telefonica news

MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Telefónica’s joint venture, created to lead the development of mobile financial solutions in 12 markets in Latin America, unveiled today its new corporate and consumer brand, Wanda , and the team that will lead this initiative.

Cisco today introduces Cisco CloudVerse®, a framework that combines the foundational elements needed to enable organizations to build, manage and connect public, private and hybrid clouds.  Cisco CloudVerse combines these key cloud elements – Unified Data Center, Cloud Intelligent Network, and Cloud Applications and Services – enabling businesses to realize all of the benefits of clouds: improved agility, better economics, enhanced security and a dynamic, assured experience.

The president of Microsoft® Ibérica, María Garaña, and the president of Telefónica España, Luis Miguel Gilpérez, have showcased a new revolutionary form of entertainment today at Telefónica’s Flagship Store in Madrid. Users of Xbox 360® can access 12 TV channels from their consoles delivering the best cinema, music and sports content.

Telefónica and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) developed and successfully proved a secure, pre-standard solution for remotely managing M2M SIMs subscription data based on the principles of the embedded SIM. A live test has proven the secure transfer of a subscription from Telefónica Spain to a Telefónica UK one over the air.

Telefónica, through its recently created unit Telefónica Digital, and China Unicom today signed a strategic agreement to promote the development of M2M and the Internet of Things in a global scope. The objective involves making advances in improving connections between machines, traditionally known as M2M, through many different technologies such as cellular communications, identification by radiofrequency (RFID), sensors or global positioning systems (GPS).

Telefónica and Swiss mobile and fixed operator Sunrise today jointly announced that Sunrise will join the Telefónica Partners Program. The Program will allow Sunrise to leverage on Telefónica’s scale and to cooperate on key business topics.

Telefónica and Masternauthave reached an agreement to jointly market telematics-enabled fleet management services that allow businesses to make dramatic cost savings, whilst delivering improvements in customer service and employee safety. Both Telefónica and Masternaut will share product roadmaps to create market-leading future products.

Telefónica Brazil has chosen Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) to provide managed services for field maintenance in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil. Ericsson will provide a range of field operations services, supervising and maintaining Telefónica’s fixed network within the following areas in São Paulo city: Campo Limpo, Campo Belo, Jabaquara, Consolação and Ipiranga.

The Company has submitted a Redundancy Plan to the employment authorities involving the loss of 6,500 jobs, which was agreed by a substantial majority with the unions; it is based on voluntary redundancies, universal application and non-discrimination.

Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) and Telefonica (NYSE:TEF) today announced that they are working together to introduce BlackBerry® App World™ with integrated carrier billing on a global basis.

Nokia today gave an update on the deployment of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync for Nokia smartphones that shows it is gaining substantial traction among the world’s biggest operators and enterprises

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today its participation as the only Japanese vendor in Singapore Telecommunications Limited's (Headquarters: Singapore; Group CEO: Chua Sock Koong; SingTel) field trials of LTE (Long Term Evolution), a next generation mobile communications standard.

Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the next generation of Windows® Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series.

Telefónica today announced the acquisition of the leading communications innovator JAJAH for the value of €145 ($207 million) million in an all-cash transaction. The agreement is subject to formal clearance by CNC, the Spanish competition authority.

Nokia Siemens Networks has been selected to participate in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial in the Czech Republic, as part of LTE trials that Telefónica will be running in about half a dozen countries in Europe and Latin America.

Nokia and Telefónica announced today an agreement to launch Nokia's email solution to the Latin American marketplace.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) and Telefónica O2 UK have signed a multi-year managed services agreement. Ericsson will provide field maintenance and other services for the Telefónica O2 UK 2G and 3G networks.

Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has been selected to provide Telefónica O2 Germany with an IMS core system with an IMS-based VoIP application server. These two contracts include hardware deployment and software systems integration services.

Cornerstones of Alcatel-Lucent’s IPTV solution lead 100+ vendor list

Nokia Spain and Telefónica Spain have signed an agreement to introduce the Nokia Messaging push email service in Spain.