Organization: 3Com

People: Jeff Watts and Pierre Roberge

Jeff Watts and Pierre Roberge have been appointed president and chief technology officer, respectively, of Prodigy Ventures Inc., a listed innovation company and named by Deloitte as one of Canada’s fastest growing technology companies. Roberge will also serve as senior VP for solutions and ventures. Tom Beckerman remains as company CEO and director. Watts was executive…

Nortel Networks teams with Huawei in joint venture

Nortel Networks Corp has entered a joint partnership with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to develop residential broadband equipment. Nortel and Huawei will create a new company based at Nortel’s Ottawa facilities to further develop Huawei’s broadband portfolio and develop next-generation products. The two firms have also inked a separate agreement that will see Nortel…