July 2011

Three Colombian carriers – Telefónica Móviles Colombia SA (Movistar), Comcel SA and Colombia Móvil (Tigo) – have submitted their relevant application forms formally to participate in the upcoming spectrum auction set …

Colombia‘s Bogotá city council has rejected a proposal to sell its 86.6% shares on Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB).  All 15 council members voted unanimously against the sale July 24. …

Business-skewed social network LinkedIn today launched a new service which could become a key future revenue stream in the notoriously hard-to-monetise social space.

While many mobile devices makers, such as Apple and Samsung, are seeing record sales and ever-increasing revenues, Canadian firm Research In Motion are in the midst of a pronounced downward slide, which has today seen them announce a management restructuring and large-scale redundancies totalling around 11% of their workforce.

Wireless giant Qualcomm has kicked off a fitness challenge for its employees, in a bid to raise awareness of its wireless health initiatives and the development of new medical technologies

Market research firm comScore has released figures which claim Google + has shot past the 20 million visitor mark in just three weeks since its launch, seeing a whopping 82% …

Even after publicly declaring on several occasions that it had no interest in facial recognition, Google has gone out and bought itself a –yes – facial recognition software company by …

Angry Birds creator Rovio has been catapulted into the middle of an ugly patent war started by a Texas-based patent licensing company, Lodsys.

Google Austin: A first-person, customer update Google.  They are the digital version of General Electric, but for the 21st century.   Both are classic, American-headquartered, global conglomerates, with diverse portfolios.  But, …

Last Friday, HTC was dealt a massive blow when the US International Trade Commission (ITC) took Apple’s side and found the Taiwanese phonemaker guilty of infringing two iPhone patents. But …

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital has led a $1 million round of financing for Menlo Park based Nearbuy Systems which specializes in indoor “micro-location.” Motorola Solutions joined Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, …

Ericsson has unveiled its financial results and, although the world’s largest network equipment maker had reported a decline in sales in North America, Latin America’s sales increased 17% year-over-year and …

Telefónica Peru confirmed its plan to invest US$ 1.5 million in the country during its financial results. According to a statement, investments from Spanish Telefónica group increased 13% in first …

We’ve all heard of the dangers of privacy invasion on the internet, but what about an invasion of our personal space from inside the home, from those very loved ones you think you can trust? A recent study from Retrevo – a large consumer electronics and shopping website – claims those closest to you are far more dangerous to your privacy than most outside hackers are.