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• Alcatel-Lucent appoints former Vodafone exec Michel Combes as CEO

  Alcatel-Lucent's board has appointed Michel Combes as the company's new Chief Executive Officer, following Ben Verwaayen's recent resignation.

• Hold on Oscars! Telecom industry releases documentary on 'The Future of the Network'

  The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is a little late for this weekend's Oscars, but the outfit this week has nevertheless revealed the first in a four-part documentary series on "The Future of the Network."

• ZyXEL integrates Alcatel-Lucent's small cell software

  ZyXEL Communications will use software from Alcatel-Lucent to integrate mobile networking into its home networking equipment.

• Alcatel-Lucent hopes to make data plans more flexible

  Through its new Smart Plan platform, Alcatel-Lucent wants to make mobile subscription plans more flexible and allow data packages to be shared among users and handed out by companies to their customers using an application on smartphones and tablets.

• Alcatel-Lucent CEO to step down amid losses and declining revenue

  Alcatel-Lucent reported a fourth-quarter net loss of €1.37 billion (US$1.81 billion), and at the same time announced it is hunting for a new CEO.

• Juniper finally talks SDNs

  Juniper Networks at long last has laid out its software-defined networking (SDN) strategy, which includes a revamped software licensing plan that the company says will change its business model and differentiate it from competitors.

• Like Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent funding SDN startup

  Like Cisco and its Insieme Networks project, Alcatel-Lucent has invested in a startup company focused on SDNs for cloud service providers.

• The year in tech: It's all about the cloud and SDNs

  2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry’s biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed its workforce as CEO Meg Whitman reshaped an industry icon that has gone through many shifts in recent years. The transformation to the cloud continued practically unabated (save for those pesky outages!) and suddenly every company seemed to be a software defined something or other, or was snapping up an SDN company.

• Rio Tinto to roll out 4G in the Pilbara

  Rio Tinto has chosen Alcatel-Lucent to install a private 4G LTE network at its West Angelas mine in the Pilbara for its existing operations and business.

• Cisco's internal security team fights to corral BYOD, malware and Wild West environment

  Many organizations have a computer security incident response team (CSIRT) that swoops into action to battle malware outbreaks, other types of cyberattacks and possible insider threats, and at networking giant Cisco, that CSIRT team is made up of about 60 people trying to protect a business with about 75,000 employees.

• New Splashtop variant to let you access Ubuntu desktop from anywhere

  Ubuntu users in need of a way to reach their desktop via a smartphone or tablet can now use Splashtop Streamer, just like their Mac and Windows peers, thanks to a new beta release that supports the Linux-based operating system.

• Alcatel-Lucent to take on Cisco, VMware in crowding SDN field

  Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualization.

• Huawei aims for global domination

  Stockholm hosted the 21st annual Global Forum this week, highlighted by forecasts of a heated-up world market in telecommunications, innovative R&D policy, and burgeoning e-government services.

• Alcatel-Lucent powers up Flemington Next G network

  While Flemington punters won’t get access to Cisco’s Wi-Fi network until next year, Alcatel-Lucent has come to the party in 2012 with a pilot of seven 3G metro cells to extend the capacity of Telstra’s Next G track-side network.

• Alcatel-Lucent dips into loss as sales decline and margins get thinner

  Alcatel-Lucent reported a third-quarter loss and declining gross margins, as its cost-cutting program failed to keep up with declining sales of its network equipment and related services.