March 2011

Google Inc. has had something of an uphill battle on its hands with the Android Market. Although it is now comparable to Apple Inc.’s gargantuan App Store in terms of raw number of apps, it has been plagued with issues that wouldn’t crop up in Apple’s heavily-regulated outlet.

Nuance Communications | March 7, 2011 | Press Release Nuance’s Missed Call Messenger Ensures Movistar Subscribers Get the Message Every Time with Transcribed Voice Messages Delivered via SMS Text BURLINGTON, …

AUSTIN-Mike Tyson, former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, will visit the SXSW Interactive Festival from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 13 at the ScreenBurn Arcade located …

Quepasa | March 8, 2011 | Press Release Quepasa Corporation (NYSE Amex: QPSA), creator and operator of Quepasa.com, the popular online social networkand game platform for the Latino community, has …

Grupo Mercatel | March 9, 2011 | Press Release — To lower the rates, 9 pending interconnection proceedings with COFETEL must be resolved — Telmex-Telcel repeatedly violate their concessions: there …

HOUSTON-IEEE Globecom 2011, an international conference dedicated to the global advancement of communications, has extended a “call for papers” deadline to March 20 for its 54th annual event to be …

Sharp | March 8, 2011 | Press Release Osaka, Mar 8, 2011 – (JCN Newswire) – Sharp Corporation will participate in a proof-of-concept trial for electronic education (e-education) from March …

Economic Times | March 8, 2011 KOLKATA: Homegrown handset maker Karbonn will buy a South Korean cellphone design house for about $40 million in an all-cash deal, an executive with …

Taipei Times | March 8, 2011 | Jason Tan HTC Corp (宏達電), the world’s No. 5 smartphone brand, yesterday posted unaudited consolidated revenue of NT$32.1 billion (US$1.1 billion) for last …

Nokia Siemens Networks | March 7, 2011 | Press Release Curacao, Netherlands Antilles – 7 March 2011 Nokia Siemens Networks upgrades and helps manage the Caribbean operator’s optical networks United …

BT | March 7, 2011 | Press Release BT, one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services, achieved another milestone in its Asia Pacific expansion plan with …

Hitachi | March 7, 2011 | Press Release Combination of Hard Drive Companies Will Create Industry’s Broadest Product Portfolio and a Significant Pool of Resources for Innovation IRVINE, Calif. and …

Huawei | March 4, 2011 | Press Release Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4 March, 2011: Huawei Marine Networks Co. Ltd. (“Huawei Marine”) announced today that it has won the bidding for …

Crown Fibre Holdings | March 8, 2011 | Press Release MEDIA RELEASE Under strict embargo until 0900 8 March, 2011 CFH announces prioritised negotiations with Central Fibre Consortium Crown Fibre …

People’s Daily | March 8, 2011 | Li Yancheng China Mobile has launched large-scale telecommunications technology testing of the fourth-generation (4G) of its Time Division-Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) in seven cities. …

Google Inc.’s addition to the browser market, Chrome, just keeps getting better and better. Today the Big G has pushed out another update for the stripped-down browser which puts it at version 10 (10.0.648.172 to be precise), adding in a couple of new features and improving on the already-blistering Javascript performance.

The roadmap for Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry software future has tipped up online, showing two updates to BIS this year and a new version of BlackBerry OS slated for the end of the year.

Having your e-mail compromised can be a serious problem – there is a lot of potentially sensitive data sat around in your inbox. For many Gmail users, it is not just e-mail that is at risk if their account is compromised. Nowadays, many of us have documents, calendars, pictures and even some location information associated with our Google Inc. accounts.

When Google Inc. announced it was adding free turn-by-turn navigation to its Maps app on Android, many of us, incorrectly it would appear, predicted a major blow to the paid navigation industry.