Nokia takes on tablet giants

Nokia is planning to bring a Windows 7 touch-screen tablet into the market, to compete with Apple's iPad and HP's slate, reports iSlate.

2010 has been the year of the tablets with the iPad, HP Slate, Microsoft Courier, Fusion Garage Joo Joo, Notion Ink's Adam, Asus Eee, Skiff Reader, AMtek iTablet, and Dell Streak Mini 5.

Acer is the only hardware manufacturer that has officially said it does not plan to enter the tablet market.

AT&T is investing $1 billion to expand its global network and small business services, states RTT News.

AT&T says the expansion of its global network will improve capacity and will offer services in new markets as well as delivering integrated devices and mobile solutions.

The proliferation of high-speed communication networks and mobile computing devices worldwide has motivated AT&T to develop collaboration services and applications such as cloud-based services, telepresence, unified communications and security.

NEC has signed an agreement with fixed-mobile convergence solutions provider Varaha Systems to deliver mobile unified communications solutions, says Market Watch.

NEC's Univerge SV8000 series communications servers can now connect to both cellular and WiFi networks to smartphones using mobile client software from Varaha.

"Varaha's uMobility solution is about taking the features and functions of the business communications network and bringing those capabilities to the user's mobile phone," says Prasad Govindarajan, CTO of Varaha.