April 2011

LTE will still account for less than 5% of global connections in 2015 but may find an early niche in rural markets as an alternative to fixed broadband said Julio Puschel, senior analyst and head of mobile operator strategy for Informa at the LTE LatAm summit in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday.

Chipset vendor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is hiring Android driver development engineers, marking the company’s move into the tablet and smartphone space. The move may be a wise one indeed, …

It’s too early to tell whether LTE in Latin America will become complimentary to fixed broadband, or if it can eventually be positioned as a substitute, according to major operators …

As Latin America begins to forge plans for next generation LTE technology, two countries in particular are blazing a path for others to follow. Alfonso Ehijo, CTO of Reference Center …

Intel Corp. is going Nordic, announcing plans to open a research and development center in Finland. The semiconductor chip maker plans to hire around 200 people, which comes as good …

Rasmussen College, a multi-state technical college will be the first college to offer a degree in mobile app development. The college is offering two and four-year options for coding Android …

The first handset maker to launch its own channel in the bustling Android market arrived today in the form of Sony Ericsson. SE claims it is offering the channel so …

Two lawsuits between United States-based Motorola Solutions Inc. and Chinese telecom provider Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. appeared to have been resolved. Motorola and Huawei issued a joint release today announcing …

The introduction of two new Symbian handsets comes at a time when Finland-based Nokia Corp. has also aligned itself for a transition to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Phone 7 software. Nokia …

It seems to be a sad fact of business life that if you suddenly make a ton of money, people will crawl out of the woodwork trying to take that money away through various forms of litigation. Facebook’s famously meteoric rise seems to have stirred more than its fair share of lawyered-up pretenders to the Zuckerberg crown, most notably the Winklevoss twins

Wall Street Journal | April 11, 2011 | Kenan Machado Mumbai–Singapore Telecommunications has increased its stake in India’s Bharti Airtel through the purchase of 2.83 million shares for 934 million …

Yonhap News Agency | April 11, 2011 | Lee Youkyung SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) — Kakao Corp., the developer of the fastest growing mobile messenger service in South Korea, said …