacturers…
ST-Ericsson Helps Handset Manufacturers Make Low-Cost Android Smartphones
ST-Ericsson, a 50/50 joint venture by STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, this morning announced its latest HSDPA platform built on the Linux OS. Dubbed U6715, the platform aims to aid handset manufacturers…
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First 4G Mobile Network Launches . . . In Sweden :(
For all of you waiting for mobile data networks to catch up to broadband speeds on cable and DSL, the first 4G/LTE network has arrived . . . in Sweden…