February 2011

It’s an irrefutable fact that there’s nothing more crowd-pleasing on the internet than mashing up otherwise mundane numbers into swanky visualisations. Be it infographics, flowcharts, or, in this case, videos, you’re bound to attract eyeballs if you can turn boring data into pretty visuals.

TeleGeography | February 23, 2011 Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, in partnership with Riverwood Capital, a technology-focused private equity firm, has agreed to acquire 90% of ALOG …

Fox Business News | February 23,2011 | Paul Mozur TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Chunghwa Telecom Co. (2412.TW) said Wednesday it signed two agreements with China Telecom Corp. (CHA) to share resources. The …

New York Times | February 22, 2011 | Miguel Helft The fight for talent between Google and Facebook — or more precisely, the flow of Google employees to Facebook — is not just …

RADCOM | February 22, 2011 | Press Release RADCOM Continues Success in Brazil TEL AVIV, Israel –  RADCOM Ltd. (NASDAQ: RDCM) a leading Service Assurance provider, today announced that a Tier-1 …

PR Newswire | February 2011 | Press Release Selected to develop and provide W-CDMA-based networks and related services in Mexico and Brazil positioning NII to offer next-generation wireless services BARCELONA, …

Reuters | February 23, 2011 | Adveith Nair & Paul Hoskins * Canada’s Bragg Group to fund deal with cash * Deal expected to close by end-March * C&W announces share buyback …

Reuters | February 22, 2011 | Hyunjoo Jin and Jonathan Hopfner * Incumbents face tariff cut pressures from new players, govt * Seoul to decide on a new entrant this …

Sydney Morning Herald | February 23, 2011 | Clancy Yeates THE man responsible for rolling out the national broadband network, Mike Quigley, has bluntly rejected opposition claims the $36 billion …

New Zealand Herald | February 23, 2011 | Hamish Fletcher Much of Christchurch is without essential services after yesterday’s earthquake with gas, power, water and phone infrastructure all affected by …

The Financial | February 22, 2011 The FINANCIAL — Smartphones are not the only phones that give people access to Internet services. Any phone can, as long as it has …

Focus Taiwan | February 22, 2011 | Jeffrey Wu Taipei, Feb. 22 (CNA) HTC Corp., the world’s fifth-largest smartphone maker, plans to build an open platform for mobile video content …

It wasn’t 3D stealing the show at this year’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain, but near field communication (NFC), a technology thought to settle, once and for all, the “mobile wallet” and “mobile payment” discussion.

While Texas Instruments and Qualcomm were busy paper launching dual and quad core processors at this year’s MWC, NVIDIA seemed a step ahead, demoing what looked to be a working model of its upcoming Tegra 3 quad-core mobile processor.

How embarrassing for poor old Microsoft. First they were late to the whole smartphone party, and now Windows Phone 7’s first firmware update since the OS’s launch has obviously gone awry, as users of Samsung’s Omnia 7 have been taking to the internet in droves to complain of apparently bricked devices.