The worldwide mobile phone market just keeps on growing, with IDC's latest results showing a 17.9% rise in the fourth quarter of 2010 alone. The market research outfit says vendors shipped 401.4 million units in 4Q10 compared to 340.5 million units in the fourth...
Cisco | January 26, 2011 | Press Release
Introduction of 360 Learning Program and Authorized Cisco Training Support IT Talent Development Across Region
Cisco today announced initiatives designed to increase Latin America's capacity to train, employ and retain highly qualified networking and systems engineers. In Brazil,...
Bloomberg | January 26, 2011 | Young-Sam Cho
China, the world’s largest mobile- phone market, may begin commercializing its TD-LTE technology standard for so-called fourth-generation mobile services next year.
Trials for the standard have begun and should last for 18 months, Zhang Feng, director of the...
Two firms that aren't cheering the Verizon Wireless iPhone are Nokia Corp. (NOK) and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (MMI), who both saw shipments and average selling prices of their own smart phone devices drop in the fourth quarter.Nokia said it had managed to shift...
Business News Americas | January 26, 2011 | Patrick Nixon
France's MCTEL may open a new office in Brazil this year as it seeks to address niche market demands for mobile device management, messaging using USSD gateways and roaming solutions, MCTEL's managing director for Latin...
Rapid TV News | January 25, 2011 | Michelle Clancy
A new consortium of partners is targeting the TV Everywhere concept for the uber-competitive Latin American television market, where entrenched players and a thirst for advanced television services make for a tough road to differentiation.
Comtelsat Networks, Tvinci, IDPoint...
PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release
PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...
PapayaMobile | January 26, 2011 | Press Release
PapayaMobile, a leading mobile social platform for Android, today announced that LG will preinstall Papaya applications into LG Android phones shipping in China beginning January 2011. This comes on the heels of Papaya recently releasing China-specific versions...
The Nikkei | January 26, 2011
TOKYO (Nikkei)--KDDI Corp. (9433) is teaming up with 52 FM radio broadcasters to stream programming via the Internet to its smartphone and cellular phone customers.
The Lismo Wave service will be launched Wednesday, giving listeners access to radio programming from...
Taipei Times | January 25, 2011 | Lisa Wang
Chunghwa Telecom Co (CHT, 中華電信), the nation’s biggest telecoms carrier, yesterday launched its first BlackBerry smartphone from Research In Motion (RIM), ending Taiwan Mobile Co’s (台灣大哥大) five-year exclusive right to sell the phone in Taiwan.
The partnership...
Yesterday we reported that a leaked roadmap had shown not only Tegra 3 coming down Nvidia’s pipeline, but also a Tegra 2 3D chip, prompting speculation about what 3D devices we might have in store for us in 2011.
Taiwan Economic News | January 25, 2011 | Steve Chuang
Taipei, Jan. 25, 2011 (CENS)--While actively expanding its capacity, the Taiwan-based High Tech Computer Corp (HTC)., a globally leading vendor of smartphones, has also been planning to outsource production to meet explosively increasing demand for...
Reuters | January 24, 2011 | Sinead Carew
China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL has filed a lawsuit to block Motorola from selling one of its business units to Nokia Siemens Networks, demanding that the $1.2 billion deal be altered to avoid infringing on intellectual...
Verizon Wireless sure would like people to believe that its network is ready for all the iPhones it can sell. Lowell McAdam, president and COO of Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), walked investors through the carrier's 3G network strategy, beginning with its launch in 2004,...
Trading Markets | January 24, 2011
BEIJING, Jan 24, 2011 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) --
Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK: 0992) is eyeing the lucrative Japanese market through an investment deal. Two days ago, local media said by quoting the words of an insider of...
RIM | January 21, 2011 | Press Release
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - U Mobile Sdn Bhd (“U Mobile”) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today launched the BlackBerry® solution for U Mobile customers in Malaysia.
The BlackBerry solution brings together smartphones, software and...
Times of India | January 24, 2011
SHANGHAI: Sale of mobile phones in China showed a growth of 57 percent in 2010 due to the popularity of internet and television enabled devices, according to a survey.
More than 246 million mobile phone units were sold on...
Times of India | January 24, 2011
SHANGHAI: Sale of mobile phones in China showed a growth of 57 percent in 2010 due to the popularity of internet and television enabled devices, according to a survey.
More than 246 million mobile phone units were sold on...
Kunekt | January 24, 2011 | Press Release
Kunekt to Design, Build and Market Quality Mobile Phones and Android Smartphones and Tablets in Developed and Developing Countries
HONG KONG, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Kunekt Corporation (OTCBB: KNKT), creator of the Kunekt global brand of affordably priced,...
Kunekt | January 24, 2011 | Press Release
Kunekt to Design, Build and Market Quality Mobile Phones and Android Smartphones and Tablets in Developed and Developing Countries
HONG KONG, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Kunekt Corporation (OTCBB: KNKT), creator of the Kunekt global brand of...
Nokia Corp. (NOK) is still finding the United States a very hard nut to crack, with reports T-Mobile USA Inc. has cancelled yet another of the Finnish phonemaker's launches, this time for the C5-03 smart phone, which would have been dubbed the Nuron 2...
With the end of 2010, I’ve been reflecting on the past decade and all that has changed. It seems impossible to me that 2000 was over 10 years ago; not in that “Wow where has the time gone?” sense but rather in a “I...
With the end of 2010, I’ve been reflecting on the past decade and all that has changed. It seems impossible to me that 2000 was over 10 years ago; not in that “Wow where has the time gone?” sense but rather in a “I...
