2011

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.

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 usage leaves me with a lot …

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.

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.

DALLAS, Texas-Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) (NYSE: TXN) has announced it will be buying National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) for $25 per share in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion. The …

RCR Unplugged | April 2, 2011 | Sylvie Barak *Editors Sylvie Barak and Marc Speir were in Haiti last week, filming a documentary about the rebuilding of the impoverished country’s …

Telefonica | April 4, 2011 | Press Release Potential: The ICT industry is an innovative growth sector creating an array of new opportunities for other sectors and industries • New …

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 his remaining salary until retirement …

The Australian | April 5, 2011 | Tracy Lee IF you rang a Telstra call centre a month ago and was served by a nice, slightly nervous consultant called David, …

The Nation | April 4, 2011 |  Usanee Mongkolporn Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo is interested in testing 4G wireless broadband technology in Thailand, said Prasit Prapinmongkolkarn, chairman of the …

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 BSNL and MTNL for growing its …

GSMA News | April 1, 2011 | News Release The two top Chinese and South Korean operators – China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) – have forged closer links with …

GSMA News | April 1, 2011 | News Release The two top Chinese and South Korean operators – China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) – have forged closer links with …

GSMA News | April 1, 2011 | News Release The two top Chinese and South Korean operators – China Mobile and SK Telecom (SKT) – have forged closer links with …

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 carriers are engaged in …

I’ve been fairly critical of Rupert Murdoch’s new digital newspaper The Daily, both over the ludicrously large investment News Corp. has made in the property, and the subsequent missteps in terms of social integration and target market.