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Orange, Thomson, Sagem create joint venture

  • February 21st, 2008
  • 2:34 pm

Orange, Thomson and Sagem Communications have joined forces to create a joint venture, Soft At Home. Soft At Home aims to create and promote a software platform to simplify and accelerate the adoption of residential digital services. The JV is designed to facilitate the deployment and interoperability of digital equipment in the home and combine it with enhanced and innovative services. It will harness the technologies and experiences of its founding shareholders. Soft At Home’s software systems are being offered to telecommunications operators, third-party developers, OEMs and manufacturers.

   

 

 

 
 

France Telecom, Sagem, Thomson to form R&D venture - report (France)

  • September 21st, 2007
  • 12:57 pm

France Telecom will form joint venture with Sagem and Thomson, writes Les Echos. The tie-up would serve to develop common standards to allow different types of electronic devices to communicate better with each other. The future entity already has a code name, HNSA, standing for “home network software applications”. According to unnamed sources, France Telecom’s two partners, both manufacturers of the quad-play operator’s Livebox, would each hold 20 percent of HNSA, with France Telecom owning the remaining 60 percent. France Telecom CEO Didier Lombard hopes to offer stakes to other manufacturers or operators as well, thus helping to develop a truly common convergence standard making media centres/STBs accessible via mobile phones and the internet. Orange France is the domestic market leader with 5.2 million installed Liveboxes and 800,000 ADSL TV customers. The formation of HNSA is not only motivated by the desire to prevent companies from large markets such as the US and China from controlling future standards, but to allow France Telecom and its partners to file patents and collect royalties.

   

EC approves German state aid for Theseus internet project

  • July 22nd, 2007
  • 6:30 pm

The European Commission (EC) has approved EUR 120 million of German state aid for the Theseus R&D project to develop and test new search technologies for the next-generation internet. The Theseus project will include both large companies and SMEs. The EC concluded that the state aid was in line with criteria outlined in the Research and Development and Innovation. Theseus aims to develop and test new search technologies and integrated information and communications technology services for the next-generation internet. It will also look to develop structured online access to cultural information for the public. The first phase will involve the allocation of R&D grants to larger companies including Empolis, SAP, Siemens and Deutsche Thomson. Grants will be made available to SMEs in later phases.