Monthly Archives: April, 2011

China Mobile taps Spirent for fiber evaluation

China Mobile Ltd. (CHL) has tapped Spirent Communications to trial high density fiber channel director switches from multiple vendors in its evaluation laboratory. Spirent...

Televisa in talks with Iusacell over possible partnership

Mexican media conglomerate Grupo Televisa S.A. (TV) said it was currently in talks with mobile operator Group Iusacell S.A. de C.V. regarding a potential...

Mobile entertainment pegged to reach $38.4B in 2011

Mobile entertainment is expected to see double-digit gains this year, reaching nearly $38.4 billion, according to a new report from Juniper Research."This continuing growth...

Dish Network buys Blockbuster for $228M

Dish Network Corp. (DISH) came out on top with the winning bid for Blockbuster Inc. (BLOAQ) at $228 million. The satellite TV company placed...

Haiti’s Fondation Espoir sheds light on elections via SMS

Originally established after Haiti’s devastating earthquake last year as a means to give the youth of the country a voice in the nation’s reconstruction, Mwen Konté was also designed to get them involved in building an agenda for their own future.

Udall’s proposed bill-shock bill begs many questions

Sen. Tom Udall’s (D-N.M.) proposed legislation to force wireless operators to tell customers when they are nearing their allotment of minutes, data and text...

Android’s cloud-enabled music app surfaces

Due to some kind of foul-up at Google Inc. a lucky man by the name of Tim Schiesser, who just so happens to be a tech writer, has been given access to a previously unheard-of Android Test Market, where it would seem app developers can trial their wares before releasing them to the general public.

Like ads? There’s an app for that

In what many would see as a fairly bizarre move, Apple Inc. yesterday released a new app on the iOS App Store called iAd Gallery, the sole purpose of which is – you guessed it – to be a gallery for iAds. What purpose this app serves is completely unknown.

Texas Instruments buys National Semiconductor

DALLAS, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced it will be buying National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) for $25 per share in an...

Televisa to take full ownership of Cablemas

TeleGeography | April 4, 2011 Mexican media giant Grupo Televisa has revealed that it will buy the remaining shares it does not hold in local...

RCR Wireless News’ Haiti odyssey: Why Wi-Fi is so important

RCR Unplugged | April 2, 2011 | Sylvie Barak *Editors Sylvie Barak and Marc Speir were in Haiti last week, filming a documentary about the...

Telefónica forecasts a future of growth shaped by innovative companies able to transform their businesses

Telefonica | April 4, 2011 | Press Release Potential: The ICT industry is an innovative growth sector creating an array of new opportunities for other...

Huawei celebrates 10 years in US with new Silicon Valley R&D center

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is marking its tenth year anniversary in the U.S. today by opening a new R&D headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. The...

Huawei celebrates 10 years in US with new Silicon Valley R&D center

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is marking its tenth year anniversary in the U.S. today by opening a new R&D headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. The...

Softbank President Son Pledges $120 Million and Salary for Disaster Relief

Bloomberg | April 3, 2011 | Pavel Alpeyev Softbank Corp. (9984) President Masayoshi Son, Japan’s richest man, pledged to donate 10 billion yen ($120 million) and...

Telstra chief answers the call at Melbourne's call centre

The Australian | April 5, 2011 | Tracy Lee IF you rang a Telstra call centre a month ago and was served by a nice,...

Telstra chief answers the call at Melbourne’s call centre

The Australian | April 5, 2011 | Tracy Lee IF you rang a Telstra call centre a month ago and was served by a nice,...

NTT DoCoMo seeks 4G tests

The Nation | April 4, 2011 |  Usanee Mongkolporn Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo is interested in testing 4G wireless broadband technology in Thailand, said...

Wimax Forum bets big on BSNL, MTNL for Indian market

Economic Times | April 4, 2011 NEW DELHI: With private operators seemingly going the TD-LTE way, WiMax Forum is now betting on state-run telecom operators...

China Mobile and SK Telecom sign joint R&D deal

GSMA News | April 1, 2011 | News Release The two top Chinese and South Korean operators – China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) –...

China Mobile and SK Telecom sign joint R&D deal

GSMA News | April 1, 2011 | News Release The two top Chinese and South Korean operators – China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) –...

China Mobile and SK Telecom sign joint R&D deal

GSMA News | April 1, 2011 | News Release The two top Chinese and South Korean operators – China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) –...

China Mobile and SK Telecom sign joint R&D deal

GSMA News | April 1, 2011 | News Release The two top Chinese and South Korean operators – China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) –...

Telecoms brace for bandwidth auction

The Korea Herald | April 5, 2011 | Cho Ji-hyun Regulator to sell rights to 2.1 GHz spectrum this year; major firms keen on acquiring Korean telecom...
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