2009

Media Releases from 2009


NEC bundles free handsets with entry level UC suites
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010
NEC today announced a change to its UC packages for small and medium-sized businesses with the inclusion of free handsets providing a complete, feature rich and scalable telephony system.  The bundles provide a starting point for small companies looking to take advantage of unified communications.
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NEC's Facial Recognition Technology Achieves First Place in the Still-Face Dataset of the NIST Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge
Thursday, 21 Jan 2010
NEC Corporation, a global leader in networking, communications and information technology, announced today that its face recognition technologies ranked number one in the Still-Face Dataset of the Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge (MBGC, *1) carried out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. NEC's face recognition technology has solidified an industry-leading position by attaining this first place ranking among all major vendors.
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NEC's Ultra Compact Microwave Communications System, PASOLINK, Selected by Leading Vietnamese Telecommunications Carrier
Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010
NEC Corporation today announced its selection by Vietnam Telecom Service Company (VNP) to deploy approximately 1,000 units of the "PASOLINK NEO" ultra compact microwave communications system.
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NEC to attend the Mobile World Congress 2010
Thursday, 21 Jan 2010
NEC Corporation announced today that it will attend the Mobile World Congress 2010 (MWC 2010), a premier industry event held in Barcelona, Spain, on February 15-18 2010.
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Conroy opens the latest NEC powered FTTP deployment in Australia
Monday, 07 Dec 2009
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy today announced another NEC and Opticomm Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) community at Alamanda in Victoria.
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NEC Australia launches social networking site for seniors
Wednesday, 02 Dec 2009
NEC Australia today launched a custom designed social networking and community portal for seniors.
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NEC Australia partners with Intermoco Limited to deliver combined utilities, voice and data managed services offering to Australian business
Thursday, 26 Nov 2009
NEC Australia today announced it has signed a Strategic Business Partner Agreement with Intermoco Limited, an ASX listed leading provider of metering and monitoring solutions for energy and water management, to roll out a combined utility services offering to provide business with competitive bundled rates for electricity, gas, water, voice and data services.
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NEC partners with Optus to expand Optus ‘yes’ Business Totality offering
Thursday, 26 Nov 2009
NEC today announced it is partnering with Optus to offer small and medium businesses a new enhanced Optus 'yes' Business Totality telephony package. Developed in response to changing customer needs, the extended package now features local services and advanced mobility capabilities.
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NEC Australia announces next evolution of UC with personalised software suite
Thursday, 19 Nov 2009
NEC Australia today announced the next evolution of its UC offering with the launch of a complete software platform, extending its strategy in the market and sounding an additional challenge to IBM and Cisco.
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NEC brings its high-grade data centre offering closer to the customer
Thursday, 05 Nov 2009

NEC Australia today announced the launch of a data highway from its facilities within the Polaris and Mulgrave data centres, to customers in Australian metropolitan cities, in order to provide them with remote electronic access to their data. With this high capacity 100Mbits/sec connectivity, this partnership with Nextgen Networks will see NEC data centre services being delivered to customers via Points-of-Presence (POP) in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Canberra.
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NEC brings phones to life with the launch of software applications on desktop terminals
Wednesday, 04 Nov 2009
NEC Australia today announced a new range of software applications for its desktop terminals.  Aimed at the retail, hotel and SMB market, the NEC DTPlusWare XML allows users to access applications such as weather information, search their corporate directory with presence information and send instant messages via their phone terminal.
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Massachusetts General Hospital and NEC Start On-Site Evaluation of NEC Cancer Diagnosis Assistance System
Thursday, 22 Oct 2009
NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today it has started a joint evaluation of NEC’s cancer diagnosis assistance system, e-Pathologist, at Massachusetts General Hospital (Headquarters: Boston, MA, USA; President: Peter L. Slavin, MD; MGH).
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NEC Australia Signs Moneydirect as First Hosted Managed Services Customer at Polaris Data Centre
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009
NEC Australia today announced that Moneydirect, a leading provider of multi-channel payment solutions for the travel industry, has signed NEC Australia as its global hosted managed services partner. Moneydirect will lease capacity in NEC’s infrastructure at the Polaris Data Centre in Springfield, Queensland.
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NEC Produces World's Smallest Class All-in-One Compact Core Network System (EPC) for LTE
Tuesday, 06 Oct 2009
NEC Corporation announced today that its new Compact EPC system will be on display at LTE Forum 2009(*1). An all-in-one core network system, it qualifies for the world's smallest class by incorporating MME(*2) and Serving-GW(*3)/PDN-GW(*4) into an area measuring 483mm(L)x222mm(H)x497mm(D) that fits within the 5U-height of a standard 19-inch rack.
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NEC Australia Technology Used to Launch World’s Most Advanced Law Enforcement Vehicle
Tuesday, 06 Oct 2009
NEC Australia today announced that it has partnered with Australian based National Safety Agency Limited (NSA) to deliver a communications and technology platform for law enforcement vehicles. With both domestic and international applications, customers are likely to include the Los Angeles Police Department.
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DOCOMO, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Fujitsu Push Ahead with LTE Mobile-Terminal Platform
Thursday, 01 Oct 2009
NTT DOCOMO, INC., NEC Corporation, Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. and Fujitsu Limited announced today that they are making progress with their joint development of "LTE-PF", a mobile-terminal platform based on Long Term Evolution (LTE), a coming mobile communication standard for super-fast downlinks above 100 Mbps and uplinks above 50 Mbps.
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NEC Electronics Launches CubeSuiteTM in Australia, Singapore, India and the Rest of South-East Asia
Thursday, 01 Oct 2009
NEC Electronics (TSE: 6723) today announced the expansion of its CubeSuiteTM into Singapore, Australia and the rest of South-East Asia. As an integrated development environment (IDE), CubeSuite combines all the tools necessary to develop applications for NEC Electronics' 8- through 32-bit All FlashTM microcontrollers (MCUs) into a single platform.
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NEC Ibérica will be the partner of Telefónica for the launching of Aplicateca Telefónica
Wednesday, 23 Sep 2009
NEC Ibérica will be the partner of Telefónica for the launching of Aplicateca Telefónica and has selected NEC for the implementation of Aplicateca through the SaaS “Software as a Service” model, that will provide innovative services for all the small and medium enterprises customers of Teléfónica.
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NEC's Carrier Ethernet Mobile Backhaul Solution demonstrates interoperability in Public Interoperability Event
Monday, 21 Sep 2009
NEC, a leading provider of next generation backhaul transport solutions is to exhibit its Carrier Ethernet ready switching and microwave radio products at the upcoming Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC) 2009 in Berlin after successfully demonstrating interoperability at the EANTC test event held earlier this month.
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Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks and DOCOMO Develop Technical Specifications for Value-Added IMS Network Services
Monday, 07 Sep 2009
Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Fujitsu, NEC Corporation (NEC), Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) and NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) are pleased to announce the joint development and successful testing of common technical specifications for value-added IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network services.
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NEC Australia Takes National Senior Citizen Broadband Initiative Live
Thursday, 03 Sep 2009
NEC Australia today announced 40 live sites for the Federal Government’s $15 million Broadband for Seniors initiative.
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NEC Installs IPTV Systems in Two Hotels at City of Dreams, Macau, SAR
Tuesday, 01 Sep 2009
NEC Corporation (NEC) today announced that NEC Hong Kong Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation in Hong Kong, installed IPTV systems at Crown Towers and Hard Rock Hotel, two of the newest luxury hotels in Macau, SAR.
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NEC and OptiComm announce Australia’s first live open access FTTP site at University Hill, Victoria
Thursday, 06 Aug 2009
NEC and OptiComm today announced their first live Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) site at University Hill in Victoria.
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NEC Reinforces Human Interface Research and Development

NEC Corporation's development of easy-to-use human interfaces (HI, *1), part of its Central Research Laboratories' global "open innovation" (*2), has taken an important step forward through strengthened cooperation with Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Carnegie Mellon University.

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NEC Australia expands cloud computing strategy to include high grade datacentre hosting services
Tuesday, 28 Jul 2009
NEC Australia today announced an extension of its cloud computing and services strategy with the launch of a hosted managed service aimed at SMEs.  Hosted out of the state of the art Polaris data centre,
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NEC Releases Annual CSR and Environmental Reports
Friday, 24 Jul 2009
NEC Corporation has released "NEC's Annual CSR Report 2009," and "NEC's Annual Environmental Report 2009."
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NEC Australia’s Nextep launches unique unlimited 3G mobile access for SMEs
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2009
Nextep, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Australia, today launched 3GConnect, an unlimited 3G mobile access service for its flagship private network services, providing secure and cost effective access to business networks. 
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NEC Promotes Global Cloud Computing Business for Telecom Operators
Tuesday, 14 Jul 2009
Leading global carriers are currently driving the expansion of new Service Businesses through data centers that provide a wide range of corporate and private services while transitioning into IP and broadband connectivity.
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NEC Australia appoints new advertising agency as part of strategic marketing push
Thursday, 02 Jul 2009
NEC Australia today announced the appointment of communications agency LOUD, as part of a renewed focus on marketing aimed at raising its brand awareness amongst the business and ICT community
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NEC Australia launches entry-level UC server for small business
Thursday, 25 Jun 2009
NEC Australia today announced the availability of an entry level UC telephony server aimed at businesses or branch offices with less than 25 employees
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NEC Australia revamps Unified Communications Group (UCG) partner program to provide more support for channel and customers
Wednesday, 24 Jun 2009
NEC Australia today announced details of its new partner accreditation program designed to provide more support for channel partners and help them grow their business
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NEC Australia outlines aggressive strategy to grow services business
Wednesday, 17 Jun 2009
Australia today outlined plans to grow its service revenues from 50% to 70% of total business earnings in the next five years
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“Earth Simulator System” Achieves World’s Top Computing Efficiency on the LINPACK Benchmark
Friday, 05 Jun 2009
NEC Corporation today announced that the renewed “Earth Simulator System,” which NEC deployed for the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), an independent administrative organisation
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Sales begin for New Body Surface Temperature Detection and Alarm Systems
Friday, 05 Jun 2009
NEC Corporation subsidiary, NEC Avio Infrared Technologies Co., Ltd. (NEC Avio) today announced the sale of two infrared thermography products, the TVS-200IS and TVS500-IS, both equipped with body surface temperature detection and alarm features
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NEC launches industry leading colour critical LCD Display at PacPrint 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
NEC’s SpectraView provides the print and graphic design industry with a highly efficient and cost effective professional colour management LCD solution
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Epson Deploys Technology Information Management System in LCD Display Manufacturing Plant in China
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
NEC’s “Obbligato II” provides cross border, seamlessly integrated, secure data management
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NEC Avio has delivered TVS-500EX Infrared Thermography Systems in response to the outbreak of a new strain of influenza
Monday, 18 May 2009
Emergency Assistance Provided to Mexico

NEC Avio Infrared Technologies Co., Ltd. delivered 25 sets of Infrared Thermography Systems (TVS-500EX) to the United Mexican States on 7 May 2009

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NEC Selected by UQ Communications as Mobile WiMAX Base Station Vendor
Monday, 11 May 2009
NEC Corporation today announced its selection by UQ Communications Inc, a nationwide telecommunications carrier capitalising on mobile WiMAX technologies
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NEC Provides Converged Voice over WLAN Network for The Peninsula Shanghai
Thursday, 30 Apr 2009
NEC Corporation today announced the delivery of a fully converged voice and data wireless LAN network for The Peninsula Shanghai
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NEC Australia model shows Unified Communications can save businesses $100,000 within one year
Tuesday, 28 Apr 2009
NEC Australia launches in-depth ROI calculator for UC.
NEC Australia today launched an in-depth modelling tool designed to quantify the expected ROI for unified communications deployments
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NEC Fingerprint Matching Technology Ranked No. 1 by the NIST
Thursday, 16 Apr 2009
Automatic processing returns 97.2% accuracy from latent prints.  NEC Corporation today announced that its latent fingerprint matching technology has been ranked number one in the world on the Evaluation of Latent Fingerprints Technologies (ELFT)

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NEC Develops Technology that Extracts Opinions from Text Data
Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009
NEC Corporation announced today the development of a "sentence characteristic distribution calculation method" that extracts "opinion sentences" from written text which expresses the feelings or subjective views of a writer
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NEC Cup Go Tournament gets CBD makeover
Wednesday, 15 Apr 2009
Hundreds of Victorian Go players are set to gather at the 13th NEC Cup in Melbourne this weekend to compete for the largest go tournament of the year
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NEC introduces the world’s thinnest bezel LCD display at just 2.7mm
Wednesday, 08 Apr 2009
NEC Australia, a leading stand-alone provider of commercial LCD displays, projectors and innovative digital signage solutions, today announced the innovative 46-inch MultiSync® X461UN ultra-narrow professional display
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NEC Australia applauds Government FTTP NBN announcement

NEC Australia today welcomed the Government’s announcement about the new FTTP national broadband network (NBN)
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NEC’s Ultra Compact Microwave Communications System, PASOLINK, Selected by Vietnam’s GTEL-Mobile to Support the Growth of Mobile Backhaul Solutions
Thursday, 02 Apr 2009
NEC Corporation announced today its selection by Vietnam’s GTEL-Mobile to deploy a mobile backhaul solution based on NEC’s ultra compact microwave communications system, PASOLINK
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NEC Secures a Leading Position with WiMAX™ 3.5GHz Certification from the WiMAX Forum®
Wednesday, 01 Apr 2009
NEC Corporation announced today that it has been awarded the WiMAX Forum Certified seal of approval for its comprehensive 3.5GHz WiMAX base station, PASOWINGS.
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NEC’s Compact Microwave Communications System, PASOLINK, Secures Top Global Market Share for the Second Consecutive Year
Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009
NEC Corporation announced today that its compact microwave communications system, PASOLINK, secured the industry’s top global market share
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NEC Launches the “CX2800 Series” Multi-service Transport Switch for the Mobile Backhaul 10G Era and Beyond
Thursday, 26 Mar 2009
Selected as a vendor for NTT DOCOMO's LTE backhaul network

NEC Corporation announced today the expansion of its popular CX2000 family of intelligent multi-service switches with the release of the new CX2800 Series

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NEC Australia unveils new business structure
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2009
NEC today detailed the new structure of its Australian business which will see the organisation divided into four business units that will focus on its core innovation strength of empowering customers
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NEC to Upgrade Pan-American Submarine Cable
Tuesday, 24 Mar 2009
NEC Corporation announced today the signing of a multimillion-dollar contract with a purchaser consortium of eleven telecommunications carriers for upgrading the Pan-American Cable System. 
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NEC and OptiComm partner to deliver FTTH open access network to more than 50,000 new homes and businesses
Thursday, 19 Mar 2009
NEC Australia today announced it has partnered with FTTH telecoms specialist OptiComm to supply core and access technology and services to enable OptiComm’s rollout of a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTH/P) broadband network to more than 50,000 new homes and businesses
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NEC's Mobile WiMAX for Thailand's Crown Prince Hospital Foundation Begins Operation
Wednesday, 04 Mar 2009
NEC Corporation announced today that its Mobile WiMAX pilot system for Thailand's Crown Prince Hospital Foundation has begun operation
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NEC Australia Delivers Communications Technology for Victorian Sheriff’s Office’s $1.6M WorkSafe Radio Project
Thursday, 26 Feb 2009
NEC Australia announced today that it has won a $1.6 million contract with the Victorian Sheriff’s Office to provide a new communications platform for its entire fleet of vehicles
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NEC Strengthens Management Structure to Improve Profitability and Drive New Growth
Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009
NEC Corporation announced today an organisational reform plan, scheduled to launch April 1, 2009, as part of the company's strategic measures to overcome the challenging economic conditions of the current worldwide recession
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NEC Develops One of the World's Leading Mobile Terminal Base Station Transmitter Amplifiers
Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009
NEC plans to begin shipment of the new transmitter amplifier, installed within LTE equipment, by the end of 2009
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NEC and NetCracker Announce Wireless Broadband Joint Solution at Mobile World Congress 2009
Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009
NEC Corporation and NetCracker Technology announced today a joint solution aimed at helping operators streamline their operations and optimize their investments in wireless broadband
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NEC and Carrier IQ Announce Global Partnership
Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009
NEC Corporation, a leading global provider of Advanced Telecom and IT solutions, and Carrier IQ, the leader in Mobile Service Intelligence solutions for wireless carriers and equipment vendors, today confirmed that they have formed a global partnership agreement
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NEC Pushes International Expansion of Device Management Software
Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009
NEC Corporation announced today the international sales launch of its NC7000-DM device management software
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NEC Launches SaaS Solution Platform for Global Telecom Operators
Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009
NEC Corporation announced today the international sales launch of its Software as a Service (SaaS) solution platform
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NEC Australia adds enterprise strength to UC offering
Monday, 16 Feb 2009
NEC Australia, a global leader in enterprise business communications, today announced the expansion of its Unified Communications (UC) offering in the enterprise market
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NEC's Mobile Backhaul Solution demonstrates interoperability in the Public Multi-Vendor MPLS and Ethernet Interoperability Test Event
Tuesday, 10 Feb 2009
NEC Corporation's CX2600/220 and PASOLINK NEO iP products, part of NEC's mobile backhaul solution, successfully demonstrated interoperability in a public multi-vendor MPLS and Ethernet interoperability test organised by the European Advanced Networking Test Centre (EANTC) from January 12th to 23rd 2009
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NEC to Provide the Philippines’ Largest Mobile Phone Carrier with a Trunk Microwave system
Monday, 09 Feb 2009
NEC Corporation announced the conclusion of a contract agreement today to provide the Philippines’ largest mobile phone carrier, Smart Communications, Inc.
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NEC and TDC A/S partners to deploy the first Femtocell network in Denmark
Monday, 09 Feb 2009
TDC Mobile A/S, Denmark’s largest mobile operator, and NEC, one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions, announced today that they are working together for the potential roll-out of the NEC Femtocell solution in late 2009
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NEC LCD Technologies to Provide 3.1-inch 3D TFT LCD Module Samples for the EU’s “MOBILE3DTV” Terminal Prototype
Monday, 09 Feb 2009
NEC LCD Technologies announced that it will provide samples of its 3.1-inch-diagonal 3D polysilicon thin-film-transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) module for the MOBILE3DTV terminal prototype
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NEC Australia backs Government tax break with free Unified Communications offering for small and medium sized businesses
Wednesday, 04 Feb 2009
NEC today announced further incentives for Australian businesses taking advantage of the Government’s investment allowance, by offering free Unified Messaging licenses with a range of new telephony starter packages
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NEC Receives INTERNET TELEPHONY® Magazine’s 11th Annual Product of the Year Award
Friday, 23 Jan 2009
NEC announced today that INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named UNIVERGE® SV8100 and SV8500 as recipients of its 2008 Product of the Year Award
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NEC Australia announces restructure to focus on business and services market
Thursday, 15 Jan 2009
NEC Australia today announced a strategic restructure of its local business to focus solely on its core ICT/network communication solutions and services with a greater emphasis on delivering service and consultancy to its business and government customers
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NEC develops a nonvolatile magnetic flip flop that enables standby-power-free SoCs
Monday, 05 Jan 2009
NEC Corporation today announced that it has succeeded in demonstrating the operation of a non-volatile magnetic flip flop (MFF)
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NEC develops Speech Interpretation Software for Mobile Phones
Monday, 05 Jan 2009
NEC Corporation announced today the development of automatic software for mobile phones that quickly and accurately provides interpretation of words and phrases commonly associated with travel
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Leicester theatre trust implements new software-based communications solution from NEC Philips
Monday, 05 Jan 2009
NEC Corporation today announced that Leicester Theatre Trust (LTT) has turned to NEC Philips Unified Solutions to implement a revolutionary communications solution to match the innovative nature of Leicester’s new Curve theatre
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