The $985 cost of an iPad in Brazil provides a strong example of how high tariffs and protectionist policies hurt the nation's consumers
By Lucia Kassai and Cecilia Tornaghi for Business Week
On the night of Dec. 2, almost 500 gadget-crazy Brazilians in São Paulo lined up outside...
Wireless modem provider Novatel Wireless Inc. (NVTL) filed a lawsuit against Franklin Wireless Corp., ZTE Corp. and ZTE (USA) Inc. claiming the firms have infringed on five Novatel patents related to its MiFi mobile hot spot device. Novatel claims those patents are related to...
SINGAPORE, 9 DECEMBER 2010 - VOIP (voice over internet protocol) telco Skype has released an update to its Symbian App adding support for extra Nokia mobile phone models.
In an announcement on its blog, Skype says the upgraded App ‘Skype for Symbian’...
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 (Bernama) -- DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd has further strengthened its position in the mobile internet market by introducing a new range of DiGi Internet offerings that include an additional Smart Plan for smartphones, phone bundling packages and...
Singapore, 9 December 2010 – Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Motorola, Inc., today announced the launch of Motorola DEFY in Singapore. DEFY is a slim, pocketable Android smartphone that comes equipped with advanced Web-browsing capabilities and a 3.7” high-resolution touch screen...
Chloe Yu, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES
China Unicom, currently the only sales agent of iPhone 4 in the China market, plans to lock iPhone 4s to its SIM cards in a bid to prevent contract-bundled purchasers' reselling iPhone 4 at high...
By Zhu Shenshen | 2010-12-9 |
A batch of 3G-capable slate personal computer, including iPad and device with Google systems, is expected to debut in the Chinese market next year. Some of them even support phone functions, Shanghai Daily learned from a telecommunications forum...
By Chen Tairan 陈泰然
Economic Observer Online
~China Unicom iPhone4 consumers spent 3900 yuan writing 3 microblog message while on a business trip in Russia.
~If a consumer is found to use the iPhone with another operator's SIM card, the consumer's China Unicom cell number...
The women taped phones to their torsos and were carrying iPads in large bags
By Gregg Keizer | Computerworld US
Published: 12:11 GMT, 09 December 10
Chinese customs officials last week arrested 14 women trying to smuggle 88 Apple iPads and 340 smartphones into the country, according...
Taipei, Dec. 8, 2010 (CENS)--With sales of its own-brand smartphones surging steadily, High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC), a Taiwan-based, world-caliber vendor of the devices, aims to double the sales to 50 million units in 2011 from an estimate of 25 million...
Published: Thursday 9 December 2010
Region: Global
Tags: Distimo
I attended, and presented at, the GSMA’s Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong last month, featuring App Planet. A few...
For more than a decade, Kim Jung Yeon only bought phones from Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., passing on best sellers made by non-Korean companies such as Motorola Inc.’s Razr. Her loyalty ended with Apple Inc.’s iPhone.
“The iPhone has a cool design...
November 29th, 2010 – MIAMI, FLORIDA -- YellowPepper, Latin America's mobile financial services leader, announced today that it has joined the Samsung Mobile Innovator Program (SMI) as a core member. The core membership is an invite-only program which provides exceptional benefits including the virtual...
Spain is the first country to run this initiative, which will gradually be introduced into the other markets in which Telefónica is present, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Argentina, Peru and Chile
This launch is the first fully integrated “sustainable” offer involving an operator...
Another day, another iPhone-coming-to-Verizon Wireless rumor. It turns out the nation's largest carrier might have already agreed to a deal similar to the one Apple Inc. first offered the carrier more than three years ago.Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu says Apple got the terms...
Dell Inc. (DELL) is ready to start selling the Venue Pro again after halting sales three weeks ago due to Wi-Fi connectivity problems and mislabeled batteries.The Windows Phone 7 smart phone is now available directly from Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Dell without contract. The...
Motorola Inc. (MOT) finalized plans to break its operations into two separate companies beginning Jan. 4 that will include a tax-free dividend involving the distribution of all Motorola Mobility common stock held by the company to its stockholders and a reverse stock split of...
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has rolled out an iOS 4.2 update that finally brings the latest features in iOS to iPad users. For starters, iPad users can finally enjoy background processing, multitasking and folders.
But there are two key new features — AirPrint and AirPlay —...
Apple is hiring up an army of legal beagles to help it in its fight against other smart phone makers, as the giants of the mobile space begin to slug it out in the International Trade Commission’s courts.
Apple Inc. (AAPL) has rolled out an iOS 4.2 update that finally brings the latest features in iOS to iPad users. For starters, iPad users can finally enjoy background processing, multitasking and folders.
But there are two key new features — AirPrint and AirPlay —...
Nokia Corp. (NOK) continued its operational makeover creating a new position of executive VP and chief marketing officer that will be headed by Jerri DeVard.In her new position, which will begin on Jan. 1, DeVard will oversee the newly formed marketing and communications organization...
MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) said it will begin offering LG Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Optimus M device, the carrier’s first smart phone powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system, beginning Nov. 24.MetroPCS said the device will sell for $229 and require a monthly service plan...
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, California, CEO Eric Schmidt pulled an unreleased Android phone (rumored to be the Nexus S) out of his pocket and released the newest tidbit of Gingerbread intel: it will include a Near Field Communication feature.
Samsung Telecommunications Americas’ Galaxy Tab device finally received launch details from the two remaining carriers that said they would offer the device before the holiday shopping season. Regional wireless operator U.S. Cellular Corp. (USM) said it would begin offering the device on Nov. 19,...
