Monthly Archives: January, 2011

GSMA announces Barcelona, Milan, Munich and Paris as finalists competing to become the Mobile World Capital

25 January 2011, London The GSMA today announced that Barcelona, Milan, Munich and Paris have been selected as the short list of cities vying to...

The GSMA chooses Weber Shandwick as Global Public Relations Agency of Record

GSMA | January 24, 2011 | Press Release The GSMA has chosen Weber Shandwick as its agency of record to support its global communications programmes. In...

GSMA announces nominees for the 16th annual Global Mobile Awards

GSMA | January 19, 2011 | Press Release The GSMA today announced the nominees for the 16th Annual Global Mobile Awards. The winners will be...

MCTEL may open Brazil office this year, addressing niche for USSD – Regional

Business News Americas | January 26, 2011 | Patrick Nixon France's MCTEL may open a new office in Brazil this year as it seeks to...

Cableco awarded mobile network operator licence

TeleGeography | January 26, 2011 Argentina’s telecommunications ministry, Secretaria de Comunicaciones (SeCom), has granted a mobile network operator licence to triple-play provider Telecentro. According to...

IBM to build Asia’s largest cloud computing data center

International Business Times | January 25, 2011 | Gabriel Perna International Business Machines' ever-expanding cloud computing services will continue development in Asia. The company announced it...

Teleste and Ikusi have signed a collaboration agreement for the Spanish and Latin American markets

Teleste | January 25, 2011 | Press Release The agreement focuses on business solutions for cable and telecom operators Teleste is an international technology group specialising...

Portugal Telecom to Invest $5 Billion for 22% Stake in Telemar Norte Leste

Bloomberg | January 26, 2011 | Anabela Reis and Joao Lima Portugal Telecom SGPS SA agreed to buy at least 22 percent of Telemar Norte...

New consortium boosts TV Everywhere in Latin America

Rapid TV News | January 25, 2011 | Michelle Clancy A new consortium of partners is targeting the TV Everywhere concept for the uber-competitive Latin American television market,...

Tencent sets up 5 billion Yuan fund for technology investments

Bloomberg | January 25, 2011 | Mark Lee Tencent Holdings Ltd. said it has set up a 5 billion yuan ($759.3 million) fund to invest...

Google not happy with number of paid app purchases in Android Market

Google is “not happy” with current app sales in the Android marketplace according to Android platform manager Eric Chu speaking at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco yesterday.

Facebook turns to mobile advertising with Rel8tion acquisition

With 200 million mobile users and counting, it really was about time for Facebook to try and cash in on the burgeoning mobile advertising bandwagon – something it appears ready to do after the acquisition of Seattle hyperlocal ad startup Rel8tion.

IBM to build Asia’s largest cloud computing data center

International Business Times | January 25, 2011 | Gabriel Perna International Business Machines' ever-expanding cloud computing services will continue development in Asia. The company announced it...

LightSquared clears FCC hurdles

LightSquared Subsidiary L.L.C. received good news from the Federal Communications Commission that will allow the satellite communications provider to soon add terrestrial services to...

LG to preinstall PapayaMobile's apps & social network on Android phones in 2011

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into...

LG to preinstall PapayaMobile’s apps & social network on Android phones in 2011

PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into...

KDDI to stream FM radio programming to smartphones

The Nikkei | January 26, 2011 TOKYO (Nikkei)--KDDI Corp. (9433) is teaming up with 52 FM radio broadcasters to stream programming via the Internet to...

CHT launches its first BlackBerry smartphone

Taipei Times | January 25, 2011 | Lisa Wang Chunghwa Telecom Co (CHT, 中華電信), the nation’s biggest telecoms carrier, yesterday launched its first BlackBerry smartphone...

Complaints look set to delay 3G auction – Thailand

Bangkok Post | January 24, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana TOT Plc may have to postpone its planned auction for its nationwide third-generation (3G) wireless broadband...

Yahoo Japan Profit Rises; Google Tie-Up Moves Ahead

Wall Street Journal | January 25, 2011 | Juro Osawa TOKYO—Yahoo Japan Corp. said Tuesday its net profit for the October-December quarter rose 19% from...

SK Telecom 4Q Net Jumps 48%; To Boost Capex in 2011

Wall Street Journal | January 25, 2011 | Jung-Ah Lee SEOUL (Dow Jones)--Brisk sales of smart phones and proceeds from a stake sale helped SK...

Gartner projects app stores to generate $15B in 2011

The mobile apps business isn't all fun and games. There's serious money in this relatively new app store market, indeed Gartner Inc. projects revenues...

Obama calls out for high-speed mobile innovation in State of the Union

Mobile broadband had a few moments under the spotlight during President Barack Obama's wide-ranging State of the Union address last night. One of the...

Analyst Angle: Gigabytes and terabytes – the future of mobile storage

Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the...

Telefonica, MasterCard partner on Latin America mobile banking solution

Looking to jumpstart mobile financial transactions in Latin America, telecom giant Telef
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