Ericsson bids for Norway's Tandberg Television
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Ericsson, the world's leading supplier of mobile telecommunication networks, bid on Monday for Norway's Tandberg Television to beef up its service to operators who want to broadcast television via the Internet.
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InfoWorld - A European Commission plan to simplify the licensing of Europe-wide mobile satellite services could boost the nascent market for broadcast TV services over handheld devices.
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Ericsson said Friday that it received contracts to build wireless communications networks in China and South Africa. China Telecom Corp.
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Swedes are the first to try a music service for mobiles that lets them download unlimited tracks for a weekly fee.
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(InfoWorld) - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson will restructure and hire 500 more engineers to better meet demand for multimedia products and services, Ericsson's chief executive officer said Friday. Starting in 2007, Ericsson will reorganize into three units: networks, global services, and multimedia. The new engineers will primarily work in the multimedia group, and the bulk of them will be based in Sweden. The new group will help Ericsson better understand what types of multimedia services might become popular and how demands might vary, said Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and chief executive officer. "We and operators are still on a learning curve. When it comes to voice it's very easy," he said. "But with multimedia, what does a 13-year-old in Germany want and does an American 13-year-old feel the same? And that's much different than an adult in China." The new group will also aim to better leverage the company's relationship with Sony and with theirÂ mobile phone joint ventureÂ Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. "When it comes to multimedia, we have exciting assets in Sony Ericsson and at Sony. We just haven't put it together and it's been embedded further down in the organization," he said. Svanberg offered an example of how Sony and Ericsson products might grow increasingly complementary. Currently, users of Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot camera-phones can send photographs to an online blog. Soon, standalone Cyber-shot cameras are also likely to include connectivity so that users can send photos to a blog, he said. Because Ericsson supplies wireless network infrastructure and develops some chips for mobile devices, that type of product and application could be created through an alliance between Sony and Ericsson. The new networks group, which combines several existing network equipment groups, will have a renewed focus on converged networks that will help support some of the emerging multimedia services in the home. "In the perfect world we will have a converged network where you won't know if you're speaking on a mobile or a fixed network," Svanberg said. Similarly, a user could be watching TV at home, pick up a mobile phone to watch the same program while moving around the house and then continue watching while moving to an outside location. Such a service would operate over connected wireless and wireline networks. The third new business unit, global services, combines Ericsson's existing professional services and network rollout groups and will focus on services for operator customers. Ericsson acquiredÂ most of U.K. telecommunications equipment vendor Marconi late last year and is in the process of laying off 1,600 people as it digests the new company. That acquisition is part of a recent wave of consolidation in the competitive network equipment market, including theÂ merger of Lucent Technologies and AlcatelÂ and theÂ combination of Nokia's and Siemens' networks groups.
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Sweden's Ericsson said on Monday it  was working with Lenovo, the world's No. 3 PC maker, to provide  mobile broadband modules based on high speed packet access  (HSPA) for Lenovo notebook computers.
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Microsoft on Sunday night unveiled a deal with Sony (NYSE:SNE) Ericsson, which will see the Swedish-Japanese mobile handset maker use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system in a new flagship handset to be launched later this year.
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Telecom equipment maker Ericsson   said on Monday it would team up with Turner  Broadcasting to develop international mobile services.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications plans to make an announcement Wednesday about its strategy for the UIQ interface that runs on the Symbian mobile phone operating system, Sony Ericsson President Miles Flint said Sunday at a news briefing on the eve of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. Last week, Sony Ericsson completed the acquisition of UIQ Technology, the Swedish company that develops and manages the platform used by the handset maker for its smart phones. Since the acquisition, rumors have been floating as to whether Sony Ericsson will change the direction of the platform. The manufacturer has built the majority of UIQ-based smart phones on the market. UIQ will operate as an independent subsidiary and continue to be licensed on equal terms to all its licensees, Sony Ericsson said after the acquisition. UIQ, formerly known as User Interface Quartz, is a graphical user interface layer that provides additional components to the core Symbian OS, to enable the development of feature-rich mobile phones that are open to expanded capabilities through third-party applications. The 3GSM World Congress runs through Thursday.
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Ericsson  Chief Executive  Carl-Henric Svanberg said on Friday the Swedish firm would eye  any assets put up for sale by U.S. rival Motorola Inc ,  but would be "very cautious" about any deal.
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the Financial Times and Sony Ericsson announce a new mobile service that allows consumers to read up-to-date global business and financial news, comment and analysis from FT.
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Samsung Electronics said Monday that it has agreed to a cross-licensing agreement on patents with Swedenâs Ericsson in wireless communications technology.
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In case music, games, and video weren't enough, vendors are now vying for the opportunity to send digital television signals to your mobile phones.
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Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Australian  operator Telstra will  achieve two significant  milestones  when later  this  week they  launch  the world's first  200km  cell range  in  a commercial  mobile  broadband network and maximum network  downlink speeds of  14.4Mbps.
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Swedish telecom giant Telefon AB LM Ericsson has signed a five-year contract with H3G Italy to run its third-generational cellular network, the company said.
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Licensing Europe-wide mobile satellite services could give TV on handhelds the nudge it needs.
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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said  on Wednesday it would have low-cost color screen and music  playing handsets made in India through manufacturing agreements  with Flextronics  and Foxconn .