Acquisition stories - Page 193

Gen-i secures New Zealand's largest mobile contract with Fletcher Building to bolster Christchurch's rebuild efforts, enhancing communications.

Polycom teams with Microsoft, hosting new Accordent Media Services on Azure, enhancing video management for businesses globally.

Cisco is set to acquire Calif-based newScale, enhancing its cloud service provision with newScale's self-service IT portals for rapid infrastructure deployment.

Ingram Micro Asia and Transition Systems have signed up to the new CA Technologies regional partner programme.

Acquisition to boost Polycom's unified comms offering with customer-premise and cloud-based video content management solutions.

Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop says he's unaware of any strategic interest Microsoft has in acquiring Nokia.

Brightpoint NZ partners with GN Netcom Asia to bring Jabra's innovative wireless headsets and car speakerphones to the local market.

Motorola strikes back at TiVo in a legal battle over DVR patents, asserting its technology's priority following a clash with Verizon.

RSA appoints Andy Solterbeck as General Manager for ANZ, aiming to boost the enterprise and mid-market segments. Solterbeck hails from Telstra.

Proposed change to the Telecommunications Amendment Bill could allow the government to buy back parts of Telecom.

Google and Facebook's exploratory acquisition talks with Twitter have stalled, with a hefty price tag of $8-10 billion cited.

Business intelligence, collaboration, content management, social software and supply chain management will be 2011's major trends, says Gartner.

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IT executives never consciously decide to create chaos and sub-optimisation in their file transfer environments. But chaos happens anyway, as systems evolve.

The snappily-named super group 'Datacraft-Integral Axon' has announced three new appointments to its Supply Chain team.

Mitel appoints Richard McBee as CEO, eyeing growth with his 20+ years in telecoms and plans to steer the firm towards global expansion.

AspireTel expands its horizon by acquiring Dot Net in a strategic move aimed at boosting customer revenues and services.

Telcoinabox unveils 'mobile-in-a-box', revolutionising NZ's reseller market with a cost-efficient, wholesale mobile solution amid high demand.

Salesforce launches Chatter Free, a game-changing enterprise collaboration app, aiming to boost social collaboration within firms.

Intel reveals 12 tech trends to look for in 2011, including the rise of Smart TVs, tablet mania, context-aware computing, and robust security enhancements.