AMD and VSNL to sell net communicator device in India
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has teamed with Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL), a leading Indian telecommunications and internet services company, to market its Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) to consumers in India.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Wednesday it will buy privately held Tellme Networks, a  voice-recognition technology company, as it promotes the  service for computer users and call centers.
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Partner to sell technologies that will allow users to operate and manage telephone calls from their desktops.
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PEMBROKE, Bermuda, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tyco International Ltd. has agreed to sell its Tyco Global Network to Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL), India&#39;s leading telephone and internet services provider, for $130 million.
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(InfoWorld) - After watching its market share for the North American desktop PC market slip in a soft third quarter, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) will seek greater profits in 2007 throughÂ a new family of quad-core server chipsÂ and itsÂ acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI. "From a customer perspective, our integration is completed," said Henri Richard, AMD's chief sales and marketing officer during the company's annual analyst meeting in New York on Thursday. The companies still face several years of work to reach their goal of launching a combined processor and graphics chip called Fusion, but since closing the deal in October, they have already combined sales forces, supply chains and manufacturing facilities. In the short term, that will enable "the new AMD" to benefit whenÂ Microsoft's launch of the Windows VistaÂ OS sparks increased demand for visual capability in PCs. "Vista will change the paradigm of how people relate to their PCs and their criteria for selecting devices in 2007. That emphasis on a more visual experience will give AMD an edge," Richard said. AMD will also use the ATI acquisition to enter the fast-growing consumer electronics market in 2007, selling more video processing chips as demand rises for digital and high-definition TV, and selling more embedded chips as handheld devices converge the capabilities of cell phones and PCs, he said. AMD expects 19 percent growth for its chips used in the handheld sector and 44 percent growth in digital TVs. In the meantime, AMD will focus on its bread-and-butter product, the Opteron server chip. AMD plans to increase its revenue from microprocessors and chipsets by 20 percent in 2007, twice its prediction for the industry's growth rate. Chip-making rival Intel Corp. regained some ground in the desktop and server markets in recent months with its Core 2 Duo and dual-core Woodcrest Xeon chips. But AMD is poised to defend its turf. The company demonstrated a four-chip server using laboratory versions of its "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron chip at the meeting. Compared to AMD's own dual-core server chips, the design marks a 40 percent to 70 percent improvement in processing power and a 60 percent improvement in performance per watt. AMD plans to launch that chip for high-end servers in the second half of 2007, and update it with a "Shanghai" model in 2008. The company also plans to expand from its stable of processors designed for two, four and eight-chip servers in 2007 by launching "Budapest,"a quad-core Opteron chip designed for the single-processor servers used in the small business market. AMD will also improve its Turion and Sempron notebook chips, extending battery life with a more efficient "Hawk" model in 2007 and "Griffin" model in 2008. Together, those products will help return AMD to a better mix of products, Richard said. "We had been heavily reliant on the desktop sector. Now our server and laptop segments are growing faster, so we will soon reach the industry average." AMD has already started designing an eight-core server chip, set for release in three years, but has no plans to build chips with even more cores. "I think most people recognize the industry made a mistake getting into the megahertz wars, because we should have been more focused on the efficiency of the overall platform. And we would make another mistake if we got into a core war," said Phil Hester, AMD's chief technology officer. "You'd scratch your head if someone tried to sell you a 16- or 32-cylinder car and ask 'Why on earth do I need this?' You really need something whose capabilities are matched to what you'll use it for every day."
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Dell said it will buy MessageOne, which was co-founded by Michael Dellâs brother, for $155 million as it aims to compete with Microsoft and Google.
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AMD launches the $185 Personal Internet Communicator(PIC) in partnership with Tata Indicom to tap the Indian market. MUMBAI: The Austin, TX-based chip vendor AMD calls it the 50x15 initiative : the move towards
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Verizon said it would make its mobile network available for a text-message program by Naral Pro-Choice America.
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Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL), a Tata group company, today announced the acquisition of Tyco Global Network for $130 million, or Rs 585 crore, in a cash deal.
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Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and AT&amp;T Corp. (TN: Quote, Profile, Research) have signed a research and product development agreement covering Internet telephone technology
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NEW DELHI General Electric said Monday that it planned to sell a majority stake in its Indian call-center unit to General Atlantic Partners and Oak Hill Capital Partners for $500 million to help the business gain customers.
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Intel and Siemens announced plans Thursday to take VoIP from a largely consumer-based medium and expand its use in the corporate world. To achieve that goal, the two companies will work together on new technologies.
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U.S. chip maker Advanced Micro Devices  AMD.N has unveiled a low-cost Internet access device that  could cost just a few hundred dollars, aimed at first-time  technology users in the developing world.
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IBM and networking provider Alcatel-Lucent are teaming up to take Microsoft head-on in the unified communications market.Through the partnership, announced in Boston at the Fall VON conference Tuesday, Alcatel-Lucent is offering integration of its OmniTouch audioconferencing feature into IBM Lotus Sametime, the companies said.Customers that have both Alcatel-Lucent&#39;s OmniTouch Unified Communication software and IBM&#39;s Lotus Sametime product can take advantage of the new offering, which will be available in the next few weeks on IBM&#39;s Web site for Sametime partner applications.The move is the first time IBM and Alcatel-Lucent have collaborated on unified communications, though IBM counts other networking providers -- such as Cisco Systems, Avaya, and Nortel Networks -- as partners in this market.IBM is positioning itself as an open-standards alternative to&#160;unified communications offerings from Microsoft, which made a big splash earlier this month in San Francisco when it&#160;launched Office Communications Server, the linchpin of its unified communications strategy. Microsoft also has cozied up to telecommunications companies, as well as&#160;networking and wireless handset providers to push its products in this market.The deal announced Tuesday calls for Alcatel-Lucent and IBM to offer the OmniTouch My Teamwork for Lotus Sametime, a free plug-in that provides the ability to click-to-conference directly from both Lotus Sametime and Lotus Notes, as well as to provide audioconference scheduling and management from Lotus Sametime&#39;s Web conferencing feature.Akiba Saeedi, an IBM program director for unified communications and collaboration, said that&#160;IBM two years ago revamped Sametime&#160;as not only an application, but also a platform on which partners can build new software for unified communications. The company&#39;s open-standards architecture is designed to make it easy for partners such as Alcatel to build software that can plug-and-play directly into the product, she said.Other companies that have built unified communications plug-ins for Sametime include Cisco and Avaya, which have both built click-to-call features for Sametime, and Polycom and Radvision, which also offer audio- and videoconferencing add-ons to Sametime.Microsoft also has tapped some of these same companies to support its Office Communications Server. However, Saeedi said that Microsoft also has built audio and video features into its platform that compete with offerings from its partners. Taking a different tack, IBM wants partners to add value to Sametime and does not plan to build features that compete with plug-ins they provide, she said.
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BOMBAY - US chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a low-cost Internet access device that could cost just a few hundred dollars, aimed at first-time technology users in the developing world.
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US / Poland : Lucent Technologies and Novatel Wireless announced that the two companies are supplying Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa Sp.
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Dec. 14--American networking giant Cisco Systems is building a research  and development centre and a factory in India to manufacturer internet phones.   The company has allocated $1.1bn (Â£561m, E825m) to Chennai and Bangalore.