Ericsson is using its WCDMA/HSPA technology to help BSNL, India’s second largest telecom operator, achieve India’s biggest simultaneous launch of 3G services to date, across 11 leading cities.

Microsoft and Vodafone announced an agreement under which Vodafone will offer businesses a single communications and collaboration solution composed of fixed and mobile voice and data, customer equipment and handsets, and Microsoft Online Services.

Verizon Business has received approval from the government of India’s Department of Telecommunications to operate the company’s two international gateways in Mumbai and Chennai, under its international long-distance license.

Epson announced that it has begun shipping samples of the second product in the company’s line of USB controller LSIs with integrated USB software for USB memory connection applications.

The continued erosion of the global economy, including the prospect of negative GDP growth in many major countries, has led IDC to update its forecast for worldwide IT spending in 2009.

According to Juniper Research, by the end of 2013, the global revenues from mobile music services will reach nearly $14.6bn, and the global user base for mobile broadcast TV services is likely to exceed 330 million.

Accenture and Cisco announced that they have expanded their strategic alliance to form an innovative virtual group to help large enterprises around the world increase business agility by embedding collaboration and data center virtualization capabilities into their key business processes.

Siemens’s Industry Automation Division has developed a new system for the quick assembly of fiber-optic cables (FOC).

HP and Sun announced an expanded multi-year partnership agreement that enables HP to distribute and provide software technical support for Sun’s Solaris 10 Operating System on the HP ProLiant server and blade system platforms.

The BDR-203BK is Pioneer’s first Blu-ray writer to achieve write speeds of 8X on Single Layer (25GB SL) and Dual Layer (50GB DL) BD-R discs.

Novell announced a broad collaboration with VMware to help independent software vendors (ISVs) build fully supported SUSE Linux Enterprise-based virtual appliances.

As U.S. business leaders strive to be more energy-efficient in order to save money and reduce their companies’ impact on the environment, a majority believe information technology products can help their businesses become “more green,” according to a recent survey conducted by Zogby International for Cisco.

ARM announced the ARM Cortex-M0 processor, the smallest, lowest power and most energy-efficient ARM processor available.

Broadcom and chumby announced the integration of the chumby rich media Internet platform into Broadcom’s latest digital television (DTV), set-top box (STB) and Blu-ray Disc system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions delivering high quality and personalized user experiences to Internet-connected TVs.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers and VMware announced a joint solution that guarantees high quality-of-service for SAP applications.

Red Hat announced its virtualization strategy for 2009 and beyond, outlining plans to expand and enhance its server, client and management products to enable ubiquitous adoption of virtualization across the enterprise.

Dassault Systèmes, a leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and Intercim, a leader in manufacturing and production operations management software solutions for advanced and highly regulated industries, announced a new step forward in their strategic alliance, with Dassault Systèmes taking a minority position in Intercim.

At the World Mobile Congress 2009, LG Electronics announced the launch of LG ARENA (LG-KM900). The company unveiled the first transparent design phone, the LG-GD900, a new smartphone, LG-GM730, the Touch Watch Phone, and its eco-friendly mobile phone equipped with a solar panel battery cover.

Vodafone and HTC announced the HTC Magic smartphone, Vodafone’s first Android-powered mobile, which will be available in the spring.

Nokia announced a partnership with América Móvil to bring Nokia Maps Navigation to América Móvil consumers in Latin America. The two companies will collaborate to bring location-based services to América Móvil consumers who purchase Nokia GPS-enabled phones.

Acer is introducing a new line of smartphones with a broad range of features and innovations. These first devices are mainly targeted at consumers who want to make use of excellent technology both for their personal and their professional needs.

LG Electronics and Intel announced a collaboration around mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on Intel’s next-generation MID hardware platform, codenamed “Moorestown,” and Linux-based Moblin v2.0 software platform.

Lenovo and Research In Motion (RIM) will work together to promote new Lenovo mobile solutions that will helpbusiness users enhance their mobile computing and communications experience through tighter integration between Lenovo ThinkPad laptop computers and BlackBerry smartphones.

NVIDIA introduced a new platform, based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that enables a $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges.

Toshiba and Fujitsu have signed a memorandum of understanding on the transfer of Fujitsu’s hard disk drive business to Toshiba. The companies plan to conclude a transfer contract at an early date, and aim to complete the transaction in the first quarter of fiscal 2009.