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• NEC buys CSG division, becomes fully-fledged ICT provider

  By Spandas Lui | 30 May, 2012 11:16

  Communications integrator, NEC, is on course to become a major ICT service provider after snapping up CSG’s Technology Solutions division.

• CSG sells Technology Solutions business to NEC for $227.5m

  By Spandas Lui | 30 May, 2012 09:21

  CSG (ASX: CSV) has agreed to sell its Technology Solutions business to NEC Australia for around $227.5 million

• A flurry of OpenFlow activity signals the arrival of this software-defined network tech

  By John Dix | 23 April, 2012 20:29

  Belief in OpenFlow-based software-defined networking is coalescing rapidly, the latest evidence being the overflow crowds at last week's Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., and new details about a Cisco startup that has been formed to address the opportunity.

• Google shares lessons learned as early software-defined network adopter

  By Colin Neagle | 19 April, 2012 01:29

  During his keynote speech at the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara on Tuesday, Google executive Urs Holzle detailed the company's work with software-defined networking (SDN) from its earliest stages.

• Toshiba to buy IBM's retail Point-of-Sale business for US$850 million

  By Jay Alabaster | 17 April, 2012 22:09

  Toshiba said Tuesday it will purchase IBM's retail point-of-sale (POS) business for US$850 million, with the Japanese company taking over the hardware business while IBM shifts its focus to back-end software solutions.

• Cisco, Juniper among new software-defined networking research center's founders

  By Bob Brown | 11 April, 2012 03:24

  Cisco, Juniper, HP and nine other technology companies have joined forces with two leading universities to form a research center focused on software-defined networking (SDN).

• NEC launches software to quickly find video clips in large archives

  By Jay Alabaster | 10 April, 2012 20:02

  NEC has begun sales of new software to quickly find video clips in large archives, which is well-suited for finding illegal content on video sharing websites, it said Tuesday.

• Samsung, NTT DoCoMo chip group abandon planned LTE chip joint venture

  By Jay Alabaster | 02 April, 2012 20:52

  NTT DoCoMo said Monday a planned joint venture with Samsung Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC and other Japanese companies to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile networks based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution) standard has been abandoned.

• NEC signs NBN Co wholesale broadband agreement

  By Spandas Lui | 28 March, 2012 13:49

  Communications integrator looks to provide wholesale aggregation services on the NBN through its broadband division, Nextep.

• NEC to acquire Convergys data management business for US$449 million

  By Jay Alabaster | 22 March, 2012 20:17

  NEC will acquire the information management business of Convergys for about US$449 million, to strengthen its telecommunications software products targeted at large carriers, it said Thursday.

• NEC to add mini earthquake sensors to its cloud-based device platform

  By Jay Alabaster | 22 March, 2012 01:34

  NEC said Wednesday it will add small earthquake sensors to the growing set of devices that work on its cloud-based network platform.

• NEC Casio Mobile to venture outside Japan with smartphones: first stop Thailand

  By Jay Alabaster | 22 February, 2012 19:41

  NEC Casio Mobile Communications will begin selling smartphones outside its home market of Japan, with Thailand as its first target, it said Wednesday.

• Slow smartphone? It's not the network, it's NAND flash

  By Lucas Mearian | 18 February, 2012 02:28

  SAN JOSE -- NAND flash memory in smartphones can significantly blunt the performance of web browsing, email loading, games and even social network sites Facebook and Google+, researchers say.

• NEC to cut 10,000 workers, forecasts $US1.3 billion loss in year through March

  By Jay Alabaster | 27 January, 2012 21:45

  NEC said it will cut 10,000 jobs, including 3,000 outside of Japan, and it now forecasts a US$1.3 billion loss in the current fiscal year through March.

• IBM, NEC team on OpenFlow

  By Jim Duffy | 25 January, 2012 00:29

  IBM and NEC have partnered to offer OpenFlow-based networking products to joint customers.